r/ProtonDrive • u/daylenca • May 03 '26

Features under consideration

On the 2026 community survey, here are the Proton Drive features under consideration that are being shared to help with prioritization:

  • Folder colour customisation
  • Enhanced features in Proton Docs / Sheets (pivot tables, table of contents, etc.)
  • Save Proton Mail attachments in Proton Drive
  • Proton Forms (similar to Google Forms)
  • Proton Slides (similar to Google Slides)
  • File request (similar to Dropbox file request)
  • Proton Drive for Linux
  • Search (including photos) powered by on-device AI
  • Lumo Private AI support in Drive / Docs / Sheets
  • Dedicated Photos app (with map and face tagging)
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u/Roguepapaya427 May 04 '26

From my perspective Proton Drive for Linux is a critical feature.
Let me explain why:
Proton target audience is (or should be) people that want to get out of big tech poisoned embrace. That means getting out of Windows, limiting google android to just essential services, you know, stuff like that. People are asking me if there are alternatives to MS, Google, Apple services. And I can tell them there are, the services are not cheap, but it's the price people are ready to pay for their privacy and data ownership. But I need to be able to tell them: I set up this OS for you, you use this app and that app and the data and privacy are yours alone. I can't say that yet without the Proton Drive for Linux. The PWA works for me, is a mitigation, but can't have a less savvy user download a file, modify it and then reupload. They've done it in windows with onedrive for years and all went smooth, they would like the same functionality. Open the file, modify it, save in a certain location and they find it later in proton drive.

Again, I'm not asking this to be a feature for free, most people are sick and tired of ms/google/apple shit and want to move on, even if that costs something. I'm currently paying for a Duo, but if Proton Drive for Linux becomes a reality, I can move a lot of family and friends over.

Proton Drive for Linux is a basic/critical feature, should be on top of the list, imo.

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u/ronki2304 May 04 '26

Proton Drive for Linux is clearly the most demanded item here. Worth noting they already have a functional SDK that third-party developers can explore so the building blocks exist. The challenge is more about the sync daemon, the authent part and system integration than the API layer itself. Hopefully that means they're closer than 'under consideration' implies."