DriverKit
Every device, not just the problems
Switch on “show all devices” for the full list with the driver each one is running — useful even when there's nothing to update.
Windows driver updates, without the guesswork.
It looks at what's actually in your PC, tells you which drivers are genuinely out of date, and updates the ones you choose.
- Free and open source
- No ads, no bundles, no upsell
- Nothing installed — one folder you can delete
- Your hardware list never leaves your PC
How it works
Four steps, all of them visible.
No progress bar that says “working” while something unexplained happens. Every row says what is happening to it and how far along it is.
STEP 1
It looks at your PC
It reads the devices you actually have and compares them against a catalogue of driver packs. Real names — your network card, your chipset, your touchpad — with the version you're on and the one available.
STEP 2
You tick what to update
Genuine improvements are ticked for you. Anything doubtful — usually where Windows supplied the driver you have — is offered but left unticked, with the reason beside it. Nothing installs unless you press the button.
STEP 3
You watch it happen
The row is the progress bar: which pack it's waiting on, and how fast that pack is arriving. The line above gives the combined speed and time left. Blue is working, green went well, grey changed nothing, red failed — and a red row tells you what Windows said.
STEP 4
And you can undo
A restore point first, where Windows allows one, then installs through Windows' own driver ranking. If a driver misbehaves, Undo puts back exactly what was there — the whole run, or just the ones you leave ticked.
What it does
Built to be boring in the ways that matter.
A driver updater has one job and many ways to get it wrong. These are the choices that keep it honest.
Undo, per device
Rolls back through the Windows driver store, so it works even where System Restore is off or unavailable. Put the whole run back, or untick the ones that are fine and reverse only the rest.
Fourteen languages
English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and Indonesian. It follows Windows, and you can correct a word yourself without waiting for a release.
Updates itself, if you let it
It mentions a new version once a day and installs nothing until you press the button. Releases are signed with a key that never touches this website, so taking over the site isn't enough to push a fake one.
Never forced
If Windows decides the driver you have is the better match, DriverKit keeps it and says so. That's the ranking working, not a failure.
Downloads only what you tick
The full driver library is 70 GB. DriverKit fetches the 23 MB list, then only the packs your choices need — at whatever speed limit you set.
A Details view when you want it
Hidden until you ask. Then: what happened, in order, including what failed and why.
Portable, properly
Everything it writes lives in one folder. Nothing in the registry, nothing in AppData, nothing left behind.
For the PC with no internet
Two editions carry network drivers inside them, for the machine that can't download a network driver because it hasn't got one. See the editions →
Where the drivers come from
The drivers are Snappy Driver Installer Origin's work.
DriverKit doesn't collect drivers. It's a different way to use a library that other people have spent years building and keep updating.
Snappy Driver Installer Origin (SDIO) maintains the driver packs — tens of gigabytes of manufacturer drivers, sorted, indexed and republished as new ones appear. That collection is the reason this app can tell you anything useful at all.
DriverKit downloads those packs unmodified and checks every byte against SDIO's own catalogue before using them. It doesn't repackage them, host its own copies, or claim them.
If you like what this does, the people to thank are at snappy-driver-installer.org. SDIO is a fine tool in its own right — if you want more control than DriverKit gives you, use it directly.
DriverKit is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by SDIO.
Is it safe?
A driver updater should be able to answer this plainly.
It asks for administrator rights once, at the start
Installing a driver needs them. Asking up front beats failing at the last step of something you've already waited for.
Nothing about your PC is sent anywhere
The comparison happens on your machine. No account, and no list of your hardware going to any server. Driver packs arrive over BitTorrent, which does show your IP address to the people sharing them — the privacy page explains exactly what goes where.
A restore point first, where Windows allows one
When it can't — Windows Server has no System Restore — it says so instead of pretending. Undo works either way.
You can read the whole thing
GPLv3, with the complete source on the downloads page. Nothing about how it works is hidden from you.
Windows will warn you the first time
DriverKit isn't code-signed yet — a certificate costs money this project doesn't have — so SmartScreen shows “Windows protected your PC.” Click More info, then Run anyway. To be certain first, check the SHA-256 against the downloads page.
Questions
Things people ask.
Do I actually need this?
Often, no — Windows Update handles most drivers well now. Where it falls short: a fresh install with no network driver, a laptop whose touchpad or card reader never got one, and devices Windows leaves on a generic driver for years. DriverKit tells you which of those apply, and says so plainly if the answer is “none”.
Will it break my PC?
It's built so a bad outcome is reversible: a restore point first where possible, Windows' own ranking deciding whether a driver is really a better match, and Undo to put back what was there. The riskiest thing a driver updater can do is force a driver that doesn't belong. DriverKit doesn't do that.
Why does it download over BitTorrent?
Because the library is 70 GB and volunteers sharing it are what keep it alive. DriverKit fetches only the packs you need and shares back what it has. You can turn sharing off in Settings, though leaving it on is what keeps the library there for the next person. Note that BitTorrent shows your IP address to other people in the swarm — details here.
How do I uninstall it?
Delete the folder. That's the whole thing — no installer, no registry entries, no service left running. Drivers you installed stay installed; use Undo first if you want them gone.
My PC has no internet because the network driver is missing.
That's what the wired and wireless editions are for. Download one on a working computer, copy it over on a USB stick, and it installs your network driver with no connection at all.
Is it really free? What's the catch?
No catch. GPLv3, no ads, no bundled extras, no “pro” version, nothing to pay for. The driver packs are free too.
Does it work on Windows 7 or 32-bit Windows?
The build here is 64-bit and targets Windows 10 and 11. It may run on 8.1; that isn't tested. There's no 32-bit build.
Something went wrong. What now?
Press Details — it shows what happened in order, including the actual error. If a driver caused the trouble, Undo is on the same screen.
Find out what's out of date on your PC.
About two minutes, and it tells you honestly if the answer is “nothing”.
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