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
This is great, I haven’t checked yet but I assume we can convert a family plan with only two users to a duo plan?1
Yes, as long as you’'re not above the Duo plan limitations (e.g storage or custom domains)
I’m not seeing the option in the UI to switch plans, I only have one custom domain and am well under the storage limits. I put in a help request since it seems like this may be just a me thing. Thanks!
- 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.
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.
As an extra to this people might go with the longer term to lock get the deal then after a period that’s so long one of two things happens.
- the service us great and they are used to using it and keep it going
- the service isn’t so good and they either renew since they forgot or they cancel and the business got more income that they may not have otherwise got.
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.
This is going to be great for so many partners!
I was looking at getting away from google but just me and my sister it was expensive. This could be good.
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
Man, I wished they focused on Drive and Calendar. Still no Linux client for Drive :/
It’s funny because every post I see on Reddit/X/Lemmy/Mastodon it’s full of comments “LINUX CLIENT WHEN?” lmao
@proton_lynx @asdfasdfasdf This is the biggest reason why I cannot commit to Proton 💯
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
I watched an interview with the CEO on the Linux Tech Channel I believe (the french linux guy) and the problem is as usual, that the Linux userbase is too small. Proton, being a fully venture capitalist free company, meaning funded by the users (which is great), has to implement what the majority of users want and those are unfortunately IOS, Android, Windows, and a bit of MacOS. Linux is very far behind those, so comparing the size of the user base vs the amount of features, I’d say Proton isn’t doing too badly.
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