About
What file.wiki is
An index of where desktop software actually comes from: the download URL the publisher declared, the SHA-256 they published for it, and the version history behind it. We host nothing and we sell nothing.
Where every number here comes from
Two public sources, both maintained by the publishers themselves rather than by us. Windows data comes from the manifests in microsoft/winget-pkgs, the repository behind the winget package manager. macOS data comes from Homebrew casks.
We do not compute hashes, mirror installers or repackage anything. Every hash on this site is reproduced from what the publisher declared, which is what makes it worth checking against: if our number and their number agree and your file matches both, you have the file they built.
How current it is, and why that is hard
The index rebuilds daily. That matters more than it sounds: publishers ship new versions constantly and the package repository deletes the directories of old ones, so a snapshot taken a fortnight ago will confidently serve you a hash that no longer corresponds to anything. We read the repository directly for each program rather than trusting a cached index, precisely because that failure is silent.
Last rebuilt 2026-08-14. 216 programs, 1,490 file extensions.
What we deliberately do not do
- Host or mirror installers. Every download link points at the publisher. A copy we served would be a copy you could not verify against anything.
- Distribute individual DLL files. We explain which package owns a missing library and link to that package. Handing out loose system libraries is one of the oldest malware channels there is.
- Guess.Where we publish a silent install switch it is the one the publisher declared, and where a package only accepts the standard MSI switches we label it as the format's behaviour rather than the publisher's word. Trying flags until one works is not something to write down as fact.
- Review software. The score on each page measures whether the download is verifiable, not whether the program is any good. Those are different questions and merging them would make both useless.
What this site cannot tell you
- We index 216 programs. That is a small fraction of the software that exists, so a hash we do not have is a hash we cannot speak to, and saying so is more useful than a confident guess.
- A matching hash proves the file is authentic, not that it is safe. A publisher can ship something you would rather not run and the hash will still match.
- Publishers withdraw old builds without notice, so a link to a past version can stop working while its hash stays correct forever. The hash is the durable part.
About this domain's past
file.wiki previously hosted a different site, unrelated to this one, which published software download pages of its own. Search engines still hold some of those URLs and you may arrive from one.
Where an old page was clearly about a program we index, it now redirects to our page for that program. Where it was not, it returns a plain 404 rather than being pointed at something that does not answer the original question. None of that material is reproduced here, and some of it we would not have published.
How the trust score is calculatedThe hash archive, free to downloadCheck a file you already have