On 20 May 2026, our founder Boris Siegenthaler transferred the majority of Infomaniak’s voting rights to a Swiss public-interest foundation: the Infomaniak Foundation.
I wish I switched to these guys when I left google. I chose a large provider in India because I just wanted to support them.
But I did not realise that the Indian government has gone so fascist that they are even ahead of USA, and far more authoritarian than Britain.
It took over a year to get everyone to switch to my new email address so I can’t really ask this of people again. But I’ll suggest it to others who are looking for recommendations.
This is why a bought a domain. I’m going to do a similar change, but I hope it’s forever.
I think countries should have a free domains for normal people to do the same, and prevent these companies from having power over something that’s basically a utility and necessity, based on a decision you made once in your life when you were 13.
If it wasn’t for the PATRIOT Act I would’ve said the USPS should’ve gotten with the times and offered low-cost email services.
I switched from Google (email, cloud storage, etc.) to Infomaniak in august last year. It was european, got more cloud storage for less money and though the user experience wasn’t 100% polished, it was basically 90% there. Good enough.
I couldn’t be happier with my choice now - this seems like a really good move. This looks like a similar sort of setup as Mozilla the for-profit company has with the non-profit Mozilla Foundation. Good on the founder for doing this!
I have a domain I want to set up email and cloud storage for me and my family in so that we can migrate away from google and hotmail etc. I have just not had the time to research which provider to go for yet.
How big was the transition itself? Can you set up cloud backup of photos from your phone, etc?
I don’t have my own domain for my email, I just switched to Infomaniak’s domain. I then use Thunderbird with the unified inbox to view all my emails in one inbox. So I get both my gmail and infomaniak emails in Thunderbird. I didn’t bother changing all of my old accounts using the gmail to use infomaniak instead - there’s just so many accounts and it didn’t seem worth it. Primary goal for me was to stop paying Google for drive space.
The transition was pretty easy honestly, once I sat down to do it. The largest obstacle is honestly the mental one, of getting oneself to actually commit to doing it.
Can you set up cloud backup of photos from your phone, etc?
Yes, the kDrive app can be set to automatically upload pictures you take on your phone to your kDrive. I actually like it even better than on Google, cause on Google my photos never got to Google Drive, but went to Google Photos. So I didn’t automatically have them on my PC. With the kDrive app, you just choose a folder in your drive where the photos are saved, and then it saves them there, and it gets synced to your PC if you run the kDrive app there obviously.
Cool, Thanks for the comprehensive reply!
I wanted to switch for my domain names but they did not carry nearly all the extensions I need. Too bad. Went with INWX for that.
Switched 5 years ago. Was a good move. For $16/year, you can’t go wrong.
Sweet, I use them for my domain name. If Runbox ever dies I’d move email over too.
Great news also thinking of my own email hosting with these guys
This is awesome! Infomaniak is great!
@_elena@mastodon.social This might interest you.
