# Apps management Nextcloud apps can enhance, customize, or restrict the features and experience available to you and your users on the Nextcloud server. In addition to built-in apps such as Files, Activity, and Photos, other apps such as Calendar, Contacts, and Talk can further expand its functionality. After installing the Nextcloud server, you might want to consider enabling, disabling, or restricting some apps for specific groups, depending on your needs and those of your users. ## Apps ![Apps page for enabling and disabling apps.](https://docs.cocobook.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-10/apps-overview.png) During the Nextcloud server installation, some apps are enabled by default. To see which apps are enabled go to your Apps page. Those apps are supported and developed by Nextcloud GmbH directly and have a **Featured** tag. > **提示** > > Your Nextcloud server needs to be able to communicate with `https://apps.nextcloud.com`, `https://ltd[1-3].nextcloud.com`, `https://garm[1-5].nextcloud.com` to list and download apps. Please make sure to allow these hosts in your firewall or proxy if necessary. > **提示** > > To get access to work-arounds, long-term-support, priority bug fixing and custom consulting for supported apps, contact [Nextcloud GmbH](https://nextcloud.com/enterprise/). > **提示** > > If you would like to develop your own Nextcloud app, you can find out more information in our [developer manual](https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/go.php?to=developer-manual). All apps must be licensed under AGPLv3+ or any compatible license. ## Managing apps ![App store page for installing, enabling and disabling apps.](https://docs.cocobook.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-10/apps-store.png) You will see which apps are enabled, disabled and available. You'll also see additional app bundles and filters, such as Customization, Security and Monitoring for finding more apps quickly. On the Apps page, you can enable or disable applications. Some apps have configurable options on the Apps page, such as **Enable only for specific groups**, but mainly they are enabled or disabled here, and are configured in your Nextcloud settings (admin and/or user-settings) or in the `config.php`. Select an app to view its description and available configuration options. Clicking the **Enable** button will enable the app. If the app is not part of the Nextcloud installation, it will be downloaded from the app store, installed and enabled. App updates will also be offered to you on this page. Simply click on the **Update** button to update a specific app or use the **Update all** button on top of the page to update all apps. > **提示** > > **Beta releases**: You can also install beta releases of apps directly from here by switching your Nextcloud to the beta channel in the admin overview. ### Update notifications The default `updatenotification` app sends administrators notifications about available app and Nextcloud updates. Moreover, since Nextcloud 29, this app also allows to notify users about updated apps and the changes that are included in the update. This notification is enabled by default if the app provides a changelog. To disable user notifications use: ```console occ config:app:set --type boolean --value="false" updatenotification app_updated.enabled ``` By default. when using the `guests` app, guest users are not notified. To enable notifications for them use: ```console occ config:app:set --type boolean --value="true" updatenotification app_updated.notify_guests ``` ### Managing apps with `occ` In addition to managing apps via the web interface, administrators can enable or disable apps with the `occ` command. To enable an app, use the following command: ```console occ app:enable ``` For example, to enable the "files" app, run: ```console occ app:enable files ``` To enable the app for specific groups, use the `--groups` option: ```console occ app:enable files --groups=admin ``` This command enables the "files" app only for the "admin" group. To disable an app, use: ```console occ app:disable ``` ### Using private API If a third-party app uses private APIs instead of public APIs, installation fails when `'appcodechecker' => true,` is set in `config.php`. ### Using custom app directories Use the **apps_paths** array in `config.php` to set any custom apps directory locations. The key **path** defines the absolute file system path to the app folder. The key **url** defines the HTTP web path to that folder, starting at the Nextcloud web root. The key **writable** indicates if a user can install apps in that folder. Example: To ensure that the default `/apps/` folder only contains apps shipped with Nextcloud, follow this example to set up an `/extra-apps/` folder which will be used to store any additional apps you install: ``` php "apps_paths" => [ [ "path" => OC::$SERVERROOT . "/apps", "url" => "/apps", "writable" => false, ], [ "path" => OC::$SERVERROOT . "/extra-apps", "url" => "/extra-apps", "writable" => true, ], ], ``` > **警告** > > Make sure that the values you choose for `path` and `url` for any custom apps directories do not conflict with directories which already exist in your Nextcloud Server root (installation directory). > **提示** > > Apps paths can be located outside the server root. However, for any **path** outside the server root, you need to create a symbolic link in the server root that points **url** to **path**. For instance, if **path** is `/var/local/lib/nextcloud/extra-apps`, and **url** is `/extra-apps`, then you would use the command `ln` to create the symbolic link like this: `ln -sf /var/local/lib/nextcloud/extra-apps ./extra-apps` ### Configuring the app store timeout The timeout for requests to fetch app store metadata can be configured with the `appstore-timeout` app setting. The value is specified in seconds. This setting is configured with `occ` and is not a `config.php` parameter. For example, to set the timeout to 180 seconds: ```console occ config:app:set settings appstore-timeout --value=180 ``` The default timeout is 120 seconds. To restore the default, remove the custom setting: ```console occ config:app:delete settings appstore-timeout ``` > *Changed in version 33.0.0:* The default app store request timeout was increased from 60 to 120 seconds and can be configured with `occ`. ### Using a self-hosted app store This section explains how to enable installation of apps from a self-hosted app store. At least one of the configured apps directories must be writable. To enable a self-hosted app store: 1. Set the `appstoreenabled` parameter to `true`. This parameter is used to enable the app store in Nextcloud. 2. Set the `appstoreurl` to the URL of your Nextcloud app store. This parameter is used to set the HTTP path to your self-hosted Nextcloud app store. ``` php "appstoreenabled" => true, "appstoreurl" => "https://my.appstore.instance/v1", ``` By default the app store is enabled and configured to use `https://apps.nextcloud.com/api/v1` as the app store URL. Nextcloud will fetch `apps.json` and `categories.json` from there. To use the defaults again, remove the `appstoreenabled` and `appstoreurl` parameters from the configuration. Example: If `categories.json` is available at `https://apps.nextcloud.com/api/v1/categories.json` the app store URL is `https://apps.nextcloud.com/api/v1`.