ownCloud Online vs Starchive
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ownCloud Online
Securely store and share your data with a private cloud solution. Enhance team collaboration and boost productivity with state-of-the-art data handling and end-to-end encryption, all hosted in Germany for maximum privacy.
- Secure cloud storage
- Team collaboration
- End-to-end encryption
- Data privacy
- Productivity enhancement
- Open-source codebase
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Secure cloud storage for your data. Convenient collaboration for your team. Security First ownCloud Online is hosted in Germany, ensuring the highest security standards and the complete privacy of your data. Your cloud is entirely private and dedicated and thanks to ownCloud's open-source codebase, we can guarantee the highest level of software security. What's more end-to-end encryption and related features keep you in control. Focus on Productivity ownCloud Online is designed to boost your productivity. Use your time efficiently and let ownCloud Online handle any time-consuming information organization. Secure and state-of-the-art data handling — yet without expensive IT personnel or having to provision and maintain your own hardware — makes ownCloud Online the most effective cloud solution. Note: This app is intended for use with an active ownCloud Online subscription only. For connecting a self-hosted ownCloud please use our community app.
Starchive
This cloud-based digital asset management solution helps businesses and creators preserve, organize, and access their files. It offers instant organization with auto-tags, curated collections, and secure cloud storage.
- Cloud digital asset management
- Auto-tagging for organization
- Curated collections
- Easy file sharing
- Fast browser uploads
- Secure cloud storage
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Starchive is a new digital asset management solution in the cloud, built for the pocket and priced for the everyday business or creator to help them preserve, organize, access, share, and leverage their files in one central place. Way more than an online file storage system, Starchive offers its users instant organization through auto-tags, the ability to curate media into collections without duplicating files, easy sharing functionality, the fastest browser upload in the market, secure cloud storage with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Starchive at 59% against ownCloud Online's 0%. Starchive also leads on ratings volume (183 vs 5) and update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). ownCloud Online's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.5). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ownCloud Online holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Starchive has 183 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of ownCloud Online's written reviews are positive against 59% of Starchive's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
ownCloud Online ships an update every 2 months, Starchive monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ownCloud Online | Starchive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better | 4.5 (183 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 59.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 183 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.4 | 14 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 69 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ownCloud GmbH | Digital Relab |
Customer experience
ownCloud Online
Starchive
Bugs and requests
ownCloud Online
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Starchive
Reported bugs
8 issues- Uploads fail
- Videos take 15+ minutes to play
- Auto-upload not functioning
- Cannot upload pictures
- App crashes when uploading
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- No synchronization or backup
- Account creation errors ('no account associated')
- Photos deleted after upload
Requested features
3 requests- iPad version needed
- Better backup options (whole phone)
- Desktop app
In-app purchases
ownCloud Online
No in-app purchases
Starchive
No in-app purchases
