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# ownCloud Reviews
**Vendor:** ownCloud  
**Category:** [Cloud Content Collaboration Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-content-collaboration)  
**Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 241
## About ownCloud
ownCloud is the open platform for more productivity and security in digital collaboration. ownCloud offers a solution to organizations that need to share confidential data internally and externally. The open platform offers better productivity and security within digital collaboration, and enables users to access data no matter where it is stored or which device is being used.



## ownCloud Pros & Cons
**What users like:**

- Users find ownCloud very **easy to use** , appreciating its intuitive design and quick setup across multiple devices. (12 reviews)
- Users appreciate the **full control over data security** with ownCloud, ensuring privacy and compliance for sensitive information. (9 reviews)
- Users appreciate the **full control over data security** with ownCloud's self-hosted solution, ensuring compliance and safety. (6 reviews)
- Users appreciate the **reliability** of ownCloud's file syncing, ensuring secure sharing across devices without third-party involvement. (4 reviews)
- Users value the **strong focus on data privacy and security** with ownCloud, enjoying complete control over their files. (3 reviews)
- Data Storage (3 reviews)
- Easy Setup (3 reviews)
- Users value the **secure and flexible file sharing** capabilities of ownCloud, ensuring efficient access and data control. (3 reviews)
- Open Source (3 reviews)
- Speed (3 reviews)

**What users dislike:**

- Users find the **difficult setup** of ownCloud challenging, especially for those lacking technical expertise or experience. (8 reviews)
- Users note the **lack of features** in ownCloud, particularly regarding setup complexity and limited app/plugin options. (4 reviews)
- Users experience **slow performance** with ownCloud, particularly during large folder syncing and on slower connections. (4 reviews)
- Users find the **training required** for setup and configuration of ownCloud to be challenging and not beginner-friendly. (4 reviews)
- Users find the **user interface less intuitive** , making initial setup challenging, especially for non-technical users. (4 reviews)
- Users find the **limited functionality** of ownCloud challenging, especially with setup complexity and basic mobile app experience. (3 reviews)
- Synchronization Issues (3 reviews)
- Users find the **complex coding** required for setup to be challenging, particularly for self-hosted deployments. (2 reviews)
- Lack of Features (2 reviews)
- Users report **performance issues** with ownCloud, particularly with large files and when many users are active. (2 reviews)

## ownCloud Reviews
  ### 1. OwnCloud = Control

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Christopher M. | Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2017

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

Open source software that truly gives you full control over a file storage solution. Supports privacy and encryption with minimal effort.

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

Slow development changes. Open source also mean some security vulnerability.

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Private file storage for applications in development. Additonally, distribution of software and files our company uses.

  ### 2. Secure media storage

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Anton T. | Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 08, 2020

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

Self-hosted, easy to use, multi platform and free for unlimited users

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

Flexibility for client installation, need technical setup.

**Recommendations to others considering ownCloud:**

This self-hosted media storage is secure, encrypted with modern technology, easy to use both for admins and users.

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Private data storage, company file sharing

  ### 3. Best cloud creation tool

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Gaurav J. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2020

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

The best cloud creation platform for storage and also it has amazing features plus it is open source.

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

No dislike as of now for the software as it fulfils all my requirements.

**Recommendations to others considering ownCloud:**

Best self cloud creation tool.

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I am using it for creation of my personal storage cloud and for my company.

  ### 4. Easy to organize file sharing

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Jill C. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 11, 2020

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

I share multiple large files with different agencies/organizations and OwnCloud allows me to create separate folders to organize and then share file.  It also allows me to grant permissions for either download only or download and upload.

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

it often logs me out in the middle of uploading a file and I have to log back in a few times.

**Recommendations to others considering ownCloud:**

It's a good resource.  No need for training, very easy to use.

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Frees up space in my email so I'm not sending large files back and forth.  Allows me to save different versions of same file in one place.

  ### 5. Best for personal Cloud

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 06, 2020

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

first of all, it is opensource and has various integration apps already available. It also has a very and basic User Interface which makes work easier.

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

No dislike as off now because some times faced issues integrating work opener in it.

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Generalized cloud for my team members and myself for future usage.

  ### 6. very good control over privacy and very affordable.

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Shobha R. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 12, 2020

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

multiplatform support with quick and easy setup. Also, the free version is feature-rich.

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

no downsides so far. Everything runs smoothly.

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

hosting private cloud servers without third party involvement helps secure data storage and prevents any form of leak. one more step towards digital freedom

  ### 7. simpe , privacy focussed and cheap

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Abhirama R. | Hardware Design Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 08, 2020

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

private users have free account and the integration with ms office is very useful.

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

Could provide more support for integrating apps such as gitlab ,  slack etc.

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Privacy is one of the most useful application as it allows us to host private cloud storage.

  ### 8. The (second) best a self hosted solution can provide!

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Jamie M. | Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2020

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

OwnCloud is entirely free, (with paid options) it is entirely white label out the box so you can brand it yourself.
It has some incredible customisation from plugins to themes to even creating and adding your own.
A huge plus is it can be as technical or as easy as you like, if your looking for a family shared file space it's fast and simple to set up and has all the tools you need.
If your an enterprise it also scales and has all the technical features you need to do complex file management, run extra applications on or voice and video call.
All without a monthly fee. Set it up, run it on your hardware and break free from the big guys.

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

OwnCloud is not quite as powerful as it's rival NextCloud, they are very similar but NextCloud lends it's self much better for enterprise use and some functionality.

Eventually and unfortunately I made the decision to move to using NextCloud as my personal use moved towards needing a more commercial and professional solution.

**Recommendations to others considering ownCloud:**

OwnCloud is great for personal use and has a fairly easy set up on a web server, However; if you would like voice calling and better support and be able to upgrade to an enterprise solution.

Go with NextCloud, they are very similar.

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I had my own dedicated server with lots of storage space, I was paying far less for this space than I would for most cloud services and it had much more functions that I could run on it like my web server.

I needed a file service to sync my files across my three devices, I had used up OneDrive and Google drive was too costly and lacked the features that I needed.

I also had PC's and a Mac in my network so needed a cross platform solution. It was a huge plus that I had full control of the solutuon since I was the one hosting it!

  ### 9. CompuData Cloud Hosting

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 08, 2020

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

We have the ability to fully customize our cloud environment as well as our software. CompuData cloud provides advanced customization capabilities, complete control over your environment, and full admin access – even to the SQL database. This allows you to maintain control of software updates and have access anytime to our servers. The cloud is built for ERP and financial applications.

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

Really nothing.  We chose the cloud so that we had 99.999% uptime and that has saved us during the current situation.

**Recommendations to others considering ownCloud:**

If you want control of your software and better control of your security, I recommend the cloud.

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Our people can easily work remotely and access all of the software, email and everything.  WE can chose to update our software package rather that in a SAAS cloud where the company does an automatic upgrade.  We felt having control of our software and upgrades were extremely important since we have many customizations.  When we were in the SAAS environment, when an upgrade occurred we had to go back through our customizations.  The cloud saved us a lot of time.

  ### 10. OwnCloud Review

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Zlatislav K. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2020

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

One of the best things about Owncloud is that it is an open platform and you can share files easily. It's easy to upload and download documents, playback short videos, do a presentation in the cloud. There is a nice system where users can create a lot of different folders/subfolders and manage their file the best way it suits them. The storage allocation is also neat.

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

The web-based interface and graphic are something slow, there is no default video viewer, however you can install one(or ask the Admin to do it). There is also no default document editor. Loading photographs especially large ones is a quite time consuming task and it mostly depends on your network connection/speed.

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I personally use it for file sharing with the organization i work for and expect that i have a personal ownCloud installed on my machine which i use to easily transfer files at home to my other PCs and family.

  ### 11. powerful storage tool

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** shrinivas b. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2020

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

Own cloud
It allows file storage, file sharing, folder sharing, photo galleries,Supports large files.Provides password protected links to the public.
It offers collabration on-line paper editing.Its collaborative features make it possible for users to edit documents at once, or to comment on pictures and make video calls.

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

Not a number i mean no downsides personally.

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Provides a platform for convergence and antivirus is most benefited feature i actually realized.

  ### 12. Excellent and private cloud service

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Rodolfo J. C. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2020

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

Great user interface, very easily administered backend, and complete and total privacy for our data. Our clients sometimes need their privacy protected and my certifying entity needs a total and private handling of my client's data, thus this solution check all the correct marks.

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

It's a bit more expensive than other options.

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Privacy of data. Backups of our onshore and nearshore data.

  ### 13. Easy way for storing and sharing files

**Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2020

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

Easy to use
Easy to install
And perform well

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

In my entreprise we use it to store mock responses of external third party APIs and services. The stored files can be modified by any one at any time causing our mock apps to fail. We would like if it's possible to add ready only kind of files.

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

File storage for sharing theme with others and apps.

  ### 14. ownCloud, Complete cloud solution for all your needs

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Andrea E. | Responsabile sviluppo web, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2019

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

ownCloud let you setup your own cloud in minutes, but there is not just cloud files feature!
With the apps market you can setup your organisation workspace, adding calendars, todo lists, project management, mail client etc. All in one place, all accessible from your local network or internet!
With the mobile app you could stay connected to your cloud, synchronise and use your files in mobility.

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

ownCloud is a lightweight opensource solution, by the way this doesn't mean that could do anything, there is some missing features that could make it a perfect solution.
Adding a CRM (maybe paid) packages could let you never leave ownCloud, but, we can't have anything maybe. Creating an SDK may be helpful to developer to create something else than the apps provided in the marketplace.

**Recommendations to others considering ownCloud:**

Have a good machine to install, yes, you could put it in all system you want, but using a server, built from file sharing, with a two gigabit ethernet ports, SSDs, better in RAID 0 to maximize the speeds and good RAM will let your ownCloud installation run smoother and faster

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

With ownCloud, at my agency, we got all (at least) we need to work with our files in mobility.
Many times, my clients need to send me files, or I need to share files with him, you could use more known services to do this, but Hey! I got my own system, that sound more serious! 
At other side, we got the ability to have the same kind of service than a "more known" suite available on the market but with the speed of a local network!

  ### 15. ownCloud - Truly a great product!

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2020

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

The simplicity and large feature set available to users.

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

The install can be a little tedious to get up and running.

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Centralized portal to store documents and collaboration tools.

  ### 16. ownCloud For easy access

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Syed I. | Senior Manager Information Security, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 06, 2020

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

This is best solution every when you are thinking about the cloud, Its open source & place your data & get it from any where in the world. Its a cloud solution & place data like file, documents, media files & mobile backups & File.

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

It single point of failure than it will not be available  than you will disconnect with your data.

**Recommendations to others considering ownCloud:**

Make it more improve ....this is best one no comments

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I am using it with frequently as this cloud computing world , mean where you are than you data with you.

  ### 17. OwnCloud: online service for data transfer and collaboration

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Cecilia T. | Human Resources Team Lead, Human Resources, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 05, 2019

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

ownCloud is very easy to use from the organizational point of view. It has an extremely clear Interface for our main goals and activities. It allows us to test the data storage site so that our photos, music and other files are displayed and played directly within the browser tab.

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

In ownCloud, you must manage your facilities, software upgrades, backup systems, and security by yourself. I wish some of these could be done automatically. Recently, the integration with Collabora Online was possible but it's very poor in contrast to Office365 or the editing of SharedPoint files via desktop.

**Recommendations to others considering ownCloud:**

OwnCloud is the perfect tool for companies that have a private or small-scale file server. Once ownCloud is conveniently installed, it is able to support seamlessly a large user base by many instances. I would recommend you use it in a VM so that you can screenshot or restore the Database, as almost nothing can be done directly within the own cloud application. However, I think ownCloud would be inadequate for clients that want cooperative file writing and only use Office365 or the G Suite.

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Within our community, we use ownCloud as our online service for data transfer and collaboration with other staff members to save or share files between individuals and our own personal accounts. OwnCloud is perfect for allowing our sensitive information to be saved on the cloud from anywhere, by using some minimal offline features.

  ### 18. Data sharing and file syncing

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 02, 2020

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

This is the best tool to sync files within any organization that you work for. It has made data and file sharing easier

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

I don’t dislike anything about using owncloud

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Owncloud has made accessing files and documents easier. It has allowed to sync files, made collaboration easier for the teams as you can access the files from any device. It also provides the ability to share files with external users by sending password-protected sharing links. You can also set expiration dates for these links.

  ### 19. It is one of the best cloud sharing services

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2020

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

You can share a set of files in a folder to someone

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

Cannot open the document online, need to download it every time

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It was used for the project

  ### 20. Very Stable Opensource Cloud Storage

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Umair A. | Senior Solution Architect , Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 30, 2020

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

I really liked ownCloud for its simplicity. We have used its opensource version and deployed on-premise and integrated with Amazon S3 for web applications file sync. Integration with Amazon S3 for the files storage.

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

There are not so many community support.

**Recommendations to others considering ownCloud:**

If you want your cloud storage with multiple integrations then ownCloud is very reasonable choice to select due to its out of the box integrations.

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

central file hosting

  ### 21. Take back control of your sensitive data from the data sharks out there!

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2019

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

Having your own cloud infrastructure that allows you to store your data in your own network and make it available over the internet quickly and easily is possible thanks to owncloud, because you have all your information there available to share with your colleagues or edit it wherever you are, has many applications that allow you not only to have your information there, but you can from the cloud, play, view, edit your files instantly.

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

Requires you to manage the infrastructure, software updates, backups and security because it is self-hosted
The picture viewer in ownCloud is not really snappy by default (You need to setup plugins or some kind of cache)
No video viewer by default
The web UI requires a cache setup to have reasonable load times (to be fair, it is recommended in the admin page)
I stopped using the calendar and contacts plugins because after each update they would break

**Recommendations to others considering ownCloud:**

OwnCloud/Nextcloud is a great application for cloud storage of files, and makes sharing specific files or folders easy and fast. It also makes a great tool for real-time collaboration, including real-time chat and simultaneous editing of documents or spreadsheets. I have used ownCloud to assist clients in sending large files that could not be emailed -- for example, one of my clients is a Video Production agency. They produced a commercial to air, but could not email the file as it was 400MB. OwncCloud came to the rescue. I set up a temporary share and allowed him access to upload into that folder. Once the file was in the folder, I generated a share link that was then forwarded to TV stations for instant viewing in a browser. Each TV station then downloaded it and was able to add it to their scheduling system quickly.
From the Photography side... I am able to deliver large amounts of files quickly and easily to my clients, and they can download or view on mobile devices easily.
Since I use ownCloud on a daily basis, I cannot think of any reason why I would not use this software.

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We use ownCloud in the export department of the organization to exchange files with our customers. Some users use it for their personal cloud to work from with all their files and media 100% in the cloud. It solves quick and painless file exchange with no password issues. The links can be set to expire after a certain time.
All data is on our own servers, we don't have to be afraid of misuse of our information/industrial espionage, etc. we are 100% in control of our own data.

  ### 22. Own cloud for free

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 08, 2020

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

You're able to store your data and sync it between computers, phones, tablets..

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

i'f you need to sync to much small files it may not be the best solution

**Recommendations to others considering ownCloud:**

avoid paying for storing your data, use your "old" disk and sync it with owncloud

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

you're the owner of your data, you can avoid using google drive, microsoft onedrive, with no cost.

  ### 23. your private cloud your data with you

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Adrian F. | IT Specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2019

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

Having your own cloud infrastructure that allows you to store your data in your own network and make it available over the internet quickly and easily is possible thanks to owncloud, because you have all your information there available to share with your colleagues or edit it wherever you are, has many applications that allow you not only to have your information there, but you can from the cloud, play, view, edit your files instantly. 

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

To share files with your office colleagues, requires that you install a separate application called libreoffice online version and thus manage these resources in real time, see who makes the changes and have better control of who accesses the documents, without this would have many problems version control, if many people are using your file at the same time.

**Recommendations to others considering ownCloud:**

Integrate the cloud with authentication solutions so that you can integrate existing systems such as zimbra and this way you have centralized your user accounts, you do not have to create these again for each system you manage.

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Online storage is very common today, but you always have to place your files on servers of other applications and the information is no longer yours, although these companies offer confidentiality, because you can not know if your information at any time is compromised.

  ### 24. Excellent application for private storage

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Edwin P. | IT Specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2019

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

The possibility of having your data in a private application, which you can publish to the Internet with the security that you own your information and share it with people inside or outside the institution with or without authentication using the direct access link or previously shared key, in addition to easy integration with other systems such as zimbra, active directory or ldap among others.

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

As changes made through the web administration are written in real time, if you make a change you may lose communication with other applications or authentication services, for example if your domain is local.com and you are writing local.co and you change to another field in the tab the changes are saved and you lose communication to the authentication server, preventing users to connect.

**Recommendations to others considering ownCloud:**

If you use Active Directory synchronization it is good to perform the tests through the terminal, connecting by ssh direct to the server so that you do not have problems and guarantees that is integrated into your authentication service.

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

When you work with sensitive or sensitive information, you do not want it to be handled by others without your consent, have a service very similar to dropbox but that you have the power to manage your platform, and move the files that are managed within the institution to the Internet without having to place them on public platforms is very good, also the integration to libreoffice version server allows you to several people can edit documents in real time or simultaneously.

  ### 25. ownCloud - Your own cloud.

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Ludovic C. | Tax Manager, Renewables & Environment, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2019

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

Owncloud is an entirely free solution that allows the user to create and manage a private cloud for files. Owncloud is a modular solution that gives the user many possibilities. Owncloud, in addition to the option to store and synchronize files gives us the ability to share files by creating a unique URL for each file. You can sync the shared data between different devices, as well as between your computer and phone with the application installed. Owncloud is a solution that gives many options to customize the service to suit the needs of the user so that the user can make many changes, for example, can add a selected number of domains. One of the options I like very much is the ability to preview PDF files so that I can browse PDF files while on the move with the computer synchronized faster. Owncloud gives us the ability to add users to the service, as well as to allocate them a selected amount of disk space.


**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

- Application for mobile devices even though the solution is available free of charge, it is payable. 

- Users do not have experience with server management may not be able to cope.

**Recommendations to others considering ownCloud:**

I recommend using Owncloud to users who want to transform their private server into a private cloud service.


**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

OwnCloud gives me the ability to store my data on a private server in a secure way, which significantly reduces the costs that I would incur when purchasing a dedicated cloud service.


  ### 26. ownCloud - Space for your files

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Textiles | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2019

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

ownCloud is particularly easy for its ease of use. The cleanly laid out UI resembles the sort of stripped-down design of a standard file manager. You can create your system and know that you can reach into these folders whenever you need them, and ownCloud comes backed with a robust selection of search and filtering options. You can designate favorites for better access and scour through revisions you've created so that you can more effectively monitor the history of your documents, images, or videos.OwnCloud offers integration for elastic search, a powerful full-stack cloud-based search engine that can be incredibly valuable when you're storing large amounts of complex analytics in your virtual ownCloud space. That enables you to turn ownCloud into a virtual resource network for your marketing, sales, and customer service teams. It is a painless process to make sure that everyone who needs your data receives it. 

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

The process of creating a server and its configuration can be quite complicated for new users.

**Recommendations to others considering ownCloud:**

I recommend Owncloud solution for users looking for a solution for their company, but also for people working at home because Owncloud allows us to reduce the costs that we would spend on the purchase of cloud services.

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Owncloud gives my team the ability to share files securely on our corporate server.

  ### 27. storage where fences

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2019

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

be able to have an application that allows me to take with me files that I may need at any time, and all under my infrastructure, so these files are not being used by third parties, nor are available on public use servers such as dropbox, among others. It also has an important amount of tools that facilitate the handling of documents and other files, which allows us to reproduce or edit on the same server.

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

the modification and search in the administrator is done in real time, ie every character q placed searching, if your number of users is very large, this makes your search is not done correctly or is left lagueado the server and you must wait a while to respond. I hope it will be corrected in future versions

**Recommendations to others considering ownCloud:**

you can use an add-on that allows you to restrict the type of extensions that users can store in your cloud, so file extensions that are usually viruses or malicious programs.

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

In corporate environments, most companies choose to restrict access to USB ports to computers, to prevent viruses from entering through this medium, as well as the extraction of sensitive information. But what alternatives do they give to their users? ounclowd is an alternative portable data storage, with the log of activities you can observe the data that each user has stored or downloaded, so your information will always have control of the path of the files.

  ### 28. Do you want a probate drive cloud? Try owncloud

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Alberto R. | IT Specilist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 21, 2019

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

is the best alternative to private cloud, you can store content and have them available on the Internet, with the security that it is your information and is not being used by third parties, as you have hosted it IN YOUR OWN CLOUD as its name indicates, also has many pluggins which gives it a much greater appeal, because not only store information, but you can also edit documents without the need to download them first, and share these documents with members of your company or people or external institutions.

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

To integrate with other systems such as for example ldap authentication, you must be very careful, because as it saves in real time, if we add the domain data badly, this will give us problems communicating with the authentication servers and generates problems to users who could not log in.

**Recommendations to others considering ownCloud:**

take into account all the advantages of extrar that can be added to owncloud, such as integration with ldap, zimbra, webdav, libreoffice, among others. will make your cloud a more comprehensive system of document management.

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

When handling sensitive information, it is difficult to make the decision to place this information in the cloud, because as we know placing in a public cloud implies that the company that offers the service could be using this information for some reason, having your own cloud allows you to own your information and only you decide with whom it is shared.

  ### 29. Private Organisational Storage

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Vusi N. | General Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 13, 2019

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

I like how ownCloud is self hosted giving the organisation full control of how the system is managed.

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

There is a lack of features such as a built-in document editor for collaborative editing.

**Recommendations to others considering ownCloud:**

Recommended for those looking to have full control over their data.

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

ownCloud makes it easy to setup access policies within the organisation that do not require paying for third parties services such as Google Drive.

  ### 30. ownCloud - Review

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Mélanie L. | Executive project manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 21, 2019

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

The main advantage of Owncloud is the fact that it is a free, open-source solution that allows us to create a cloud and manage its content using applications available on most major operating systems, and mobile. Owncloud allows us to synchronize your data, so we can use Owncloud to create backups. Another great advantage of Owncloud is the fact that any limits of disk space do not limit us because it depends on the disk we have on the server, so we can significantly save on the purchase of a dedicated cloud solution. Owncloud is used when sending small and large files, so you can save a lot of time on sending attachments because each file stored on Owncloud can be shared with an external link.


**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

One of the drawbacks that can be annoying for some users is that we are responsible for the cloud created using Owncloud and we do not have the support that would be able to help us.


**Recommendations to others considering ownCloud:**

If you are looking for a solution that will allow you to create your cloud, you should consider trying out Owncloud, especially since this solution is available for free and has documentation that will make it much easier for us to install.


**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

By using Owncloud, I save a lot of money on the purchase of a cloud from a provider.


  ### 31. Best tool for internal cloud creation

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 04, 2019

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

It is opensource and easy to use setup. It's free of cost which helps people to set it up easily. It has many features and additional features can be added.

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

It is not available for windows-based system and also some features are OS specific.

**Recommendations to others considering ownCloud:**

I would recommend it to people who want to implement their own cloud for free and on campus also. And it's easy to set up so the person does not require anyone from outside to set it up. It has various guidance tutorials available online also.

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

1. Cloud Storage.
2. Privacy
3. No dependency on Google drive and other related softwares.

  ### 32. Good tool for cloud creation

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Kshitij J. | Mentor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2019

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

Easy to use user interface
various functionalities
easy to use and manage admin panel

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

Security issues because of SSL implementation is tough and also happens in centos only properly

**Recommendations to others considering ownCloud:**

Good for implementing internal cloud in the company for data security

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Internal organization file sharing so that can reduce usage of extranal storage drives and also i crease security and reduce data external sharing

  ### 33. ownCloud - Your files in one place

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Leon R. | Director, Accounting, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 16, 2019

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

Owncloud allows us to create our own private cloud as well as to manage it. During the long term use of Owncloud, I liked the most the fact that this solution is available completely free of charge, so all we pay for is our VPS / Dedicated server so we can save a lot of time at the turn of the century. By using OwnCloud, our files are safer than other cloud solutions or hosting solutions because we control them and do not have to worry about any surveillance. Owncloud, in addition to cloud management, allows us to manage users who have access to the cloud or to allocate resources. Another huge advantage of Owncloud is the fact that this application allows us to synchronize our devices, including smartphones so that Owncloud can become a replacement for popular solutions.


**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

- The process of loading graphics files sometimes takes some time. 

- The application for a mobile device is, payable what is, quite strange because the solution itself is available completely free of charge.


**Recommendations to others considering ownCloud:**

If you are looking for a solution that will allow you to create and manage a cloud, you should consider using Owncloud for this purpose, especially since it is available completely free of charge.


**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

By using Owncloud, I can keep my private and business files in a secure space without worrying about any data leakage because I have enabled encryption of all data.


  ### 34. Best tool for creating your personal cloud storage on network.

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 23, 2019

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

It has an easy to use interface and is easy to setup. Also, it has nearly all the admin options similar to google drive. It can be set up on your internal network as well as on the website.

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

Setting up SSL certificate on the domain and Owncloud is a bit tough

**Recommendations to others considering ownCloud:**

I would recommend it to people who are looking for internal cloud creation and with an amazing community.

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I am using it for creating a internal cloud storage.

  ### 35. Simply amazing

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 07, 2019

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

The ease if use and flexibility provided by hosting storage within the organisation. It is extremely secure too.

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

Lack of customisation beyond theming and the limited support of external plugins to provide additional functionality.

**Recommendations to others considering ownCloud:**

Great for those looking for granular control of their data.

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Improved file sharing within the organisation and guaranteed security as there is no need to use a third party source like Google Drive or Dropbox

  ### 36. excellent tool

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Fabner S. | Infraestrutura de tecnologia da informação, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 27, 2019

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

great ease of use and excellent quota management

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

there is no office for editing within the platform

**Recommendations to others considering ownCloud:**

I can't recommend it, it works for me

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

there is nothing currently

  ### 37. OwnCloud/Nextcloud is a great application for cloud storage of files, and makes sharing specific fil

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 03, 2019

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

Open plaform, one can federate with others' OwnCloud and share files.
Easy to upload and download documents.
Scalable and lightweight solution for cloud storing.

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

The Web user interface can be a little be slow sometimes.
No online video viewer by default.
No online document editor.

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I am able to deliver large amounts of files quickly and easily to my clients, and they can download or view on mobile devices easily.

  ### 38. Good for internal storage cloud creation

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 16, 2019

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

The best thing is its User Interface which is easy to use and explain. Along with that using and setting it up is easy.

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

As of now nothing, but compatibility issue can be a later issue.

**Recommendations to others considering ownCloud:**

I would recommend it to people are looking for an internal cloud solution in their institution or office.

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I am basically solving problems of using pen drives in our college so that a faculty can directly share the content with the student.

  ### 39.  The best substitute of any NAS

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2019

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

With onwcloud you can host your company files on a local server and access them securely from anywhere. Owncloud allows us to share files between departments in different countries with ease.

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

The design is simple but sometimes it can be very difficult to find files in a list because the name is cut out.

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We solve the problem where we are required by law to host our company files on a secure server, Owncloud brings that security and it passes all the test that the IT team is performing.The benefit is that we cover iOS/android users.

  ### 40. User friendly cloud based file sharing sowtware.

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food Production | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2019

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

Easy to use, fast and user friendly software. 

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

Interface is a little complicated. I couldn’t share my files with one click.

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I send big files to my colleagues. 

  ### 41. Good for cloud creation in-house

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 12, 2019

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

Easy to setup and operate.
Has a clear user interface.
decent functionalities

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

Integration of more functionalities is difficult 
Putting SSL Certificate on it is tough.

**Recommendations to others considering ownCloud:**

I would recommend it to people who are looking for an Inhouse solutions for sharing of files problem.

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

carryiny of External storage decives for sharing files.

  ### 42. Best cloud tool

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2019

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

The best part of it is its user interface. The User Interface of the software is very simple and easy to use.

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

The toughest part is integrating Collobera in it for accessiblitiy to ppts, doc and excel files.

**Recommendations to others considering ownCloud:**

Best internal sharing of files.

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Basically using it for sharing files in the company on the network itself. 

  ### 43. So glad I found OwnCloud

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2019

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

The features of being able to securely share with others between devices. 

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

I don’t have any complaints or issues at this time.

**Recommendations to others considering ownCloud:**

Highly recommended by myself and counterparts who use files, photos and other documents for sharing and storing. Great program!

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Sharing files. Ease of use, secure, options

  ### 44. We use owncloud as our internal file sharing and collaboration application

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 12, 2019

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

Ease of use and maintenance, with great features out of the box

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

Upgrades are difficult and less online resources

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Collaboration of team, file share system replacing Ftp with many features

  ### 45. best for internal cloud

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 15, 2019

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

easy to use interface and also easy to use and manage.

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

Faced a lot of issue with setting up an SSL certificate in it.

**Recommendations to others considering ownCloud:**

recommend for people who want to implement internal cloud in their campus.

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Internal transfering of files and data security.

  ### 46. All your files in a private cloud, easy to use

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Daniel Alfonzo A. | Analista de infraestructura, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 05, 2018

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

It is very simple to install and much easier to use, you can have tur organized files in folders and share them with whoever you want.

You can indicate who can and who can not see the files.

Its interface is very simple and intuitive, nothing to envy to other commercial solutions that offer the same service. It has an app for mobile devices, which makes the user has very easy access to your cloud.

The implementation of this software is very simple and can be done in any equipment that complies with the basic characteristics to be installed.

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

So far I have no negative aspects to indicate

Since he has more than fulfilled his wide market helps its implementation in large quantities. Being a free software you have the freedom to do what you want with this software. The possibilities are endless.

**Recommendations to others considering ownCloud:**

Its interface is very simple to use, it does not require to be an advanced user in infomatica.

It has application for mobile device, which facilitates its access.

It is a platform for easy installation and very easy to manage, both for the administrator and for the end user.

Being free software, it can be customized according to your preferences.

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Sharing files with several users both inside and outside the company, with its versatility just to authorize users or send the link to the file or folder already authorizes the use of files.

The hierarchical structure of the users allows to establish different permissions to be able to enter and manage their files.

Now the files are in a private cloud which can be accessed from anywhere in the world that has an Internet connection.

  ### 47. Your private cloud, all the control of your data for free

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** César O. | Técnico Especialista en Informática de Sistemas, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2018

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

Give a simple and efficient storage for your organization.

When you share data with another user of ownCloud, these are not subtracted from storage, as in Dropbox.

You can connect an existing LDAP and avoid having to manually create hundreds of users.

You can connect other local or new storage services (NFS, SAMBA, Dropbox, Drive ...) and manage them from ownCloud

Apart from the storage, it is possible to manage contacts, bookmarks, collaborative edition of documents, and many other things, all through a complete plug-in store

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

The software version changes are not trivial. They require research and tests

An update without planning could cause damage or service drops.

The mobile client is not very pretty and lacks many features, speed and ease of use that its competitors have.



**Recommendations to others considering ownCloud:**

It is necessary to maintain the infrastructure.

The advantage over a business plan like Dropbox is obvious. There are no monthly payments, you control your data ...

But in return, you will have to set up your own infrastructure (servers, network) and you will need someone to administer and maintain it (maintenance, updates, security)

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Manage the storage of a research department.

Centralize the use of the cloud and centrally manage backup copies

Integration with other pieces of free software, such as LDAP

  ### 48. Very good alternative to comercial clouds

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Program Development | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2018

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

OwnCloud allows you to create your own cloud system to store files, manage calendars, contacts or event tasks. The best is that is opensource, and is maintained by the community.
As a difference with the commercial systems, the files that you save, will be stored in your server, while the limit of space is the amount that you want, equals with the number or users. In other words, you don't need to take care about the space that you use or the number of users that pay license.

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

As a negative point, just I can say that is not a closed system like Dropbox or Google Drive that you can start using without any previous consideration, in owncloud, you need an IT specialist that set the service up. 

**Recommendations to others considering ownCloud:**

It's the best option of opensource program to make your own-cloud

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It allows our organization to store the files online, been accessible from anywhere. Also the collaborative environment allows as to share files or calendars between as with any difficulty.

  ### 49. A decent private cloud service

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Bill R. | Director of Information Technology, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 02, 2019

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

Full control over your own cloud environment, ease of deployment.

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

Not a fan of the app and the web app is somewhat limited.

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We use it to provide a secured alternative to Dropbox.

  ### 50. Content Cloud collaboration made easy by ownCloud

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 19, 2019

**What do you like best about ownCloud?**

Ease of use and availability of cloud-based platform are the best things that I like 

**What do you dislike about ownCloud?**

It requires robust internet access to use.

Lacks enough tutorials and documentation available online l

**Recommendations to others considering ownCloud:**

Yes, I do. 

**What problems is ownCloud solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Storing files in the cloud.

File synchronization. 


## ownCloud Discussions
  - [What is ownCloud used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-owncloud-used-for) - 2 comments, 1 upvote
  - [Good](https://www.g2.com/discussions/owncloud-good) - 1 comment, 1 upvote
  - [How much does ownCloud cost?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-much-does-owncloud-cost) - 1 comment, 1 upvote
  - [What can you do with ownCloud?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-can-you-do-with-owncloud) - 1 comment, 1 upvote
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## ownCloud Features
**File Management**
- Device Syncing
- Web Interface
- File Type Support
- Search
- Mobile Apps

**Agentic AI - Cloud Content Collaboration**
- Autonomous Task Execution
- Cross-system Integration
- Natural Language Interaction

**Agentic AI - AWS Marketplace**
- Autonomous Task Execution
- Multi-step Planning
- Cross-system Integration

**Collaboration**
- File following
- File Sharing
- Simultaneously Editing
- Change Tracking / Audit Logs

**Administration**
- User and Role Management
- Policies and Controls
- Device Management
- Storage Limits
- Storage Zones
- Security

**Platform**
- Performance and Reliability
- Reporting and Auditing
- System of Record Integration
- APIs

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