Nextcloud Notes vs ownCloud Online
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Nextcloud Notes
This app allows you to create, edit, and organize notes on your mobile device. It syncs seamlessly with a Nextcloud server, ensuring your notes are accessible across all your devices and the web interface. Supports plain text and markdown formatting for versatile note-taking.
- Syncs with Nextcloud server
- Create and delete notes
- Organize notes in categories
- Plain text editing
- Markdown formatting
- Export notes
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Note: Access to a Nextcloud server with the Notes app installed is required to use this app. Visit https://nextcloud.com for more information. Nextcloud Notes is a notes editor that syncs with the Notes app (https://github.com/nextcloud/notes/releases) on your server. Once you have logged in to your server, all notes will be kept in sync between devices and also the web interface. Optionally supports sync on startup. You can create and delete notes directly on the device. Notes can be organized in categories. Edit as plain text or use markdown for rich formatting. Notes can be copied or exported to other apps or services in several formats. If you have a sync client (optional) installed on your desktop computer all notes will be there too, and can be edited with any text editor.
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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ownCloud Online at 5.0 against Nextcloud Notes's 2.2. ownCloud Online also leads on iOS requirement (15.4 vs 17.0). Nextcloud Notes's advantage is review sentiment (27% vs 0%) and ratings volume (93 vs 3). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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 2.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Nextcloud Notes has 93 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 27% of Nextcloud Notes's written reviews are positive against 0% of ownCloud Online's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Nextcloud Notes | ownCloud Online |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.2 (93 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 27.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 93 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 69 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nextcloud GmbH | ownCloud GmbH |
Customer experience
Nextcloud Notes
ownCloud Online
Bugs and requests
Nextcloud Notes
Reported bugs
19 issues- Notes randomly appear empty and lose content
- Empty files being saved to server
- Login resets to default server address
- 404 errors when getting settings
- Sync fails with large note collections
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- Navigation menu disappears after editing
- Keyboard covers input area
- Search field disappears after closing notes
- Cursor jumps to top of note while typing
- App disconnects during editing
- Session timeout errors with non-dismissible dialogs
- Conflict resolution interface unreadable
- Cannot switch between markdown and preview modes
- Notes don't upload from mobile to server
- Inconsistent note naming behavior
- App overwrites server files without checking versions
- Login fails with self-hosted servers
- App password authentication not supported
- Slow text input with 100ms delay per character
Requested features
17 requests- Text formatting options (bold, underline, italics)
- File and image attachment support
- Note categorization and organization
- Pin important notes to top
- Ability to rename notes easily
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- Offline mode with local caching
- Multi-account/profile switching
- Real-time collaborative editing
- Undo/redo functionality
- App-specific password support
- End-to-end encryption support
- Checkbox functionality in reading mode
- Share to Notes from other apps
- App lock with biometric authentication
- Direct note opening to preview page
- Remember app state on restart
- Mac app availability
ownCloud Online
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Nextcloud Notes
No in-app purchases
ownCloud Online
No in-app purchases
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