By default, Nextcloud has some apps already configured, such as a photo manager with basic editing and slideshow capabilities. There are also email, calendar and contacts apps, and a note-taking app that integrates with an app for mobile devices. Beyond that, there is an excellent marketplace with apps that cover pretty much every area of functionality you’d expect, along with some niche areas such as GPX viewers for visualising outdoor activity data. Overall, it’s an excellent system.
With OwnCloud, some of its functionality is provided by apps behind the scenes, but it doesn’t ship with any extras configured. Thankfully, it has a built-in, categorised marketplace with ratings. It doesn’t have as many apps as Nextcloud, particularly if we’re talking about the type that a home user is likely to want,…