Proton Drive: Cloud Storage

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• Drive Lite 1 month — $0.99/month
• Drive Plus 1 month — $4.99/month
• Drive Plus 1 month — $47.90/year ($3.99/mo)
• Drive Plus 1 TB (1 month) — $9.99/month
• Drive Plus 1 TB (1 month) — $95.99/year ($7.99/mo)
• Proton Unlimited 1 month — $14.99/month
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4.1 1082 ratings · App Store

1. 2/5In a iOS / Mac world, not so good.

   I hear good things on the windows side. But in the iOS / Mac world, ProtonDrive is barely enough to upload files to an app predetermined folder and just leave them there. That is if you can get all your files up in a timely and reliable manner. Email is great, VPN is awesome, drive not so much. And waiting 9 months and not one update, doesn’t help it any. Next update must be huge. Seriously, are there any features coming to Proton drive? Since version 1.10 a whole year ago, all we’re getting is this “The latest version contains bug fixes and performance improvements.” That is one whole year without one single feature added. Edit to add, finally photo backup. And that is all it is. We now have the ability to very, very slowly, upload our pictures, while the app is open and in the foreground. And on WiFi only. 5k in pictures and tonight will be the 3rd night uploading. Oh, and you can’t see the pictures on the Mac folder. Let’s not even talk about the Mac app. Syncing for weeks and files still on the SSD instead of just the cloud as advertised.

   ***Ïñ²ÑФ*** · 6 Aug 2026

2. 3/5Does not meet expectations

   I’ve been using Proton Drive on my iOS device, but unfortunately, the experience has been marred by significant performance issues. The app is slow and often struggles with synchronizing files, particularly when it comes to photo backups. The background upload feature is severely limited by iOS restrictions, leading to frustratingly slow and intermittent uploads. This means I frequently have to manually intervene just to ensure my files are backed up. Another major letdown is the lack of selective sync, which makes file management unnecessarily cumbersome. While I appreciate Proton’s commitment to privacy, it’s hard to overlook the app’s numerous operational shortcomings. If you’re looking for a cloud storage solution that prioritizes security above all else, Proton Drive might still be an option. However, if you value a smooth user experience and efficient functionality, I would strongly recommend exploring other alternatives.

   9B@ll · 6 Aug 2026

3. 3/5Lacks critical search functionality

   There’s a tradeoff you need to accept when switching from something like Google Drive to Proton Drive. Proton Drive has end-to-end encryption, thus Proton can’t read any of your data. Google Drive, for example, grants Google almost limitless access to read your files. For the privacy-minded, Proton Drive is the obvious choice. But encryption introduces major limits on iOS. Most problematically, you cannot search for files. Not even by file name. There is currently no search at all on the Proton Drive iOS app. This is a major deficiency when comparing the app to competing services. Again, this is currently the tradeoff one has to be willing to make in order to gain privacy, but what a massive tradeoff it is. For those of you who have a lot of files and perhaps aren’t disciplined in your folder structures, you will have a very challenging time locating your files while on your mobile device. I implore the team at Proton to develop a solution to this if you want to pull users away from the competition. Search is a table stakes feature that is inexcusably omitted from the product. I so badly want to permanently move off of Google Drive, but I can’t in good conscience do so until there’s a reasonably good way of locating my files on the go.

   carshiss · 6 Aug 2026

4. 1/5Massively disappointing, compared to the rest of the Proton Suite

   I don’t know what it is about this app specifically that the developers just can’t get to work properly, but this app has been a massive letdown since I started using it over a year ago. At the time, I figured it was just needing a patch, which I had come to trust and expect, given my excellent experience with the rest of the Proton suite, but this app specifically performs absolutely abysmally even now, using the latest version, and seemingly hasn’t made any significant progress in terms of performance since I started using it. Everything from just loading into it to tapping on the files tab to simply opening a file I’ve already downloaded (!!!) is sluggish, messy process, and I can’t recommend using this app on mobile to anyone. The desktop version on both Mac and Windows works fine, and like I said, the rest of Proton’s apps on iOS work great, but this app on this platform specifically is a performance nightmare. I’m not using a particularly old device or iOS version either. I’m running the latest version of the app on iOS 18.5 on my iPhone 13 Pro Max. Please do better Proton, I thoroughly enjoy using these apps, and I hope this app can be brought up to the level of quality and UX that I’ve come to expect from the rest of the apps.

   steV3nom · 6 Aug 2026

5. 3/5I LOVE PROTON DRIVE BUT THERE ARE ISSUES…

   I love Proton Drive and was excited to use it when it came out. The problem is, it’s nowhere as intuitive as OneDrive. I reformatted my pc during fall of 2025 because Windows 11 updates messed up my pc. Now I have two different backups of the same stuff and instead of everything being backed up to one folder it divides everything into which computers it’s backing up from. It’s impossible to access any of my folders on the go. I wanted to show my pictures that are backed up to a friend of mine. I spent 20 mins trying to figure out how to open my pictures but I couldn’t get it to work so I gave up. It would be nice if Proton Drive was just as accessible to all of my files while I’m on the go right from my iPhone or another laptop. But again, I still really love Proton and I know that one day this app will improve. Once it improves I will most definitely come back and change my rating stars on here. I LOVE YOU PROTON TEAM!!!!

   PhillySoHostile · 6 Aug 2026

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4.3 7530 ratings · Google Play

1. 5/5

   Finally organized and more secure then ever! 🤗🤗🤗🤗 thank you Proton!

   Tyler Jason · 1 Aug 2026

2. 5/5

   Excellent service, secure, reliable, still feeling some of the UI and actions could be improved to be more intuitive and usable, but they're doing great!

   Alfredo Cisneros · 1 Aug 2026

3. 2/5

   Photo upload is super bad! I want to see my photos as files in folders! Not as some abstract objects. Why did you do this ugly thing? Because of it I can't use camera upload and this is the main purpose of cloud app on my phone. If you won't fix if - I'll move to different provider as my subscription ends.

   Artem Makarov · 1 Aug 2026

4. 1/5

   Useless without a search function!

   Vladimir Maric · 1 Aug 2026

5. 3/5

   Scanning utility freezes, just like Google Drive's scanning utility. Maybe this one is using Google's programming framework. Generally, unconfortable and unintuitive

   József Eidenpenz · 1 Aug 2026

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