Beta channel · 5.3.0-beta.0
See what's coming, early.
The beta channel is where the next VaultSort release gets finished. It is where Windows support, Disk Shred and free-space overwrite each landed first, and where whatever comes next is already being worked on.
It is genuinely a prerelease: newer, more capable, and less settled than 5.2.1. Read the section below before you join — the way updates work makes it hard to undo.
Get the beta
Two platforms, one channel.
macOS
Replaces your installed copy and follows the beta channel from then on.
Apple silicon · .dmg · 5.3.0-beta.0 · 208 MB
Windows
Beta onlyThe only Windows build there is — VaultSort for Windows has no stable release yet.
Windows 10 & 11 · 64-bit · .exe · 5.3.0-beta.0 · 203 MB
Prefer the settled build? Download stable VaultSort for Mac (5.2.1). 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 beta and later switch back to Stable in Settings, you do not return to the release you came from — 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 a stable release ships that is newer than the beta you are running, 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 already on a beta
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 5.2.1
Settings → Updates has the same Stable/Beta switch — it is in every current build. Downloading from this page is the way to move across straight away.
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.
What has landed
Beta release notes.
- 5.3.0-beta.02026-09-03
VaultSort 5.3.0-beta.0
Storage Analysis gets a zoomable map of your folders, Encrypt and Decrypt now run on the part of a mixed selection they apply to, and duplicates of encrypted files decrypt to their real names.
- 5.2.1-beta.02026-08-30
VaultSort 5.2.1-beta.0
The unread-news dot now appears on the News tile itself, and the main scrollbar on Windows no longer hides under the window close button.
- 5.2.0-beta.02026-08-30
VaultSort 5.2.0-beta.0
A complete redesign of the main window — a Home view built around what you want to do, Organize, Clean and Protect hubs, a Files sidebar reachable from any screen, and encryption that lets you pick the method and keys before you start.
- 5.1.0-beta.42026-08-28
VaultSort 5.1.0-beta.4
Suggest Categories now finds the real groups inside a single-topic folder — flights, hotels, warranties — instead of one blob or nothing, and names them the way a person would.
- 5.1.0-beta.02026-08-28
VaultSort 5.1.0-beta.0
Smart Categorize now matches the keywords you give a category, takes exclusions, and reads spreadsheets and slide decks; encrypting says which key it will use and lets you switch to another one.
- 5.0.1-beta.362026-08-27
VaultSort 5.0.1-beta.36
Adds a way to bring files encrypted by older versions up to the current format, a panel showing which keys can open a file and letting you authorise another, control over which keys a new file is encrypted for, and fixes Undo and Operation History being empty on Windows.
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.