iHash 4+

That is the quickest I have ever checked a hash. It will save me a lot of time in the long run. It also makes user error less likely. I opened iHash selected sha256, dropped the file in the box and copy and pasted the hash from the website. Immediately got a check mark. It took me less time than writing this review.

Wow, what an oversight: I pasted in an uppercase version of my MD5, and iHash generated a lowercase version of the MD5…it was a match, technically, but iHash claimed it wasn’t because I had capital letters and it created lowercase letters. Kind of appalled that the developers never even considered that an MD5 could be written with uppercase letters.

I have other niggles over the interface: I pasted in my MD5 while a large file was still processing, and iHash gave me the “X” indicating it wasn’t a match…seems like it should know that the file was in-process and maybe held off judgment. Further, once the file completed and the MD5 was actually a match, the “X” remained until I cut and paste my MD5 back in.

The activated button looks disabled. I thought I was maybe generating everything but MD2 when I first tried the app; along those lines, would be great if iHash just generated all of the MDx/SHAx values at once, so you don’t have to preselect.

The drop operation sends the icon back to the Finder, making it look like the drop didn’t work.

I can live with the UI problems, but the case-sensitive match is just silly, the only reason this is a two-star app.

Love the simplicity and ease of use, just drag and drop a file, then paste your copied Hash for a quick comparison. You dont even need to select the type it selects automatically based on what you pasted. Suports all hash algorithms and best of all its free. How can you beat that? Well done and thanks from a very happy user.