Nextcloud

Nextcloud

Nextcloud GmbH
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About

Nextcloud puts your data at your fingertips, under your control. Nextcloud Hub is the leading open source, on-premises content collaboration platform with a strong focus on data protection. It is deployed by tens of thousands of organizations to stay in control of their sensitive content in compliance with privacy regulations like GDPR and HIPAA. Nextcloud presents a unified, comprehensive platform addressing collaboration needs through document sharing, real-time editing, video conferencing, calendaring, mail and other capabilities. This singular approach across mobile, web and desktop interfaces provides a superior user experience and increased productivity. It is designed with an open, modular architecture that enables organizations to optimize their content collaboration both within and outside their organization.

About

Spike brings your entire workspace into your Inbox: email, chat, calendar, calls, team collaboration, tasks — to one powerful Inbox. Everything you need to get your work done is in a single feed, so you can finally give the app-switching a rest. Spike’s conversational email fuses traditional email with instant messaging — eliminating cluttered email threads. With real-time conversations and live collaboration, have better interactions and a more human communication experience. Spike is available on iOS, Android, Mac, Windows & Web.

Platforms Supported

Windows Supported
Mac Supported
Linux Supported
Cloud Not Supported
On-Premises Supported
iPhone Supported
iPad Supported
Android Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Platforms Supported

Windows Supported
Mac Supported
Linux Not Supported
Cloud Supported
On-Premises Not Supported
iPhone Supported
iPad Supported
Android Supported
Chromebook Supported

Audience

Private users and small businesses use Nextcloud for free. Larger enterprises and institutions rely on Nextcloud Enterprise for reliable on-premises deployment at scale.

Audience

Spike is an all-in-one workplace, making you and your team more responsive, efficient, and collaborative.

Support

Phone Support Supported
24/7 Live Support Supported
Online Supported

Support

Phone Support Supported
24/7 Live Support Not Supported
Online Supported

API

Offers API Supported

API

Offers API Not Supported

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

38 euro/user/year
Nextcloud Enterprise Basic for 100 users: €36/user/year
Nextcloud Enterprise Basic for 200 users: €28,50/user/year
Pricing tiers available up to 10mln users.
Free Version Supported
Free Trial Supported

Pricing

Free
Spike is free for anyone with a personal email address.

If you have a custom domain email address, you can get started with a 14 day free trial.
Free Version Supported
Free Trial Not Supported

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 4.6 / 5
ease 4.6 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 4.6 / 5
support 4.5 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 4.8 / 5
features 4.8 / 5
design 4.8 / 5
support 4.6 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • Offers a wide range of apps for efficient workflow and collaboration. Features like video calls and collaborative tools are great for team projects. Effective for both personal and business file storage and management.
  • The experience with Nextcloud has been very positive as a collaborative tool in the education sector.
  • Open source. Self Hosted - perfect for home use and absolutely free. Highly secure. Available on smartphones.
  • One of the pros of Nextcloud is that it has a number of providers for free, and you can choose a provider on a single click.
  • -slower, stable growth path of scale, scope and capabilities. -APP plugin market. -integration capabilities (excellent with ONLYOFFICE). -great starter for private person with growth path into small business. -fantastic community.

Cons

  • Requires self-hosting or setting up through a Nextcloud partner. I preferred not to set it up at the moment. Although, I am capable to host it as I have hosted ownCloud earlier. I did not want to deal with port forwarding and other server related issues. So, I chose to go with a Nextcloud partner which has worked flawlessly for me.
  • To date I cannot consider a negative criterion, the developers are going in the right direction.
  • The client doesn't work well for uploading large number of small files (like old photos on phone).
  • For the time I've used the Nextcloud providers, I haven't found any issues to my attention.
  • -quality review of app plugins could be better (what works well for what version). -version handling (plugin capabilities seem to often link to specific versions). -needs to expand on developer and community efforts.

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • With Spike, conventional email is transformed into a chat-like conversational style. Users accustomed to messaging applications will find this method easier to use and more natural when it comes to email conversation.
  • Spike provides us with an environment that facilitates interaction with third parties in different ways, whether by calls, messaging, e-mail, etc. Its platform is intuitive and straightforward; it is pretty easy to understand how it works and to take advantage of its many communicative and collaborative benefits for the benefit of work teams.
  • Spike is an interesting email client which transform your old boring email window to interesting communication interface. It offer amazing collaborative capability which make it it perfect candidate of client with exceptionally useful extra feature contributing to higher conversion.
  • #1- Spike is also supported on mobile platforms. #2- Inbound and outbound emails converted into easy chat interface. #3- Task tracking and organizing are very convenient. #4- Team collaboration is great with its realtime chat.
  • New way to start chatting without sharing your mobile number, so it helps if you have privacy concerns. It has all of the feature that typical email apps have. Also integrated with voice and video calling.

Cons

  • Although Spike offers a mobile app for access while on the move, some users have noted that it occasionally has less functionality than the web version.
  • It is multiplatform, but its application for mobile devices is not as optimal as the computer one; some functions cannot be used.
  • Spike offers many add-on features with no extra cost involved. It's a great tool for email with collaboration. No Cons.
  • #1- We had an overall positive experience with Spike.
  • Till now I didn't faced any serious problems with this tool.

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Supported
Live Online Supported
In Person Supported

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Supported
Live Online Supported
In Person Not Supported

Company Information

Nextcloud GmbH
Founded: 2016
Germany
nextcloud.com

Company Information

Spike
Founded: 2014
Israel
www.spikenow.com

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Categories

Categories

Calendar Supported
Collaboration Supported
Email Clients Supported
Email Encryption Supported
Email Management Supported
Email Tracking Supported
File Sharing Supported
Productivity Supported
Screen Sharing Supported
Task Management Supported
Team Chat Supported
Team Communication Supported

File Sharing Features

Audit Trail Supported
Chat / Messaging Supported
Collaboration Supported
Document Management Supported
Drag & Drop Supported
Electronic Signature Supported
Encryption Supported
File Synchronization Supported
Search Supported
User Management Supported
Version Control Supported
Workflow Management Supported

Productivity Features

Collaboration Supported
Database Creation Not Supported
Document Creation Supported
File Sharing Supported
Notes Management Supported
Office Suite Supported
Presentation Tools Supported
Project Management Supported
Task Management Supported
Team Chat Supported

Screen Sharing Features

Annotations / Drawing Tools Supported
Desktop / Browser Sharing Supported
Mobile Screen Sharing Supported
Presenter Control Management Supported
Remote Control Not Supported
Screen Capture Not Supported
Screen Mirroring Not Supported
Screen Recording Not Supported

Team Communication Features

Activity / News Feed Supported
Audio Calls Supported
Calendar Management Supported
Chat / Messaging Supported
Discussion Threads Supported
File Sharing Supported
Mobile Access Supported
Push Notifications Supported
Search Supported
Surveys & Feedback Supported
Task Management Supported
Video Conferencing Supported

Content Collaboration Features

Client Portal Not Supported
Cloud Storage Supported
Digital Asset Management Supported
Document Creation / Editing Supported
Document Management Supported
Electronic Signature Supported
Feedback Management Not Supported
File Sharing Supported
Messaging / Discussion Supported
Real-Time / Interactive Editing Supported
Roles / Permissions Supported
Search Supported
Version Control Supported
Video / Image Editing Supported
Workflow / Approval Process Supported

Document Collaboration Features

Access Control / Permissions Supported
Autosave Supported
Chat / Messaging Supported
Cloud Storage Supported
Comments / Annotations Supported
Edit / Change Tracking Supported
Electronic Signature Supported
Multiple File Formats Supported
Pre-made Templates Supported
Search Supported
User Tagging Supported
Version Control Not Supported
Workflow / Approval Process Supported

Document Management Features

Access Controls Supported
Archiving & Retention Supported
Collaboration Tools Supported
Compliance Tracking Supported
Document Archiving Supported
Document Assembly Not Supported
Document Capture Not Supported
Document Conversion Supported
Document Delivery Not Supported
Document Indexing Supported
Document Retention Supported
Electronic Signature Supported
Email Management Supported
File Recovery Not Supported
File Type Conversion Supported
Forms Management Supported
Full Text Search Supported
Offline Access Supported
Optical Character Recognition Supported
Print Management Not Supported
Version Control Supported

File Sharing Features

Audit Trail Not Supported
Chat / Messaging Supported
Collaboration Supported
Document Management Supported
Drag & Drop Supported
Electronic Signature Not Supported
Encryption Supported
File Synchronization Not Supported
Search Supported
User Management Supported
Version Control Not Supported
Workflow Management Not Supported

Productivity Features

Collaboration Supported
Database Creation Not Supported
Document Creation Supported
File Sharing Supported
Notes Management Supported
Office Suite Supported
Presentation Tools Not Supported
Project Management Supported
Task Management Supported
Team Chat Supported

Team Communication Features

Activity / News Feed Supported
Audio Calls Supported
Calendar Management Supported
Chat / Messaging Supported
Discussion Threads Supported
File Sharing Supported
Mobile Access Supported
Push Notifications Supported
Search Supported
Surveys & Feedback Not Supported
Task Management Supported
Video Conferencing Supported

Calendar Features

Calendar Sync Supported
Collaboration Tools Not Supported
Multi-Device Support Not Supported
Reminders Supported
Room Booking Not Supported
Scheduling Not Supported
Task Manaagement Not Supported

Collaboration Features

Brainstorming Not Supported
Calendar Management Supported
Chat / Messaging Supported
Contact Management Not Supported
Content Management Supported
Document Management Supported
Project Management Supported
Real Time Editing Supported
Task Management Supported
Version Control Not Supported
Video Conferencing Supported

Email Management Features

Data Recovery Not Supported
Email Archiving Supported
Email Deletion Not Supported
Email Discovery Not Supported
Email Monitoring Supported
Email Recall Not Supported
Queue Manager Supported
Response Management Not Supported
Routing Not Supported
Shared Inboxes Supported
Signature Management Not Supported
Spam Blocker Supported
Whitelisting / Blacklisting Supported

Employee Communication Tools Features

Activity / News Feed Supported
Audio / Video Conferencing Supported
Blogs Not Supported
Chat / Messaging Supported
Employee Directory Not Supported
Event Calendar Supported
File Sharing Supported
Knowledge Management Not Supported
Newsletter Management Not Supported
Surveys & Feedback Not Supported

Internal Communications Features

App Integration Not Supported
Blogs Not Supported
Chat/Messaging Supported
Email Management Supported
Employee Directory Not Supported
Event Calendar Supported
Newsletter Management Not Supported
Photo Gallery Supported
Social Sharing Not Supported
Survey Management Not Supported
Telephony Not Supported
Video Chat Supported
Voice Chat Supported

Task Management Features

Collaboration Supported
Create Subtasks Supported
Gamification Not Supported
Gantt Charts Not Supported
Mobile Access Supported
Percent-Complete Tracking Not Supported
Progress Tracking Not Supported
Recurring Tasks Supported
Reporting/Analytics Not Supported
Spreadsheet View Supported
Task Board View Supported
Task Planning Supported
Task Scheduling Supported
Task Tracking Supported
Time Tracking Not Supported
To-Do List View Supported

Team Chat Features

End-to-End Encryption (E2EE) Not Supported
File Sharing Supported
Groups / Channels Supported
Payments Not Supported
Search / Filter Supported
Self-Destructing Messages Not Supported
Stickers / GIFs Supported
Threaded Discussion Not Supported
Video Conferencing Supported
Voice Calling Supported

Integrations

Microsoft Outlook Supported
Workers by Delos Supported
ARES Kudo Supported
AWS Marketplace Supported
BOTWISE Supported
Collabora Online Supported
Desktop.com Not Supported
Elestio Supported
FileRun Supported
Gmail Not Supported
Instantli Cloud Supported
Joplin Supported
Microsoft 365 Not Supported
Motileo Supported
Piktures Supported
Ploi Supported
Seequre Supported
Thinkfree Office Supported
Univention Corporate Server Supported
safes3 Supported

Integrations

Microsoft Outlook Supported
Workers by Delos Supported
ARES Kudo Not Supported
AWS Marketplace Not Supported
BOTWISE Not Supported
Collabora Online Not Supported
Desktop.com Supported
Elestio Not Supported
FileRun Not Supported
Gmail Supported
Instantli Cloud Not Supported
Joplin Not Supported
Microsoft 365 Supported
Motileo Not Supported
Piktures Not Supported
Ploi Not Supported
Seequre Not Supported
Thinkfree Office Not Supported
Univention Corporate Server Not Supported
safes3 Not Supported
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