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Elba vs Proton Drive: sync vs sovereign

Proton Drive is a well-made encrypted cloud. Elba is deliberately not a cloud at all. Pick by what you need syncing between machines to do.

Pick Proton Drive if

You need mobile access, multi-device sync, and sharing links. You're trusting Proton with metadata but not file contents.

Pick Elba if

You want no cloud in the picture. No account, no server, no metadata anywhere but on your machine.

Questions people actually ask

Can I put Elba-sealed folders inside Proton Drive?
Yes. Proton Drive will sync them as opaque blobs, giving you two layers of encryption.

Take the island

Elba is one HTML file. It runs locally in a Chromium browser, seals a folder with AES-256-GCM, never phones home, and becomes open source on 1 January 2030.

  1. €49MMXXVI· now ·
  2. €39MMXXVII2027
  3. €29MMXXVIII2028
  4. €19MMXXIX2029
  5. FreeMMXXX2030

the price falls each year · free to all 1 jan 2030

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pay once · no account · nothing leaves

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