Name: ProtonMail - Encrypted Email
Rating: 4.1 (256 reviews)
Author: Proton Technologies AG

Description

“ProtonMail offers encrypted email, which makes it virtually impossible for anyone to read it except the sender and the recipient.” Wall Street Journal

ProtonMail is the world’s largest encrypted email service with over 1 million users. The ProtonMail secure email app for iPhone and iPad brings easy-to-use email encryption to your mobile device by seamlessly integrating PGP end-to-end encryption. ProtonMail also provides a modern user interface with a full set of innovative features such as customizable swipe gestures and the ability to send expiring emails.

Since we were founded by CERN scientists in 2013, we have been joined by citizens from around the globe who have supported our mission to protect online privacy. Our mobile app was made possible by a record-breaking $550,000 donation campaign. With the ProtonMail app, you can now create your own free ProtonMail email account and start experiencing the secure email of the future.

Why use ProtonMail?

• Ensure your emails stay private and cannot be intercepted or disclosed to third parties
• End-to-end encryption, OpenPGP compatible
• Easy-to-use: encryption is done automatically and is completely invisible to the user
• Zero-access: all messages are stored in encrypted format—not even ProtonMail can read your messages
• Open source: ProtonMail's encryption is open to inspection by security experts from around the world
• Free: ProtonMail is 100% free, no catches.
• Swiss privacy and neutrality: ProtonMail is hosted entirely in Switzerland, under the protection of the world's strongest privacy laws

With the ProtonMail app, you can:

• Create a new @protonmail.com email address with automatic PGP key creation and management
• Send and receive encrypted emails and attachments automatically
• Set timers for messages to self-destruct after sending
• Quickly organize emails with customizable swipe gestures and labels
• Get push notification of new emails
• Send password protected encrypted emails to non-ProtonMail email addresses

ProtonMail in the press:

“ProtonMail is a gmail-like email system which uses end-to-end encryption, making it impossible for outside parties to monitor.” Forbes

“A new email service being developed by a group from MIT and CERN promises to bring secure, encrypted email to the masses and keep sensitive information away from prying eyes.” Huffington Post

23 Nov 2020

Version 1.12.7

New features
- Added the ability to set Protonmail as the default mail app (iOS14 or above)
Fixes
- Fixed a synchronization bug whereby changes made on the web would not be reflected on the app
- Fixed some random crashes

4.1 out of 5

256 Ratings

Good stable service but the app needs improvement

I really love ProtonMail especially the ability to add custom domain and aliases to filter out important email from newsletters and other online activity. This is the most robust service I have found on the market.

Now with the bad... it would be interesting to:
- have 3 column layouts, the one column with multiple rows might work on an iPhone does not work on the iPad
- parity of features between the web app and the iOS client app. I keep coming back to Safari and accessing ProtonMail there because the iOS app is so behind in offering the same features.
- actions (special attributes labels) to easily sort out emails that need to be actioned on a later time - see Postbox Mail app for more
- keyboard shortcuts so when working on iPad to take advantage of external keyboards
- separation of labels and folders

I believe if ProtonMail and Postbox had a baby that would be the best mail client in the world! I am hopeful to see some improvement in the layout soon so I can give you guys 5 stars :)

Thank you for your feedback! We are constantly working on improving the app.

Impressive but needs work

I am very happy with Protonmail in terms of security and things, and the app is definitely easy to use.

The only thing I would like to see is an option for push notifcations where you get a banner/alert but it doesn't display the actual content of the email (perhaps just the sender). This is something already implemented by many messaging apps, and considering how security and privacy is such a big part of the company's identity, it would seem like a very good idea.

It could just be that this is already an option and I simply haven't figured out how to do it yet, and if so I would greatly appreciate if you could instruct me on how to do so.

I like the idea

This is a fancy concept, but the app still isn’t sophisticated enough and my user experience isn’t always smooth. I have a couple of annoyances, the first one being that I wasn’t able to copy an email address from the list of CC recipients. Number two: I hit “send” on an email and thought it had been sent only to see later that it was still in the drafts. The wifi signal is a lot weaker in the bedroom, so that might have caused the problem, but I think the app should at least notify you if something like this happens.

Information

Provider: Proton Technologies AG
Size: 222.3 MB
Category: Productivity
Compatibility: Requires iOS 10.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
Languages: English, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kabyle, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian
Age Rating: 4+
Copyright: © Proton Technologies AG
Price: Free
In-App Purchases: ProtonMail Plus (1 year) £54.99

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