iHash 4+

For my particular use-case, it would be helpful if this otherwise excellent tool would ignore whitespace in pasted hashes for the comparison tool. For a specific example, when I paste hashes from keepass.info, Keepass puts whitespace for every 64 bits. I have to cut out that whitespace, but otherwise this tools works VERY nicely!

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.

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.