In late 2021, Skiff launched a feature that enabled users to sign up and login using just their MetaMask wallet - letting users access end-to-end encrypted documents and data on Skiff using an existing keypair (an Ethereum address).

Today, Skiff has grown to support numerous crypto wallets, including Brave Wallet, Phantom, and more.

Today, we’re excited to announce that Skiff is now a Login Partner of Unstoppable Domains where their over 2.5 million registered domains can now easily plug into Skiff to create an email address and identity. What does this mean? New users can sign up for Skiff and use any products in the Skiff ecosystem (Skiff Mail, Pages, or Drive) all using their Unstoppable Domain.

What is an Unstoppable Domain? It is the first functional NFT single sign-on service for Ethereum and Polygon and will replace the need for usernames and passwords across Web3. Just like connecting a wallet, users prove ownership over an Unstoppable Domain and are subsequently able to use that domain to log into Skiff, send mail, and collaborate with others.

Skiff x Unstoppable Domains

We’re excited to announce that Skiff Mail has been awarded the PCMag Editor’s Choice award and an “Outstanding” review. Check out the full 

, which goes into incredible depth on Skiff’s Mail, Drive, and Pages products, as well as all the different ways you can leverage the sharing and security functionality for your team.

, one of the top sources for trusted information about privacy-respecting services all over the web. Check out the site to learn more about privacy-respecting products for collaborating, communicating, and more.

PCMag Editor’s choice and more

Starting today Skiff is excited to offer all startups up to a $1000 of Skiff Credit. This will give startups of all sizes access to the pro versions of Skiff‘s current offerings: Skiff Mail, Skiff Pages, and Skiff Drive. To apply for the Skiff for Startups program, startups can fill out a quick form on our website found 

Here at Skiff we are dedicated to the goal of making privacy-first products more accessible and user-friendly. This is why we have built the most comprehensive encrypted and secure collaboration platform available:

Skiff Mail lets users create an encrypted, secure, and private email address to send and receive emails with peace of mind.

Skiff Pages lets users write and store sensitive information that can be easily shared with collaborators, without ever breaking client-side encryption.

Finally Skiff Drive lets users store all their files, regardless of file type, onto Skiff. These files can be easily accessed, downloaded and, retrieved. All your files are encrypted on your device and Skiff never has access to any of your files.

We actively strive to improve our users experience of Skiff every single day. Whether it be adding new features, adding whole new products, or improving our icons and UI/UX, we aim to give our users the best experience possible. We are excited for the future.

There are two ways to be involved in Skiff for Startups. If you are a startup you can earn up to a $1,000 of Skiff Credit for your team instantly after 

If you are an organization that supports startups you can apply 

 to be a Skiff Partner and earn $1,000 of Skiff Credit for your portfolio companies.

What can you get with your Skiff for Startups credits

You can redeem your Skiff credits for a Skiff Pro account. This will let you have increased storage, unlimited version history, unlimited collaborators, and custom domains.

Any startup can apply for the Skiff for Startups program. We evaluate each application individually and applicants receive between $500 and $1,000 of credit, depending on the associated partner and company size.

How do you become a Skiff for Startups partner

Introducing Skiff for Startups

We are excited to introduce Skiff Drive, end-to-end encrypted file storage. Skiff’s goal is to be the collaboration suite for the next generation of the internet. Our first product Skiff Pages came out of beta in November 2021 and allows users to enjoy the freedom of complete privacy with a real-time, end-to-end encrypted collaboration platform. In May 2022, we released Skiff Mail’s Alpha empowering users to communicate securely and easily with an e2ee inbox.

Now with Skiff Drive, users can upload any file into Skiff for easy and secure access across all their devices.

If you already have a Skiff Mail or Pages account, there’s nothing else you need to do to get access to Skiff Drive. Just drag and drop from your local device and your files will be securely stored with your Skiff pages.

Skiff gives every user 10GB free of Skiff Drive. This means whether you are storing sensitive information like financial documents and medical records, or just want a secure and private place to store all your family photos, past projects, and personal documents, Skiff Drive gives every user enough space to keep all their data in their own hands.

Your email attachments and uploaded files, like PDFs, audio, and images will automatically be stored in Skiff Drive.

Accessing all of your files at any time - whether you are on the go or at a desktop - is essential for file storage. Skiff Drive functionality is available through the Skiff Pages mobile apps for iOS and Android as well as a fully featured macOS desktop app. Check them out below:

All users have the option to store all their Drive content on the Interplanetary File System (IPFS). Skiff partnered up with Protocol Labs, the creators of IPFS (InterPlanetary File System), to allow users the option to store all of their data over a decentralized network instead of a centralized server.

To read about how you can store your data on IPFS in Skiff, read out Blog here. 

https://www.skiff.com/blog/skiff-decentralized

Introducing Skiff Drive

Skiff is thrilled to announce the release

 of a new option to log into Skiff with Brave Wallet. Over 55 million individuals browse the internet using Brave as their primary browser every month. Skiff is excited to partner-up with Brave to give as many people as possible seamless and secure access to Skiff Mail and Pages.

This integration is technically groundbreaking and provides all Brave users access to privacy-respecting, end-to-end encrypted collaboration. Internally, Skiff already functions a lot like a crypto wallet - safeguarding key pairs and other sensitive information for your documents, identity, and team. We’ve written about this in past blogs on collaboration and in our technical whitepaper. Using Brave Wallet’s ability to encrypt and decrypt data, Skiff is able to create an account and end-to-end encrypt documents and email using the wallet.

If you are on the Brave Browser, you’ll now see an option to “Login via Brave Wallet” on the 

Once you click “Login via Brave Wallet” you’ll immediately be prompted to sign a login token - an attestation that you own your Ethereum wallet:

As the final step, you’ll then be asked for your encryption public key, which is used to secure your Skiff login token and password. From there, the normal Skiff login process begins - choosing a theme (light or dark mode), setting a display name, enabling account recovery and finally setting up your new Skiff Mail email alias.

That’s it! You’ll then have access to writing, collaboration, and sharing — all with your Brave Wallet address.

Skiff x Brave

Today, Skiff Mail launches: Privacy-first, end-to-end encrypted, open-source, Web3-native email.

Skiff Mail is built to be the next generation of email. Since the mid 1990s, email has brought an unprecedented degree of collaboration to the world - allowing scientists to share research, families to stay in touch, and the professional world to function.

Yet even as email has been adopted by billions of individuals, most large mail providers still have woeful privacy protections — allowing users’ messages to be read, processed, and stored by third parties.

Skiff Mail shifts the paradigm with simple and intuitive privacy. Skiff never stores unencrypted copies of any messages sent on Skiff Mail - and every Skiff-to-Skiff messages is end-to-end encrypted. Sign up, log in, and every message you send is owned by you.

Privacy applies beyond messages sent to and from Skiff Mail. Every message received from an external, third-party mail provider is immediately encrypted - ensuring only users have access to unencrypted copies of their emails.

Open-sourcing has always been a central piece of our strategy at Skiff, allowing us to build trust with our community and deliver transparent and trustworthy privacy. This is why we have decided to open-source the entire Skiff Mail product on launch. Visit 

Skiff Mail is also Web3 native. Sign up for Mail with a crypto wallet (currently MetaMask and soon Brave Wallet) to collaborate while completely owning your data. Just like Skiff's Workspace product, users have the option to store data on Protocol Labs' decentralized storage network IPFS, and also to send emails to/from their ENS addresses.

To use Skiff Mail, sign up for a Skiff account at 

Skiff Mail features instant, privacy-preserving search. Full text search has been a key feature in Skiff’s collaboration platform - allowing you to search through workspaces containing thousands of files instantly. We have brought this search function to Skiff Mail, allowing for message, subject, to/from/cc search, and more. Skiff’s search is completely open source - read more about Skiff search on 

Mobile and desktop apps for sending, receiving, and notifications are crucial for using email. Skiff Mail launches with fully featured mobile apps for iOS and Android as well as a fully featured macOS desktop app. Check them out below:

Skiff Mail lets you sign in, send, and receive mail using a crypto wallet. For the first time, send directly to an ENS address using Skiff. Read more about our wallet integration on Skiff’s 

Every Skiff Mail user receives 10 GB of free storage to send and receive mail and attachments. As we transition out of Skiff Mail Alpha into future versions, we’ll support additional storage and paid plans.

Introducing Skiff Mail

We’re excited to announce that Skiff Mail’s entire client code – including web, iOS, Android, and Desktop apps – will be completely open source at 

Starting today at launch, anyone will be able to check out the product codebase - understanding and ensuring how all data on Skiff Mail is completely end-to-end encrypted before ever leaving your device. We’ve also updated our 

 to provide a detailed overview of Skiff Mail’s technical architecture and underlying cryptographic protocols.

We have been committed to open source software since the very beginning of Skiff. We strongly believe that privacy cannot be just a promise; software must be available for anyone to independently audit and validate.

In addition to Skiff Mail, we’ve already open sourced our component library (

 Skiff as our ecosystem of products grows.

As developers, we love working closely with the open source community. You can join our 

 to submit questions, suggest contributions, or just share what you’re working on. We will also be regularly updating the 

 repo to stay in-sync with the live version of the app.

Skiff Mail is Open Source

Today, we’re releasing Embeds - a new way to share any type of file with the security of end-to-end encryption.

Now, you can drag and drop any file — from audio to video to GIF’s — into a page on Skiff. Furthermore, if you enable decentralized storage in your 

, your embedded files will be decentralized and stored on 

To start, drag-and-drop a file into the Skiff page you want it to appear in. You’ll see a progress indicator as your file is end-to-end encrypted and embedded.

If your enable decentralized storage on IPFS, you’ll see a cube indicator linking to the data’s 

 (CID) and its encryption key. Just like all data on Skiff, everything uploaded to IPFS is end-to-end encrypted.

We’ll be covering embeds in our next office hours and newsletter. In the meantime, if you have any questions, join the conversation on our 

File embeds: Upload any file to Skiff

Power users are like people who are constantly playing a game of 'hot lava' where everything but the keyboard is lava — if their hands ever have to leave the keyboard, they die.

Skiff supports an ever-growing list of keyboard shortcuts that are designed to make power users feel right at home. Read on to learn about the most essential time-saving shortcuts.

Slash commands were first popularized by IRC (Internet Relay Chat) enabling users to execute commands as easily as they could send messages. A few examples are /join #channelname to join a specific channel or /msg nickname to start a private chat with someone.

IRC has steadily declined in popularity since its peak in 2003. Since then, other popular messaging and productivity tools, notably including Slack, have picked up the feature and brought it to a new generation of power users.

On Skiff, you can type / anytime to reveal a list of commands to modify their current page. Slash commands are searchable. For example, starting to type /Table will quickly filter available commands and prompt you with the option to insert a Table. Similarly, /Subpage , /Heading , /Todo list , insert just what you’d expect. If you don’t know exactly what you’re looking for, scroll up and down the list using arrow keys to discover all the possible commands.

If you want to go fast, go alone; but if you want to go far, go together.

With Skiff, looping in your collaborators is as easy as typing the @ character, making group efforts just as fast as solo missions. Use the @ mention feature to mention a collaborator or mention a page.

When you mention a collaborator, they’ll receive a notification that will let them quickly jump into the document you’re referencing. When mentioning a page, a handy in-line link is created, making it easy to tie documents together even if they aren’t in the same hierarchical structure.

Together, both types of mentions make it straightforward to keep everyone on the same … 

 … page and to keep as much of your communication as possible contained to one platform. Mentions mean there’s no need to message a teammate a link to your document or copy-paste content from one platform to another — it’s an efficient, private and secure way to work.

The Quick Actions menu lets you search and interact with your entire Workspace at lightning speed. Either click the Search button in the left sidebar or hit Cmd + p to open the quick actions menu. This allows you to search, create a new page or folder, upload files, open settings, or re-open recently modified documents all without leaving the active page.

Some people cover their desk with drafts, research, and sticky notes. Others like to brainstorm on a whiteboard (real or virtual). In the age of digital collaboration, a lot of us like to open tons of tabs and switch between them all day long.

For the tab lovers out there, we’re here for you. Open any page in a new tab with cmd + left click . Keep everything you need within one click by opening as many Skiff tabs as your heart desires.

Skiff shortcuts

: the barriers that prevent people from switching from one product to another. Sometimes switching costs are by design — think cancellation fees — and sometimes they arise naturally, such as when people are simply reluctant to invest time and energy into learning the ins-and-outs of a new product, even a superior one.

In the world of online privacy, switching costs make a big difference. Take Google Drive as an example: Many people realize that it doesn’t make sense to store all of their private documents on a platform owned by a company whose business model hinges on selling hyper-targeted ads — a company whose 

 resulted in the leak of the personal data of 52 million users of Google+. And yet, Google Drive reportedly accounts for roughly 35% of the the file-hosting market.

People unconcerned with their online privacy and data autonomy may have legitimate reasons for preferring Google Drive, but for a substantial group of users, what keeps them from jumping ship to a privacy-respecting product like Skiff is a perceived switching cost. If you’re anything like us, you’ve likely been slowly accumulating files on Google Drive for about a decade — sorting and porting gigabytes of files over to another platform sounds like a giant headache that’s probably somewhere just behind “reading up on the tax code” on your priority list.

At Skiff, we’ve got a pretty simple philosophy: We think people shouldn’t have to choose between privacy and laziness. We want our online lives to be private 

, with zero additional thought or effort needed — the same way that everything in your own home is private by default, even when you’re just enjoying a lazy afternoon on the couch and not, you know, actively preventing Google from 

That philosophy is why everything you do on Skiff is end-to-end encrypted. There’s no setting to toggle. Privacy isn’t optional. Skiff is completely private from the first time you use it and no one but you can ever access your data — not even Skiff.

But we still had a problem to solve: switching costs. How could we make it easy for people to get gigabytes of data off of an anti-privacy platform like Google Drive onto a privacy-respecting, end-to-end encrypted, lazy-person-friendly platform like Skiff?

The answer was obvious — to us and everyone else — which is why it became our most-requested feature ever. We needed to give you the option to click a single button to transfer all of your Google Docs onto Skiff and then never think about it again. So that’s what we did.

Skiff’s new import feature couldn’t be simpler. To use it:

Hit the upload button and select “Import from drive”

Authenticate your Google account and you’re done

From Skiff’s perspective, there’s some interesting stuff going on under the hood that makes sure 

privacy-respecting password-reset process

, we needed to ensure that document import never compromised end-to-end encryption. Any process that required Skiff to gain access to your documents would break end-to-end encryption and defeat the whole purpose.

We solved this by encrypting all of your documents locally before they’re ever uploaded to Skiff. So the process looks like this:

1. You download your own documents from Google Drive

2. These docs are encrypted locally on your own device before they’re ever transmitted over a network

3. Then they’re uploaded to Skiff and safely stored with the rest of your end-to-end encrypted data

So that’s it. As switching costs go, moving from Google Drive to Skiff is about as cheap as it gets.


We have also recently rolled out comprehensive file storage on Skiff. Simply drag and drop any file, no matter what file type, onto a Skiff page and your file will be embedded for future easy access.

If IPFS is enabled on your account, all your embedded files will automatically be stored on IPFS and fully decentralized.

We’re also planning to introduce import features for more file-hosting services in the future. If you have any requests or ideas on how we can better support your online privacy, 

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