Privacy-focused alternatives to Big Tech services have never been more important. In the last year, we’ve significantly built out the Proton ecosystem with more essential tools, including a private (새 창)AI(새 창) chat assistant, 2FA app, and encrypted spreadsheets, along with new features for our existing products. Our new private video calling platform and appointment scheduling tool are also now available in a new Workspace plan, a privacy-first suite for business users.
We aim to accelerate this pace of development in 2026, focusing heavily on improvements to our existing services. Our product roadmap for the first half of 2026 includes new features and improvements throughout the Proton ecosystem.
As always, our development strategy is rooted in the feedback you give us through our user feedback platform(새 창), on social media(새 창), and directly to our team. Because Proton is 100% community supported, your input is critical, so please continue to share your thoughts with us.
Proton Mail
Your mailbox will be getting new updates that make it easier to manage and organize your emails.
Find what you need with category view
To help you take control of your inbox, our new category view automatically categorizes your emails to make it easier to find what you’re looking for. You can choose to categorize by different types: Primary, Social, Promotions, Newsletters, Transactions, and Updates. Categories are enabled by default, but you can turn them on or off in your settings and control notifications, so your inbox stays organized without extra setup.
Manage all your email inboxes from Proton Mail
Working from one inbox makes it much easier to handle emails. To support people who have multiple inboxes with other providers and are in the process of switching to Proton, we’re evolving our Forwarding feature. Soon, you’ll be able to send and receive emails from your existing Gmail email address directly from your new Proton Mail inbox.
While you settle into your Proton Mail account and your old Gmail account is still active, you’ll be able to reply to and send emails from your new Proton Mail inbox without needing to visit your previous provider. Support for more email providers is coming soon.
Content search is coming to mobile
Your Proton Mail mobile app is about to become more powerful: Content searching will help you find emails on your mobile app by searching their full body text as well as their subject lines. This enhanced search capability helps you find things faster without changing how search works from a privacy perspective: Your queries stay on your device, keeping your communications, receipts, attachments, and other data completely confidential.
Proton Calendar
Your next-gen calendar with new features
Proton Calendar is being completely rewritten from scratch to deliver a modern, secure experience that includes long-awaited capabilities like offline mode. We’ll be working on this all year, but we’re already rolling out immediate improvements like appointment booking pages and the ability to set Proton Calendar as your default calendar on Android.
Proton VPN
Between online censorship(새 창) and concerns around age verification systems collecting personal data, VPNs have never been so important. Protecting your privacy should be easy and accessible to all, which is why we’re focusing on making Proton VPN faster, more reliable, and more consistent across platforms.
Unlocking the next generation of performance
As we mentioned in our fall and winter recap(새 창) in 2025, we’ve been working on a new client-side WireGuard®(새 창) codebase. This new codebase means a more reliable and censorship-resistant Proton VPN: Your Proton VPN apps will be faster and more reliable, with improved anti-censorship capabilities, and fewer disconnects and dropouts. Beta testing will be available in the coming months for Windows, Android, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and Linux.
A sleeker and more private Proton VPN Linux app
We’re planning to make the user experience smoother when you’re using Proton VPN between devices or platforms. Our team is currently working on visual updates for the Linux GUI app that will give you a more consistent experience between apps on different platforms. The modern, sleek UI you know for other platforms will soon be available for Linux. These improvements are coming alongside long-awaited support for the Stealth protocol as part of the new WireGuard codebase. By helping mask VPN traffic, Stealth will make Proton VPN on Linux more private, harder to detect, and better equipped to work on networks that try to restrict or block VPN use.
Stay connected, your way
Last year, we introduced improved connection preferences that allowed you to exclude specific countries and cities from Fastest Country and Random connections permanently for Android. You can set your preferences once, and then your VPN will always pick from locations that actually work for you. Soon, we’re making the same connection preferences available for Windows.
Proton Pass
Keeping your digital identity safe and organized requires a versatile and convenient password manager. That means more storage options and robust autofill capabilities, and new ways to organize and share sensitive information.
Even smarter autofill
Last year, autofill in Proton Pass became more useful with quality of life updates including credit card autofill(새 창), auto-type, and HTTP Basic Auth(새 창). In the first half of 2026, more improvements are coming for autofill.
iFrame autofill will help your Proton Pass app detect login fields on websites with more complicated layouts, such as online banking or enterprise tools. URL matching, one of our most requested features, will allow Proton Pass to suggest information for the exact website you’re visiting so you won’t need to search for it.
Easier organizing with folders
We’ve been working on the cryptography model that protects your credentials in Proton Pass, which is a prerequisite to offering folders within your vaults. Soon, you’ll be able to sort your items within custom folders, opening up new possibilities for organizing and secure sharing. Your passwords, your notes, your aliases, and more can be organized into categories of your choosing for easier and faster retrieval.
Put your SSH keys to work across devices
Working between multiple devices can be complex when you’re a developer. You can already store your SSH keys in Proton Pass, and soon you’ll be able to use them with an SSH agent to simplify authentication in your Git and SSH workflows. No more manual syncing when you switch devices, plus added security and convenience with biometric unlock for terminal-based authentication.
Read Proton Pass’s spring and summer roadmap
Proton Drive
Ease of use and core functionality are our key focuses for Proton Drive this spring and summer. We’ll be making improvements to Proton Drive that’ll help you upload and download files and photos faster, and work more easily across multiple Proton apps for increased productivity.
Proton Drive is 70% faster and it’s just getting started
Earlier this year, we gave you a progress update about Proton Drive SDK. This project will give you faster and better Proton Drive apps, no matter which platform you’re using.
Since January, you may have noticed that uploading and downloading files and photos on Proton Drive has become significantly faster. Thanks to the progress in building our SDK, downloading shared files is 70% faster and uploading to a shared folder is 30% faster whether you have a Proton Account or not.
In the coming months, we’ll improve performance further and make features more consistent across all of the Proton Drive apps. We’ll be able to add document and folder sync on macOS, which we know many people are eager for. We’ll also working on the highly anticipated Linux app.
Proton Sheets and Proton Docs improvements are in the works
For Proton Docs and Proton Sheets, our focus is on building out their feature and collaboration set, so you can move more of your existing files and workflows out of Big Tech apps.
Since we released Sheets in late 2025, we’ve consistently been making updates(새 창) and releasing new features(새 창). We’ll continue to focus on making improvements to Sheets that give you more power over how you create and manage your spreadsheets.
For Proton Docs, we’ll focus on usability and collaboration features. These updates are essential because they make it easier for you to get work done, whether it’s a solo project or a group effort. Soon you’ll be able to create a table of contents for your Proton Docs, and more updates are coming soon. This will also include shared Drive, one secure, shared storage space giving improved collaboration capabilities to families and businesses.
Enhanced ecosystem integration
We understand that as you move toward privacy-focused apps, you’re moving away from an existing, fully integrated Big Tech ecosystem. To make the transition easier for you, we’re focusing on building our own integrated ecosystem. To make working between different Proton apps more fluid, we’re investigating how we can build closer integration between our tools for faster workflows. We’ll be introducing new integration features in the coming months.
Lumo AI
AI assistants shouldn’t advertise products to you, collect your data, or share it with third parties and governments. But those are precisely the risks presented by Big Tech AIs. We developed Lumo last year to provide people and businesses with a private alternative that never trains AI models using your data. Since introducing Lumo, we’re building out tools that make it smarter and better at helping you or your team save time.
A new Lumo update, coming soon
We’re planning to release an update for Lumo that will introduce significant new capabilities. Right now, we’re working on faster speed and performance, and improved mobile apps and additional new features: Watch this space.
Get more done with a desktop Lumo app
Lumo is available on any web browser and mobile device, but we’re developing a desktop app to supercharge your productivity. Lumo for desktop will give you a seamless experience, allowing you to move quickly between your native work tools: email, web, chat apps, and your personal AI assistant. It can be a hub for everything you’re working on, where you can store all your projects and conversations in one encrypted place, and get more context-aware answers for your queries.
A private AI assistant for your platform
For most organizations, building a private AI tool isn’t a feasible. So we’re releasing a Lumo API that will let you add Lumo to your product or software, no matter the size of your platform.
Lumo API offers what Big Tech AI chatbots don’t: a private and secure AI assistant that gives you the benefits of AI without the privacy concerns. Instead of compromising on security, you can build Lumo into your workflows for fully private and trustworthy AI support. With the API, you can also make it easier to use Lumo within other platforms, helping you work smarter and faster.
Moving beyond Big Tech with you, our community
Everything we’ve released in the last year, including our new products and every new feature for our core services, has been possible because of your support. As an independent, European alternative to Big Tech, we see building a private ecosystem of apps as a reclamation of our rights to privacy on the internet and a reminder that there’s a better way to build tech: for people, not profit.
Your investment in our mission is what helps us make better products. Feedback is invaluable to our teams, so let us know in our forums(새 창) and on Discord(새 창), X(새 창), Bluesky(새 창), Facebook(새 창), LinkedIn(새 창), Threads(새 창), Telegram(새 창), Reddit(새 창), and UserVoice(새 창), or leave us a review in the App Store or Play Store. Thank you for helping us build a more private internet, and we’ll see you in the fall for our next roadmap updates.
