It promises to help you write and revise emails without collecting your personal data.

Scribeworks like any other AI writing assistant.

Give it a prompt, and it generates text.

Screenshots of Proton Mail on a laptop

Proton

Ask it to revise or proof-read your email draft, and it will do so.

Similar tools are built into Gmail and Outlook.

The thing that makes Scribe special is that it doesn’t collect or transmit data.

This local AI functionality is not limited to the Proton Mail desktop app.

It also works when accessing Proton Mail through a Chromium web net internet ride, such Chrome or Edge.

Users can manually opt for the no-logs server if they don’t want to run Scribe locally.

It may also provide faster AI performance on underpowered machines.

Proton has a policy of never retaining any data that users punch in into Proton Scribe.

The AI is based on open-source models and is itself open-source.

That said, the whole sales pitch behind Proton is that it offers Google-like services without compromising user privacy.