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Does this mean that the app could be forked to support multiple accounts (which is currently not possible for the free tier users with the official app)?

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Sure, but you need a paid Apple account to put it on the App Store. Chances are none of the cheapskates who ‘believe strongly in freedom’ are going to put their money where their mouth is and spend the $100 so everyone can enjoy that freedom.

Why would you pay $100 to a dictatorial software distribution platform when your whole thing is, well, free software distribution?

Do you want freedom? Freedom does not come for free.

You can't do that anyway. You can't put GPLv3 apps on the App Store.

ProtonMail can put this app on the store, because they own it and can relicense the App Store build at-will. But no one else owns ProtonMail's code, so we can't take it, give it an App Store-compatible license, and publish it.

Yes it does. However I'm not quite sure who is going to do that.

Could be you! Context switching accounts doesn't seem like too difficult a task.

Except I’m not using protonmail since I trust my yubikey way more in terms of storing my private keys.

Also, it only seems like a simple task. You still have to manage notifications and UI for multiple accounts. Not to mention that I’d probably not do that free of charge.

And I was wondering if someone could add support for signing/encrypting emails on the ProtonMail iOS client with openPGP keys on my Yubikey? :)

I'd rather finance an iOS Thunderbird with GPG support.

This is currently not possible for any users of iOS app, it’s not something behind paywall. This feature is on TODO list in github repo tho

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