Nightshift

Nightshift

The build train that ships teitha: signed, notarised, and updated in place.

teitha is Sindarin for to write. Say TAY-tha.

Before the first release

The beta list gets teitha first.

There is no download on this page yet. teitha will be free on macOS and Windows: your manuscript and your canon in one place, with a linter that catches the moment chapter 15 contradicts chapter 3. Join the beta list and you will hear the day there is a build to install.

Below: what teitha needs from your machine, what the first launch looks like on each platform, and how to check a download against its published checksum.

Beta

Test it before it ships.

One email when there's a build to install. Nothing else, ever.

What we store

All builds

Every platform, every architecture.

No builds published yet.

When the first release ships, every build appears here with its size and its checksum.

The first time you open it

What each platform shows the first time you run it.

macOS

Signed · notarised

teitha is signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarised by Apple.

Windows

Unsigned

The Windows build is not signed with an Authenticode certificate, so SmartScreen will show a “Windows protected your PC” warning before it will run. Choose More info → Run anyway.

Verify your download

Every build's SHA-512 is listed in the table above. Checksums are published as base64, matching the update feed exactly.

shasum -a 512 prints hex and will never match. Use the two-stage pipe.

Shell 
openssl dgst -sha512 -binary teitha-<version>-<arch>.dmg | openssl base64 -A

There is no published file to check yet. The filename will follow this shape.

System requirements

macOS
macOS 11 Big Sur or later. Apple Silicon and Intel builds provided.
Windows
Windows 10 or later, 64-bit.

Updates

teitha checks for updates when it starts, downloads them in the background, and installs them the next time it opens. Updates come from dl.twriter.sh.