Say hello to ProtonVPN, AlternativeTo’s first Official Partner!

We’re thrilled to announce that ProtonVPN is officially becoming the first Official Partner of AlternativeTo 🎉 That means the awesome team at Proton is supporting our community driven platform and helping us continue making software discovery accessible to millions of curious users around the world.

So what exactly is this “Official Partners” program, you may be asking? This is a new initiative from the AlternativeTo team to highlight a small selection of products that align with our vision and want to support our community, sharing our belief that software discovery should remain open, useful, and community driven. Most importantly, it’s about working with companies that want to help AlternativeTo keep doing what it has done for the past 18 years: stay free, independent, and community powered.

Official Partners may be featured in dedicated placements across the site to show their commitment with our community and highlight their products. What will not change is how alternatives, rankings, and search results work. Those are still shaped by the activity, input, and recommendations of the community, just as they always have been. We are a crowdsourced platform after all, and that remains at the core of everything we do.

Why ProtonVPN?

Proton and its broader ecosystem of privacy focused products have long been familiar names on AlternativeTo, and ProtonVPN in particular has consistently stood out as one of the most respected privacy tools in the space. A big part of that comes from a strong set of features like NetShield, Secure Core, strong anti-censorship tools, and an independently audited no-logs policy. All of that makes ProtonVPN feel like a very natural fit for this first partnership, because it represents the kind of product we want this program to highlight: widely respected, genuinely useful, open-source approach, and built around values that matter to community like ours that cares deeply about trust, transparency, and staying in control online.

We’re really excited to kick off this new program together with ProtonVPN and take this first step toward continue building something valuable not just for partners, but for the whole AlternativeTo community. If you are interested in becoming one of our Official Partners, you can reach out to us at partners@alternativeto.com.