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Last change: April 2, 2026<\/span>
[Updated: Usher<\/a> 2.4.1]<\/span><\/div>\n

The following table provides a SHA-2<\/a> cryptographic hash<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

How can you check your download? After downloading one of our apps, open Terminal (in Applications > Utilities), type shasum -a 256<\/tt> 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 4.4.8) if you were to do that:<\/p>\n

$ shasum -a 256 butler449.dmg\r\nfe01992fa005bc4162f7b38d9d8521b713a48f4e43fc3ebf7e787f570803fab1 butler449.dmg<\/pre>\n
That big string starting with fe01992…<\/tt> 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<\/a>, and do not install the app<\/b>!<\/p>\n