French75Feb 5

Selfhosted office suite with good mobile apps/ux

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Hey all, I’m searching for something self hosted that lets me access, read, and edit .md and spreadsheets. I don’t need functionality for presentations, word docs, or photos; really just spreadsheets and markdown, and a good mobile experience. Opencloud is fast, simple, lightweight, and works great for multi-user editing, but Collabora is just so-so on desktop and borderline unsuable on mobile. Also, the build in split-view markdown editor is effectively unusable on mobile. Nextcloud has more features, but I mostly don’t use them. It’s markdown editor is better, but it has the same Collabora problem. I’m probably about 50% desktop and 50% mobile use. Any recommendations?

Show threadsandwichsaregoodFeb 5
OnlyOffice?
Show threadFrench75
Haven’t tried it. Is it better in this regard?
Feb 5 at 6:02amWeb
Show threadsandwichsaregoodFeb 5
I like it a lot more UI wise. It feels like the modern MS Office if the ribbon UI wasn’t awful and busy. Compatibility is extremely good as well. Has Nextcloud/standalone web version, desktop versions, phone versions. I haven’t used the phone app that much, but it seems good from what I have used.
Show threadFrench75Feb 5

OK, so after a bit of poking at it:

  • I agree. The OnlyOffice mobile Android app (called Documents) is a much better mobile spreadsheet viewer/editor than Collabora.
  • What’s even cooler is that the app works with Nextcloud as a cloud backend. So I can log into my existing Nextcloud instance and get the benefit of the better sheets editor on my existing files with no extra work at all!
  • They say that OnlyOffice supports markdown as of version 9, but I think they mean the broader platform itself, not the Android app. For example, you cannot create a new .md file from the mobile app, and if you try to open an existing .md file, it displays a “wrong file type” error, but it does successfully open it as a .docx.

    • In any case, since it works with Nextcloud, the app, out of the box, is already a more functional mobile spreadsheet editor. That’s a big win in my book. Thanks!