Comparison

Deckloud vs Nextcloud Calendar

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

Head to head
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/

About

Nextcloud Calendar

Manage your Nextcloud calendars with a simple mobile app. View, create, and organize events with real-time synchronization across multiple instances. Supports creating meetings with video conference links.

Highlights
  • Automatic calendar detection
  • View, create, and manage events
  • Real-time synchronization
  • Multi-account support
  • Create meetings with video conference links
  • Switch between multiple Nextcloud instances
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Manage your Nextcloud calendars from a mobile app designed to keep things simple. Nextcloud Calendar automatically detects the calendars available on your instance and lets you easily view, create, and organize your events. Changes are synced in real time to keep your schedule up to date, whether you use one or multiple Nextcloud instances. Key features: • Automatic calendar detection • View, create, and manage events • Real-time synchronization • Multi-account support • Create meetings with video conference links via Nextcloud Talk Using multiple Nextcloud servers? Add your accounts and easily switch between instances. If Nextcloud Talk is enabled on your instance, you can generate a video conference link directly from the app and attach it to your event. Nextcloud Calendar is designed for users, teams, and organizations that want mobile access to their Nextcloud calendars through a clear, modern experience built for everyday use. A compatible Nextcloud instance is required. Some features may depend on your server configuration and the apps enabled by your administrator.

Screenshots

Deckloud4 screens
Nextcloud Calendar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Nextcloud Calendar at none against Deckloud's 3. Nextcloud Calendar also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.4) and review sentiment (100% vs 80%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Nextcloud Calendar asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Nextcloud Calendar holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Deckloud's written reviews are positive against 100% of Nextcloud Calendar's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Deckloud ships an update every 8 days, Nextcloud Calendar every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Deckloud versus Nextcloud Calendar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDeckloudNextcloud Calendar
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (8 ratings)4.7 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings8 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.416.4
Further details — not scored
Size73 MB52 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHoang PhamSoluce Technologies

Customer experience

Deckloud

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

Nextcloud Calendar

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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
None

Nextcloud Calendar

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Deckloud free?
Deckloud is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Nextcloud Calendar free?
Nextcloud Calendar is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Deckloud or Nextcloud Calendar?
Nextcloud Calendar is rated higher. Deckloud averages 4.4 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while Nextcloud Calendar averages 4.7 from 3 ratings.
Do Deckloud or Nextcloud Calendar have ads?
Neither Deckloud nor Nextcloud Calendar shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Deckloud or Nextcloud Calendar?
Deckloud ships an update every 8 days, and Nextcloud Calendar every 2 weeks. Most recently, Deckloud was updated on October 30, 2026 and Nextcloud Calendar on October 31, 2026.

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