from the team:
Hi everyone,
We launched the Proton family plan over a year ago. Since then, many of you have asked for a more affordable option. Today, we are excited to introduce Proton Duo, our new plan designed to make online privacy more accessible.
You might consider safeguarding online privacy a personal duty, but what about your loved ones? If your partner still depends on Big Tech for their emails, documents, or photos, their sensitive information remains at risk.
For a limited time only, we are offering Proton Duo for $14.99/month with a one-year plan: that’s $60 in annual savings. This is a forever discount, so if you sign up for the promotion, you’ll keep this price forever.
Proton Duo includes:
- 2 users with separate logins
- 1 TB of storage to share + 15 GB of bonus storage every year
- Full access to Proton Mail, Proton Drive, Proton Calendar, Proton Pass, and Proton VPN
- Everything included in Proton Unlimited ($60 yearly savings compared to two separate subscriptions).
How to get started
- Sign up for Proton Duo or upgrade your existing plan.
- If your family member doesn’t already have a Proton account, they can create one for free.
- Invite your family member to your Proton Duo plan.
Use our Easy Switch tool to move your emails, calendars, and contacts from other providers to Proton in just a few clicks. Whether you’re already using Proton or new to our community, Proton Duo makes it easier than ever to protect what matters most.
→ Learn more about Proton Duo: https://proton.me/blog/proton-duo
At Proton, we’re on a mission to improve everyone’s privacy on the internet. By choosing Proton, you’re taking a stand for privacy—not just for yourself but also for your loved ones.
We’d love to hear your thoughts!
The Proton Team
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The main thing keeping my partner from leaving Big Tech services is that Proton Calendar and other basic functionality sucks balls. The pricing plan is great but for the love of God, fix the basics and stop with all the new nonsense like AI and crypto.
yeah, same thing here. like, how can I explain my wife that is less technical than me, that “hey, this Proton service is great for privacy and all, but you won’t have Calendar widgets and notifications when I add stuff to our shared calendars”, and she will be like “why?” and I will be doomed. I can accept those things, cause I care more about privacy, but she doesn’t and she prefers functionality over that
That sounds like me and my wife. She’s not going to give up her calendar, photos, etc. She’s always asking me, so what keyboard do you use? What calendar do you use? What xyz do you use? And I’m always saying… yeah, you don’t want to go there. Just use what you want.
Man, I wished they focused on Drive and Calendar. Still no Linux client for Drive :/
I really wish they’d support WebDAV sync or something for drive, then they wouldn’t have to build a client. Their Linux support is always really poor IMO and it’s frustrating. You’d think a privacy oriented company would support the most privacy conscious os
RClone? I understand it’s a bit hacky but it works well for me in testing and is a generally accepted option for cloud storage of all kinds on Linux.
@PassingThrough @proton_lynx Unfortunately the current implementation does not support photo syncing
- 19.99/month for 1 month
- 14.99/month for a year (179.88 total)
- 11.99/month for 2 years (287.76 total)
I pay for proton mail and I’m so sick of every company trying to do this stupid fucking pricing plan. I don’t understand why they can charge 19.99 for the same service BUT if I pay upfront for an entire year or two, you get a discount. It’s not a limited fucking supply, my guys!
No thanks, chief. There are way too many things going on in this life to hand you that amount of money upfront. It just makes me look at those ridiculous prices and wonder why I just cant give you fucking 11.99 a month!
What. The. Fuck.
Money now is worth more than the same amount of money later. There’d rather get paid up front. Plus it locks you in rather than risking you dropping off after a couple of months
Welcome to literally everything? It’s called volume-based discount. Just like if you buy a box of cookies from the grocery store, you’ll pay a fuckton more than if you buy a pallet of cookies from the exact same company.
Ah, yes. Comparing a digital asset that is infinite, to a product that is physical and finite.
Try harder.
Yes, because the infrastructure that Proton hosts their service on is “infinite”. Everyone knows that Amazon charges the same price to reserve one instance of EC2 as they charge for reserving 10,000.
What exactly do you think the “cloud” is composed of? Fairy dust? It’s composed of all sorts of finite things - servers, storage, networking, electricity, etc. etc. etc.
Do you really think I’m fucking stupid?
So, you just said that they charge for ONE instance, the same amount they charge for 10,000. How is it they can charge the same amount without applying your little bulk buy analogy???
So, why does the same not apply to Proton? Proton can charge the lower amount, as they should, and win by acquiring more subscriptions and more consistent revenue because more people will find it worth the fucking price.
Try harder.
It’s to do with having a consistent income for them. Taking a hit to monthly costs is potentially worth it if you can guarantee the income for a period of time. It’s the same reason why regular savings accounts have higher interests than a standard account.
Does proton VPN… support port forwarding
Yes, but the port changes every time you connect.
There is a reason this works and why another provider with static portfowarding removed portforwarding :)
For my use case of simply wanting to have myself and my wife on a custom domain email, this is still unreasonably expensive. I don’t care about the other offered services as I have everything else that I need running on my own server but email is safer to run off premises.
Namecheap is 1.36$/mo for one user and 3.43$/more for three.
They provide a decent service and it’s very no frills. Great for those that prefer to use email/calendar clients.
