Beta channel · 5.0.0-beta.29
See what's coming, early.
The beta channel is where VaultSort 5.0 is being finished. It is where Windows support, Disk Shred and free-space overwrite landed first, and where the next release is already being worked on.
It is genuinely a prerelease: newer, more capable, and less settled than 5.0.0. Read the section below before you join — the way updates work makes it hard to undo.
Get the beta
Two builds, one version.
macOS
Replaces your installed copy and follows the beta channel from then on.
Apple silicon · .dmg · 5.0.0 · 208 MB
Windows
Beta onlyThe only Windows build there is. Stable Windows arrives with 5.0.
Windows 10 & 11 · 64-bit · .exe · 5.0.0-beta.29 · 205 MB
Prefer the settled build? Download stable VaultSort for Mac (5.0.0). There is no stable Windows release yet.
Read this part
Joining the beta is close to a one-way door.
VaultSort updates never move backwards. If you install a 5.0 beta and later switch back to Stable in Settings, you do not return to 5.0.0 — you stop receiving beta updates and stay on the build you have until a stable release comes out that is newer than it.
In practice that means the switch back is a decision to stop moving, not a decision to go back. Until 5.0 stable ships, the beta is where you stay.
Reinstalling the stable build over the top is not a way around it either; the app will not replace a newer version with an older one.
If you are on 5.0.0-beta.29 or later
Settings → Updates has a Stable/Beta switch. Prerelease builds follow the beta channel automatically, and switching to Stable tells you up front that you will stay where you are.
If you are on 5.0.0
There is nothing to switch — that setting shipped in the beta itself. Downloading the beta from this page is the only route in.
On Windows
The question does not arise yet. There is no stable Windows build to switch to, so every Windows install follows the beta channel.
When something is wrong
Tell us what you hit.
A beta is only worth running if what you find gets fixed. The more specific the report, the faster that happens.
Report a problemWorth including
- The exact version, from Settings → About
- Which platform, and whether it is Apple silicon or x64
- What you did, and what happened instead
- Whether it happens every time or once
Windows-specific? The Windows page covers the things that are expected rather than broken — SmartScreen chief among them.