64-bit
exesetup.rbxcdn.com · publisher-owned- File name
- RobloxStudioInstaller.exe
- SHA-256
- f2f9ad7aba372d43ca50ee83601d00d1701321edb932a6c31c5ba67d96c107f4
Roblox Studio
by Roblox Corporation · Proprietary
100/100how this is calculated
The all-in-one engine for creating, scripting, and publishing immersive 3D experiences on the Roblox platform.
Getting the right Roblox Studio download
Roblox Studio is the editor Roblox gives away to build experiences on its platform. It is free, it comes from Roblox Corporation, and the download below is the URL their own package manifest declares, with the SHA-256 of the build that URL served when we last checked.
There is one installer and it is small, because it is a bootstrapper: it fetches the actual editor after you run it. That is Roblox’s design, not a repackaging by anyone else, and it means the file you download is not the whole program.
The installer URL never changes. Roblox serves Studio from a single fixed address rather than a per-version one, so the link you find in a three-year-old forum post still works today and still points at the current build.
Studio signs you in with a Roblox account on first run. There is no offline or licence-key path, so an installer downloaded from anywhere else buys you nothing you cannot get from the official address.
The link stays the same while the file underneath changes
This is the part worth understanding. We keep the manifests for every published version, and the URL is identical across all of them while the SHA-256 is not: build 1.6.0.7330989 hashed to EEA5136D… and 1.6.0.7340915 to F2F9AD7A… at the very same address. So a bare "direct link" tells you nothing about what you are about to run. The hash does, and this page lists it next to the version it belongs to.
"Direct link" is exactly what gets faked
Because the official address is fixed and public, it is also the address that gets copied into download blogs, mirrors and video descriptions, some of which then serve their own file instead. There is nothing to unlock here: the official URL is free, needs no account to fetch, and is on this page. If a copy you were sent does not match a hash we list, treat that as a reason to stop.
Record
- Latest version
- 1.6.0.7340915
- Official page
- https://create.roblox.com/
- Package identifier
- Roblox.RobloxStudio
Official downloads
These URLs are the ones Roblox Corporation declares in its own manifest. We do not proxy or shorten them, and we do not host a copy.
Verify the file you downloaded
Run this against the file on disk. If the output does not match the hash below, the file is not what Roblox Corporation published. Delete it.
Windows · PowerShell
Get-FileHash "RobloxStudioInstaller.exe" -Algorithm SHA256macOS · Linux
shasum -a 256 "RobloxStudioInstaller.exe"Expected output
f2f9ad7aba372d43ca50ee83601d00d1701321edb932a6c31c5ba67d96c107f4
Got a different hash, or one you cannot place? Paste it into the hash checker and it will tell you which program and version it belongs to, past releases included.
Download Roblox Studio for Mac
The macOS build as Homebrew declares it, with the same treatment as the Windows side: the publisher's own URL and a hash to check it against.
- Version on Homebrew
- 0.735.0.7351131,f9cbf557dd5640f1
- File name
- version-f9cbf557dd5640f1-RobloxStudioApp.zip
- SHA-256
- 49bbddebc636f46fa416af0572068e10c51236b9b102bd42538d3cd29ec79475
- Install with Homebrew
- brew install --cask robloxstudio
How we scored this 100 out of 100
| Signal | Finding | Points |
|---|---|---|
| SHA-256 hash published | 1 of 1 installers ship a SHA-256 hashWithout a published hash there is no way to prove the file you downloaded is the file the publisher built. | 30 / 30 |
| Binary provenance | 1 on a domain owned by the publisherThe strongest signal against a repackaged installer: the file should come from the publisher, not from a mirror nobody vouches for. | 35 / 35 |
| Served over HTTPS | 1 of 1 over HTTPSAn installer fetched over plain HTTP can be modified in transit. | 15 / 15 |
| Licence declared | ProprietaryA declared licence tells you what you are actually allowed to do with the software. | 5 / 5 |
Is Roblox Studio safe to download?
Yes, in the sense we can actually verify: the installer downloads from rbxcdn.com, which is a domain we have tied to Roblox Corporation.
The installer on this page comes with the SHA-256 Roblox Corporation declared, so you do not have to take our word for it: hash the file you downloaded and compare.
What this does not tell you is whether the software itself is any good, or whether you want what it does once installed. A publisher can ship something you would rather not run and the download is still authentic. We answer the question we can measure and leave the other one to you.
If Windows says “Windows protected your PC” when you run it, that is SmartScreen reporting reputation, not a malware verdict — it shows up on perfectly legitimate software from small publishers and on releases that are simply new. The reverse matters more: no warning does not mean the file was checked.
How the 100/100 score is calculated · why the source matters more than the reputation
Install Roblox Studio with winget
Windows ships with a package manager, and this program is in it. The identifier below is the one Microsoft's repository uses, which is also where the download URL and hash on this page come from.
Install
winget install --id Roblox.RobloxStudio --exactUpgrade later
winget upgrade --id Roblox.RobloxStudioWhy --exact: without it winget matches on name as well as identifier, and a search that returns more than one package makes it stop and ask rather than install. Pinning the identifier is what makes the command safe to put in a script.
Not installing anything, or getting an error back? The commands that actually come up covers upgrading everything at once, what --include-unknown is for, and why winget can be missing from a machine that should have it.
Every version on record1
Every Roblox Studio version with a published manifest, newest first. The most recent ones are listed above with their file names and hashes.
- 1.6.0.7340915
Common questions
- Where is the official Roblox Studio download?
- From Roblox Corporation, at setup.rbxcdn.com, which is Roblox’s own content delivery domain. This page lists the exact URL from their published manifest together with the SHA-256 of each version we have recorded.
- Is Roblox Studio free?
- Yes. It is free to download and use, and it signs in with an ordinary Roblox account. Nobody needs to sell you a copy, a key or an activator for it.
- Why does the Roblox Studio download link never change?
- Roblox serves Studio from one fixed address instead of a per-version one. Convenient, but it also means the address alone cannot tell you which build you got. We have seen the same URL return different SHA-256 hashes across versions, which is why we publish the hash beside the version.
- How big is the Roblox Studio installer?
- The installer itself is a small bootstrapper rather than the full editor, and Roblox’s CDN does not report a size for it, so we do not publish a figure we cannot verify. The bulk of Studio is downloaded after you run it.
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