from the team:
Hi everyone,
We’re happy to announce that we’ve now launched the Proton Mail macOS and Windows apps out of beta.
Thanks to your valuable feedback, we’ve added more than 20 new features and fixes from the release of the first beta versions of the apps.
The new Proton Mail desktop apps are here to make your private inbox faster and more productive with:
🌓 Desktop-optimized design that syncs with light & dark mode
📆 Integrated Proton Calendar in app switcher
🎭 Events and hide-my-email aliases in side-panel
🔔 Dedicated app notifications
♻️ Automatic updates for the latest features & security improvements
➕ And much more
🐧If you’re a Linux user, you can join the desktop app beta here:
https://proton.me/support/mail-desktop-app
With the release of the desktop apps, Proton Mail is now available on all major desktop and mobile platforms, offering over 100 million people worldwide a private alternative to Big Tech, regardless of their device.
➡️ Learn more and get the desktop apps here: https://proton.me/blog/proton-mail-desktop-app
Access to the desktop apps is included in all Proton premium plans. Free plans come with a 14-day trial.
As always, we welcome your feedback and we’re grateful for your continuous support.
Stay safe,
Proton team
Could you explain for a layman why this is disappointing?
It is truly uneducated. While it’s true that the “UI” part is web you can interface with the OS level api so it’s not that different than a real software
As others said, it's basically chrome bundled with the website code so it looks like an app. And while Electron does offer devs the ability to do things a webapp can't, it still brings the chrome browser engine along with all the inefficient ram usage and potential for security flaws that implies.
It’s just the web version wrapped inside an app, not an actual, true, software application.
Plenty of companies started using electron for writing cross platform apps, these apps(electron) use JavaScript engine, which makes it easy to develop these apps but as a tradeoff it uses more system resources than your regular native apps. And when they all do it(discord, vscode, steam etc.) you ask, why the hell do I need these dedicated apps if all they do is just start up a browser? I can just open another tab in firefox or whatever and be done with it.