Proton Drive: Photo Backup

Proton AG

In-app purchases

About this app

Private and secure cloud storage and photo app brought to you by the world-class team behind Proton Mail and VPN. Proton Drive is an end-to-end encrypted Swiss vault for your files, photos, and videos, that ensures nobody, except those authorized by you, can access your files. Over 100 million people and businesses have signed up for Proton.


Why use Proton Drive?

• Safely backup photos and videos: Once enabled, your photos and videos are encrypted on your phones and automatically backed up in their original quality
• End-to-end encrypted: The privacy of your memories is guaranteed by automatic and seamless encryption
• Safegaurd your photos with an app lock - Prevent unathorized access to your private photos and videos with an extra layer of security using your phone's PIN or biometrics to lock and unlock the app
• Backup photos and videos of all sizes - Proton Drive does not impose any limitations on the size of photos and videos you can safely store and backup
• Intuitive, user-friendly photo gallery - Photos and videos are presented in a user-friendly grid view and organized by month
• Share photos securely: Share your private photos and videos with secure links and additional layers of security such as passwords, link expiration and access removal
• Offline access for your photos and files - Safely access important photos and files on the go even without access to the internet by marking them for offline access
• Metadata encryption: Actual content of your files and photos as well important metadata such as filename, file size, date of modification are protected by end-to-end encryption
• Open-source and audited: Proton Drive’s uses open source software so that anyone can check our code, which has also been audited by third-party experts
• Easy to use: Fast, reliable, and intuitive file storage and photo backup experience
• Zero knowledge encrypted: all files are stored in encrypted format — not even Proton employees can read your files
• Feature-rich free plan: Protect all your photos and files with strong encryption even on our free plan: no advertising, no data harvesting, and no strings attached
• Swiss privacy and neutrality: Proton Drive is hosted in Switzerland, so your photos, files and documents are protected by the world's strongest privacy laws
With the Proton Drive app, you can:

• Backup photos and videos securely from your Android smartphone
• Upload documents and store photos and videos from your mobile device
• Share a secure link to your files or your photos with anyone, even those without a Proton account
• Protect your account with a PIN code
• Select and access your files or folders offline
• Organize your files easily and securely in the app: rename, move or delete them

Ratings and reviews

I want to like this app, I really do. I pay for a proton plan but drive isn't what it needs to be. It buffers so much, especially on photos and videos that are stored offline. Selecting a file to play will load a completely different file too. Why is the buffering and loading so slow? Even on a high speed internet connection. Please improve your app.

Great app, love the privacy focus, and I even fixed a minor issue by just uninstalling and reinstalling the app (a solution that usually NEVER works for me, but did this time). My only complaint is that you can't select multiple items to make available offline, it has to be 1 at a time. That kinda gets tiresome if you have more than 50 photos/videos you want to make available offline. Please implement a "Select All" choice for that, and I'll have nothing more to complain about.

Reliable. password/ access expiry dates work well. Android: connect PDrive to PMail for full attachments from within an email draft. I have to start from drive, then gen a new email, to send via email. Should also work the other way around. Desktop filesync picks up too many hidden files, creates dozens of error msgs. Photo sync tool needs REFINEMENT, handy, but need to sync custom folders where I organize downloaded photos on my device, that filder heirarchy should be mirrored on pDrive.

What's new

Now, you can customize your default home screen tab! Choose from Files, Photos, Shared, or Computers.