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 implicit 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 adjacent Proton, tin entree your spreadsheet and the accusation it contains.”

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

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

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

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