Comparison

Deckloud vs Flark

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

Flark

Features
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Flark is a local-first topic notes app. Each space is its own topic feed where you jot down daily notes, ideas, and lists; friends or your other device react in real time. — No server, no account — Flark doesn't create accounts and has no cloud. Everything lives on your device and on a WebDAV server you choose (e.g. Nextcloud, Synology, or any WebDAV-compatible storage). We can't see anything. — Multi-device sync — Use the same WebDAV credentials and join the same Space ID on another device to keep seeing every topic and reply. An event-log merge algorithm keeps things consistent across offline edits, concurrent reactions, and clock skew. — Features — • Topic feed: each topic its own card, with inline images, emoji, and auto-linked URLs • Replies: lightweight threading under each topic • Sticker pack: built-in Lark-style emoji, tap to react • Images: pick from library or camera; cached locally for offline • Multiple spaces: join several at once (each on its own WebDAV) • Backup: export a passphrase-encrypted recovery code for a clean new-device handoff — Privacy — • We run no servers; nothing leaves your WebDAV and your device • Your identity key lives in iCloud Keychain (system-level encrypted, end-to-end) • No analytics, no ads, no third-party SDKs — For — • People who don't want their private notes on a cloud vendor • Anyone already running a NAS / Nextcloud / self-hosted WebDAV • A quiet space for yourself, your family, your partner, or a small team

Screenshots

Deckloud4 screens
Flark4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Flark at none against Deckloud's 3. Flark also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 8 days). 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. Flark asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Deckloud ships an update every 8 days, Flark daily. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Deckloud versus Flark: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDeckloudFlark
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (8 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size73 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHoang Pham奇峰 董

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

Flark

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Deckloud free?
Deckloud is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Flark free?
Flark is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Deckloud or Flark have ads?
Neither Deckloud nor Flark shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Deckloud or Flark?
Deckloud ships an update every 8 days, and Flark daily. Most recently, Deckloud was updated on October 30, 2026 and Flark on October 14, 2026.

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