Proton continues to build a portfolio of privacy-focused companies that offer a variety of web tools such as mail, calendars, online storage, and a password manager. As of today, Proton’s desktop mail program The beta version for Windows and macOS has ended and is now available to all its paid users. At the same time, Proton is also releasing its app for Linux users in beta version.
If you’ve used Proton Mail before (or any new/modern mail client), the app won’t be a surprise – it’s a default view with different folders on the left, a message list in the middle, and three panels. a preview of the message content on the right. As with Gmail, there’s a right rail with icons for your contacts and calendar that expand to show the selected item if you click them. But for more calendar details, there’s a button to switch the entire window view from mail to calendar and back. Proton Drive and Proton Pass already have a desktop app, but for now Proton is keeping it separate from mail and calendar, which makes sense. These two tools go hand in hand, but storage is something of its own.
While the new mail app doesn’t improve or change the design of Proton’s web tools, I can say that the beta app was quite responsive in my little testing. I prefer to keep my email outside of my browser window, although I don’t mind much more than a slightly tweaked web wrapper (composing email in its own window would be nice). I’m sure there are other Proton users who feel the same and will find this app quite handy for that.
If you don’t currently pay for Proton Mail, you can try the new app for two weeks, but after that you’ll need it. upgrade your account continue to use. If you sign up for a year, the Mail Plus plan costs $4 a month, or you can get Proton Unlimited for $10 a month with an annual plan that includes 500GB of storage (instead of 15GB for Mail Plus) and Proton Drive, Pass, and VPN. .
