Proton Pass has officially arrived on F-Droid

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We had reported a few days ago on our new Forum the appearance of Proton Pass on F-Droid, however, it was a temporary appearance as shortly afterwards he disappeared and then reappeared in an official capacity complete with a presentation on the Proton blog.

Proton Pass has officially arrived on F-Droid

So it's official and Proton Pass becomes the second Proton application to be featured in the alternative store most famous of Android. Proton Pass it has only existed for a short time, more or less a year now, but it has already made enormous strides for being a new service. It will be thanks to the fact that the team of SimpleLogin he was put full time to work on this new project ¹ after the acquisition by Proton.

This way of working gives us hope for the evolution of Proton Drive seen the recent acquisition of Standard Notes since we think it was made to be able to implement notes and documents within Proton Drive, perhaps also creating an alternative application called Proton Notes.

F-Droid but no APK on GitHub

The arrival of Proton Pass on F-Droid it is seen by almost everyone as a positive thing and is the second application officially present on F-Droid After Proton VPN.

Proton, however, still has a lot to improve on this aspect in our opinion but, knowing them, we are sure that they are working as best they can to arrive at optimal results sooner or later:

• Proton Mail it is only available on the Play Store and on their GitHub you can download the APK which however is stuck at version 3.0.17 as of 17 October 2023. On the Play Store however we are at version 4.0.9. Furthermore, Proton Mail notifications unfortunately still depend on Google services.
• Proton Drive it is constantly updated on GitHub but unfortunately the APK is never released and the only way to get it outside of the Play Store is to download it directly from their site (but without having automatic updates).
• Proton Calendar this application, however, does not yet appear to be present on GitHub and if you want to download it outside the Play Store you must download the APK from their site but here too without automatic updates.
• Proton VPN it is the best placed in this sense but on the other hand it is also the most elderly if we exclude Proton Mail. It is available almost everywhere, including F-Droid, and the APK is also released directly from GitHub. This last option is particularly convenient for those who use the app Obtainium.

In short, we are really happy that something is also moving in that direction around Proton because it is starting to become unsustainable there degoogling with Proton if to have their applications always updated it is mandatory to also have the Play Store.

This news was also reported on our forum so if you want you can comment on it by clicking here.

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