4 Clever Tricks That Make It Worth Switching To Proton Mail 2025

There's no shortage of choice when it comes to email apps, and given that Google, Microsoft, and Apple all offer perfectly capable email services free of charge, the less well-known alternatives can often get largely ignored. It's quicker and easier to just stick with the defaults.

However, if you do take time to look at some of the smaller email platforms that are available, you'll find plenty in the way of useful features. You might even find you're tempted to switch over, not least because these alternatives are less interested in collecting your data or keeping you locked into a particular ecosystem.

You can read Jacob Roach’s review of Proton’s mail service, which he rates highly. The company also makes WIRED’s favorite VPN service, Proton VPN, and an excellent password manager.

Whether you've already signed up or you're thinking about it, these four tips should help you get more out of your Proton Mail account.

Email newsletters certainly have their place—we've got a brilliant selection for you to choose from—but when everyone from your local car dealership to an app you uninstalled five years ago is sending regular missives to your inbox, it can start to be a serious drag on your time and energy. It also makes the genuinely useful newsletters harder to find in your inbox.

The solution inside Proton Mail is a dedicated Newsletters section, which you can find under Views in the left-hand navigation pane of the web and desktop apps. All your regular subscriptions will be collected here, and displayed in an overview that shows how many unread editions you've got, and how often they're arriving.

Multiple email addresses can be useful for a whole host of reasons: Signing up for newsletters (see above), cutting down on spam, separating work and personal email, and other organizational feats. You can set up one alias for social media, for example, then filter all messages to that address into a particular folder.

Setting up more than one address is easily done in Proton Mail, though it's a paid-for extra if you want to specify each address. (Users with free accounts can generate up to 10 random addresses). From inside the web or desktop apps, click the gear icon (top right), then choose All settings and Identity and addresses.

Click Add address to create a new address, and specify the address itself as well as the display name that other people will see in their email programs. Addresses can be edited and deleted at any time, and you can also switch

Source: Wired