Sign/Check has arrived. "The hash matches" only means something if you trust where the hash came from, so now Hash/Check can ask who signed it. Signatures, checked on the spot. The .sig and .asc files that sit next to many downloads (OpenPGP, the kind GnuPG makes), plus minisign and SSH signatures, are verified right in the window. No Terminal, no GnuPG to install, no incantations. Keys with names. The first time a key shows up you get a polite yellow and a fingerprint to compare with the developer's site. Give it a name, and it's green from then on. Loud about impostors. If a download from a site you trusted a key for turns up signed by a different key, that's red, and it says why. Checksum files, read for you. Drop SHA256SUMS (or a .sha256 file) in with your download and Hash/Check finds the right line and tells you which file said so. No more squinting at sixty-four characters. A signed checksum list from a key you trust counts all the way down. Found one lying around? A checksum list sitting next to your download in Downloads is checked too. It won't call that verified on its own, because anything that can put a file in Downloads can put a list beside it, but a mismatch still gets the full red treatment. Downloads, handled. Turn on Monitor Downloads folder (Hash/Check offers the first time you open it) and every download is hashed the moment it finishes. No more "Get Hashes" button. Download the signature too and it's checked as soon as it lands. Drop it on the menu bar. Drag a file, and its signature or checksum file, onto the menu bar icon and the answer pops up right there. Where it came from, at a glance. The file details now show the page that linked to a download and the site that served it, read from the file itself on your Mac. Downloaded it twice? A browser's "file (1).dmg" still pairs with the original's signature, and Hash/Check tells you when a file is identical to the one you just checked. A new Keys tab in Settings, for renaming or removing the keys you trust. The color palettes have names now (Traffic, League and Vineyard), each with a third color for "careful," picked so every palette stays readable if you're colorblind. Help is one click away: Help › Hash/Check Help opens the support page. Still fully offline. Still one job. It just checks the job harder now.

Mostly fixes this time — the kind you notice because something stops being wrong. Your Auto-Hash Limit is no longer a polite suggestion. Set a size limit, close the main window, and a multi-gigabyte download could still get hashed in full behind your back. The menu bar path wasn't checking the limit. Now it does. "Completed" sticks around long enough to actually read it. The completion confirmation was appearing and vanishing in the same breath. It now stays put for a moment, like a confirmation should. No more surprise thank-you notes. If the app was interrupted right after a tip, it could greet you with "Thank you for your support!" on the next launch — for a tip you didn't just leave. Tips are still gratefully received. The alert now only shows up when you actually leave one. Cancelled hashes actually stop. Drop a huge file, change your mind, drop another. The first hash used to keep grinding away in the background on a result nobody was waiting for. Now it stops when you move on, and your fans stay quiet. Downloads monitoring got sturdier. A single unreadable file in your Downloads folder — a partial download caught mid-cleanup, say — could make Hash/Check lose track of the entire folder. Now it just skips that one file and carries on. Polished for the latest macOS, rebuilt against the newest SDK, with the supporter badge in the title bar tidied up for the new window behavior.

Hash/Check got some upgrades. Nothing too flashy — just the good kind. GitHub copies weird. Hash/Check is ready. - Copying a hash from a GitHub release page tacks on a prefix like `sha256:` before the actual hash. Hash/Check now quietly strips that off and matches correctly. No manual editing required. Monitor Downloads folder - Turn it on in Settings and Hash/Check keeps watch over your Downloads folder. Pop open the app window and a friendly banner will ask if you want to hash whatever just landed. Running in the menu bar? It'll just hash it automatically and have the answer waiting for you. A few things that were mildly annoying are now not annoying: - The app no longer shows a "Calculate Hashes" button on a blank screen when nothing is loaded - The menu bar popover now respects the "Monitor Downloads folder" setting instead of cheerfully loading your latest download whether you wanted it to or not

Hash/Check now comes with an optional "Support the Developer" in-app purchase. The app does exactly what it always did — drag, drop, hash, compare — whether you chip in or not. But if you do, you'll get a fun little supporter badge in the title bar, and one developer will briefly feel seen. Still free to use. Still no subscriptions. Still no dark patterns. Just vibes and cryptographic integrity.

This update brings a more magical macOS experience: Hash/Check can now live happily in your menu bar, launch at login, and stay nearby for quick checks without insisting on a full window every time. The main app and the menu bar companion now play nicely as separate little helpers — one for focused file work, one for instant access. We also gave Settings a proper spring cleaning, trimmed the interface, and made the whole app feel more polished, more native, and more at home on your Mac. So why 4.1? Because. Just because.

Fixed rendering issue with menubar item

Added HashCheck Shortcut for right-click Finder integration.

Menubar now has an indicator if the hash matches or not.

Complete rewrite in SwiftUI

Updated for macOS 26

Not a whole lot new in this version. Found a few things that were bugging me, and as this is just a side project - I fixed them! For one, why just Green and Red for good hash/bad hash? Seems a bit holiday specific or may traffic light specific. So this update adds a Blue/Orange or Brown/Purple option! Also really kinda small, but the "File Location" path now shows a tiny icon of what kind of Mac you're using (thank you SF Symbols!), including the Trash Can Mac if you're still running with that beast. Um... What else... There is still a few UI refresh bugs that I can't seem to quite track down yet, but I'll get there. Anyway, be kind, be nice, be good.

Just for fun to close out 2022! Added Multithreading and async calls to avoid the dreaded Beachball. No more "looks like your Mac has hung" due to Very Large Files™ in your Downloads folder. Rewrote a bunch of stuff for giggles.

Fixed a bug where it would let you create a windowed tab despite having no support for "tabs" internally at all. Kinda makes you wonder who'd running this outfit. Then again, it is free - so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You know when you unzip a file in your Downloads folder and a new folder with the same name as your zip file gets created and has a more recent date? And then you go use the Hash/Check menubar icon to validate the hash of the latest download and it pulls up the new folder instead of the zip file? Yeah, me either - but I fixed the bug anyway.

Minor fix to menu bar focus