ProtonMail Unifies Encrypted Mail, Calendar, VPN, and Storage Services Under New 'Proton' Brand

[MacRumors]

Swiss-based encrypted email provider ProtonMail today announced a restructuring of its privacy-first services, bringing them under a new unifying brand name: Proton.

Today, we are undertaking our biggest step forward in the movement for an internet that respects your privacy. The new, updated Proton offers one account, many services, and one privacy-by-default ecosystem. You can now enjoy unified protection with a modernized look and feel.

Evolving into a unified Proton reflects our growth from an end-to-end encrypted email provider to an entire privacy ecosystem, allowing us to deliver even more benefits to the Proton community and make privacy accessible to everyone.

Previously, users could only subscribe to each service the company offered individually. Going forward, the new Proton offers one account to access all the services offered in the company's privacy-by-default ecosystem, including Proton Mail, Proton VPN, Proton Calendar, and Proton Drive, all of which can be accessed from proton.me.

All Proton services remain available as a free tier, with more advanced features and more storage available via paid plans. The free Proton tier includes up to 1GB of storage and one Proton email address, as well as access to Proton's encrypted Calendar and VPN services.

Meanwhile, the Proton Unlimited tier costs 9.99 euros ($10.65) for 12 months, with savings of up to 33% for those who choose a 24-month plan. For those looking only for encrypted email or a VPN, individual plans remain available.

As part of the rebrand, existing account holders will receive a storage boost and new features at no extra cost, including additional email addresses, VPN connections, and more.

To highlight the changes, Proton is also introducing a visual overhaul of the company's web-based services, with new logos, colors, and an updated, modernized design for its new desktop and mobile apps.

ProtonMail began as crowdfunded service in May 2014 and launched in March 2016, led by a group of scientists from CERN and MIT who aimed to deliver an easy-to-use end-to-end encrypted email service with freely available open source code. You can learn more about Proton's history, service plans, and privacy and security policy at the company's new website.

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[kemo]

Great step forward Proton. Keep it up! Visionary was hell of a deal for our family, not sure why you removed the option, but I can't complain for the extra storage and VPN slots per user. (3.2TB total atm, 10 VPN connections per user). ?

Now back to work on Proton Drive - hoping for native apps and possibly an Image browser of backed images maybe?

 

[TimmKook]

Lookin' clean!

 

[slammer0]

We still remember (or we should) about the arrest of an activist that Proton helped with. How would anyone trust them after that?

 

[slammer0]

the Proton Unlimited tier costs 9.99 euros ($10.65) for 12 months

119,88 euros for 12 months

 

[chad.petree]

We still remember (or we should) about the arrest of an activist that Proton helped with. How would anyone trust them after that?

Right, I want to read more about this, I had forgotten about this

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

Meanwhile, the Proton Unlimited tier costs 9.99 euros ($10.65) for 12 months

€120 for 12 months (US$127.67).

€10 for one month ($10.65).

 

[now i see it]

Proton Mail still hands over any emails (unencrypted) to law enforcement when served a warrant

 

[LeadingHeat]

Great step forward Proton. Keep it up! Visionary was hell of a deal for our family, not sure why you removed the option, but I can't complain for the extra storage and VPN slots per user. (3.2TB total atm, 10 VPN connections per user). 👍

Now back to work on Proton Drive - hoping for native apps and possibly an Image browser of backed images maybe?

I was LITERALLY just about to upgrade to visionary. This is horrible timing. They don’t even offer family plans at all now!

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

Proton Mail still hands over any emails (unencrypted) to law enforcement when served a warrant

You'd expect that to be the case when a corrupt org. like the EU gave them €2M in funding.

 

[contacos]

That name already sounds like government spyware. Getting funding from the EU certainly doesn’t help ?

 

[SW3029]

Proton Mail still hands over any emails (unencrypted) to law enforcement when served a warrant

nope. https://proton.me/news/climate-activist-arrest

 

[antiprotest]

Proton Mail still hands over any emails (unencrypted) to law enforcement when served a warrant

Apple has even handed over data to fake police with a fake warrant.

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[FaustsHausUK]

I’ve been slowly transitioning over to Proton. Right now, I have a mess of Gmail accounts, but Google are less trustworthy despite anything pointed out in this thread. My plan is €66/year, for a custom domain and 15 email addresses - I’d rather that than Google’s “free.”

 

[BWhaler]

We still remember (or we should) about the arrest of an activist that Proton helped with. How would anyone trust them after that?

exactly. Enough with these press release articles and do real reporting.

 

[Engie]

Easy pass. Stopped paying and using their service after Proton joined Epic Games and CAF.

 

[Kulfon]

I wanted to use their service but I hate their eMail app. I would love to be able to use protonmail with iPhone default app, but it is not possible. So, no go for me

 

[seanmills1020]

Maybe they will have Electron apps for the desktop?

(sorry) ⚛️

 

[kemo]

Right, I want to read more about this, I had forgotten about this

Important clarifications regarding arrest of climate activist | Proton

We would like to provide important clarifications regarding the case of the climate activist who was arrested by French police.

protonmail.com

We still remember (or we should) about the arrest of an activist that Proton helped with. How would anyone trust them after that?

Yea as far as I remember they gave out his IP's - he was not using VPN at all. I would be more worried if they would have to provide VPN logs.

 

[Razorpit]

nope. https://proton.me/news/climate-activist-arrest

Hope Swiss law is better than our FBI and FISA courts.

The Swiss legal system, while not perfect, does provide a number of checks and balances, and it’s worth noting that even in this case, approval from 3 authorities in 2 countries was required, and that’s a fairly high bar which prevents most (but obviously not all) abuse of the system.

 

[Chris Laarman]

That name already sounds like government spyware. Getting funding from the EU certainly doesn’t help ?

1) Once you've read that Proton started at CERN, it's rather obvious a name. (CERN also is the birth place of the WWW-part of the Internet.)
2) The EU Grant number is mentioned. I bet that it's documented in several languages.
3) Switzerland is not an EU member country.

 

[daver3k]

I wanted to use their service but I hate their eMail app. I would love to be able to use protonmail with iPhone default app, but it is not possible. So, no go for me

Proton very recently updated their mail app - perhaps a month or two ago? - and it's much better than the old and stagnant ProtonMail app of years past. It might be worth another look.

 

[Kulfon]

Proton very recently updated their mail app - perhaps a month or two ago? - and it's much better than the old and stagnant ProtonMail app of years past. It might be worth another look.

I do not want to use things that I do not like. Also do not like this color

 

[mansplains]

I wanted to use their service but I hate their eMail app. I would love to be able to use protonmail with iPhone default app, but it is not possible. So, no go for me

I have a two year plan ending soon and I hardly used the mobile app. It's worth noting you can use a proton account with mail on macOS with proton bridge. I would like the same functionality available on iOS.

Proton very recently updated their mail app - perhaps a month or two ago? - and it's much better than the old and stagnant ProtonMail app of years past. It might be worth another look.

Their app is much better than the previous version, but I still found I never used the mobile client. I would agree that @Kulfon should take another look though.

 

[cocky jeremy]

How is the email end to end encrypted? Wouldn't that require the other person to be using the same service?