Proton Drive: Similar to Google Docs, but with end-to-end encryption

Those who might want to get out of the Google ecosystem got some good news from Proton on Wednesday.

Specifically, the privacy-focused software company Proton Drive suite of products has gotten a new one in the form of a shared text editor called Proton Docs. The Proton Drive text editor appears a lot similar to Google Docs, in that multiple people can edit a document together in real time with robust editing tools. But, with each Proton, this editor has final encryption for everything, including cursor movement.

Proton claims this is the first “big document editor” with E2E encryption enabled by default. The announcement blog post also has bold text warning that data you store on something like Google Drive “may be used to train AI in the future.” While Google doesn't currently use your Documents to train its AI models (According to The Verge), Proton seems to be positioning itself as a company that will never do that, on the contrary strength another day.

However, Proton Docs is free as long as you create a Proton Drive account.