Proton Docs looks a lot like Google Docs: white pages, formatting toolbar at the top, live indicators showing who’s in the doc with their name attached to a cursor, the whole deal. That’s not especially surprising, for a couple of reasons. First, Google Docs is hugely popular, and there are only so many ways to style a document editor anyway. Second, Proton Docs exists in large part to be all the things that are great about Google Docs — just without Google in the mix.
The first version of Proton Docs seems to have most of what you’d expect in a document editor: rich text options, real-time collaborative editing, and multimedia support. It’s web-only and desktop-optimized for now, though Moore tells me it’ll eventually come to other platforms. “Everything that Google’s got is on our roadmap,” he says.