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The Nextcloud contacts app is a user interface for Nextcloud's CardDAV server. Easily sync contacts from various devices with your Nextcloud and edit them online.

  • 🚀 Integration with other Nextcloud apps! Currently Mail and Calendar – more to come.
  • 🎉 Never forget a birthday! You can sync birthdays and other recurring events with your Nextcloud Calendar.
  • 👥 Sharing of Adressbooks! You want to share your contacts with your friends or coworkers? No problem!
  • 🙈 We’re not reinventing the wheel! Based on the great and open SabreDAV library.

Releases

Nextcloud version Stable channel Nightly channel All releases
31 7.0.0-rc.2 (Unstable) 31
30 6.1.3 7.0.0-rc.2 (Unstable) 30
29 6.0.2 - 29
28 5.5.3 - 28
27 5.5.3 - 27
26 5.5.3 - 26
25 5.5.3 - 25
24 4.2.5 - 24
23 4.2.5 - 23
22 4.2.5 - 22
21 4.2.5 - 21
20 4.0.8 - 20
19 3.5.1 - 19
18 3.4.3 - 18
17 3.3.0 - 17
16 3.2.0 - 16
15 3.1.6 - 15
14 2.1.8 - 14
13 2.1.5 - 13
12 2.1.5 - 12
11 2.0.1 - 11
10 1.5.3 - 10
9 1.5.3 - 9

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Kevin Farley
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3 weeks, 4 days ago

The front end is essentially useless for anyone with more than one address book. Hiding a toggle for each calendar 3 clicks away from the main screen to just toggle the inclusion of their records on the "All" screen, rather than letting users see the list of address books on the left to quickly jump between them is just plain cruel. This could be handled so much more elegantly, but instead everyone except neophytes are punished for trying to use organize their lives better by separating large groups of contacts by address book rather than nextcloud "groups". They're totally different use cases. Argh.

Glenn F
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1 month, 2 weeks ago

I Just setup contacts for my Android devices to be selfhosted in Nextcloud:

  1. Install Contacts in Nextcloud and import your contacts

  2. Use DAVx5 and use an app specific password in Nextcloud, not your normal username / password

  3. Setup unrestricted battery usage in DAVx5

  4. In google contacts remove syncing to your google account and set DAVx5 as the default account for new contacts

Works great! Read the full instructions in the Nextcloud manual and on the DAVx5 website for details

Martin R
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1 year, 10 months ago

Unfortunately, the UI design / label alignment is chaotic.

Synchronisation from and to Android works good btw. (even with groups) and this app is not responsible that DAVx5 uses the "wrong" default value for this as written before.

Anonymous
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2 years, 1 month ago

Development (bots not counted in): slowing down recently (smaller contributions from multiple developers)

Issues: more solved than unresolved ones (but really high number of them)

Project management: canban

Documentation: yes (see official Nextcloud admin and user docs)

Localization: continuous

Releases: frequent (changelog)

Anonymous
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2 years, 1 month ago

Rather buggy at the moment. The app layout is confusing and broken, groups don't work reliably. Not suitable to use in a production environment, might be ok as a personal toy. Somewhat disappointing, given that a working contacts app is a basic requirement for any groupware. The "redesign" process is fixing irrelevant details like the size of an icon, while the basic functionality is not quite there at the moment.

mark preston
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2 years, 7 months ago

an essential app for me. i don't use this app for syncing, i use other calDAV app for that and have no issues.

markwieczorek
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3 years, 3 months ago

Given that syncing contacts among devices is the most basic thing that you would expect from a "dumb" contacts app in 2021, Nextcloud contacts is extremely disappointing. If all you want to do is sync all your contacts from Nextcloud to Android (or macOS/iOS), then it will work fine for you. However, as soon as you try to create groups of contacts, you will find that everything is extremely buggy, and/or just doesn't work.

First, to get groups to kind of work with android/DAVx5, you need to make sure that you select the option "Groups are per contact categories"; you are out of luck with "Groups are separate vCards", which is generally the default option. Second, by testing the creation of groups in the Nextcloud app, the groups would sometimes just disappear, and then after your android phone syncs with Nextcloud, they would disappear there as well. In terms of syncing groups between macOS/iOS and Nextcloud, this just doesn't seem possible at all (I've tried every possible permutation). This is extremely frustrating given that DAVx5, when connected to iCloud, works perfectly with groups on android and macOS/iOS.

In summary, if you need to group your contacts, do not use this app for production purposes. If you need to use macOS/iOS contacts with groups, then sorry, you are better off just using iCloud (yes, I know, this defeats the whole purpose of using Nextcloud in the first place).

Nextcloud 22.2.0 Contacts : 4.0.3

Laurent
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3 years, 10 months ago

Doesn't work at all with Nextcloud 13. Tried to import contacts and it fails without any error message.

As of Nextcloud 20, it still fails when trying to import contacts from Thunderbird or Android although there's now an error message: "Done importing 89 contacts. 89 errors". That's an improvement I guess although I still don't know what the error is. Maybe we'll have to wait till version 30 for that and, who knows, perhaps a fix in version 40.

Unimatrix 604
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4 years, 10 months ago

This is my favourite app to sync contacts (using DAVx) to my phone.

vicm vicm
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4 years, 10 months ago

It's imposible to share a single contact, only the entire addressbook (???).

Michael
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5 years, 3 months ago

Nice app, which has some minor bugs(?), e.g. uploaded contact photos are not synced to my Android device and it sometimes asks me to repair contacts for reasons not obvious to me. However, I've never lost any contact information and it works as a replacement for Google contacts.

Steve Walker
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5 years, 3 months ago

For a core app, Contacts is frustratingly buggy.

I need to use Firefox (or Waterfox) to be able to traverse the app. Pale Moon, Vivaldi, and Edge won't allow me to change contact in the web UI. Clicking a various contacts doesn't present the details of that contact - the details seem locked on the first contact.

Nothing seems to change or be corrected over versions, either. The browser specific issues have existed for months but even the update from two days ago (3.1.6) suffers the same bugs.

This may have been understandable in the Owncloud 9 days (just after the app was rewritten from scratch), but I shouldn't have to launch specific browsers to use Contacts in Nextcloud 17. Yet I'm forced to launch Waterfox to add or change a contact today (October 2019).

Jared James
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5 years, 10 months ago

App is terrible lately. Full of bugs:

  • Contact company overrides the name, so entering a company results in them being shown with the name of the company.

  • VCF download is erroneous. Includes quotation marks around field names which cause them to fail to work. Tested in iOS and Outlook. Removal of the quotes results in the VCF working.

  • Editing a contact in iOS results in the numbers being wiped out in the online app.

  • Lack of developer response on GitHub. Tried to ask questions to fix it myself but was ignored.

Switching to an alternative until this is fixed.

Cody Brian
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5 years, 10 months ago

I agree with Matthieu below this comment. And would like to add that the app has been buggy lately as well. Contact images do NOT load unless you click them, this makes it very hard to find contacts if you are (like me) reliant on the images instead of names to find a contact.

Matthieu
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6 years, 1 month ago

Good, but not complete at all.

  • Group / categories support is awkward and not compatible with OSX and iOS
  • Why multiple address books ?
  • Why isn't possible to select which address book or group or category is displayed or not, like calendars ?
  • Multiple selection / edit / delete impossible
  • Default card should display most used fields, so that the user doesn't have to add them one by one for each new contact.
  • The coloured band containing the first name and last name of the contact makes it barely visible. The user don't notice it at first sight.
Michael K.
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6 years, 8 months ago

Don't wanna miss it, must have for smartphone integration.

Xheni Myrtaj
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6 years, 9 months ago

Awesome app :)

lachlan
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6 years, 10 months ago

It finally upgrades outside a nextcloud release. glorious day!

Laurent Campredon
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6 years, 10 months ago

Very good.

Last update fixed the column issue (size of the contact list) I had with NC 13.0 Import from Google Contact without any issue and sync perfectly now with my Android devices

Improvement would be to see directly the contact picture in the contact list without having first to go into the contact details

Thanks

Michael Rupp
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6 years, 10 months ago

This is the bees knee's, the cat's meow, the spring in your step.

I am having so much joy with this app I don't even know how to express myself. I exported from Google and imported to NextCloud fine, minus some hiccups that I'll post on GIT. (pro tip: fewer address books and more "Groups" labels within the address entries.) I deleted all my contacts on Yahoo!Mail and Gmail, so I'm committed; my only contacts are in my NextCloud.

The integration with mobile is wonderful!. All my android apps that need contact info can find it in the default contact app which pulls via the DAVdroid app. Just before posting this, I made a special group called Authenticated, added all users to it, and build an address book called Locations in the Admin's contacts then shared it with "Authenticated". In the Locations book, I put airports that I frequent and gave each entry a group label of "Airports". Seconds later, a user in my NextCloud makes a calendar appointment and starts to type the airport name and clicks the hover-label for it to populate the location field in the appointment. Refresh the CardDAV in DAVdroid and boom, I got the shared address book on my mobile device.

This is gonna be great!

David Swanson
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6 years, 11 months ago

A very simple comment that says it all. Goodbye Gsuite!

David Swanson https://pupsncats.com

Dan Leonelli
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7 years ago

Contacts can't ever be saved...

Arne Schlüter
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7 years ago

I love this app for the fact already that it allows me to keep my complete address book on my own server. This + DAVDroid or really any CardDAV compatible client for whatever platform you need is worth so much! Thanks!

@minDefRag
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7 years, 1 month ago

Stable, robust, does what it should. Combined with DAVdroid app for Android provides better contact sync with mobile than build-in google sync - and for that reason I've switched completely to nextcloud calendar from Gmail!

Keep on doing the good work!

Bruno Morgado
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7 years, 2 months ago

The app is totaly unusable, the GUI is completely broken and there are a lot of people complaing about it.

Unfortunatly the devs keep closing the bug submissions without trying to solve the problem.

Auke Ypma
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7 years, 3 months ago

Doesn't work in 2.0.1 doesn't sync or show anything.

Jan-Christoph Borchardt
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7 years, 3 months ago

Slick Contacts app with good integration into other apps like Mail and sharing! :) Looking forward to more federation features.

Mace Moneta
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7 years, 3 months ago

After update to 2.0.1, Contacts display is a mess and unusable from the web

joephein
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8 years ago

Together with an android WebDAV app a great way to keep my contact secure in my own cloud.