Proton Drive: Photo Backup

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4.0
1.7K reviews
100K+
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Content rating
Everyone
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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
Updated on
Apr 10, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Financial info and 2 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

3.9
1.62K reviews
John Shultz
April 10, 2024
Unlimited subscriber here. Overall, app performance has improved significantly since initial release. However, photo backup is unusable at present. Besides extreme sluggishness of the backup, the images can't be moved to other Drive folders once they are backed up. I photo document different projects where I need to move the images to different folders shared with other principals for those projects. It's better and faster to simply select the images and upload them directly to the folder.
15 people found this review helpful
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Proton AG
April 11, 2024
Thank you for your feedback, John! We've passed your request for supporting the option to move your photos between the different sections to the team internally. Please contact us at: https://proton.me/support/contact with more information on the performance issue you've experienced, so we can look into it.
James
May 1, 2024
I'm a huge fan of the Proton ecosystem, but the photos backup feature is annoying. I've been waiting for like 3 weeks to hame my photos uploaded and in the first week it didn't uploaded a single photo it was just on a loading page, now it has backed up about 4 months of photos and one single photo o the 3 oldest months, every thing in between has been loading for a week
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Proton AG
May 2, 2024
That doesn't sound right! Please report this to us via the in-app 'Report a bug feature' and let us know if you are using mobile data or Wi-Fi, so we can look into this further.
Moxe
March 13, 2024
I love the app, but I would love to see some additions. I'd like to see the ability for the app to recognize certain files are not in the drive, then sync them. Currently, if I've uploaded a photo before, I can no longer upload it in the future, even if its been deleted in the drive. I had issues syncing, and so I had to delete the drive content and start over, leaving me with the inability to backup my photos. Other additions ill submit via suggestion.
17 people found this review helpful
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Proton AG
March 14, 2024
Thank you for your feedback! Our team is already looking into ways on how to improve this experience going forward. If you have any other suggestions on what we can do to improve our app, feel free to drop us a line at: https://proton.me/support/contact.

What's new

New updates to enhance your Proton Drive! We've made the Photos tab the default for direct access and introduced shortcuts for swift navigation to Files, Shared, and Computers tabs. For free users, we've added a Checklist in the side menu to unlock 5 GB of storage easily.

Fixes include:
- Optimized photo scanning for less battery and storage use.
- Fixed the endless encrypting/backing up issue after stopping the backup.