The Proton Mail desktop apps for Windows and macOS are now accessible in beta to all supporters on paid subscriptions
The Proton Mail desktop apps for Windows and macOS are now accessible in beta to all supporters on paid subscriptions
From the team:
Hi everyone,
As a result of your valuable feedback, we've been working on making Proton Mail and Calendar easier to use on your desktop.
Today, we reached a significant milestone - the Proton Mail and Calendar desktop apps for Windows and macOS are now available in beta for all supporters on paid Proton plans. We're also working on the Linux app and will release it soon for testing.
Thanks to your initial feedback, we've added new features and bug fixes, including:
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🗓 Easier access to Calendar via the app switcher on macOS
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🚨 Notification badge for unread messages
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🔤 Improved accessibility and font support
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⏩ Easy Switch and Gmail sync can now be set up from within the app, allowing you to easily sync emails, contacts, and calendars from non-Proton accounts
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💜 The option to set Proton Mail as your default email client on macOS
Download links and more info here: https://proton.me/support/mail-desktop-app
Let us know what you think; we look forward to your feedback!
Stay safe,
The Proton Team
Give us a Linux client for mail and pass please, please... pretty please
(Or a connector that works better/installs better)
Quote straight out of the linked blog:
The Proton Mail desktop app is currently available for macOS and Windows. We’re working on a Linux version that will be available in early access in the coming weeks.
yippeee
They stated in their previous AUA that they're lacking Linux Developers, even have positions open for applicants. So they said all Linux releases will be quite a bit behind Windows and Mac releases.
@alex_herrero Is this an replacement for the bridge?
Because I do want to use Thunderbird or another mail client. I don't want to be forced to use this one.
AFAIK, not a replacement, Bridge will continue to exist.
@alex_herrero Hopefully the bridge is getting a calendar integration as well.
I want to use Thunderbird too. On my Mac. ☹️
Some images:
Are there plans to include Pass in the same app? People have been begging for a standalone Pass app for a while. It makes sense to just add functionality to this one.
Would be nice, right? Thanks for your feedback, I'll pass along!
Edited: thinking it further, it could be a different app, not all pass users use mail.
Yeah, I mean, whatever makes sense. I don't know if there's some overhead that would need to be duplicated making it easier to build off what they already have or if it makes more sense to break out each product. It's be cool for somone like me who uses all of their products, to only have one Proton app. Might as well bundle VPN into it too.
Ideally every service would be both a standalone app, as well as a service within an "ultimate suite" app, which is just a wrapper that contains all of the separate apps for ultimate users, plus a dashboard / service switcher.
The team is working on a Pass app.
Nice!
Isn't this effectively just an Electron (or whatever) wrapper for the web app?
Yupp, that's my understanding as well.
But Proton also insists on doing the packaging and distribution of it outside the ordinary distribution paths Linux distros uses (apt/yum/dnf repos or flatpak) ... So they waste time and energy on getting stuff working properly across a broader range of Linux distributions.
The end result will therefore most likely be a poorer user experience where some features don't work well on some distros. Depending on how their "package" will manage to integrate on the distro installing it.
I still don’t understand why they can’t make this into a single app.
What do you mean by that?
Huh?