Proton Photos
basically Google photos, but better because it's encrypted.
As in, a mobile app for backing up and organizing phone photos.
Maybe we could pay a monthly fee for access to Photos, Drive, and VPN service. I'd much rather support an independent company than Google
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Hi everyone,
The Proton Drive photo backup for Android and iOS is already out.
Please see the announcements for:
iOS: https://proton.me/blog/proton-drive-photo-backup-ios
Android: https://proton.me/blog/proton-drive-photo-backup-android
We'll continue working on developing more functionalities to help you protect your most precious memories. Thanks for your continuous support!
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Jon commented
Be able to upload and view photos to my Proton space
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Ken commented
I wish it were easier to use Protondrive to share password protected photos with people without Proton accounts.
If image previews were added to the folder share today, then my friends and family would see how convenient and user-friendly Proton Drive is, and they would all want to sign up.
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Peter commented
how is this not the most voted for?
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. commented
Proton Photos would be perfect. Also, I am willing to pay for storage but I do not want Proton Unlimited Plan. That plan has fancy emails and other things that I don't need. I just want to have Proton Drive with enough storage to put all my photos and documents into. If there was a plan that JUST was storage, then I would pay for that but the price is too expensive for what I need. I am sure it would not be terribly hard to compete with Google One's prices, https://one.google.com/about/plans. Hope that comment is helpful. Very grateful for Proton!
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Russell Quick commented
In today's police state society, where all of our photos are taken from social media and other tech giants like Google and used against us for facial recognition services across the globe, we need a safe & secure way to store, view, share with friends & family, and even edit our photos. These days, even Adobe REQUIRES us to store our photos in adobe cloud, just to be able to edit them. They ALL want unrestricted access to our photos, which should be both personal and private, unless we choose otherwise! You guys have the power to help society make this change, to keep our photos safe, just like you do our email and drive storage data. Give us a photo app, for pc & phones, that will allow us to do away with the greedy tech giants! PLEASE! Thank you for caring about our privacy and making such wonderful products to protect us!
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Raymond Engle commented
maybe think about acquiring ente.io since you bought simplelogin.
As long as we use our protondrive storage and we can buy more.
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pnobulls commented
it would be nice, but not sure..
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Dave Lee commented
I would prefer to use Proton for auto backup of photos and videos instead of using Google photos. Any chance of this happening in the future?
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Anonymous commented
Given recent revelations that Apple maintains encryption keys for all user iCloud data and will actively be scanning all photo uploads to iCloud there is a tremendous opportunity for a successful photo app that would sync with iPhoto to upload photos to the Proton environment; allowing users to shut off iPhoto syncing with the cloud on their phones.
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Matt commented
I'm currently looking into other solutions for Google Photos but like it to exist within the Proton Environment if possible
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stooseem commented
This is definitely something I am happy to pay for!
I really hope Proton can get their different apps interacting with each other well on Android AND interacting/syncing with phone functionality like contacts/calendar etc.
Already on Plus tier!
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vegan_wiz commented
Yes!!! Proton Photos would be great!! Unfortunately Google Photos forgets BASIC features and tries to go all advanced. I have thousands of photos in Google, yet there's no way to sort photos that you forget to put in albums! You have to go one by one to see which are in albums and which are not. I don't need anything fancy.. just something that's secure AND allows to find photos quickly via filters of sorts.
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P1l0t commented
There is no real alternative on the market for a private Google photos equivalent : we need a Proton Photos
Functionality must not be focused on storage only, among others expected features would be:
-Capacity to visualize/browse the photos
-Sharing albums with ProtonUsers or via a public link
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Anonymous commented
Also, have a way to share some photo files with family members. Not sure if the new ProtonDrive will accomplish this goal.
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Francois commented
I also have the need for an alternative to google photo. What I need:
- auto upload from phones,
- e2e encryption with safety to recover keys over long period/lost hardware/etc
- top notch redouncy/archiving/etc (I really don't want to lost that, and if I loose something, at least not all photos)- share, with two flavors: either to some people only, or with a public link.
- possibility to scroll among all photo (at least the last few months up to 18 months),
- create (sharable or not) albums
- ***tag photos*** (just little tag that I can use then to filter photo - typically, I take photo of planning/phone number of doctors, I never need them but for when I really need it and can't remember time/date of the photo)I don't care about search, tool to enhance photo (perhaps - just perhaps - croping - but I can do it with one of the million apps specialized in photo edition).
I don't really care about comments in shared item.
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Huge Yeti commented
Would like my phone to automatically backup all my photos to my protonmail e-mail (just like gmail)
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Jonas Björnsson commented
For iOS and Android! :)
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HS commented
I agree with this idea, But I believe there should be a free tier that compresses your photos. like 1080p photos and 720p video. This way it can still be viewable and clear. and people who can't afford a monthly payment can get out of googles grasp. I can't trust myself with files so I need to store my photos my memories on the cloud.
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HS commented
I need to store all my photos in the cloud, Because I am not trustworthy with keeping files, I am using google photos right now but they view all your photos and use facial recognition, Can you please make a version of google photos. It does not need to be encrypted, It just needs to not be read by employees and not have any facial recognition. Please add onto this idea.
Ideas:
Free tier: Unlimited Compressed 1080p photos unlimited Compressed 720p video
Basic: $4 a month Unlimited Compressed 1440p photos unlimited Compressed 1080p video
Plus $8: Unlimited Compressed 4k photos unlimited Compressed 1440p video
VISIONARY $24 Includes Protonvpn Visionary and Protonmail Visionary Unlimited uncompressed videos and photos up to 4kYou can compress photos and videos to take up less space well still retaining a lot of the detail and resolution. I would recommend doing that to save money.
(Please approve upon this idea, Change up anything you like about it, The only thing I want is a free tier. Thank you)The photo resolutions are higher because they take up less space, And the avg smartphone these days takes photos of 4024x4024. So downscaling it to 1080p should be fine.
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James commented
It would be fantastic to make a full switch from google. This includes mail and storage, primarily photos. It would be good to pay for storage to store apps and sync photos to them knowing that they are secure.