NextCloudPi
Nextcloud preinstalled and preconfigured, with a text and web management interface and all the tools needed to self host private data. With installation images for Raspberry Pi, Odroid, Rock64, Docker, and a curl installer for Armbian/Debian.
Maintained, but at a slower pace than the leaders in its category.
Commit activity more than 26% of tracked projects; popularity more than 57%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 2.9k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | v1.58.0 · 14 Aug 2026 |
| Repo updated | 29 Jun 2026 |
| Licence | GPL-2.0 |
| Built with | Shell, PHP |
Is NextCloudPi actively maintained?
Development is ongoing. The repository recorded 84 commits over the same window, and the last three months alone account for 35 of them.
Activity is accelerating: the last quarter carried 52% more commits than the one before it.
The most recent tagged release, v1.58.0, shipped about two months ago — a current, installable version exists today.
NextCloudPi ranks #10 of 28 in Self-hosting Solutions, placing it mid-table for maintenance activity.
What NextCloudPi actually does
NextCloudPi provides a preconfigured implementation of the Nextcloud platform, bundling a web and text management interface to simplify setting up a private data hosting server. It supplies ready-to-use installation images for various single-board computers and container environments alongside scripts for Debian-based distributions.
Best fit: It is well-suited for users wanting to deploy private file storage and synchronisation on ARM-based single-board computers or local hardware without manual configuration.
Worth knowing: Preconfigured appliance layers can obscure underlying system states, potentially complicating manual troubleshooting or advanced customisations when updates fail.
Deployment notes
As a PHP and shell-based application stack, it typically requires persistent storage volumes to retain user data safely across container or device restarts, and a reverse proxy to handle TLS termination.
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