The desktop client uses your operating system’s native notification center. More importantly, you have granular control. You can choose to show the sender and subject in the pop-up, or hide everything until you click on it. No prying eyes at the coffee shop will see your sensitive data flash across the screen. Let’s address the elephant in the room. As of now, the ProtonMail desktop client only works with ProtonMail —not Proton Calendar, not Proton Drive, and certainly not your Gmail account.

Your privacy deserves a dedicated home. Do you use the ProtonMail desktop app, or are you sticking to the web? Let me know in the comments below!

Here is why you should download it right now. The web version of ProtonMail is fast, but the desktop client is instantaneous . Because the app is built natively (using Electron, but heavily optimized), switching between emails, searching your archive, or moving threads to folders happens without the millisecond delay of a browser render.

Well, that puzzle is finally complete.