Comparison

Zextras Chats vs Deckloud

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

Head to head
About

Zextras Chats

This secure corporate messaging app allows for real-time text communication, group chats, and virtual meetings. It integrates with Zextras Suite and Carbonio, offering file sharing and customizable notification settings. Users can manage chats, channels, and spaces with moderation tools.

Highlights
  • Text messaging and emoticons
  • Group chat management
  • Virtual meeting creation
  • File sharing
  • Push notification control
  • Dark mode support
Features
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Zextras Chats is the secure and private corporate messaging app, which works with Zextras Suite (3.0.0 or higher) and Zextras Carbonio. Access all your Zextras Chats anywhere and anytime from your smartphone - Send and receive text messages and emoticons. - Manage, modify, moderate 1:1 Chats, Group Chats, Spaces, and Channels, including the possibility to invite or remove attendees. - Edit name/topic/pictures of Spaces and Channels. - Create or participate in virtual meetings. - Share files in the chats. - Enable / Disable Push Notifications. - Dark mode supported. You may access basic or complete features accordingly to your license.

About

Deckloud

Manage your Nextcloud Deck boards directly from your iPhone. Create, organize, and update tasks with robust offline support and private data handling. Offers Pro features for enhanced productivity.

Highlights
  • Create and organize boards, stacks, and cards
  • Set due dates, labels, assignees, and reminders
  • Add comments, Markdown descriptions, and attachments
  • Search boards and cards with advanced filters
  • Reliable sync with offline resilience
  • Private by design with local credential storage
Features
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Your Nextcloud Deck boards as a native iPhone and iPad app. See what is due today, drag cards between sections, and keep working offline. Changes sync as soon as you are back online. The core app is free. No Nextcloud server yet? Start a free Deckloud Cloud workspace in seconds. Two ways to start • Your own server: sign in with Nextcloud Login Flow v2 and open the boards you already have. The app connects directly to your server, with no relay backend in between. • Deckloud Cloud: tap Create a free workspace. No email, no password, and no registration form. Deckloud runs the Nextcloud server for you, and you can link up to three devices. Plan your day • Today: due, overdue, and assigned cards, plus mentions, in one list with a month calendar • A Gantt timeline where you move or resize dated cards • Search across boards with filters for labels, assignees, and due dates Work on your boards • Create and organize boards, sections, and cards • Start a board from a template, or build your own • Set due dates, labels, assignees, and a reminder • Write Markdown descriptions with a formatting bar for checklists, headings, and bold • Add comments and attachments, or link files from Nextcloud Files • Share boards with people, groups, and Teams, and choose who can edit • Import and export Deck JSON, or export a board as CSV Made for iPhone and iPad iPad layouts with a sidebar support portrait, landscape, and resizable multitasking. Send links and text from other apps with the share extension. Offline changes wait in a queue you can check in Settings. The app is available in more than 70 languages. Private by design Credentials stay in the iOS Keychain. No ad SDKs. Usage analytics create no person profiles and can be turned off in Settings. On your own server, board and card content stays on your Nextcloud. Deckloud Cloud content is stored on Nextcloud servers managed by Deckloud, with TLS and encrypted backups, but it is not end-to-end encrypted. You can delete a Cloud account and its content from Settings. Free and Pro Free: boards, cards, Today, Search, the Gantt timeline, templates, import and export, the small widget, one active reminder, one repeating card, and two accounts. Each month, every device also gets 10 Quick Captures, where one Smart Capture of up to 5 cards counts as one, and 3 Focus sessions. Deckloud Pro comes as a one-time purchase, or as a yearly or monthly subscription: • Unlimited Quick Capture, also from the share extension and Shortcuts, with saved templates and context • Reminders on up to 64 cards per account, including Apple Reminders and Apple Alarms (iOS 26+) • Repeating cards, synced through your Nextcloud • Unlimited Smart Capture, up to 20 cards at a time • The full Team view and the team's weekly report • Unlimited Focus sessions of 10, 25, or 45 minutes, with a Live Activity • Medium, large, Extra Large, and Lock Screen widgets, with a board picker • More than two accounts, and Pro in the Deckloud desktop app with a code Deckloud Cloud is a separate free plan and does not include Pro. If your organization has a Deckloud license for its Nextcloud, Pro turns on for the members it covers. Requirements • For your own server: Nextcloud with the Deck app. Deck 1.6 or later is required for full write support. • Deckloud actively verifies maintained Nextcloud releases with their matching Deck release, currently Nextcloud 33 to 35. • Nextcloud 23–32 is legacy best effort; a new Nextcloud major remains preview until verified. • Widgets need iOS 17 or later. Also available for Mac (Apple Silicon), Windows, and Linux at deckloud.com. Deckloud is an independent client and is not affiliated with Nextcloud GmbH. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Zextras Chats4 screens
Deckloud4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Zextras Chats at none against Deckloud's 3. Zextras Chats also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 80%). Deckloud's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 6 weeks). 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. Deckloud sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.00 per month. Zextras Chats asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Zextras Chats ships an update every 6 weeks, Deckloud every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Zextras Chats versus Deckloud: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterZextras ChatsDeckloud
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.4 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better80.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—9 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB74 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZextrasHoang Pham

Customer experience

Zextras Chats

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Deckloud

All ratings8 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Zextras Chats

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Deckloud

Subscriptions2
  • Deckloud Pro – Monthly$9.001 Month
  • Deckloud Pro – Yearly$29.001 Year
One-time1
  • Deckloud Pro – One-Time Unlock$39.00

Questions

Is Zextras Chats free?
Zextras Chats is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Deckloud free?
Deckloud is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Zextras Chats or Deckloud have ads?
Neither Zextras Chats nor Deckloud shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Zextras Chats or Deckloud?
Zextras Chats ships an update every 6 weeks, and Deckloud every 8 days. Most recently, Zextras Chats was updated on November 3, 2026 and Deckloud on November 9, 2026.

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