Proton Mail
More info
- Creator
- Andy Yen et al. (at CERN)
- Released
- Owner
- Proton AG (Switzerland)
- Type
- End-to-end encrypted email
- Website
- proton.me
- Wikipedia
- en.wikipedia.org
Swiss end-to-end encrypted email — founded by CERN physicists, funded via crowdfunding and subscriptions. No ads, no tracking pixels.
Built on OpenPGP. Mail to other Proton users is automatically E2EE; mail to others (Gmail, etc.) is TLS only without E2EE. The Proton suite has grown to Mail, VPN, Drive, Calendar, Pass (password manager), Wallet. Restructured as non-profit in 2024 ("Proton Foundation" owns it). Competition: Tutanota (also encrypted), Fastmail (fast but no E2EE), Hey, Posteo, Mailbox.org.