{"slug": "how-many-of-you-have-switched-from-protonmail-to-tuta", "title": "How many of you have switched from ProtonMail to Tuta?", "summary": "A Privacy Guides forum user is considering switching from ProtonMail to Tuta, citing Proton's recent actions such as VPN A/B testing, calling Monero a shitcoin, and developing a Chromium-based browser instead of open-sourcing its Calendar app. Other users debate the merits, noting Tuta's non-AI stance and green energy but criticizing its proprietary encryption as a walled garden compared to Proton's PGP support.", "body_md": "I’m thinking about doing this soon. I feel like Proton has just done a few things in poor taste. Most recently this VPN A-B testing stuff. Calling Monero a shitcoin. Now this Chromium based browser instead of focusing on making their calendar good or even just open sourcing the Calendar app (which they [said they were gonna do like four years ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/wychi1/is_protoncalendar_open_source/)).The state of the Linux drive client. I could go on.\n\nDon’t get me wrong, I think their email is a genuinely great product, but I can’t help but feel like the *company* is… not the best?\n\nTuta on the other hand feels way more aligned with the privacy / security / FLOSS community. Their commitment to never use AI in their end products. Love that they use green energy too. Their vibe is honestly just so much better.\n\nOne thing is for sure, I will be going to a custom domain this time. No way I am ever changing email addresses again migrating from Proton.\n\nHow do you guys feel about this? Am I being dramatic or is this something we should discuss?\n\n4 Likes\n\ni am one of the weirdos still using pgp to encrypt my emails (when possible)\n\nproton does this automatically for their users sending me email (retrieving my pubkey). i can retrieve pubkeys from proton users to encrypt my emails to them aswell. that works cause they use pgp for that which is an open source standard\n\non the other hand tuta developed their own encryption method and built a kind of walled garden. only tuta users can automatically encrypt emails between each other, so if you’re outside their ecosystem you lose that seamless encryption layer that comes with an open standard like pgp\n\ni don’t use proton nor tuta. this is just from my humble perspective\n\n4 Likes\n\nI used both for a while, and while people may feel Tuta aligns more with their values (in some ways, mine too), in my opinion, their products are just worse than Proton’s in almost every way.\n\n1 Like\n\n[Julie](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/u/Julie)\n(Julie)\n4\nFor email, i prefer Tuta over proton. I especialy like their app for pc and also on Android.\n\nI like minimalist approach, so other users may disagree.\n\nIf like me you use pc more than phone, then Tuta is great !\n\ni don’t mind having more options in general as long as they don’t lose their soul.\n\ni use Proton VPN and Drive and they work fine. not that good on Linux but they are (software-wise) getting better, as most companies might not even support Linux\n\nworth the money so far, i have Tuta mail, not because Proton is Bad, i just don’t want a single company handling my IP AND MAIL\n\n1 Like\n\nProton cleans up URLs and also, as I understand, loads emails through a Proton server.\n\nDoes Tuta do either of these? My understanding they do not, namely because the latter would be resource intensive.\n\nWhoa, Proton called Monero a shitcoin? I wasn’t aware of that. I knew their wallet was BTC-only and they ignored suggestions to add BCH, XMR, and ZEC on their user voice site, but I wasn’t aware their laser-eyed BTC-maximalism was that strong.\n\nTo the topic at hand, I don’t like that Proton and Tuta are incompatible with regular email clients, and I don’t feel any more security is granted by using them vs. a standard email service that respects user privacy since 100% of my email correspondence is with counterparties outside their walled gardens. Email is just not a secure method of communication, and I don’t really count messages that never leave the walled garden as “email,” exactly. At that point it’s just a glorified, centralized messaging service built on top of email protocol.\n\n1 Like\n\nI will probably get a [mailbox.org](http://mailbox.org) address or similar at some point. Right now I have a self hosted email server that I use for family and and have been otherwise emailing from behind a duck alias. I should probably make my duck aliases point at free tuta email or my server instead, but it’s not like they benefit from my “support” when I’m a free user.\n\nI appreciate tuta’s encryption of sender and message headers, but my inclination is just to set up pop3 so that it’s not stored on a server long term at all. This should be easier than self hosting an email server and also makes the cheapest tier ($12 per year) viable.\n\nProton email is an excellent product though, even at free tier. If I was going to pick one proton product to use, it would be that one, while unlimited continues to be a great value for what it offers.\n\nEdit: I got tuta set up, though they have a review period. The UI seems pretty good for email and calendar. I’ll consider subscribing to it over mailbox if I like it enough.\n\n1 Like\n\nThere is a lot of dirt being thrown at Proton and a lot of people are dragged into it. Follow your own judgement and don’t listen too much to the internet cloud. There are people who’s sole purpose is to drag proton down and you would be asking yourself who benefits from this. Like everything you need to be resilient and don’t let be influenced 1-2-3.\n\nTuta mail lacks a lot of functionalities of Proton, it’s is maybe good/better at emailing, but for the mobile app for example. It uses the same pass for the app as for your phone. So it provides less security. Protons login code is independent from your phone code.\n\nthe best is to use more than just proton for your services. Proton is by far the best email provider for non-tech savy people. Tuta is at the same level.\n\nDon’t let people fool you.\n\nAlso proton as a larger company has far more exposure than any other company. You wil never hear about the flaws of unknown/small companies because frankly nobody cares as much.\n\nI am really struggling to find a source for this.\n\nThe closest I got was [their Wallet Twitter account responding to a user teasing a statement on shitcoins out of them](https://x.com/ProtonWallet/status/1816108710386647344), where they only took the word from said user.\n\nPlease provide me with a source for another quote, as I am genuinely interested.\n\nMy main issue with Tuta compared to Proton is that Tuta doesn’t support third-party email clients like Thunderbird for clean local archiving.\n\nWith Proton and Proton Bridge, you can move emails directly into Thunderbird’s Local Folders to free up server space while keeping your account in a cheaper storage tier.\n\nWith Tuta, you’re forced to use their official client to manually export emails to your hard drive and then delete them from the server, losing the ability to view and search those archives inside an email app.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-many-of-you-have-switched-from-protonmail-to-tuta", "canonical_source": "https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/how-many-of-you-have-switched-from-protonmail-to-tuta/39776#post_11", "published_at": "2026-08-10 14:36:21+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-10 14:39:17.512011+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-ethics"], "entities": ["ProtonMail", "Tuta", "Proton VPN", "Monero", "Chromium", "Linux", "Privacy Guides", "Julie"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-many-of-you-have-switched-from-protonmail-to-tuta", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-many-of-you-have-switched-from-protonmail-to-tuta.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-many-of-you-have-switched-from-protonmail-to-tuta.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-many-of-you-have-switched-from-protonmail-to-tuta.jsonld"}}