A Newsletter Reader for Proton Mail Users

Full disclosure: this page is written by Kevin, who built bwak.news. I'm a retired ops and IT leader who runs a small farm in Tennessee. I built bwak.news for myself because my newsletters were getting buried in my inbox, and I now read more than 70 newsletters in it every day. The Proton details below come from Proton's own website as of October 2026. Check their site for the latest.

Why Proton Mail users get left out

A lot of newsletter apps work by connecting to your email account. They ask for permission to read your mailbox, find the newsletters, and pull them out. That connection is usually built for Gmail and Outlook. If your mail lives at Proton, those apps either don't support you or send you off to use a separate address of theirs.

And if you chose Proton on purpose, handing a third-party app access to your mailbox is probably the last thing you want to do anyway.

How bwak.news works with Proton Mail

It doesn't work with Proton Mail, exactly. It works next to it. Your Proton inbox is never involved.

Claim your address. Pick a handle, like you@bwak.news. There's nothing to connect.
Move a few newsletters over. Forward any issue from your Proton inbox to your migration address, migrate.<yourseed>@bwak.news. bwak.news creates that newsletter's own address for you. Then swap your email on the sender's subscription page.
Read in your feed. New issues show up as cards you can scroll, save, archive, or block with one tap. Your Proton inbox never sees them.

Forwarding one email is the only time your Proton account touches bwak.news, and you're the one doing it. You can start with three favorites and move the rest whenever you like.

What Proton Mail already does well

Proton has been adding real tools for newsletters, and they're worth trying before you add another app.

A Newsletters category. Proton Mail Categories sort incoming mail into Primary, Social, Promotions, Newsletters, Transactions, and Updates. Proton describes Newsletters as non-promotional content and news you signed up for. Proton says Categories are on by default for new users, and existing users can turn them on.
A Newsletters view. Proton says it helps you organize and unsubscribe from subscriptions without digging through your inbox.
One-click unsubscribe. When Proton detects a mailing list, it offers an Unsubscribe button.
Hide-my-email aliases. Proton Pass creates random aliases that forward to your inbox, so senders never see your real address.

If your problem is mostly sorting and cleanup, those may be all you need.

Proton Mail on its own vs. Proton Mail plus bwak.news

	Proton Mail on its own	Proton Mail + bwak.news
Where newsletters live	Your Proton mailbox, sorted into a Newsletters category	Their own feed, outside your mailbox
Reading	One message at a time, like any email	Scroll a chronological feed of cards, open what catches your eye
Addresses	Your Proton address, or Proton Pass aliases that forward to your inbox	Its own @bwak.news address for every newsletter
Unwanted sender	Unsubscribe button, or turn off the alias	Block that one address with one tap
Inbox access	Not applicable	None. bwak.news never connects to your inbox
Search	Proton Mail search	Full-text search across your newsletters
Cost	Part of your Proton plan	Free for For You and 3 newsletters. Unlimited is $5/month or $48/year

Where bwak.news is different

Newsletters leave your mailbox completely. A category still lives inside your email. bwak.news gives newsletters a separate place to be read, so your Proton inbox is left for the people and things that actually need a reply.
One address per newsletter. If a sender starts spamming you or your address shows up somewhere it shouldn't, you know exactly who it came from. Block that one address and everything else keeps working.
Your real email stays private. Senders only ever see their bwak.news address. Your Proton address never leaves bwak.news.
A feed built for reading. Everything in the order it arrived. No algorithm, no ads.

Where bwak.news falls short: there's no native app store app (it's a web app you add to your home screen on iOS or Android), and there's no bulk import. You point each newsletter at its new address. The migration helper takes most of the busywork out of it, but it's still one newsletter at a time.

Coming from Meco? See bwak.news vs. Meco. Comparing more apps? See the best newsletter reader apps in 2026.

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FAQ

Questions, answered.

Does bwak.news need access to my Proton Mail account?

No. bwak.news never connects to Proton Mail or any other inbox. There is no password, no Bridge, and no permission to grant. Each newsletter gets its own @bwak.news address, and issues go straight to your bwak.news feed.

Proton Mail already has a Newsletters category. Why use a separate reader?

If the Newsletters category and Newsletters view are enough for you, keep using them. They sort and help you unsubscribe inside your mailbox. bwak.news moves newsletters out of your mailbox entirely, into a scrollable feed, with a separate address for every sender.

How is this different from a Proton Pass alias?

Proton Pass aliases forward email to your inbox, so newsletters still land in Proton Mail. bwak.news addresses deliver to a feed instead, so your inbox never sees them.

What does bwak.news cost?

You can sign up free with no credit card. The free plan lets you read the curated For You feed and follow 3 newsletters. Unlimited is $5 a month or $48 a year and lets you follow as many newsletters as you like.