Nextcloud

Nextcloud is open-source software for running your own cloud: file storage and sharing, calendars, contacts and more, on a server you control or with a provider that hosts it for you. This is its official Android app for files. It needs an account on a Nextcloud server, version 22 or later; the first screen links to providers that offer accounts and to instructions for running your own server.

What it does

• Browse, open, upload and share files and folders, on one account or several.
• Auto upload for new photos and videos, with options to upload only on Wi-Fi, only while charging, and to delete the phone’s copy afterwards.
• Work offline: changes you make without a connection are queued and synced when you are back online.
• Two-way sync for folders you choose, switched on in each folder’s details. By default it runs every 15 minutes, on Wi-Fi and with power saving off, and it covers only the copies inside the app’s own Nextcloud folder: changes made to files elsewhere on the phone aren’t picked up.
• End-to-end encryption for empty folders, if your server has it switched on, with a 12-word phrase that opens them on your other devices.
• Protection and backup: lock the app with a passcode or your phone’s screen lock, and back up your contacts and calendars to the server.

Version 35 adds albums, a new media player and, for Nextcloud 35 servers, a new sharing screen. Syncing calendars and contacts with the server goes through DAVx⁵, a separate app; Nextcloud Talk, Notes and Deck are separate apps too.

What this F-Droid build leaves out

• Push notifications. They depend on Google Play services, so Nextcloud’s README says the F-Droid builds don’t support them.
• The built-in document scanner. If the FairScan app is installed, the scan option hands over to it; otherwise the option doesn’t appear.

About this file

• This is F-Droid’s build of Nextcloud 35.0.0, from September 2026, signed with F-Droid’s key. It won’t update the version from Google Play, or the other way round, without uninstalling first.
• It is for 64-bit phones only: Nextcloud builds this version for 64-bit ARM and x86_64, with no 32-bit version.
• The 96.8 MB file runs on Android 9 and later and declares 33 permissions, among them contacts and calendar access for the backup feature.

CPU types in this build: arm64-v8a (64-bit ARM, almost every phone since 2017); x86_64 (64-bit Intel, emulators and Chromebooks).

Versions currently kept in the F-Droid repository. We host and check only the newest stable one. Full changelog.