Download Match! Pre-release Version

On this page you can download the most recent pre-release version of the Match! software. Please note that this version has not been officially released and may still contain bugs or other inconsistencies! Besides this, the documentation may still be incomplete. The current official version can be downloaded from here.

The most recent version is 4.2 Build 328 (created July 7, 2025).

To update your current Match! installation to this most recent version please perform the following steps:

1. If Match! is running, please save any open documents and close the program.
2. Please DO NOT uninstall the previous version before installing the new version! Instead, simply install the new version on top of the existing version. This is important to make sure that your license information is retained.
3. Download the installer file for your platform from below and uncompress ("unzip") it if necessary.
4. Make sure that you have administrator privileges on multi-user systems, then run the installer by double-clicking on it. More details about this topic are given in the platform-specific "Readme" files that are also available from the Download page.
5. Follow the steps in the installer until it has finished, then restart Match!.
6. Check whether the update was successful by selecting "About Match!" from the "Help" menu.

Platform	Readme file	Download Package	Size
Windows 7, 8, 10 or 11 (64-bit)	Readme.txt	Match-4-windows-x64-installer.exe	311 MB
Windows 7, 8, 10 or 11 (32-bit)	Readme.txt	Match-4-windows-x32-installer.exe	330 MB
macOS 11 "Big Sur" or higher (Apple Silicon Mx (ARM))	Readme.txt	Match-4-macOS-ARM-installer.dmg	429 MB
macOS 10.13 "High Sierra" or higher (Intel processor)	Readme.txt	Match-4-macOS-Intel-installer.dmg	420 MB
Linux (Intel 64-bit)	Readme.txt	Match-4-linux-x64-installer.zip	388 MB

Enhancements compared to current official version

• During guided operations, Match! will now also allow you to restrict your analysis to certain chemical classes ("subfiles", e.g. "mineral" or "cement material").
• You can now answer "No (don't ask again)" to the questions regarding chemical class, known elements or phases when running the "Quantitative and qualitative analysis" command, in order to suppress future displays of these questions.
• New "Automatic" finishing option: "Export result to LIMS" writes the result (contents of the match list) to a csv-file in the directory given on the "Automatic" tab of the "Options" window, with extension "_LIMS_ddmmyyyy_hhmmss.csv". Here, "ddmmyyyy_hhmmss" is the current date and time when the LIMS file is written.
• New file format "LIMS" for batch script command "export_matchlist"
• When importing crystal structure data (space group HMS) with given origin choice from CIFs, Match! now also understands "origin choice 1" and "Origin Choice 1", as alternatives to "O1".
• New edition "2025.07.04" of the COD reference databases, now providing the "Organic" subfile flag (restraint) for the full COD reference database (in addition to "Cement materials", "Inorganic" and "Minerals").
• Several bugs have been fixed:
  • In certain situations, Match! could crash when automatically marking the next phase after an automatic search-match (update of FoM values) calculation after a phase selection.
  • Match! could crash while switching over to a different reference database.
  • A bug causing the "COD-Inorganics" reference database to contain several organic compounds/phases has been fixed.