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A local Windows utility for Proton Drive

Clean the folder.
Keep the privacy.

GenieForProton finds duplicate waste, untangles vague filenames, and lays out every move for review. It works on the folder already synced to your PC. Your files never leave it.

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No account · no telemetry · no required AI · offline license

GenieForProton — Review
D:\ProtonDrive\My filesPRO
37duplicate groups
2.31 GBreclaimable
Scan again
ApproveActionFileSize
Duplicatereceipts/IMG_1042.jpg3.2 MB
Renamescans/scan_0042.pdf812 KB
Movedownloads/invoice_march.pdf128 KB
Near-dupphotos/beach-resized.jpg1.1 MB
Apply 3 approvedNothing moves until you approve it.
Local-only · no network connectionsReady

Actual product rule A scan writes a manifest. It does not move a file.

What works now

A cleanup tool, not an autopilot.

It does the tedious comparison work, then stops. The final judgment stays with the person who knows the files.

Duplicate cleanup

Exact content hashes find byte-for-byte copies. You choose the keeper; the others move to quarantine.

Free

Clearer names and tidy folders

Deterministic rules handle type and date sorting. A local model can optionally suggest names for vague files.

Free

Near-duplicate photos

Perceptual hashes catch resized or re-saved images without pretending every similar photo is disposable.

Pro

Storage insights

See the largest, oldest, and most reclaimable items before deciding what deserves attention.

Free

Privacy Sweep

Review browser and Windows traces locally. Analysis is free; approved cleaning is part of Pro.

Free + Pro

Pro roadmap · Deep Search

Search inside the files Proton keeps encrypted.

Proton’s own support describes Drive search by full or partial file name. GenieForProton’s planned local index goes further: it reads the synced copies already decrypted on your PC and finds words inside them.

Read Proton’s search documentation
renewal notice 2025Ctrl K
3 results in 8,421 locally indexed files
Home insurance renewal.pdf

…your renewal notice for the policy period beginning 14 March 2025…

PDF
Household budget.xlsx

…insurance renewal 2025 · paid from checking…

XLSX
March notes.md

…compare the renewal notice before Friday…

MD
Index stored in .proton_organizer/ on this PC — never uploaded.

Pro roadmap · priority order

Built around Proton’s gaps, not a generic feature pile.

  1. 01

    Full-text search inside PDFs, DOCX, TXT, and Markdown

  2. 02

    Side-by-side review for similar photos and bursts

  3. 03

    Sensitive-file checks for keys, exports, and live-looking secrets

  4. 04

    Mail attachment reclaim from a local Proton export

  5. 05

    A ranked Storage X-Ray reclaim plan

Privacy Sweep

Clean the traces. Refuse the business model.

Browser caches, recent-item lists, thumbnails, crash dumps, and temp files are analyzed on the machine. Every category is itemized before cleaning. There is no registry cleaner, updater, account, or telemetry layer hiding behind it.

There is nothing to send and nowhere to send it.
Local analysisReview only
Browser caches2.1 GB14,203 files
Windows temp846 MB3,181 files
Recent items18 MB229 entries
Analysis changed nothing

Why the line is firm: The FTC ordered Avast, the company behind a competing PC cleaner, to pay $16.5 million over charges involving the sale of browsing data.

FTC order

The whole workflow

Three steps. A deliberate stop before the third.

  1. 01

    Scan the synced folder

    The organizer reads local files and writes a review manifest. The source folder is unchanged.

  2. 02

    Review every proposal

    Change keepers, clear doubtful rows, and see exactly where each approved file will go.

  3. 03

    Apply — or walk away

    Only approved rows move. Every batch is journaled, quarantine is recoverable, and the last batch can be undone.

Free vs Pro

Free is useful. Pro is on summer promotion.

The safe manual workflow is not a trial. Pro pays for fuzzy detection and deeper cleanup, with an offline key and no recurring bill.

$9.99Summer promotion
lifetime · offline license

The public Windows release is being prepared. No live checkout or fake waitlist has been wired into this preview.

CapabilityFreePRO
Exact duplicate detection and quarantine
Type/date sorting and deterministic renames
Storage insights and single-batch undo
Optional local rename suggestions
Privacy Sweep analysis
Near-duplicate images and archive sweep—
Privacy Sweep cleaning—

The test

A privacy tool should survive being blocked from the internet.

GenieForProton does. The optional rename helper talks only to a model on localhost. Licensing is verified offline. The site uses no analytics, cookies, trackers, or third-party requests.