Proton launches its personal encrypted different to Excel and Google Sheets

Swiss know-how firm Proton has been increase a variety of privacy-centered productiveness apps over time, from Proton Mail for electronic mail and Proton VPN for encrypted connections to Proton Move for password administration and Proton Drive for cloud storage.

Now Proton is bolstering its workplace choices with Proton Sheets, the newly launched on-line spreadsheet software program that’s a part of Proton Drive. This different to Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets has one large promoting level: its built-in end-to-end encryption that forestalls anybody—together with Proton itself—from accessing the info in your spreadsheets.

Anybody with a Proton Drive account can use Proton Sheets without cost. Proton Drive gives a free plan with 5GB of storage, with paid plans for extra storage capability: 200GB Drive Plus is $4.99/month, 500GB Proton Limitless is $12.99/month, and 2TB Proton Duo is $19.99/month.

Along with cloud storage, Proton Drive additionally contains Proton Docs (the encrypted phrase processor) and Proton Pictures (the encrypted picture organizer). With Sheets, Proton is changing into an actual risk for each Microsoft and Google, particularly with rising privateness considerations amongst customers who need to decouple from at this time’s knowledge giants.