r/ProtonMail • u/Regular_Bat8162 • Jun 13 '26
Feature Request My Proton Wishlist
I know some of these are idealistic and probably won't happen (server source code etc.) but here it is:
My Proton Wishlist
- Allow login username to be different from email addresses
- Improve existing services
- Google Takeout-like service to export all Proton data in 1 click from all services
New services
Proton Notes
- either integrate Standard Notes or make a standalone Proton Notes
- integrate in the sidebar in all Proton services
Proton Tasks
- Todoist alternative
- nice app, widgets etc.
- integrate with Proton Calendar and the sidebar in all Proton services
General
- Own F-Droid repo with all Proton apps (specifically for ones with anti-features like Mail)
- Flatpak as standard format for Linux
- Make self-hosting an option
Integration with SimpleLogin
- When creating a new email, show aliases in the FROM field to easily send emails without copying reverse-aliases
- Alias dashboard in the sidebar (Actually manage aliases, enable/disable, transfer, delete, modify description etc. not just create new ones)
- Alert to avoid leaking the Proton address when sending/replying to emails using an alias
Other improvements
- Categories like Shopping, Banking etc. (automatic detection)
- Group emails by date like Outlook (emails from this week, then below emails from this month etc.)
- Save attachments to Drive
- attach from Drive
- ditch the Google notification system or make a seperate fully FOSS mobile app
Calendar
- Notion Calendar and Apple Calendar-like design
- Better mobile apps
- Better widgets - look at Fantastical and other apps
- Add CalDAV/CardDAV to Proton Bridge
Drive
- Linux client
- Preview more file types (preview all text file types - .php, .c++, .res, .cfg etc.)
- Built-in basic text/code editor (look at OneDrive, Filen)
Photos
- Seperate photos into its own web and mobile apps (like Ente)
- Local AI for detecting faces, duplicates and similar looking photos, magic search like Ente
- Just look at (or fork) Ente
Pass
- Folders and subfolders
- Keyboard shortcuts
- More autofill (on desktop: keyboard shortcut, right click menu; on Android: tiles, inline, accessibility etc.)
- Actual offline mode in all apps (like Bitwarden - view, autofill, export passwords in offline mode without charging extra for it its a basic feature)
- Password history on the Free plan (i know free is charity etc. but this is another feature that is a basic feature)
- passkey export (CXP & CXF support) - id say this is the most important thing for Pass right now, passkeys are way too uncertain to use without this feature, itd be a hassle to go to every account and create new ones just to migrate somewhere else
Docs & Sheets
- Euro-Office instead of your own solution
- Ability to edit .docx, .xlsx etc. without the conversion to a proprietary .protondoc format (easy data portability, no vendor lock-in)
- Mobile, desktop apps (done if integrating Euro-Office)
- Fix Sheets bugs (its unusable right now)
VPN
- Platform parity (UI and features)
SimpleLogin
- Revamp UI/UX of web, Android, iOS apps (look at addy.io) - web needs this the most
- continue development - add new features etc. right now development has halted basically
Design
- Use different shades of colors to seperate sections instead of current white lines everywhere like Gmail etc.
- Add different themes (Monokai, Carbon etc.) to all services (Pass, Lumo etc.) (maybe even let us create our own)
Development
- Open development like Bitwarden or Ente (no internal git repo and uploading snapshots of code but actual, living repos for the public to see and scrutinize every single commit and/or contribute) (or open up your internal GitLab instance to the public like Tor Project) - source code is frequently out of date on your GitHub repos.
- More frequent audits
- When launching new apps/services always release the source code alongside
- Release server-side source code (maybe without anti-abuse logic if it is so sensitive)
- Meet roadmaps or don't give roadmaps and just say what you're working on and release it when it's ready (im really tired of unmet roadmaps, its a plague at proton)
Website
- Keep a complete archive of all security audits, including older ones
- On the open source page list source code and audits for all services including SimpleLogin and Standard Notes
- On the blog, in the Product updates dropdown, add link to Standard Notes blog
- Highlight option to subscribe with Monero via proxystore
Subscriptions
- Get more paying business clients to offset Free users and offer them more
- More flexible system - at least 2 active subs, maybe something a la carte for storage?
Company
- Stay out of politics except for privacy, freedom and democracy (stay impartial as much as possible in communications)
- Stay non-profit, expand non-profit related actions and privacy advocacy BUT don't spread yourself too thin either
- Do not stray from privacy, freedom, human rights
- Do not lock people in your ecosystem
- Don't use Substack, replace with Ghost
- Do honest marketing (no buzzwords etc. github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/pull/3193)
- Get back on Mastodon (if you have to leave Threads for example - no one uses that website anyway)
- Listen to users more (more frequent surveys etc.)
- More communication from management, employees, product managers
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Jun 13 '26 edited Aug 09 '26
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u/dondidom Jun 13 '26
It is worth noting that Proton was founded in the cafeteria of a physics research centre and has never had any external investors. The fact that it is still in business 12 years on is a pleasant surprise, and the fact that it has grown to 700 employees is even more so.
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u/dondidom Jun 13 '26
and that the initial funding for this came from the research grant of a theoretical physicist who is now the CEO.
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u/Regular_Bat8162 Jun 13 '26
I am a paying user (not Pass though)
> please
It’s a wish list on Reddit not a White House press conference
And it’s implied. I wasn’t demanding anything
> gimme
So do you leave this feedback on all feature request posts here or just mine?
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u/terminusagent Jun 13 '26
The biggest one for me is an email address being a login. I'd like to be able to create an email that doesn't offer any info for a credentials attack
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u/crisp_maple Jun 13 '26
just have 2FA auth..
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u/terminusagent Jun 13 '26
I do, but it just seems like an email address doesn't have to de facto become surface area for an attack. or...even delegate which emails can be login emails.
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u/crisp_maple Jun 13 '26
waow
mb consider donating $50 so they have enough resources to do all of that? 🥀🥀
upd: at no point u said 'please' or anything. just. straight up demanding to steer the development one way or another.. that isn't how it should be done I'm afraid
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u/Regular_Bat8162 Jun 13 '26
I am a paying user and I’m not demanding anything this is just a feature request post like many others on here
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u/crisp_maple Jun 13 '26
im also a paying customer so what
5-12€ a month is an inconceivable spec in a tech company's budget to demand anything in this tone
u can politely propose a feature request and proton might add ur "+1", but the way ur post comes off is not gonna achieve anything..
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u/AshMost Jun 13 '26
I'd like a Wallet for debit cards, with NFC payments and online payments like Google Pay. I'd also like a Contacts and a Maps app. Maps is extremely unrealistic though.
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u/Material2975 Jun 14 '26
This list is why I'm not longer in the whole ecosystem and just in protonmail
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u/Constant-Ability6101 Jun 13 '26
I have different login to my Proton account than my email (I had VPN first)
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u/ultraschorsch Jun 14 '26
I would be very happy if they would finally implement a search function in their calendar app. Or did I just miss it?
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u/dondidom Jun 13 '26
50% of these ideas are realistic and have been considered before; some have even already been planned for.
The other 50% may not fit with the company’s philosophy or form part of its strategy.
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u/Otherwise_Wave9374 Jun 13 '26
That passkey export point is the same lesson we keep relearning in security and compliance: portability is a control. If you cant export, you cant prove you have an exit plan, and vendors become a single point of failure.
For orgs thinking SOC 2 / audit readiness, its not just "we encrypt", its "we can evidence access, retention, and migration". Data residency and evidence of where secrets live matters too.
This kind of thinking shows up a lot in AI governance as well (model portability, logs, provenance).
If youre into the control-mapping mindset, https://www.wisdomprompt.com/ covers similar "make it auditable" patterns but applied to AI systems.
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u/ko_nuts Jun 13 '26
I have not read into detail, but what I'd like is automating filter creation by just moving the mail to a directory or tag and confirming the filter creation (like on Gmail). It is easy to do and saves a lot of time.
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u/Danceisntmathematics Jun 13 '26
Ngl right now I'm happy with all the features they're working on but I can't wait for Linux. I had Linux years ago, had to go back to windows for work and now I'd like to go back to Linux but all my proton stuff will stop working. Just waiting on that essentially
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u/Efficient_Culture569 Jun 13 '26
If they increase the prices by 400% from all customers, they may be able to triple the teams size and get it all done within a year or two.
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u/dbaduff Jun 13 '26
I did not take your post as anything more than a wish list. The tone IMO was appropriate to the content. Some of the commenters had a more aggressive tone towards your wish list than your original post. IMO.
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u/olivantenvoet Jun 14 '26
Idk about all of these
But I do agree with that they should make it easier to respond with an alias, bc that shit is confusing as hell
And an e2ee todoist app would be great, that's currently not on the market at all
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u/Regular_Bat8162 Jun 20 '26
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u/ProtonSupportTeam Proton Team Jun 22 '26
We have documented the feedback for consideration by the relevant teams, thank you for sharing your thoughts.
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u/GremoryRias67 Jul 08 '26
I've read the post and I think be able to have caldav and carddav on mobile and be able to create separated carddav.
Because actually I use Radicale for this but it's very not smooth if I receive a invitation for a event and multiply application on my device is not my philosophy.
CardDAV is because if I switch to Proton Mail Contact I will have all the email I contact that I dont want on my phone.
A google takeout like is interesting.
For aliases, I personally don't use SimpleLogin but addyIO because of price difference. My usage don't ask Proton Unlimited for only Mail feature. Maybe add a option on Mail Plus to have a Addyio Lite version of SimpleLogin ?
Active sub: Proton Mail Plus.
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u/squawk_box_ Jun 14 '26
This is bonkers. Wish lists shouldn’t be the length of a CVS receipt.
I just want them to fix their feedback form, VPN from stalling, and Pass from crashing my native keyboard every time I use it.
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u/Tom_Bombaclat Jun 13 '26
I had proton drive for a good few months and had no problem using it to store files. I also uploaded my photos there with the intention of unloading them to my pc.
Well yesterday I tried to do exactly that. I chose the folder and clicked on download which is a choice you can see... only to be greeted with a message that I can't downloade my folder directly to my pc. Cause of reasons.
So I googled that and apparently you can't.
So what I did is I downloaded the files on my smartphone from which I uploaded them on my Google drive from which I finally downloaded them on my pc.
So yeah will keep my proton mail as a backup but I am going back on Google cause that's ... I don't even know what to say.
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u/sndrtj Jun 13 '26
My main wishlish item is: Contacts app. This is the main thing I still have in Google.