In 2025, our team developed and released many features and improvements for Tuta Mail and Tuta Calendar. Some highlights included the Tuta clients becoming 10x faster thanks to Fast Sync, increased security with Key verification, the release of the calendar widget on Android and iOS, as well as many usability and design improvements on all apps. And what you haven’t seen yet is our teams’ hard work developing the Tuta Drive, which we’re expecting to release in 2026.

With our growing team, we’re also looking forward to what’s planned ahead and continuing to improve and develop Tuta! With that said, let’s give a warm welcome to our newest teammates.

Welcoming Tobi

Privacy needs to be the default. Everywhere, always.”

Why did you want to work at Tuta?

Throughout my career, I will spend tens of thousands of hours of my time working on something. That almost certainly makes my job the single biggest opportunity I have to create change in the world. I don’t want to waste that opportunity working for a company that prioritizes short-term profit over the long-term flourishing of humanity.

Working at Tuta allows me to use my skills to work on privacy, a severely neglected, but incredibly important issue. Because so few people work on private communication, working at Tuta allows me to have an extraordinarily large impact on the world. That’s very fulfilling.

What do you like about working at Tuta?

The people here care. That might seem like a small thing, but it changes everything. It’s so refreshing coming into work every day and seeing people really doing their best. It creates a better atmosphere, and it makes me try my best as well.

What are you currently working on?

I am part of the customer success team. That means my priority is to reduce friction and frustration around our products that don’t directly relate to Mail or Calendar features. Currently we are working on redesigning our signup process from the ground up. This doesn’t just include a fresh coat of paint, but also improvements to our included password generator, better integration with our payment providers, more convenient ways to store and use the recovery code, improvements to accessibility and clearer descriptions of what’s going on and how a new user can get the most out of their new Tuta account.

What is your ideal vision of the Internet?

I work at Tuta, so of course my ideal vision for the internet includes that end-to-end encryption becomes the default. Where everyone enjoys private communication all the time. But that’s not the only thing wrong with the internet of today.

There was a brief window of time where the Internet gave people around the world unprecedented access to the world’s knowledge and information with basically no downside. This version of the Internet slipped away when we collectively discovered that ad-supported freemium services are the most profitable way to commercialize it. It changed the incentives of internet companies away from improving their products, toward increasing engagement.

I don’t have an easy solution for this problem, but if I could snap my fingers and just magically make it happen, then I would simply wish for that incentive to not exist. Selling the data of your users should not be more profitable than improving your user’s experience.

I think this would fix a lot of problems in the world.

Why is privacy on the web important to you?

People often say they don’t care about data privacy because they don’t have anything to hide. First of all that’s incorrect. If a new political party comes into power, data that might’ve been completely uninteresting in the past may suddenly be used to unjustly profile and persecute whole groups of people. We can see this happening all over the world, and it can affect anyone.

Second of all, the right to privacy doesn’t just apply to sensitive data. If I take a picture of my cute dog and share it with my friends, then it is for my friends only. It’s not for the government, it’s not for big tech. The fact that we have basically no control over this is ludicrous. If I send a letter to my grandparents, then the postman isn’t allowed to read it. But if I send an electronic letter to them instead, then suddenly all bets are off and I should have no expectation of privacy? No. Privacy needs to be the default. Everywhere, always.

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Welcoming Lara

I strongly believe everyone should be able to use the internet without constantly worrying about their data.”

Why did you want to work at Tuta?

I wanted to work at Tuta because the mission really resonated with me. The idea of using my design skills to build a product that empowers people and puts their rights first is deeply motivating and something I truly value in my daily work.

What do you like about working at Tuta?

What I especially enjoy is the strong team spirit at Tuta. The open, collaborative atmosphere makes it easy to share ideas, challenge assumptions, and improve solutions together — particularly when discussing UX concepts.

What are you currently working on?

Right now, I’m working on the UX design for the new Tuta Drive, focusing on creating intuitive, accessible features that balance great usability with strong privacy.

Why is privacy on the web important to you?

Over the past year, privacy on the web has become very important to me, and I strongly believe everyone should be able to use the internet without constantly worrying about their data.

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Welcoming Jim

To me, privacy on the web is synonymous with individual self-determination.”

Why did you want to work at Tuta?

I applied to Tuta because I wanted to use my software skills for a good cause at a tech company offering ethical alternatives to the products of big tech companies.

What do you like about working at Tuta?

I like working on a product that I personally use, and I look forward to seeing features that I’ve worked on show up while I use it in my personal life. I also like the people, who are all working there because they support the company’s mission to protect people’s freedoms.

What are you currently working on?

I’m working on implementing more advanced sharing and interactivity features for events in the Tuta Calendar app. Specifically I am helping to release an improvement to the calendar’s timeline view, as well as a feature that will help users more quickly identify and respond to events that they have been invited to but have not yet accepted.

What would you like to change in the future/what is your ideal vision of the Internet?

My ideal vision of the internet is one where it empowers and connects people, and where the tools available on it primarily serve the interests of their users rather than their owners.

Why is privacy on the web important to you?

Online surveillance allows corporations and powerful people to collect key details about our lives and personalities, which can then be used to systematically curate what information is shown to us when we interact with their digital platforms. Tools like Tuta Mail and Tuta Calendar can protect us from these systems by depriving them of the data they need to strategically curate the information we are given access to. We should all be able to freely access information as we see fit, so that we can develop our own worldviews and make our own choices without interference from third parties who should have no say in the matter.

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Welcoming Danilo

I believe privacy allows us to think freely, to express ourselves openly to whom we trust, to be who we are.”

Why did you want to work at Tuta?

I joined Tuta because I wanted to work at a place that aligns with me morally. I believe deeply in the right to privacy being essential for maintaining a healthy society. The way many online services exploit their own customers has always been annoying to me, data being sold to whatever advertising industry can get away with, the more information always being harvested, the more control seems to be taken away from people, a constant cycle of enshittification in every possible way. In contrast to that, I want my work at Tuta to contribute to making the web a better place, to provide the important alternative that is owning your own data, to break free from this overarching advertisement industry.

While it’s been a short time that I’ve been working here, I appreciate that people here care about Tuta, about privacy, providing encryption and a good service, developing the best I can is also out of my own interest because I’m a customer myself, so my work also directly impacts me and my own private data and life. As with Tuta I can ensure that I have the freedom to communicate just to whom I want, not some 300 different advertising companies. To end it, I believe privacy allows us to think freely, to express ourselves openly to whom we trust, to be who we are.

Your support enables our growth 🌱

The Tuta team at their end of year get together to celebrate 2025’s achievements.

Whether you’re a free user, a paid user, or someone who recommends Tuta Mail and Tuta Calendar to friends and family - it all counts, and your support enables us to grow our team and do what we love: spread privacy.

So this is a big thank you from us to you! We’re so glad you’ve joined us on this journey to privacy, because together, we can make the web a better place! ♥️🔐