Your apps in one place
Open Files, Photos, Talk, notes, calendars, boards, and more without learning a different interface each time.
Open source · Android and desktop
One native client for your Nextcloud.
One consistent home for Files, Photos, Memories, Talk, Calendar, Contacts, Mail, Music, Deck, Tables, Cookbook, Cospend, and server administration. Android and Linux alpha builds are available now, with completion status tracked on the public roadmap.
An independent Obiente project. Connects directly to your own Nextcloud.
Nextcloud Native Connected to Nextcloud
Interactive sample workspaceFiles
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A complete Nextcloud client
Familiar controls across every part of your cloud.
The same search, selection, sharing, editing, caching, and offline behavior follows you from files to messages, photos, calendars, and installed apps.
Made for your device
Preview and edit files, browse photos, reply to messages, and work offline in interfaces built for phone and desktop.
Your cloud stays yours
The app connects directly to your Nextcloud. There is no Obiente account, subscription, or cloud service in the middle.
Adaptive native views
Installed apps become useful interfaces, not API output.
Nextcloud Native recognizes resources such as records, files, messages, events, media, forms, and actions. It selects a suitable native view and adds specialized app knowledge where it improves the workflow.
Read the architecture- 01
See what your server offers
The app checks the features and apps your own Nextcloud safely makes available.
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Understand the information
Dates, people, files, rows, messages, and actions are recognized from verified data.
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Choose the right native view
The result becomes a useful gallery, editor, table, conversation, calendar, board, or dashboard.
Nextcloud apps
Each app keeps its purpose.
Mail stays a mailbox. Deck stays a board. Tables stays a table. Shared building blocks keep navigation and actions consistent without flattening every app into the same generic screen.
See the compatibility workPhone and desktop clients
Designed for the screen it runs on.
Mobile uses touch navigation, system sharing, background work, and media controls. Desktop uses persistent navigation, dense tables, keyboard shortcuts, inspectors, and resizable workspaces.
Alpha build
Android
The current Android alpha provides native account, app, file, media, and system integration foundations while broader sync and communication work continues.
Alpha build
Linux
The current Linux desktop alpha provides the native workspace used for development and integration testing.
Packaging preview
Windows and macOS
Prerelease MSI and DMG artifacts prove the packaging pipeline. Native credential storage and supported authenticated use are not implemented yet.
Planned
iOS and iPadOS
The shared architecture targets Apple mobile platforms, but no supported launcher is shipped yet.
Product capabilities
More than a viewer for server data.
Each area includes the controls and system integrations needed to browse, create, edit, share, synchronize, and administer real work.
Files, WebDAV, and advanced sync
The product direction covers browsing, previews, editing, sharing, offline files, and revision-safe folder pairs. The alpha currently provides real WebDAV browsing, previews, and guarded text editing while the broader sync workflow is completed.
How folder sync worksPhotos, Memories, and Recognize
The alpha already browses real media, RAW previews, and recognized people. Verified backup, albums, Live Photos, non-destructive editing, and cloud-only sharing remain tracked delivery work.
How photo backup stays trustworthyTalk messages and calls
The alpha provides native rooms, read-only history, attachments, and typed call or system events. Sending, richer interactions, notifications, and full audio or video calling remain on the public roadmap.
Explore app compatibilityCalendar, Contacts, and Mail
Native calendar, contact, and mailbox components are being connected to CalDAV, CardDAV, and Mail data. Full editing, composition, search, and device synchronization are tracked work.
See how native views are selectedTables, Deck, Cookbook, Cospend, and Music
Adaptive views already recognize these resource families. Editing tables, moving Kanban cards, recipe workflows, budget actions, and complete system playback integration are being verified app by app.
Read about adaptive native appsNative Nextcloud administration
The planned administration workspace covers users, groups, quotas, apps, server settings, background jobs, security status, and app-specific administration with explicit permission checks.
Follow the public delivery roadmapCaptured from the application
Real Compose UI, repeatable sample data.
These captures are rendered from the application's own UI. A local fixture server supplies safe, deterministic content for screenshots, tests, documentation, and release notes.
Captured from the real app with synthetic names and data. No account, server, cache, or user media is read.
Documentation
Architecture, security, compatibility, and contribution guides.
Documentation is built from the repository alongside the site. Architecture decisions, security boundaries, compatibility work, and public acceptance gates stay searchable.
RoadmapThe dependency-driven path from developer preview to a safe, native five-platform Nextcloud client.35 minArchitectureHow verified contracts, semantic inference and reusable native components turn app APIs into useful interfaces.11 minCompatibilityThe current integration matrix, tested Nextcloud apps and evidence behind each supported experience.3 minNative schemaThe platform-neutral grammar that maps discovered resources, fields and actions to native components.2 minDynamic appsThe validated discovery and execution contract for arbitrary installed Nextcloud applications.3 minPlatformsHow Android, iOS, Windows, macOS and Linux share domain rules while keeping native system integrations.3 min
Product guides and project news
How Nextcloud Native handles everyday work.
Backing up your phone photos should feel trustworthy
The verified-backup design distinguishes safe Nextcloud copies, files that need attention, and storage that can be reviewed for cleanup.
5 min readSyncing an Obsidian folder with Nextcloud
The design for reliable two-way Nextcloud folder sync keeps Markdown notes visible to Obsidian, preserves conflicting edits, and avoids hidden app folders.
5 min readOne native app for Files, Talk, Photos, and more
Nextcloud Native is designed to make installed apps feel consistent without wrapping web pages, starting with Android and Linux and targeting iOS, macOS, and Windows.
5 min readStraight answers
What Nextcloud Native is, and is not.
Is this a web wrapper?
No. Nextcloud Native consumes server APIs and renders native Compose interfaces. Web content is reserved for formats that genuinely require a document renderer, not app navigation.
Can I sync an Obsidian notes folder with Nextcloud?
Revision-safe folder-pair sync is in active development. The intended workflow pairs a normal device folder with a Nextcloud folder, keeps Markdown visible to Obsidian and other editors, and preserves both versions when changes conflict.
Can it back up photos and safely free phone storage?
Verified photo backup and storage recovery are in active development. The design distinguishes waiting, uploading, verified, changed, failed, and cloud-only files, and only offers cleanup for exact versions verified on the selected server.
How does it work with so many Nextcloud apps?
Reusable native components understand common resources such as files, messages, people, events, tables, boards, media, forms, and actions. Verified app knowledge improves specialized workflows without turning every integration into a separate client.
Why use adaptive components instead of only app-specific clients?
App-specific knowledge can improve an experience, but reusable semantics let similar data and actions work across apps we have never tested. Verified adapters remain available for the places where they create a genuine UX improvement.
Is this an official Nextcloud project?
No. Nextcloud Native is an independent Obiente project, licensed under AGPL-3.0-or-later. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by Nextcloud GmbH.
AGPL-3.0 open source
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