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The most significant and technically intriguing “download” is the ProtonMail Bridge . This is a local application that runs in the background on your computer. Its purpose is to decrypt your ProtonMail emails on the fly and serve them via a local IMAP/SMTP server to a traditional email client like Outlook, Thunderbird, or Apple Mail. The Bridge is the linchpin for users who want the convenience and power of a legacy email client without sacrificing end-to-end encryption. When you download the Bridge, you are downloading a local decryption engine.

More recently, Proton has offered a dedicated desktop application. Built on the Electron framework, it is essentially a standalone, sandboxed version of the ProtonMail web client. Downloading this provides a more integrated desktop experience (system tray notifications, native window management) but retains the same security model as the web app. protonmail download