Tired of self-hosting?

Your own cloud, without the second job.

For the tired self-hosters. The family IT people. The ones leaving Google.

Instance: novak

Files, calendars & contactsfiles.novak.liberacloud.eu
Photosphotos.novak.liberacloud.eu
Passwordspasswords.novak.liberacloud.eu

One login for the whole household

What you get

Files

Store, sync and share documents. Desktop and phone apps, shared folders, links for others.

OpenCloud · At launch

Photos

Every phone in the family backs up on its own. Albums, sharing, search, faces and maps.

Popular open-source project · At launch

Passwords

Works with the Bitwarden apps and browser extensions. Personal vaults and shared family ones.

Vaultwarden · At launch

Calendars & contacts

Built into Files. Standard CalDAV and CardDAV, so the calendar and contacts apps on your phone and computer just work. No web calendar yet.

Radicale · At launch

Between self-hosting and Google

The same open-source apps you'd run yourself. We're the ones on call.

Self-hosting

LiberaCloud

Proton

Google, Apple

All the work
No lock-in No work
Full lock-in

Leave whenever you want

Export everything in standard formats, any time. Keep backups on your own storage if you like. Or move the same apps to your own server.

One login for everyone

Sign in with Google or another account you already have, or with a login we host just for you. Same account in every app.

Open about everything

Open-source apps, open-source tooling, published finances. 5% of revenue goes to the open-source projects we host.

Ready in ten minutes

Pick a name, pick your apps, pay. We do the rest.

1
Sign up
All we need is an email address.
2
Set it up
Choose your instance name, which apps you want, and how people log in.
3
Pay
Monthly, or yearly with two months free.
4
Move in
Each app gets its own address, like photos.name.liberacloud.eu. We help you bring photos over from Google and iCloud.

Household

€19.99/month

As many people as you need
1 TB of storage
All four apps
Backups and full export

VAT included. Waitlist members keep this price.

One price for the whole household

Storage and computing power are what cost us money. Adding your partner, kids or parents barely changes that, so they're included.

Later, you'll pick how much storage and computing power you need, and the price will follow it.

Google and Apple will always be cheaper per terabyte. They sell storage close to cost and make their money elsewhere. We can't do that, and we don't want to.

How it compares

	LiberaCloud	Google / Apple	Proton	Self-hosting
Who does the work	We do	They do	They do	You do
Open-source server software	Yes	No	Apps only	Yes
Full export in standard formats	Yes	Partly	Partly	Yes
Backups to your own storage	Yes	No	No	Yes
Family login with your own account	Yes	No	No	If you set it up
Move to your own server later	Same apps	No	No	n/a
Where	EU	US	Switzerland	Your home
Price per month	€19.991 TB, any number of people	About €102 TB	About €13500 GB, bundle	VariesHardware and your evenings

Competitor details as of October 2026.

What we promise

Open books

We publish who owns the company, how it's funded, what it earns and what it spends. No venture capital. It's not built to be sold.

Paying upstream

5% of revenue goes to the open-source projects we host. Without them, none of this exists.

Tested backups

Backups at a second EU provider. Every quarter we restore from them and publish how it went. There's a public status page too.

No ads, no AI

Your files, photos and calendars are never used for advertising and never sent to any AI service.

EU only

Servers and backups are in the EU. Every company that touches your data is listed publicly.

A plan for the worst

If we ever shut down, you get advance notice, time to export, and your prepaid months back.

About encryption

Your data is encrypted on disk, and backups are encrypted before they leave the server. Your password vault is encrypted on your own device, so we can't read it.

The rest isn't end-to-end encrypted. To show previews, search your photos and recognise faces, the apps have to read your data while they run. Every service like this works that way. So we won't call it "zero-knowledge", and we'll only say "audited" once an outside auditor has actually checked it.

Later you'll be able to lock your storage with your own key. The catch: after a server restart, your instance stays offline until you enter it.

Roadmap

What comes next.

Pilot with 20 to 50 households
Import from Google Photos and iCloud
First restore test, published

Then

Open the doors

Paid Household plan
Waitlist let in month by month
Full export and public status page
Our tooling published as open source

Later

Make it better

Lock storage with your own key
Outside security audit
Price that scales with storage and compute
Take your instance home on your own server

Who's behind this

We're two people in Prague who have self-hosted these apps for years, for ourselves and our families. It works, but it's a second job: updates, backups, the outage while you're on holiday, your parents' phone that stopped backing up. We'd rather do it properly, once, for many households, and be open about how we do it.

Questions

Why not just use Google Photos or iCloud?

If price per terabyte is all that matters, use them. They are cheaper. We're for people who want their data in open-source apps, in the EU, with an easy way out.

Why not Proton?

Proton is great if you want end-to-end encryption. But its servers are closed source, exporting everything is hard, you can't keep backups on your own storage, and you can't use your own login for the family. On the scale above, it sits much closer to Google.

Why not host it myself?

You can, and you can move to your own server at any time with the same apps. We're here for people who'd rather not spend their evenings on updates and backups.

Who can see my data?

Nobody, for advertising or AI. The servers process your photos to show previews and run search, like any service of this kind. Password vaults are encrypted on your device. We only access an instance to fix a problem, and every company handling your data is listed publicly.

What happens if you shut down?

You get advance notice, time to export, and refunds for prepaid months. Your export works with the same open-source apps, so you can run them yourself or with another host.

What about uptime?

Servers and backups are in the EU, at two separate providers. Every instance comes with an uptime guarantee and a public status page. Updates run on our own families' instances first.

When can I start?

We start with a small pilot and then let people in from the waitlist month by month, so support stays good. Join and we'll email you when there's a place.

Want in early?