Google Docs and Microsoft 365 rival

In the event you’ve been dreaming about an end-to-end encrypted different to Google Docs and Microsoft 365, your want has simply been granted. Swiss software program developer Proton on Wednesday introduced Docs in Proton Drive, which can supply an additional privateness function no different collaborative on-line doc modifying product can match.

Proton Docs is the newest addition to Proton’s increasing record of apps and companies. It’ll be accessible without spending a dime as a part of the Proton Drive expertise in your Proton account. A subscription will get you extra space for storing for Proton Drive and different premium options for different Proton apps accessible below the identical account.

Proton developed Proton Drive after buying the encrypted notes app Commonplace Notes. Proton Docs will assist markdown, wealthy textual content, code blocks, and checklists. It additionally helps picture embeds, in addition to a number of doc codecs, together with Microsoft .docx information you is likely to be used to out of your Microsoft 365 subscription.

The net doc modifying software will allow you to collaborate with others in actual time. It’ll present collaborative cursors and presence in actual time, and you’ll invite anybody to work in your paperwork. However individuals will want a free Proton account earlier than having access to the doc. That’s as a result of your complete expertise is end-to-end encrypted.

Proton says it encrypts the whole lot, together with keystrokes and cursor actions. No one can entry your information, not even Proton or the authorities. You’ll retailer the information on servers in Switzerland which might be ruled by native legal guidelines.

Finish-to-end encryption protects towards information breaches and mass assortment, and it ensures your information won’t be used to coach AI. These are all issues to bear in mind when trusting any third-party cloud service supplier together with your information, particularly paperwork you’d wish to hold personal.

It’s not that Google Docs and Microsoft 365 received’t safe your docs, as a result of they do. These corporations additionally received’t practice AI together with your paperwork. However Proton’s additional end-to-end encryption safety is significantly better. And Google and Microsoft can’t match it but.

That mentioned, I wouldn’t count on Proton Docs to be as feature-rich as Google Docs or Microsoft 365. However I feel Proton will ultimately get there. The privateness side might be the principle promoting level for Proton Docs presently.

Proton Docs doesn’t come as a standalone app, nevertheless, and is as a substitute a part of Proton Drive. The rollout has already begun, and all Proton customers will ultimately get it. Nevertheless, you will have an web connection to work on Proton Docs since there doesn’t look like an offline mode for now.

To begin utilizing Proton Docs, simply log into your account or join a brand new one at this hyperlink.