Comparison

Nextcloud vs HeyGroop

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Nextcloud

Access, manage, and share your files and photos from your private cloud storage. Upload media to free up phone space, work on documents offline, and protect your account with advanced security features. It's a comprehensive digital workplace solution.

Highlights
  • Connect multiple cloud accounts
  • Access and share documents
  • Upload photos and videos
  • Offline file availability
  • Account protection (password/FaceID)
  • End-to-end encryption support
Features
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Regain control over your data. The Nextcloud app for iOS brings your photos and files with you wherever you go! - Connect one or multiple accounts to your private or business cloud. - Access, work on and share documents wherever you are. - Upload your photos and videos to your Nextcloud to save space on your phone. - Browse photos and videos stored on your private cloud. - Choose files to keep available even when you're offline. - Additional features: - Nextcloud AI Assistant - Drag and drop between multiple Nextcloud Files windows on your iPad - Protect your account with a password or FaceID - Support for End to end encryption. New to Nextcloud? Nextcloud is a collaboration platform designed for private clouds. Host it yourself or with a company you trust and you gain a complete digital workplace with online office document collaboration, video calls and chat, email, calendar and project management, a local AI assistant and much more. See https://nextcloud.com/hub to find out what Nextcloud can do for you! For discussions and reporting issues please go to https://help.nextcloud.com/c/clients/ios

About

HeyGroop

Features
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A Groop is people coming together to decide one thing — a trip, a dinner, a plan — then moving on. Not another group chat that never ends. HeyGroop closes the decisions that die in a group thread. Where to eat. When to leave. Who's driving. It turns the scattered back-and-forth into one card of decisions your group has actually agreed to, each shown with the reason behind it. One card your whole group can trust Every decision on the card is either settled or still open, and every settled one keeps the reason it was settled — so nobody re-litigates why you picked what you picked. The card is the record. The thread is just how you got there. It reads the thread and proposes — you confirm Your group talks in the thread. On demand, the Groop Decision Engine™ reads the recent messages and proposes the decisions and constraints it thinks it found. Nothing reaches the card until a person confirms it. The Engine does not decide for your group, and it does not promise to catch everything in a thread. It surfaces candidates a human checks. Nothing is on the card until it is pinned Any message can be pinned as a constraint — "Friday doesn't work," "keep it walkable." Constraints sit beside the card and shape what the group settles on, and they only count once someone pins them. See what needs you — and what's already settled Open HeyGroop and you see the one thing waiting on you. It notifies you when a decision needs you — not when somebody typed. No feed, no counters, nothing engineered to keep you here. Open it once, deal with what needs you, and leave. No account to delete — no username, no password, no setup There is no sign-up. No email, no phone number, no password, no contact list to hand over. You invite people with a normal text message; they open the link, enter a name, and they're in. People you invite never pay. If you use more than one device, a 4-digit code pairs them. Your identity key moves between your own devices encrypted, relayed through our server as ciphertext we cannot read. See when everyone's actually free If you turn it on, HeyGroop reads your calendar as busy-or-free only — never titles, never details, never who you are meeting — so the group can find a time everyone is open. If you turn it on, live location is shared with that Groop's members only, while you are coordinating, with an off control always in view. It is deleted the moment you stop sharing. HeyGroop does not find venues, suggest places, or pick a spot for you — it shows who's where, and your group decides. Ultra-Private · no ads, no harvesting, never sold Every permission is opt-in, revocable, and scoped to a single Groop. Your identity key lives on your devices, encrypted, and never on our servers. You can delete your data from inside the app, in two taps — no email, no form, no waiting. Being plain about the part that is not private: your messages, decisions and constraints are stored on our servers in a form we can read, because that is what lets the Engine read a thread and propose anything at all. They travel over encrypted connections and are locked down by security rules, but they are not end-to-end encrypted. We would rather tell you that than let you assume otherwise. What it costs Creating Groops, chatting, pinning constraints and keeping the card by organizing it yourself is free, and stays free. What you pay for is the Engine. - Three free Engine runs to start. - Single — $4.99 for access to the Groop Decision Engine™ on one Groop for 90 days, with unlimited re-runs during that window. - Annual — $19.99 a year for the Engine on unlimited Groops. Prices are shown in your own currency and are set for your market, so they may differ from the figures above. Open it once. Decided. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Nextcloud4 screens
HeyGroop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Nextcloud at none against HeyGroop's 2. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. HeyGroop sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per year. Nextcloud asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Nextcloud versus HeyGroop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNextcloudHeyGroop
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (10K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews61.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings10K — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size343 MB45 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNextcloud GmbHSteamboat Software

Bugs and requests

Nextcloud

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Inability to open/edit text files
  • Issues with password-protected folders
  • Problems with HEIC file support
  • Inconsistent video playback
  • Crashes on launch after updates

Requested features

5 requests
  • Improved background photo/file sync
  • Better integration with iOS Files app
  • Support for more file types and document editing
  • Customizable sorting and organization options
  • Streamlined setup and configuration

HeyGroop

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Nextcloud

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

HeyGroop

Subscriptions1
  • Engine — unlimited$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Engine — one formation$4.99

Questions

Is Nextcloud free?
Nextcloud is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is HeyGroop free?
HeyGroop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Nextcloud or HeyGroop have ads?
Neither Nextcloud nor HeyGroop shows ads.

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