Introducing Proton Drive, a secure alternative to Google Photos for storing your images with end-to-end encryption
Proton Drive, an alternative platform to Google Photos, offers Android users a seamless and secure way to store their images. While Google Photos is widely popular due to its pre-installation on Android smartphones and automatic media file backups, this convenience often prevents users from exploring other platforms with unique features and enhanced security. Proton Drive stands out by providing end-to-end encryption for stored images, ensuring privacy and protection.
Proton Drive, a Google Photos alternative
Proton Drive is built by Proton, a company known for its secure email and VPN services. The Swiss company was founded in 2014 with a focus on privacy. According to the website, the company was founded by a group of scientists who met while working at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), the organization that invented the World Wide Web.
Although Proton Drive has been around for a while as a secure cloud storage, it has recently added a new feature that allows users to securely back up their photos. The software supports multi-device synchronization, so you can download it to different devices and all images will be displayed in the same place.
“Unlike Big Tech’s cloud storage services, Proton Drive’s use of end-to-end encryption ensures that your private photos cannot be leaked, even in the unlikely event that Proton Drive itself is breached,” Proton Founder and CEO Andy Yen said. TechRadar.
Photos and videos to be backed up are encrypted before downloading. As a result, even Proton cannot see the images stored on its servers. End-to-end encryption is also a useful protection given the number of cloud storage leaks that have occurred in the past.
Users can also use it as a Photos app as it offers all the intuitive features to browse and manage photos. Everything from selection, preview, sharing and deletion can be done in a few clicks.
There is a free and a paid version of Proton Drive, but encryption is available to both users. The free version gives you 1GB of storage and the ability to share the account with two devices. The paid version starts at 3.99 euros per month (roughly Rs. 360), which brings you 200 GB of space and version history. For €9.99 per month (roughly Rs. 900), you get 500GB of storage, the ability to share data with 10 others, and all Proton ecosystem products with paid features like Proton Mail, Proton Calendar, Proton VPN, and Proton Pass.
