Nextcloud Talk

Why Nextcloud Talk?

Nextcloud Talk powers secure collaboration for hybrid teams, improving productivity and connectivity from anywhere.

• Take back control

  Keep control of your data and improve the privacy and security of your critical communication platform. Talk offers digital sovereignty with no dependence on any centralized or SaaS-type service provider. Its open-source architecture lets organizations customize Talk to meet specific needs and integrate it into existing systems.

  Talk is ideal for on-premises Private Cloud deployments, or with one of our local Partners.

• Advanced Collaboration

  Talk makes hybrid work easy. It combines chat, video calls and webinars with file sharing and document editing in a single application, backed by advanced AI-based features designed to simplify daily workflows. Collaborate with your colleagues on documents directly in chats or calls, or hold a real-time “Brainstorming” session with the whiteboard. For more focus at work, Talk comes with built-in features for a healthier meeting culture.

• Maximum Security

  As a decentralized option with strong data protection, Nextcloud Talk offers the security and compliance you need, without sacrificing control. It is the first private-cloud collaboration tool that complies with GDPR and consolidates all the essential features for efficient collaboration in a single application, and the only complete collaboration platform that can also be deployed in air-gapped environments. Our cloud infrastructure respects your privacy; your data remains yours and yours alone.

Main Features

Nextcloud Talk lowers the barrier to communication and lets your team connect with each other, with clients or with partners, at any time, anywhere and from any device.

• Integrated collaboration, teamwork, chat and project management

  Nextcloud integrates chat, project management, mail, calendar and much more. Chat messages can be turned directly into tasks, task deadlines are visible in the calendar, and files can be attached to a task from the sharing dialog.

  Documents can be shared directly in a chat from the Files app and are made available to all participants, both users and guests. Project integration lets you link chat rooms with files, calendars, tasks and other resources so they are easy to find. Our online office solutions offer a sidebar with Talk to chat and make calls with participants.

  A single platform means no need to juggle different accounts, keep track of which of the many cloud platforms the latest version of a document is floating on, or worry about security threats and invisible costs.

• Federated chats and video calls

  Talk supports federated collaboration. Join group chats on another Nextcloud server and use many of the main features, such as user mentions, Markdown formatting or polls. You can even host audio and video meetings across different Nextcloud Hubs - to meet with colleagues from another department, or perhaps a partner who is using their Private Cloud with Nextcloud Enterprise.

• Unique protection

  Talk protects your communication better than other team collaboration platforms such as Microsoft Teams or Slack, making sure your data stays on your servers.

  Talk goes further than other encrypted communication technologies, as it prevents even metadata from leaking. This guarantees you full control of your communications.

• Connection with other networks

  Nextcloud Bridging lets you connect Talk rooms to one or more channels on other Talk servers, and also to other services such as IRC, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Matrix, Mattermost, XMPP and many more. A bridge sends any message from the third-party network to the Talk room where it was set up, and any message posted in the Talk room to the bridged third-party network.

• Designed for privacy

  Talk is a fully decentralized audio/video and chat communication service. It has web and mobile apps and is designed to offer the highest degree of security while being easy to use. Message status indicators show when a message is sent and received; for greater privacy, users can turn this option off.

• End-to-end encrypted calls

  Nextcloud Talk now supports end-to-end encrypted calls for confidential communications, both when accessed through the web and through the new desktop client.

• Webinars and presentations

  Share the content of a single window or a full desktop screen to give presentations to your chat colleagues.

  Manage participants’ permissions to share audio/video and screen.

  Schedule meetings and get a notification when they start.

  A lobby is provided for guests to wait until the call begins. Moderators can let a selected guest in earlier.

  Participants can raise their hand to get attention or to be allowed to speak.

• Video verification

  In situations where extreme security is warranted and a recipient’s identity must be verified with absolute certainty before granting access, Nextcloud includes the industry’s first implementation of Video Verification.

  Video Verification enforces a Nextcloud Talk video call before granting access to an action, making sure the recipient’s identity is properly checked. The call can be picked up through the Nextcloud Talk mobile apps as well as the web interface.

• AI call and chat summaries

  Catch up quickly with concise summaries of conversations and calls. The summary features highlight key points, important decisions and action items, saving you time and making sure you never miss critical information.

• Private, group and public calls

  Talk makes it easy to call clients and partners in one-to-one or group scenarios. Users can invite external chat participants with a URL to public rooms on the Nextcloud server.

  The chat, which stays open even when the user leaves a call, lets participants easily exchange messages, links and notes.

  Configurable chat visibility lets team members and/or guests find and join open chat rooms.

Benefits

• Invite and call with one click.
• Clean interface, clean communication.
• Be mobile: mobile clients and browser compatibility.
• Keep control: end-to-end encrypted calls on your own server.
• Stay online: connect with other servers and chat networks.

Key Capabilities

• Download the participant list as CSV during a call.
• Limit call duration.
• Setting to start with video and audio off.
• Draft, import and export polls.
• Invite to calls by phone number.
• Remove and ban users from participating.
• Custom or blurred background in calls.
• Translation integration with Nextcloud Translate.
• Record and control all calls.
• Integration with Nextcloud Files and Groupware.
• Powerful features to connect with other platforms.
• Public webinars and video conferences with “Lobby”. (HPB required)
• Send voice messages, share your location or your contact details.
• Archive conversations.
• Screen zoom and panning.
• Message search and automatic playback of voice messages.
• Schedule a meeting directly from Talk.
• Recording consent in meetings for greater privacy.
• See the “Talk time” in the call participant list.
• Smart Picker linked to a user profile.
• Share your screen easily in your calls.
• Mention a group in your chat.
• Calls and chat from your mobile phone with push notifications.
• One-to-one and group chat and calls.
• Join the same conversation and call from several devices.
• Set an expiry time for chat messages.

Download Talk and start using the best secure communications solution in your Private Cloud