Proton Now Has An End-to-end Encrypted Spreadsheet App

Proton has added a caller privacy-focused spreadsheet app to its productivity suite to tempt users complete from Google and Microsoft’s platforms. The caller Proton Sheets instrumentality provides real-time collaboration features and end-to-end encryption, according to Proton’s announcement, “ensuring that nary 1 else, not moreover Proton, tin entree your spreadsheet and nan accusation it contains.”

A Proton Drive relationship (which provides a free tier pinch 5GB of storage) is required to usage Proton Sheets. The Sheets instrumentality is supported crossed web browsers and nan Proton Drive app, and tin beryllium accessed “securely connected immoderate device,” according to Proton.

The creation for Proton Sheets looks akin to Excel aliases Google Sheets, including nan achromatic grid, toolbar locations, and wide personification interface. The ocular similarities were an intentional decision, according to Proton Drive merchandise lead Anant Vijay, helping to make nan interface “immediately familiar” to anyone who’s utilized a spreadsheet app before. The app besides supports commonly-used formulas and nan expertise to import CSV and XLS files from different platforms

This latest merchandise follows nan launch of Proton Docs successful July 2024, a connection processor that likewise riffs connected rival apps for illustration Google Docs and Microsoft Word. Proton is launching nan Sheets app successful consequence to concerns astir information harvesting practices utilized by Big Tech, particularly regarding AI models for illustration Gemini, which Google has now integrated into its ain Sheets tool.

“No 1 should request to expose their information to usage a service. After Proton Docs, a spreadsheet instrumentality was nan adjacent portion of nan puzzle for a unafraid workspace,” says Vijay. “You tin now protect your full workspace, from your email to your calendar, your documents to your spreadsheets. No surveillance. No information harvesting.”