About Disk Decipher
Disk Decipher allows access to your encrypted virtual disks. Do you have your passwords or other sensitive information stored in a VeraCrypt or TrueCrypt container or FreeOTFE, LUKS or DMG volume? Disk Decipher will allow...
Disk Decipher allows access to your encrypted virtual disks. Do you have your passwords or other sensitive information stored in a VeraCrypt or TrueCrypt container or FreeOTFE, LUKS or DMG volume? Disk Decipher will allow you to access that information from your Mac.
Disk Decipher currently supports:
- Manage multiple disks
- Storage provider: remote (Disk Decipher will download only the necessary parts of the disk image, allowing access to disk images of arbitrary size. More details are available on the support website)
- Remote storage providers: HTTP/HTTPS (WEBDAV), NFS, Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive and OneDrive for Business, Box, pCloud, S3, SugarSync
- Storage provider: linked (Disk Decipher will access any container on your Mac. More details are available on the support website)
- Disk image format: TrueCrypt (header version 4 and 5, created by TrueCrypt 6.0 or later)
• Operating mode: XTS
• Ciphers: AES-256, Serpent, Twofish
• Cascade ciphers: AES-Twofish, AES-Twofish-Serpent, Serpent-AES, Serpent-Twofish-AES, Twofish-Serpent
• Hash functions: RIPEMD160, SHA-512, Whirlpool
• Hidden volumes supported
• Keyfiles supported
- Disk image format: FreeOTFE (version 3 and 4)
• Operating modes: XTS, CBC
• Ciphers: AES-256, Serpent, Twofish, Blowfish-448
• Hash functions: RIPEMD160, SHA-512, Whirlpool
- Disk image format: LUKS (version 1 and 2)
• Operating modes: XTS
• Ciphers: AES-256, Serpent, Twofish
• Hash functions: SHA1, SHA-256, SHA-512, RIPEMD160
- Disk image format: VeraCrypt (header version 5, created by VeraCrypt 1.0)
• Operating mode: XTS
• Ciphers: AES-256, Serpent, Twofish, Kuznyechik, Camellia
• Cascade ciphers: AES-Twofish, AES-Twofish-Serpent, Serpent-AES, Serpent-Twofish-AES, Twofish-Serpent, Camellia-Kuznyechik, Camellia-Serpent, Kuznyechik-AES, Kuznyechik-Serpent-Camellia, Kuznyechik-Twofish
• Hash functions: RIPEMD160, SHA-512, Whirlpool, SHA-256
• Hidden volumes supported
• Keyfiles supported
• PIM supported
- Disk image format: encrypted DMG (Apple Disk Image, version 2)
• Ciphers: AES-128, AES-256
• Password protected
• Compression (zlib, LZFSE, LZMA)
- Filesystems: FAT (FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32), exFAT (in-app purchase), HFS+ and HFSX, NTFS (NTFS compression and encryption are not supported), APFS (APFS encryption is not supported), Linux ext4 (and ext2 / ext3)
- File viewer supports many document types (PDF, RTF, plain-text, images, Markdown, etc.)
- File viewer supports streaming audio playback (MP3, WAV, etc.)
- File viewer supports streaming movie playback (MP4, MOV, etc.)
- File viewer supports background audio, AirPlay and Picture in Picture video
- File viewer supports printing of all supported document types
- File viewer supports saving images to Photos library
- File viewer supports built-in editing of plain-text files
- File viewer supports swiping to next/previous file
- File viewer supports ZIP files
- Open In Application menu to transfer decrypted files to other applications
- Passcode protection
- Write support (details are available on the support website)
- Photo camera to store new photos securely in your encrypted container
- Import files
- Import photos and videos from Photos
- iCloud support
- Tiled directory view (presents files as tiles, a small preview will be shown for image and PDF files to simplify browsing)
- drag & drop (or copy & paste) files in and out mounted encrypted container
- optionally save disk passwords in macOS keychain
- GUID Partition Table
- Create new disk
- Sparse Bundle / sparsebundle (Remote Disk not supported, except NFS)
- Self-signed certificate
- Launch URL
- Keyfiles stored on smart card
Mar 7, 2025
Version 5.5.5
- New option for passcode lock to require both Face/Touch ID and passcode
- Allow dismissing the file viewer with a swipe-down gesture
- Fix background color of image viewer in light mode
- Localization improvements
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Disk Decipher since it was posted on our website on 2016-09-26 08:33:31.
The latest version is 5.5.5 and it was updated on 2025-03-09 20:23:21. See below the changes in each version.
Disk Decipher version 5.5.5
Updated At: 2025-03-07
Changes: Mar 7, 2025
Version 5.5.5
- New option for passcode lock to require both Face/Touch ID and passcode
- Allow dismissing the file viewer with a swipe-down gesture
- Fix background color of image viewer in light mode
- Localization improvements
Disk Decipher version 5.5.3
Updated At: 2025-02-04
Changes: Feb 4, 2025
Version 5.5.3
- Explain why a disk cannot be created
- Localization improvements
Disk Decipher version 5.5.0
Updated At: 2025-01-07
Changes: Jan 7, 2025
Version 5.5.0
- Disk Decipher is now available in Ukrainian!
This update brings full support for the Ukrainian language throughout the app.
Many thanks to the translator for making the app accessible to more people.
Disk Decipher version 5.4.6
Updated At: 2024-11-24
Changes: Nov 24, 2024
Version 5.4.6
- Automatically start streaming if AV media is unsupported and an app is installed capable of playing XSPF playlists
- Improve detection of AV media for which macOS does not support all codecs
- Localization improvements
Disk Decipher version 5.4.1
Updated At: 2024-10-15
Changes: Oct 15, 2024
Version 5.4.1
- Improved user-interface and speed when viewing large animated images
- Localization improvements
Disk Decipher version 5.3.1
Updated At: 2024-09-30
Changes: Sep 30, 2024
Version 5.3.1
- Improved error reporting in case adding a disk fails
Disk Decipher version 5.2.8
Updated At: 2024-08-30
Changes: Aug 30, 2024
Version 5.2.8
- Improve full-screen viewing.
The right-toolbar button has been removed as all Mac windows have a (green) full-screen button. Also, the menu and keyboard shortcut can be used.
The title bar now properly hides on entering full-screen mode.
- Localization improvements
Disk Decipher version 5.2.6
Updated At: 2024-07-21
Changes: Jul 21, 2024
Version 5.2.6
- Fix compatibility issue with opening new containers on Linux
- Added Escape keyboard shortcut to close file viewer (unless there are unsaved changes)
- Added "Go - Enclosing Folder" menu option with ⌘-↑ keyboard shortcut to navigate to parent folder
- Localization improvements
Disk Decipher version 5.2.5
Updated At: 2024-07-09
Changes: Jul 9, 2024
Version 5.2.5
- Added cache of thumbnail images while browsing a directory in the app.
This cache is memory only (never saved to disk) and deleted when the directory is closed.
This improves browsing directories containing many audio/video files.
- Fix small memory leak
- Localization improvements
Disk Decipher version 5.2.4
Updated At: 2024-06-25
Changes: Jun 25, 2024
Version 5.2.4
- Do not start animation automatically for large animated images to allow quick browsing through images.
For these images, a button is provided to start the animation manually.
- Localization improvements