What’s the catch? There are two actually, but they’re small. It’s just as easy to compose emails, add multiple recipients, CC and BCC people, save drafts, and more. There are no ads, and that feels awesome. It looks and feels very similar to all the other email programs out there - it just feels cleaner and a bit more minimal. How does it feel to use ProtonMail instead of Gmail? Not much different actually. ProtonMail’s encryption and zero-ad policies ensure that you are not only more safe from hackers, but also more safe from companies that are just out to make a quick buck off of you. The thing that happens constantly is a company using your data in ways that you don’t really want them to - selling it to advertisers so you get spam and “targeted ads” that you’d rather not be getting. Getting “hacked” is always a concern as well, but in reality that actually doesn’t happen too often. Online privacy is still becoming more of a concern every day, mainly because many companies have programs that sift through your messages looking for little bits of data that they can sell to advertisers. It will just see garbled letters and numbers. Everything in between - even Proton, the company itself - has no way do decode and read your message. ProtonMail is as easy to use as Gmail, but all of the messages that you send over the Internet are “end-to-end encrypted.” That means that only the computer (or phone) you send them from and the computer that receives your message can actually see what you wrote at all.

There are dozens of places online to easily get a free email address, but very few of them make keeping your messages safe their primary focus. Do you like Gmail but hate giving your private data to Google all the time? ProtonMail might be what you’re looking for.

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