App Profile: Nextcloud Notes

Jamie-Autumn

Rating: 2/5

I can successfully log in, but once I'm logged in it immediately disconnects. For a free app (albeit one that requires a paid service to sync to), if I could log in and stay logged in long enough to sync my notes, this would be a 4 star app. It's nothing fancy, but it's functional and it's not spying on me or otherwise nonconsensually monetizing my PII/content/activity. But the fact that it literally will not allow me log in with app passwords (I have to log in with my main nextcloud credentials - which is a huge security risk) and won't stay logged in for even 15 seconds after successfully authenticating makes this a 1.5 star app. It could be so good if I could just connect to my nextcloud instance. Even better if it would support my nextcloud E2EE and non-markdown RTF or notes-linking.

JustTheAppPlease

Rating: 1/5

This app used to work pretty well as a bare bones app for nextcloud notes up to nextCloud v25 but for server v26 it’s pretty broken. The app constantly disconnects when you switch to another app and refuses to reconnect to the note you were just editing, which leaves you to completely reboot the app every edit. Instead of natively editing the note through the app it brings up the web interface for note editing which is slow and does not properly fit the phone screen. The app constantly goes out of sync with the notes on the server and presents you with an unreadable interface to select which version of the note is up to date. You no longer can switch between markdown and preview mode when editing a document even though it’s saving everything in markdown. All in all just needs way more polished to be used with a v26 nextcloud server.

KwisatzJim

Rating: 3/5

Getting the menu that lets you paste to show can be an exercise in frustration. Tap somewhere to type and the onscreen keyboard will most likely cover the area your about to type in. If you dont refresh after closing a new note you created its likely to lose everything you just typed. Other than that it’s a somewhat useful app. Update: a bug that’s been here a while and still is after today’s update is that when you do a search, open a note, close the note, the search field is gone. The only way to get it back is to force close the app and reopen it.