Tuta Blog
tuta.com · Company blog · on HN since 2023
Tuta, a German encrypted email and calendar provider, blogs about its product, post-quantum cryptography, and EU and Swiss surveillance proposals.
What HN saysHN commenters mostly mention Tuta as a privacy-focused email alternative to Google, and some link its email provider comparison page.
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Most-shared posts
- 1A quantum safe encryption email service10 people · 1 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 2On July 7, Gemini AI will access WhatsApp and more. Learn to disable on Android6 people · 61 points · first shared 2025 · 1 comments on HN
- 3Chat Control is back and we've got two months to stop the EU scanning plans4 people · 49 points · first shared 2025 · 1 comments on HN
- 4Tuta Launches Post Quantum Cryptography for Email (2024)3 people · 58 points · first shared 2024 · 29 comments on HN
- 5France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU3 people · 41 points · first shared 2025 · 11 comments on HN
- 6Switzerland plans surveillance worse than US3 people · 36 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 7How Google Is Crushing Tuta3 people · 35 points · first shared 2024 · 12 comments on HN
- 8EU Parliament Decides That Your Private Messages Must Not Be Scanned3 people · 16 points · first shared 2023 · 1 comments on HN
- 9Is France standing up for encryption and privacy?3 people · 7 points · first shared 2025 · 1 comments on HN
- 10Celebrate with us: Tuta Mail turns ten today2 people · 38 points · first shared 2024 · 1 comments on HN
- 11Google Search in Decline2 people · 27 points · first shared 2025 · 1 comments on HN
- 12Does Google own the web? Biggest US antitrust lawsuit must break its monopoly2 people · 15 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 13Welcome to our new website: "Turn on Privacy"2 people · 11 points · first shared 2024 · 2 comments on HN
- 14Open Letter Against ProtectEU2 people · 10 points · first shared 2025 · 2 comments on HN
- 15DeGoogled Phones Reviews2 people · 8 points · first shared 2026 · 1 comments on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
dotcoma · 2024-03-12
I love Tuta!
https://tuta.com/
Tutanota · 2026-01-27
Hey, Tuta Team here. If you're looking for one with unlimited addresses for a custom domain, check out Tuta Mail: https://tuta.com
lorinab · 2025-04-02
You can also try https://tuta.com/ and see if it works for you.
arkx · 2025-03-03
The essentials for me are private email, calendar & cloud storage. Here is my post-Google setup:
https://tuta.com/ is a German privacy-focused alternative that I'm currently using for email & calendar. Easy switch, although I was already using web clients rather than IMAP before the switch.
I looked at Proton Drive for cloud storage, but their CEO Andy Yen is a Trump supporter (https://archive.ph/2025.01.15-162500/https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMa… which makes me question his decision-making.
I settled on a 5€ / month VPS from Hetzner and using Syncthing instead, but this requires some minimal amount of technical skills to set up and maintain.
There is no alternative to YouTube, unfortunately.
peter_d_sherman · 2024-04-25
This is an interesting page:
https://tuta.com/email-comparison
Whereupon we find the following comparisons:
>"Protonmail vs Tuta Mail
Fastmail vs Tuta Mail
Mailbox.org vs Tuta Mail
Posteo vs Tuta Mail
Hushmail vs Tuta Mail
Startmail vs Tuta Mail
Riseup vs Tuta Mail"
...in other words, there's no shortage of email providers...
antics9 · 2026-03-23
https://tuta.com/ and Protonmail
dunefox · 2025-09-13
thibaut_barrere · 2025-06-12
I came across https://tuta.com/ which looks interesting.
hovering_nox · 2025-03-18
themaninthedark · 2026-06-12
So they aren't one of the Five Eyes, they joined later...
https://tuta.com/blog/fourteen-eyes-countries
And are proposing their own EU version as well....
>Incoming Dutch coalition floats European version of ‘Five Eyes’
https://www.politico.eu/article/new-dutch-government-floats-european-f…
k310 · 2025-08-27
I am looking at Tuta Calendar for my group.
https://tuta.com/calendar
The blurb says "calendar sharing" but the price comparison has calendar sharing unticked for the free version. Guess I'll just try. No cost to do so.
It does seem to work only with client apps, no web interface, and I have had fits just trying to get people to adopt Signal. Many are locked into WhatsApp and FBMessenger. Ouch.
Anyway, that's FWIW. I am Google-free with bundled Apple apps and a boatload of Free and OpenSource apps. I use apple and comcast mail.
Apple office apps are all MS compatible as is Libre Office.
I try to do nothing "in the cloud" since any information that leaves the home is, IMO, subject to loss and seizure.
nickslaughter02 · 2025-08-15
EU wants to scan every private message you send. Are there protests in the streets?
"The EU could be scanning your chats by October 2025 – here's everything we know" (https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/the-eu-could-be-sca…
"Chat Control is back & we've got two months to stop the EU CSAM scanning plans" (https://tuta.com/blog/chat-control-criticism)
jeroenhd · 2025-07-31
The US and Germany used a Swiss company to sabotage encryption for years: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51467536
Being inside of the EU also won't ensure your privacy: https://argos.vpro.nl/artikelen/former-philips-top-cryptographer-admit…
And let's not forget that the Swiss are just as willing to implement privacy infringing laws as any other country these days: https://tuta.com/blog/switzerland-surveillance-plan
Don't trust a company just because it's situated somewhere. When governments friendly to yours want to spy on you, they don't necessarily let borders stop them.
nabla9 · 2025-07-08
Learn how to disable Gemini AI on Android https://tuta.com/blog/how-to-disable-gemini-on-android
nalekberov · 2025-06-10
I always found Tuta's exaggerated reaction ridiculous. What makes their stand even more questionable when I visit their EU alternatives [1] webpage, first category they list is 'Email', under this category only "eligible" alternative is Tuta Mail.
Now, out of all alternative EU email providers they list only themselves as an alternative and expect alternative seekers to trust them?
1. https://tuta.com/blog/boycott-us-choose-european-products
Daril · 2025-02-22
Sure ! Here you can find a list of alternatives :
https://european-alternatives.eu/
I self hosting almost everything, but for a complete suite of services take at look at Infomaniak : https://www.infomaniak.com/en
Protonmail (https://proton.me/mail) or Tutanota (https://tuta.com/) for end-to-end encrypted emails, Filen (https://filen.io/) for encrypted Cloud Storage
nucleardog · 2024-05-08
Tangent: Been looking to switch email providers for a while, and hadn’t heard of Tuta. Looked good enough I just went ahead and signed up… only to find out apparently they provide no real data portability whatsoever.
The only option for getting your email _out_ of their systems is to select small batches of them one-by-one in their app and export them.
There have been many requests for something similar to Proton’s bridge functionality that haven’t gone anywhere. A more useful export function has been near the top of their public roadmap[0] for half a decade now it looks like.[1]
Guess I’ll go find out what their refund process is like.
Don’t mind me. Just yelling into the void.
[0] https://tuta.com/roadmap/ [1] https://github.com/tutao/tutanota/issues/1292
dotnet00 · 2024-04-25
https://tuta.com/blog/google-search-problem
This article goes into much more detail about the issue.
lxgr · 2024-04-17
Or really anywhere on that page! Looking at the source, I can't see it anywhere other than as part of image URLs and one comment. I'm not sure if it's a good idea to rely on Google's crawlers to locally render a PWA for indexing purposes.
> It is extremely unlikely this is some conspiracy and more likely some failure of the most basic SEO measures.
I wouldn't call myself a Google fan, but this seems like the most likely explanation. The company seems to have an axe to grind with big tech in general and Google in particular [1], so I wonder how much effort they really spent on checking their own systems before crying "DMA violation".
[1] https://tuta.com/blog/google-search-monopoly
BramLovesYams · 2024-04-05
There is a screenshot of this banner from a recent blog post by the Tuta team as well. It shows 813 data sharing partners... https://tuta.com/blog/outlook-shares-passwords-with-microsoft
grammers · 2023-11-23
May I ask why you did not like Tuta? They now have unlimited email addresses for custom domains, which is pretty neat IMO: https://tuta.com/blog/summer-releases-2023
homarp · 2025-09-23
skilled · 2024-04-25
The article says March, which coincidences with this:
https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2024/03/core-update-spam-pol…
It's possible Tuta caught a stray here because they recently changed their name from Tutanota[0], including the domain name. This update has the SEO world up in arms, in fact - the update is still rolling out, nearly two months after it was announced.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall in the Google Search team's offices to learn just how much machine learning is messing with the ability to properly understand intent -> rank content.
E: Semrush shows that they took a nosedive, but not a complete decimation[1].
E2: I take the initial edit back, looks like they got a classifier applied to their site, also known as the "Helpful Content Update":
https://tuta.com/blog/google-search-problem
It's a nasty classifier and not a single site has been reinstated from it[2] since Google began to apply it in Sep 2023.
[0]: https://tuta.com/blog/tutanota-is-now-tuta
[1]: https://i.imgur.com/E9ybteL.png
[2]: https://twitter.com/glenngabe/status/1781679769735545280
WithinReason · 2023-11-07
renegat0x0 · 2024-01-29
Some of my links:
- https://usvgoogle.org/trial-wrap-11-20
- https://tuta.com/blog/google-search-monopoly
- https://www.androidauthority.com/apple-android-massive-tracking-device…
- WEI... https://vivaldi.com/blog/googles-new-dangerous-web-environment-integri…
- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jun/28/google-may-have-mis…
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/05/09/google-privacy-ab…
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/judge-finds-google-destroy…
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Google
- https://otakukart.com/551722/google-is-showing-ads-to-sell-your-kidney…
- https://www.npr.org/2020/10/22/926290942/google-paid-apple-billions-to…
- https://gizmodo.com.au/2017/09/yes-google-uses-its-power-to-quash-idea…