MD5sums Alternatives

MD5sums is described as 'This is a win32 console application. There is no GUI, but you can use Explorer to drag files over md5sums.exe to obtain their md5 hashes' and is an app. There are more than 25 alternatives to MD5sums for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and PortableApps.com apps. The best MD5sums alternative is HashCheck Shell Extension, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like MD5sums are FileBot, OpenHashTab, GtkHash and Collision.

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  1. checkSum+ icon
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    checkSum+ will handle md5, sfv & cvs files (please, do not confuse with cvs files, since these can be any kind of database file).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  2. Hasher icon
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    Hashing utility for verifying integrity of files using a wide range of supported algorithms: CRC32, MD2, MD4, MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512, RipeMD128, RipeMD160, ED2K.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  3. DataHealthCheck is a portable app to check your files for corruption or display their md5/sha1 hash. It is faster than other apps because it checks for corrupted files and update hashes of changed files in one pass.

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. Create and verify the MD5/SHA1 checksum of almost any file or text online without uploading it, quickly and efficiently, no software installation required.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  5.  4 likes

    Cross-platform tools to computer hashes, or message digests, for any number of files while optionally recursively digging through the directory structure.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  6. SFV Ninja icon
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    SFV Ninja is a SFV checksum application. It also supports MD5 and SHA-1 checksum files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. WinMD5Sum icon
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    WinMd5Sum is a simple open source Windows MD5 checker. To put it differently, it is a utility to calculate the MD5 checksum of a file using L. Peter Deutsch's MD5 code.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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  8.  2 likes

    The File Checksum Integrity Verifier (FCIV) is a command-prompt utility that computes and verifies cryptographic hash values of files. FCIV can compute MD5 or SHA-1 cryptographic hash values. These values can be displayed on the screen or saved in an XML file database for later...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9.  2 likes

    WinMD5 is a freeware for Windows to allow user to calculate MD5 hash or checksum for files, and verify a download.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. This tool will generate hash strings to validate directories and files, in the same vein as hashdeep or fciv. I wrote it after giving up trying to find a decent tool to validate my backups. Although many tools like the two previously mentioned will generate hash files for...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. This software allows to generate MD (Message Digest) and SHA hashes from a file or files or files in a directory. Checksum is an value calculated from a content of file by special algorithm. You can also verify the file integrity of the downloaded document or program.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  12. Stream Armor is the sophisticated tool to discover Hidden Alternate Data Streams (ADS) and clean them completely from your system.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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