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Proton is now bringing its own version of Google Docs to its Drive cloud storage service, which like the company’s other products, is end-to-end encrypted. The company said its version of Docs “offers a unique solution to a market where most popular products ignore privacy,” and that it is promoting it for use in the healthcare, media, finance and legal industries. Proton Document It has advanced formatting and image embedding options like Google Docs, and can create, open, and edit documents in multiple formats, including Microsoft .docx.
It also has collaboration tools similar to Google Docs. Users can invite anyone to view and edit their documents, but users who don’t have a Proton account will be prompted to create one first. The free tier of Proton Drive includes basic document functionality, so you don’t have to pay for the service if you don’t want to. Participants can add comments to documents, reply, and resolve issues. Users can also see the presence and cursor location of other participants in real time, so they know who is working on what part of the document and there are no edit clashes.
Proton didn’t say whether the release of Docs means it will roll out something similar to Google’s other Workspace apps in the future, but the company has expanded its offerings with a few different products over the past few years. In addition to Drive cloud storage (and, of course, email services), the company also offers a VPN, an encrypted calendar, and even a password manager. Docs is expected to be available to Proton users in the coming days.
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