Do you know of a good replacement? Does anyone else publicly track latest versions of software and their binaries for (semi-)automated updating?
Or do most apps nowadays use self-updating, so there's no more need for such a central update management app?
Announcement:
Unfortunately MacUpdater 3's promised lifetime of "until 2026-01-01" is now over.
There will be no MacUpdater 4 or any continuation of the MacUpdater product from us.
Our daily maintainaince has been stopped and we don't verify updates anymore.URL: https://www.corecode.io/macupdater/index.html
- We ran into the same gap after MacUpdater started drifting. What worked reasonably well for us was splitting the problem instead of trying to replace it 1:1.
Homebrew (plus brew outdated) covered CLI tools and a subset of apps. For GUI apps, we relied on Sparkle-based self-updaters where available and a small script that checks bundle versions against a curated list for the rest.
It’s more manual than MacUpdater, but the upside is you control what’s checked and when. In practice, most actively maintained apps do self-update now, so the remaining pain tends to be niche or enterprise software rather than mainstream apps.
- Latest: https://max.codes/latest/