Comparison

Nextcloud Talk vs PDFloki

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

Head to head
About

Nextcloud Talk

Communicate privately with secure audio/video calls, web conferences, and chat. This app offers end-to-end encryption and is mediated by your own server for maximum privacy. It supports HD calls, screen sharing, and push notifications.

Highlights
  • HD audio/video calls
  • Group and one-on-one calls
  • Webinars & public web meetings
  • Individual and group chat
  • Easy screen sharing
  • Mobile push notifications
  • End-to-end encrypted calls
Features
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Use Nextcloud Talk to have one-on-one or group audio or video calls, create or join web conferences and send chat messages. All communication is fully encrypted and mediated by your own server, providing the highest degree of privacy possible. Nextcloud Talk is easy to use and will always be completely free! Nextcloud Talk supports: * HD (H.264) audio/video calls * Group and one-on-one calls * Webinars & public web meetings * Individual and group chat * Easy screen sharing * Mobile call & chat push notifications * Integration in Nextcloud Files and Nextcloud Groupware * Fully on-premise, 100% open source * End-to-end Encrypted calls * Scaling to millions of users * SIP gate: dial in by phone The Nextcloud Talk app requires a Nextcloud Talk server to function. Nextcloud is a private, self-hosted file sync and communication platform, designed to put you back in control over your data. It runs on a server of your choice, be it at home, at a service provider or in your enterprise, and gives you access to your documents, calendars, contacts, email and other data. You can share with others even across different Nextcloud servers and work together on documents. Nextcloud is fully open source, giving you the option to extend them for your own use, participate in their development or simply verify they do what we promise. Millions of users use Nextcloud daily at businesses and homes around the world. Business users rely on the professional support of Nextcloud GmbH, making sure they have a fully supported, enterprise-ready platform for productivity and collaboration, fully under control of their IT department.

About

PDFloki

Features
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PDFloki is a privacy-first PDF toolkit for iPhone and iPad. Keep your PDF library tidy by syncing titles to filenames, compress and merge documents, make scans searchable with on-device OCR, redact, watermark, sign and fill forms — all on your device, never in the cloud. TITLES & METADATA • Title Manager — see which PDF titles match their filenames and fix them one by one or all at once, with a preview • Batch Edit — set author, subject, keywords and creator across many files • Find & Replace (regex supported), Batch Rename with tokens, bulk date correction OPTIMIZE & SECURE • Compress — six quality levels or a target size; see the estimated saving before you run it • Password — protect PDFs (with printing/copying permissions) or unlock ones you own • Redact — permanently remove sensitive text with black boxes • Flatten — burn annotations and form fields into the page • Electronic signature — draw, type or upload, and place it on any page PAGES & CONTENT • Page Manager — reorder, rotate, duplicate, delete and extract pages • Merge, Split, Crop, Normalize page size • Watermarks and stamps, headers and footers, page backgrounds • Fill PDF forms TEXT & EXPORT • Convert photos, text, Markdown, RTF and HTML to PDF • OCR with Apple Vision — 20+ languages, invisible text layer, original look preserved • Area OCR — recognize just the region you draw • Extract text; export pages as PNG, JPEG or TIFF; export metadata as CSV or JSON • Statistics, metadata validation, PDF/A compliance check, annotation summary, duplicate finder, full-text search across your library PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything runs locally with Apple's native frameworks. No account, no uploads, no tracking. Your PDFs live in PDFloki's folder in the Files app, where you can add and remove them directly. FREE AND PRO The core tools — titles and metadata, merge, split, search, duplicate finder — are free forever. Every Pro tool is free to try for 7 days; after that PDFloki Pro is a single one-time purchase, no subscription. Works on iPhone and iPad, and on the Mac with the same tools — one Pro purchase unlocks all of them.

Screenshots

Nextcloud Talk4 screens
PDFloki4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Nextcloud Talk at none against PDFloki's 1. On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. PDFloki sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Nextcloud Talk asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Nextcloud Talk ships an update every 3 weeks, PDFloki every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Nextcloud Talk versus PDFloki: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNextcloud TalkPDFloki
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (418 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews55.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings418 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size122 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNextcloud GmbHAndre Vidal

In-app purchases

None

Nextcloud Talk

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

PDFloki

One-time1
  • PDFloki Pro$17.99

Questions

Is Nextcloud Talk free?
Nextcloud Talk is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PDFloki free?
PDFloki is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Nextcloud Talk or PDFloki have ads?
Neither Nextcloud Talk nor PDFloki shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Nextcloud Talk or PDFloki?
Nextcloud Talk ships an update every 3 weeks, and PDFloki every 10 days. Most recently, Nextcloud Talk was updated on October 14, 2026 and PDFloki on October 4, 2026.

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