Get Husk for Windows.
One zip. One executable. No installer, no registry write, no Start menu entry — by design.
Husk Portable
Self-contained zip. Extract anywhere, double-click
husk.exe — every profile, cookie, bookmark
and vault entry lives in HuskData/ beside
the binary. Drop on a USB stick, run from a Downloads
folder, delete when you're done.
SHA-256 · 901d149abd92deb848af2ea89e10a957c06d0328067ed1e7cb37205d90591ca8
husk.exe · keep your data
SHA-256 · 151bfe94f146a8024ee7d39104dc83bbda05dce1bc46119c7b5861278d155074
Close Husk, then drop the new husk.exe next
to your existing HuskData/ folder, overwriting
the old one. Your bookmarks, profiles, vault entries and
history are preserved — they live in HuskData/,
not in the executable.
Site blocked at work? Husk is also reachable at
runhusk.com — same content,
.com TLD some corporate firewalls allow when
.run is blocked.
The installer would write the things Husk exists to avoid.
A regular Windows installer writes to Program Files,
the registry, the Start menu, and %APPDATA% — the
exact breadcrumbs a privacy browser shouldn't leave. So we don't
ship one. The portable build IS the install model: extract, run,
delete the folder when you're done. Nothing lingers.
- Need a one-click relaunch? Right-click
husk.exe→ Pin to taskbar. That's the closest thing to a Start menu entry we offer, and it's something you control. - Want WebView2 cache elsewhere? Delete the
husk.portablemarker beside the .exe and Husk switches to%APPDATA%/Husk. The same binary, two modes. - A traditional installer for v0.2? Maybe — as an optional extra. The portable build will remain the default and the recommended path.
macOS and Linux — coming.
Husk's core is Rust + wry, which already targets
macOS (WKWebView) and Linux (WebKitGTK). The Windows build is
what's production-tested today. The other ports need work on
platform plumbing — boss-key, single-instance, taskbar
integration — before they ship with the same privacy guarantees.
Targeted for v0.2. Engine works; needs WKWebView-specific interceptor and Keychain integration for the vault.
Targeted for v0.2. WebKitGTK build compiles; needs review on cosmetic adblock injection and the DBus single-instance gate.
Check the binary before you run it.
You should verify any privacy-sensitive binary you download — including this one. After downloading, open PowerShell in the file's folder and run:
Get-FileHash .\Husk-Portable-0.1.5.zip -Algorithm SHA256Compare the output to the SHA-256 above. If they don't match, do not run the file — open an issue at github.com/runhusk/husk or email security@husk.run.
The husk.exe inside the zip also has its own hash
for direct inspection:
151bfe94f146a8024ee7d39104dc83bbda05dce1bc46119c7b5861278d155074