- Proton Drive, Docs, Sheets and more are now included in Proton Workspace
- The Swiss company has also launched Proton Meet for video conferencing
- Plans start at €12.99 per month (annual payment)
Proton has continued its privacy-focused offensive with even more secure office software to take on established rivals like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace with the launch of an all-in-one suite that puts all its tools in one place.
In addition to launching the appropriately named Proton Workspace, the Swiss company is also introducing Proton Meet, which will offer secure video conferencing.
The company has been slowly expanding its product offering, gaining traction with VPN, email, password manager, and cloud storage solutions. More recently, it created Docs, added Sheets, introduced its own Lumo AI chatbot, and more.
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All-in-one Proton Workspace subscription and Meet calling app
Now it seems like the time has come for all of this to come together in a unified experience under the Proton Workspace brand.
The company’s CEO, Andy Yen, sees Workspace as “the next evolution…to meet the needs of” customers who are “wary of Big Tech’s data practices” who want a “secure, packaged alternative that matches the ease of migration and integration of Google or Microsoft, but without the privacy trade-offs.”
While the unification is good news, the biggest change is the introduction of Proton Meet, which offers end-to-end encrypted video calling without log collection and supports anonymous use. Users can even make or join calls without an account.
“In today’s digital world, privacy shouldn’t be an optional extra, it should be the default option for every conversation,” Yen added.
Proton’s continued expansion comes at a geopolitically important time. More and more European customers, both consumer and business, are looking for sovereign and secure alternatives.
Proton criticized the US CLOUD Act, which gives US authorities access to user data from US-based companies. Yen also noted strong demand for Lumo AI as an alternative to ChatGPT and Gemini.
Proton Workspace is sold in two forms: Standard, which includes Mail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Meet, VPN and Pass for €14.99 per month; and Premium, which includes more storage, email data retention policies, higher Meet participant limits, and Lumo AI, for €24.99 per month. Annual payment plans cost the equivalent of €12.99 and €19.99 per month for Standard and Premium.
There is also a standalone Meet Professional plan (€7.99 per month) if the free plan, with support for 50 attendees, is not enough.
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