# Nextcloud Apps Master Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Services Support\ **Tags:** services, nextcloud\ **Created:** [January 3, 2023, 7:10pm UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/nextcloud-apps-master-thread/129 "2023-01-03T19:10:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![start9dave](https://community.start9.com/user_avatar/community.start9.com/start9dave/32/6_2.png) [@start9dave](https://community.start9.com/u/start9dave)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2023, 7:10pm UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/nextcloud-apps-master-thread/129/1 "2023-01-03T19:10:50Z")
### We now have [detailed guides for select NC apps](https://docs.start9.com/latest/service-guides/nextcloud/nextcloud-apps/index)! ### Protip: check system requirements before installing a Nextcloud app - especially if running from a Pi or other low-powered hardware. The below apps have been tested to work on StartOS across supported hardware platforms. Caveats and known issues are mentioned. Please leave any NC Apps feedback in this thread - it is extremely helpful to us and will lead to a better sovereign Nextcloud experience for everyone! ### Appointments For remote users to book appointments into your calendar - share via Tor; more practical following ‘clearnet’ support ### Bookmarks Sync bookmarks across devices (import via HTML format) - [Several sync clients available to choose from](https://github.com/nextcloud/bookmarks) ### Calendar Uses CalDAV to sync with external integrations (see master thread link below) ### Contacts Uses CardDAV to sync with external integrations (see master thread link below) ### Cookbook Import (via URL) and store your favorite recipes for convenient access to ingredients, directions, and nutritional information. Build your own cookbook! ### Custom Menu Customize main Nextcloud menu with additional layouts, etc ### Edit with LibreOffice Adds a menu option to edit a Nextcloud file (on your server) from a local install of LibreOffice by logging into your server. Requires LAN or tor access. ### Element Integration Access Matrix within your Nextcloud with the Element web UI ### Files Included in base install - basic file syncing with Nextcloud client apps (see master thread link below) ### Forms Create and share basic forms - share via Tor; more practical following ‘clearnet’ support ### Health Basic health logging and tracking ### Mail Can link external accounts (guide coming soon), but will require StartOS features for sovereign email server ### Maps Uses OpenStreetMaps data - can link photos, devices, and track location (useful for runners) ### Memories A great photo/media app. Actions exist for both indexing your media (required for use with the app), as well as setting up geotagging (optional). - (Optional) If you would like to use the map for your geo-tagged photos, go to Nextcloud service page → Actions → Setup Map for Memories (and execute it) ### Money Basic financial logging and tracking ### Music Catalog, play, and stream your music from Nextcloud Files. [Check out this user’s method for use with iOS.](https://community.start9.com/t/nextcloud-music/1256/4) ### NCDownloader (Torrent client) ### News (RSS Feed Reader) ### Notes Supports [Markdown](https://www.markdownguide.org/) - Syncing apps - Android - preferred app store or [GitHub](https://github.com/stefan-niedermann/nextcloud-notes) - iOS - App Store or [GitHub](https://github.com/owncloud/notes-iOS-App) - CLI - [nncli](https://nncli.org/) ### Passwords Store passwords and sync across devices with several options of [client apps](https://github.com/marius-wieschollek/passwords#apps) ### Polls Create and share basic polls - share via Tor; more practical following ‘clearnet’ support ### Recognize Control panel is found in Administration Settings → Recognize 1. Install and enable Recognize app 2. Go to Administration Settings → Recognize, you will see a message that " The machine learning models still need to be downloaded. " 3. Go to your StartOS Nextcloud service page → Actions, and run “Download Machine Learning Models for Recognize” - wait for it to finish and then refresh the Recognize control panel 4. You can now enable your desired recognition operations. Please be patient as these will take a long time to process (especially if you have a lot of media, or are using a Raspberry Pi or other lower power device). ### Tasks ## Known Limitations - Office suites (Cryptpad is a great alternative!): - Collabora Online - CODE Server (Upstream bugs, will crash) - OnlyOffice (Requires [backend server](https://github.com/onlyoffice/Docker-DocumentServer) to be pacakged for StartOS, or possibly an [update to this community option that is currently deprecated](https://github.com/nextcloud/documentserver_community/issues/298)) - Nextcloud Office - Memories - No hardware transcoding at this time - NCDownloader - youtube downloader is iffy, [follow upstream for updates](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/) - [FaceRecognition](https://github.com/Start9Labs/nextcloud-startos/issues/55) - Talk (video chat) - Requires clearnet for remote connections Please feel free to comment with your experiences, tips, and reviews on Nextcloud Apps on StartOS. There is another master thread for general discussion of [Nextcloud, clients, and integrations](https://community.start9.com/t/nextcloud-master-thread). ---
**Author:** ![shyfire131](https://community.start9.com/user_avatar/community.start9.com/shyfire131/32/192_2.png) [@shyfire131](https://community.start9.com/u/shyfire131)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2023, 4:34am UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/nextcloud-apps-master-thread/129/2 "2023-02-15T04:34:47Z")
> [@start9dave](#): > > Office suites By `Office suites` under Known Limitations, do you mean that there are no good Office suites in the NextCloud app store that work on EmbassyOS? ---
**Author:** ![start9dave](https://community.start9.com/user_avatar/community.start9.com/start9dave/32/6_2.png) [@start9dave](https://community.start9.com/u/start9dave)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2023, 3:33pm UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/nextcloud-apps-master-thread/129/3 "2023-02-15T15:33:50Z")
In early testing, none were shown to work properly. If this is not your experience, please let us know - the feedback is very valuable. Several Nextcloud apps require additional server setup on the backend, which will slowly be added across updates, but what goes into those updates will be in large part based on the demand for any particular Nextcloud app. ---
**Author:** ![shyfire131](https://community.start9.com/user_avatar/community.start9.com/shyfire131/32/192_2.png) [@shyfire131](https://community.start9.com/u/shyfire131)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2023, 7:59pm UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/nextcloud-apps-master-thread/129/4 "2023-02-15T19:59:06Z")
OK that answers my question, thanks. Using CryptPad for now. ---
**Author:** ![mstewart](https://community.start9.com/user_avatar/community.start9.com/mstewart/32/201_2.png) [@mstewart](https://community.start9.com/u/mstewart)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 3:31pm UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/nextcloud-apps-master-thread/129/5 "2023-04-10T15:31:49Z")
ONLYOFFICE working! ![image](https://community.start9.com/uploads/default/original/1X/6914eced39651b51789cf2d81c5c47c5feabb9de.png) Colabora Online was able to install. However, it is unable to detect the inbuilt server. ---
**Author:** ![start9dave](https://community.start9.com/user_avatar/community.start9.com/start9dave/32/6_2.png) [@start9dave](https://community.start9.com/u/start9dave)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2023, 1:42am UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/nextcloud-apps-master-thread/129/6 "2023-04-12T01:42:33Z")
What did you use for the Docs server? ---
**Author:** ![chale](https://community.start9.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/bc8723/32.png) [@chale](https://community.start9.com/u/chale)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2024, 7:32pm UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/nextcloud-apps-master-thread/129/7 "2024-02-18T19:32:54Z")
FullTextSearch currently breaks the Nextcloud UI, but this is an app that would add tremendous functionality to Start9’s Nextcloud package because it would enable users to search for specific text contained within stored documents. Furthermore, when combined with Elastic Search (which doesn’t seem to break anything so far), searching for data that falls within a range of parameters becomes possible. Proper indexing and deep content searching are critical functions to any good cloud solution and fixing FullTextSearch to work with Start9’s Nextcloud build would be awesome. ---
**Author:** ![start9dave](https://community.start9.com/user_avatar/community.start9.com/start9dave/32/6_2.png) [@start9dave](https://community.start9.com/u/start9dave)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 9:38pm UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/nextcloud-apps-master-thread/129/8 "2024-02-19T21:38:26Z")
A feature request has been opened [here](https://github.com/Start9Labs/nextcloud-startos/issues/64). It would be really helpful to have specific error messages, logs, symptoms, etc. If a known fix exists, or any info you have found while searching for solutions would be even more helpful. ---
**Author:** ![lilium](https://community.start9.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/97f17d/32.png) [@lilium](https://community.start9.com/u/lilium)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2024, 1:08am UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/nextcloud-apps-master-thread/129/9 "2024-09-10T01:08:50Z")
I’m new to NC and not very techy, just uploaded a few photos for the first time - it seems to jumble them in random order rather than same order as the folder they came from. Not sure if there is a way to keep them sorted by date? Also seems to load very slowly, searched on NC forum, saw this seems to be a known issue. Would Memories be a better choice rather than Photos app? Managed to install Talk - initially said ‘error this app cannot be enabled because it makes the server unstable’ , but now got it up and running. Haven’t tried video calls yet. With photos loading so slowly even while on home network I’m not sure it will be useful to me as was hoping to remote log in via Tor. Is anyone using Talk or a photo app remotely? Interested to hear from other start9 users about useful ways to use NC. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![lilium](https://community.start9.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/97f17d/32.png) [@lilium](https://community.start9.com/u/lilium)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2024, 1:17am UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/nextcloud-apps-master-thread/129/10 "2024-09-10T01:17:09Z")
just found this regarding remote log in _It is advised to setup your Nextcloud devices on LAN (if available) for the best experience. Once set up, Tor can be used for remote syncing, but remember that large files will likely fail or take a very long time, so it is best to use remote sync only for low-bandwidth activity, such as Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, and Notes. Streaming your music is also possible. Later in 2023, new connection options will unlock Nextcloud’s full feature-set._ [https://docs.start9.com/0.3.5.x/service-guides/nextcloud/nextcloud-setup/index](https://docs.start9.com/0.3.5.x/service-guides/nextcloud/nextcloud-setup/index) Has this launched yet? ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://community.start9.com/user_avatar/community.start9.com/rick/32/339_2.png) [@Rick](https://community.start9.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2024, 1:32am UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/nextcloud-apps-master-thread/129/11 "2024-09-10T01:32:18Z")
The new networking capabilities will be released with StartOS version 0.3.6. It has not been released yet and is in early Alpha testing. No official ETA yet.