Use Nextcloud Talk on your desktop without opening a web browser

All binaries and beta releases are available on Nextcloud Releases.

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.

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

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

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

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
        └── ...

Adjust how the application runs when launching.

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

Set application configuration.

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

Install dependencies:

npm ci 

By default, Talk Desktop bundles a specific Talk frontend installed as an npm dependency. To develop with a different version, an unreleased branch or local version, clone it to ./spreed:

# Clone to ./spreed
git clone https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed

# And install dependencies in spreed as well
npm --prefix=spreed ci

To use local Talk from a different path, for example, a local Nextcloud server setup, set TALK_PATH ENV variable or edit .env file:

TALK_PATH=/path/to/nextcloud/server/apps-extra/spreed/

npm run dev

# 🖥️ 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

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

npm run generate-icons

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

# 🐧 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

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