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Nextcloud: the best Open Source alternative to Google Drive in 2026

Nextcloud is the most popular open source productivity and cloud storage suite: files, calendar, contacts, collaborative editing and video calls, all under your own domain.

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Technical profile

License: AGPL-3.0
Category: Storage
Replaces: Google Drive, Dropbox
Tech stack: PHPMariaDB/PostgreSQL

Preview

Public image provided by Nextcloud on its own website.

Key features

Cross-platform file sync
Collaborative document editing (Collabora/OnlyOffice)
Calendar, contacts and video calls (Nextcloud Talk)
Hundreds of official and community apps

Nextcloud vs. Google Drive

Pros

The widest ecosystem of self-hosted productivity apps

Things to consider

Can feel heavy on small instances running many apps

Quick Docker installation guide

Copy this docker-compose.yml, adjust the example passwords and run docker compose up -d on your server. See the full step-by-step guide →

docker-compose.yml

version: "3.9"
services:
  nextcloud:
    image: nextcloud:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "8080:80"
    environment:
      - MYSQL_HOST=nextcloud-db
      - MYSQL_DATABASE=nextcloud
      - MYSQL_USER=nextcloud
      - MYSQL_PASSWORD=nextcloud
    volumes:
      - nextcloud_data:/var/www/html
    depends_on:
      - nextcloud-db
  nextcloud-db:
    image: mariadb:11
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=root
      - MYSQL_DATABASE=nextcloud
      - MYSQL_USER=nextcloud
      - MYSQL_PASSWORD=nextcloud
    volumes:
      - nextcloud_db_data:/var/lib/mysql
volumes:
  nextcloud_data:
  nextcloud_db_data: