Verify Many Tricks’ app downloads

Last change: November 4 2024
[Updated: Moom 4.1.3]

The following table provides a SHA-2 cryptographic hash for each of our apps. Huh? What’s all that gobbledygook mean? Basically, it means you can use these hash values to insure that the app(s) you download from our server match what we uploaded to our server.

How can you check your download? After downloading one of our apps, open Terminal (in Applications > Utilities), type shasum -a 256 and then press the space bar, but don’t press Return. Now drag in the disk image (DMG) you downloaded from our site, and press Return. Here’s what you’d see for Butler (version 4.4.6) if you were to do that:

$ shasum -a 256 butler446.dmg 
    d7709fe1ea4e753a51300d1c4867add7794311618b3d1f1b7c19bc8d5e0e7f22 butler446.dmg

That big string starting with 7657735… is the SHA-2 hash, and that’s the value you want to check against the table below. If the string shown in Terminal differs from what’s shown in the table below for the same app, please let us know, and do not install the app!

Main Apps Version SHA-2 Hash
Butler 4.4.8 b6877901f1c5b4d75cebe47fe5cecf461c1b424025b756e6b9efaa44ed9faf7f
Desktop Curtain 3.1.3 6e93e1bdaea2facfebf684a172d89918a982bb1d7db7f0ba77cf97caa1294adb
Keymou (Keymo) 1.2.10 6cb585cc7480168862f8ac85b6eb988d08aa6431521a9ca8c068d6380e35ec02
Leech 3.2 333b57aae1a7406a7b44f6d57765ffd0b85df2a7283ea5936c2b09ec5c2c0339
Menuwhere 2.2.2 eccd3a9e986d1e5ee20717ad00387ff669ad21abfc8a7d2b50e99e0f5f8ca978
Moom 4.1.3 e62b5e86be9f1351b6ea6d54babd3375d56e713da42b18373b5cd16993586ec6
Name Mangler 3.9.1 6c3574e11292b91c3009973a1ebf0ab902d58ade6dbd2bd78cc681f0e3fa0644
Resolutionator 2.3 e9fb9b1946deddc62ff0bf5d46066a8cc91564c358e5d33bf85029f4ef75d5bb
Time Sink 2.2.3 560ebfb30b2203e3376241954c6fe118f6de47f89e27052c06128655852f5b93
Usher 2.2.1 210fab9ce91fdcb14f9e4cf894e72d0e44c157585d72fadf3998fe3a2767ac4
Witch 4.6.2 c9d54299613aefbf737e6d47bc9dfeac75a95172cf6350952986532fd55a3905
Baubleries Version SHA-2 Hash
Crossgrade Assistant 1.1 a8c6bad2d87541a215d8bf266ac98e064dfc864964958f3ebf184a73eaad959c
Displaperture 2.3 abc53579993abb843cf0634ecf441a7a7277535ac5a440c6f9c4558c2a9aebf3
Key Codes 2.2.1 a25901003045ab9079af9d91d2596602009ebe79750519add766689b4e5c0d54
Menu Bar Tint 3.1 d99e2c6fc117bdfe0ff0579171e6d4cc24b58520322ccc1bb0271f93cb647d0c
Open-With Manager 0.9.2 1cedc9a11488f704e67261483f3ac2b52039e701931133d4d0fd431024c00c62
Safari Guardian 1.2.2 cbe6588f8407eae91015378f5d02c8a2ba19cf13c37f888a892c8f39fc268a72
Service Scrubber 1.1.5 4377717775344b7ac99a577813e2ed328e0b7c283d5a43799bbf41f7537b20ea

Note: If you would like to verify an older version of any of our apps, please contact us with the app name and version number, and we’ll send you the SHA-2 hash.

SHA-2 hashes are long and complicated, so comparing them can be a bit of a pain. Here’s a way to make the task simpler. Assuming you’ve already downloaded an app, copy (double-click the hash then press Command-C) that app’s hash value from the above table.

Next, in Terminal, type expr `shasum -a 256 and press the space bar. Drag in the downloaded DMG file, which will add its complete path to what you’ve typed. Press the space bar again, then type (or paste) | cut -d ' ' -f 1` =. Finally, press the space bar once more, then press Command-V to paste your copied value. The final command will look something like this (for Butler 4.4.6):

expr `shasum -a 256 butler446.dmg | cut -d ' ' -f 1` = d7709fe1ea4e753a51300d1c4867add7794311618b3d1f1b7c19bc8d5e0e7f22

When you press Return, the output will either be 0 or 1. If it’s 1, all is fine—the above command compares the two values, and if they’re the same, it returns 1. But if you get a 0 as the returned value, then the hashes disagree. Please do not install the app you downloaded, and contact us immediately.

This table will be updated each time we update any of our apps.

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