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Proton has added a new privacy-focused spreadsheet app to its productivity suite to tempt users away from Google and Microsoft’s platforms. The new Proton Sheets tool offers real-time collaboration features and end-to-end encryption, it said Proton company advertisement“Making sure no one else, not even Proton, can access your spreadsheet and the information it contains.”
A Proton Drive account (which offers a free tier with 5GB of storage) is required to use Proton Sheets. The spreadsheet tool is supported across web browsers and the Proton Drive app, and can be accessed “securely on any device,” according to Proton.
The design of Proton Sheets looks similar to Excel or Google Sheets, including the white grid, toolbar locations, and overall user interface. The visual similarities were a deliberate decision, according to Proton Drive product lead Anant Vijay, which helped make the interface “instantly familiar” to anyone who has used a spreadsheet application before. The application also supports commonly used formats and the ability to import CSV and XLS files from other platforms
This latest version follows Proton Dox launch In July 2024, a word processor that similarly competes with competing applications such as Google Docs and Microsoft Word. Proton is launching Sheets in response to concerns about the data collection practices used by big tech companies, particularly around AI models like Gemini, which Google has now integrated into its Sheets tool.
“No one should give away their data to use a service,” says Vijay. “After Proton Docs, the spreadsheet tool was the next piece of the puzzle for a secure workspace.” “Now you can protect your entire workspace, from your email and calendar, from your documents to your spreadsheets. No monitoring, no data collection.”