diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 6bc4b11..11754f0 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -328,6 +328,57 @@ jobs:
           releaseId: ${{ needs.draft.outputs.id }}
           args: --target ${{ matrix.target }} --config src-tauri/tauri.release.conf.json
 
+      # Ad-hoc signing the executable is not the same as sealing the bundle
+      # around it. Without a `_CodeSignature` covering the sidecars, macOS
+      # calls the app damaged and offers only the Trash — and that is invisible
+      # here, where the app is never opened, until somebody downloads it.
+      #
+      # The sidecars are required beside the executable rather than anywhere
+      # inside the bundle, because that is the only place the app looks:
+      # tools::locate resolves them against the directory holding the running
+      # binary and otherwise falls back to a bare name on the PATH. A copy
+      # sealed somewhere else would pass a laxer check and ship an app that
+      # tells its user ffmpeg is missing.
+      - name: Check the bundle is sealed around its sidecars
+        if: runner.os == 'macOS'
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+
+          # Searched under the folder the upload step already reads, not all
+          # of target: a stray Transcrate.app anywhere else is whichever one
+          # find reaches first, and the wrong bundle would be the one checked.
+          #
+          # `-print -quit` rather than piping into `head`, because under
+          # pipefail head leaving early sends find SIGPIPE and the step fails
+          # on a bundle that is fine. `|| true` so an absent folder is reported
+          # by the line below rather than by find.
+          bundle="target/${{ matrix.target }}/release/bundle"
+          app="$(find "$bundle" -maxdepth 3 -name 'Transcrate.app' -print -quit 2>/dev/null || true)"
+          if [ -z "$app" ]; then
+            echo "no Transcrate.app was built" >&2
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
+          # Contents/MacOS is where the bundle format puts the executable, so
+          # it is what current_exe().parent() returns and what the app joins a
+          # tool name onto.
+          for tool in ffmpeg ffprobe; do
+            if [ ! -f "$app/Contents/MacOS/$tool" ]; then
+              echo "$tool is not beside the executable in the bundle" >&2
+
+              stray="$(find "$app" -type f -name "$tool" -print -quit 2>/dev/null || true)"
+              if [ -n "$stray" ]; then
+                echo "  it is at ${stray#"$app"/}, where the app will not look" >&2
+              fi
+              exit 1
+            fi
+          done
+
+          # --deep reaches the nested executables, --strict refuses a seal that
+          # does not match what is actually in the bundle.
+          codesign --verify --deep --strict --verbose=2 "$app"
+
       # Kept whether or not there is a release to attach them to. The size of
       # the download is the reason ffmpeg is built here rather than fetched, and
       # a manual run is where that gets weighed.