It promises e2ee and cloud-first note-taking on modern platforms owned by Proton with auto-saving keeping your note up to date at all times. I paid £120 for the year for this and it is a piece of shit app that will not only not save your work, meaning hours of hard work out the window, but actively destroys them too. Avoid at all costs.
I have always had my suspicion about proton with their shady upselling and seemingly counter-intuitive integration but this terrible app is the last straw for me that proves they are about the money (and now they put AI in their 'privacy' apps. What a joke lol
Good alternatives to all their services 9or at least the ones that I use or have use din the past) -
Standard Notes (web based) - Cryptpad. Full office suit of products based primarily on only office, not just a half-assed note taking app
Simple Login - Addy.io, Forwardmail - No experience with forwardmail even though it's on my shortlist but Addy is a fantastic service that costs a fraction of the price of simplelogin for equivalent features - just doens't have that 'proton' label
Protonmail - Posteo - for encrypted Email, Docs and Calendarhundred percent open souce email provider that run it's backbone on linux - if you're somewhat familiar with linux you'll tell straight away it's the case, anonymous sign-ups are allowed, no frills - no forcing you into buying their crappy wallet or encrypted video calling apps as part - simply an email, calendar and note taking which are all encrypted; encrypted mailbox and seperate password to sync to mail clients. Aliases are PAYG with simple pricing, about a dollar per alias with a fe wincluded for free, also unlike tutanota, you can only login to your account with a primary email and not all the alias accout. No custom domains for the reason being it inherently compromises privacy which is their purpose. Using addy, forward mail is an easy workaround
Proton VPN - Torguard, Mullvad
Proton Cloud storage - Tresorit
Proton Password Manager - Bitwarrden, 1Password
Proton Authenticator - 1Password or Bitwarden built in authenticator, Duo
A few services that all do a few things but do them well. Not all important data being held by a single shady company that, as mentioned above doesn'tseem to givea monkeys about data integrity of your most important things.
Sorry mini rant over
Edit: I have sued all of these extensively except Forwardmail which i've heard good things about for reliable source. I could list a few more but these are the best. And I did use Proton Suite in the past, but there was always a a problem with them, I needed an excuse to leave the company completely, which I have now!
I have always had my suspicion about proton with their shady upselling and seemingly counter-intuitive integration but this terrible app is the last straw for me that proves they are about the money (and now they put AI in their 'privacy' apps. What a joke lol
Good alternatives to all their services 9or at least the ones that I use or have use din the past) -
Standard Notes (web based) - Cryptpad. Full office suit of products based primarily on only office, not just a half-assed note taking app
Simple Login - Addy.io, Forwardmail - No experience with forwardmail even though it's on my shortlist but Addy is a fantastic service that costs a fraction of the price of simplelogin for equivalent features - just doens't have that 'proton' label
Protonmail - Posteo - for encrypted Email, Docs and Calendarhundred percent open souce email provider that run it's backbone on linux - if you're somewhat familiar with linux you'll tell straight away it's the case, anonymous sign-ups are allowed, no frills - no forcing you into buying their crappy wallet or encrypted video calling apps as part - simply an email, calendar and note taking which are all encrypted; encrypted mailbox and seperate password to sync to mail clients. Aliases are PAYG with simple pricing, about a dollar per alias with a fe wincluded for free, also unlike tutanota, you can only login to your account with a primary email and not all the alias accout. No custom domains for the reason being it inherently compromises privacy which is their purpose. Using addy, forward mail is an easy workaround
Proton VPN - Torguard, Mullvad
Proton Cloud storage - Tresorit
Proton Password Manager - Bitwarrden, 1Password
Proton Authenticator - 1Password or Bitwarden built in authenticator, Duo
A few services that all do a few things but do them well. Not all important data being held by a single shady company that, as mentioned above doesn'tseem to givea monkeys about data integrity of your most important things.
Sorry mini rant over
Edit: I have sued all of these extensively except Forwardmail which i've heard good things about for reliable source. I could list a few more but these are the best. And I did use Proton Suite in the past, but there was always a a problem with them, I needed an excuse to leave the company completely, which I have now!
