A new phase-shifting digital holography based on spiral phase filter is presented. This technique uses a spiral phase plate with a small central aperture placed on the Fourier plane of an imaging system. If the spiral phase filter is rotated by a certain angle around its central axis,a phase shift between the zero-order spatial frequency component and the remaining of the object is produced,and the magnitude of this phase Shift is proportional to the rotation angle. Using this property,we can record a sequence of intensity distribution of the output beams corresponding to different rotation angles,and then digitally reconstruct the objects by using a phase-shifting algorithm. Both the theoretical analysis and simulation experiment results demonstrate the feasibility of this approach. This method can be used in biology,material research and semiconductor inspection.