Nextcloud Talk Desktop

Official Nextcloud Talk Desktop client

📥 Install

All binaries and beta releases are available on Nextcloud Releases.

Platform (arch)	Distribution type	Download link
🐧 Linux (x64)	Flatpak single file (recommended), see note below	Nextcloud.Talk-linux-x64.flatpak
🐧 Linux (x64)	ZIP archive	Nextcloud.Talk-linux-x64.zip
🍎 macOS (Universal)	Disc Image	Nextcloud.Talk-macos-universal.dmg
🪟 Windows (x64)	Non-admin single-user one-click installer (recommended)	Nextcloud.Talk-windows-x64.exe
🪟 Windows (x64)	MSI (for administrated environments)	Nextcloud.Talk-windows-x64.msi

Installation of flatpak on Linux: Ensure you have Flatpak installed on your system. Then, use the command flatpak install <path-to-flatpakref-file> in the terminal, replacing <path-to-flatpakref-file> with the actual path to your Flatpak file.

via Package manager

Platform	Package manager	Command	Status
🪟 Windows	Windows Package Manager	winget install Nextcloud.Talk
🪟 Windows	Windows Package Manager	winget install Nextcloud.Talk.Beta

Community supported packages

Platform	Package manager	Command	Status
🍎 macOS	Homebrew	brew install --cask nextcloud-talk
🪟 Windows	Chocolatey Community	choco install nextcloud-talk

🏗️ Prerequisites

• Nextcloud Server version 27 or higher.
• Nextcloud Talk version 17 or higher.

👥 Multi-account

Full multi-account currently is not currently supported.

However, using portable zip distribution, you can have several Nextcloud Talk instances run simultaneously. Just rename the executable from default Nextcloud Talk to a custom name. For example:

/path/to/apps/
├── home-apps/
│   └── Nextcloud Talk/
│       ├── ...
│       ├── Nextcloud Talk (Home).exe
│       └── ...
└── work-apps/
    └── Nextcloud Talk/
        ├── ...
        ├── Nextcloud Talk (Work).exe
        └── ...

⌨️ CLI usage

Application flags

Adjust how the application runs when launching.

Flag	Description
--background	Start minimized to the system tray without a window (used for run at startup)

CLI commands

Run a command in the app and quit without launching the entire app.

config

Set application configuration.

Option	Description
--accounts=[user@]server	Comma-separated list of prefilled accounts

Examples:

./Nextcloud\ Talk config --accounts=cloud.company.tld
./Nextcloud\ Talk config --accounts='Name Surname@cloud.company.tld'
./Nextcloud\ Talk config --accounts=name@email.tld@company.tld/nextcloud

🛠️ Development Setup

1. Install dependencies

   npm ci 
   

2. Nextcloud Talk Desktop requires Nextcloud Talk source code.
   • No nextcloud/spreed is cloned?
     Clone it and install dependencies:

     # Clone Talk to the repository root
     git clone https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed
     
     # Install dependencies
     npm ci --prefix=spreed
     

   • You want to reuse existing nextcloud/spreed, for instance, in a server setup?
     Set TALK_PATH ENV variable or edit .env file:

     cp .env.example .env
     # Edit .env and set TALK_PATH
     TALK_PATH=/path/to/nextcloud/server/apps-extra/spreed/
     

3. Check .env.example for any additional configuration if needed.

🧑‍💻 Development

Start development server in Electron

npm run dev

Build binaries for production

# 🖥️ Current platform and architecture
npm run build

# 🐧 Linux (x64)
npm run build:linux

# 🍏 macOS (universal)
npm run build:mac
# 🍏 macOS (separate x64 and arm64)
npm run build:mac:x64
npm run build:mac:arm64

# 🪟 Windows (win32-x64)
npm run build:windows

Notes:

• General recommendation is to always build binaries on the same platform
• Building Windows binaries on Linux/Mac requires Wine
• Building Mac binaries on Windows is not supported
• Building Linux binaries on Windows is not supported for some Linux distributions

Maintenance

Generating icons

After changing source icons, to generate icons in different sizes and formats, run:

npm run generate-icons

Updating global (server) styles

Talk frontend depends on the global Nextcloud server styles. To manually get them run:

# node ./scripts/fetch-server-styles.mjs <VERSION>, for example
node ./scripts/fetch-server-styles.mjs stable29

📦 Packaging distributions

# 🐧 Linux (x64)
npm run package:linux

# 🍏 macOS (universal)
npm run package:mac
# 🍏 macOS (separate x64 and arm64)
npm run package:mac:arm64
npm run package:mac:x64

# 🪟 Windows (win32-x64)
npm run package:windows

👥 Contribution Guidelines

See: https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed#contribution-guidelines