Proton Drive iOS and Android Apps Now Out there for Encrypted Cloud Storage

Swiss-based privateness startup Proton at the moment introduced the supply of cellular apps for its Proton Drive cloud storage service, offering customers with a better solution to securely add, retailer, and share information from their iOS and Android units.

All information and folders uploaded to the storage service are protected by Proton’s open-source, publicly-audited end-to-end encryption, which makes use of on-device encryption keys making certain nobody else – not even Proton – has entry to the contents. That features related metadata, akin to file and folder names, actual file dimension, file extensions, thumbnails, and extra.

Information uploaded and saved on Proton’s servers reside in knowledge facilities in Switzerland and Germany, giving customers robust authorized and {hardware} protections (the corporate claims it falls exterior US and EU jurisdiction and is not topic to intelligence-sharing agreements). There aren’t any file dimension limits, so customers can share and switch massive information securely.

The apps additionally supply offline entry to information and folders to allow them to be accessed with out an web connection. If offline entry is activated for a file or folder, they’re encrypted and saved on-device in order that they will solely be accessed by means of the Proton Drive app.

As well as, customers can generate safe file-sharing hyperlinks from the Proton Drive app that may be shared with others, even when they do not have a Proton account. Shared information are equally delivered in an encrypted setting and might be downloaded securely by recipients.

Proton Drive presents a free model with 1GB of cloud storage, whereas customers subscribing to 500GB of encrypted storage ($9.99/month) through the Proton Limitless plan additionally get Proton Mail, Proton Calendar, and Proton VPN. There’s additionally a person Proton Drive subscription that gives 200GB of storage for $3.99 a month.

“Individuals have traditionally had only a few choices for safe private cloud storage,” mentioned Andy Yen, founder and CEO of Proton. “Whereas there have at all times been apps to add and retailer information in your telephone, they supply poor privateness, and knowledge leaks from cellular units are frequent. Proton Drive brings end-to-end encrypted file storage to iOS and Android and aligns with Proton’s mission to make sure that privateness instruments are straightforward to make use of and freely out there.”

The Proton Drive app is out there as a free obtain from the App Retailer and Google Play Retailer. Proton says a Proton Drive Home windows app will probably be out there in beta shortly, adopted by an app for macOS.