Keep Up to Date With App Update

Posted by Ted Winder on 03/22/07 in Organization, Tips & Tricks, Utilities

App Update is a free Dashboard Widget that automatically checks for updates to your installed software. It supports Apple’s software directory, MacUpdate and Version Tracker. It will present you with a tidy link list of all the updates found, enabling you to read release-notes and download the updates you want quickly and painlessly.

App Update comes with plenty of features such as Growl support, ability to manage application versioning data, support for preference panes, quicktime plugins and frameworks, and more. It also has a built-in help function that you can access at any time by pressing “Shift+H”.

You can specify the directories in which you keep your applications on App Update’s back (use the ‘i’ button to flip it over).

You’ll also be pleased to know that App Update is free, available right here.

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Trevor said on

March 22nd, 2007 at 7:14 am

Thank you for showing me this. I have been looking for something like this for a while now.

Yohannes Wijaya said on

March 22nd, 2007 at 7:16 am

Another app in my arsenal that i use frequently. you guys also want to check out widget update from the same developer

Alec Feld said on

March 22nd, 2007 at 8:20 am

Most of the apps I use have built in updating. Plus, I’m not much of a widget person.

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Sam said on

March 22nd, 2007 at 9:32 am

This should be a standalone app, not a widget. There are many of us that have long since disabled Dashboard, but could benefit from a program with this functionality.

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William said on

March 22nd, 2007 at 9:45 am

This widget is pretty interesting, I’m downloading it now. However, most apps nowadays update themselves with the click of a button.

Keenan said on

March 22nd, 2007 at 12:08 pm

The problem with widgets like this is that I don’t want to have a whole widget taking up space on my dashboard. I’d rather it was an app that I could fire up whenever I wanted to check, then quit when I was done. I don’t like having extra widgets on the dash.

Yohannes Wijaya said on

March 22nd, 2007 at 4:01 pm

@Keenan, you can call upon the widget, use it, and then close it down. you dont have to leave it running all the time.

@Alec feld, yes all app developers should adopt Andy Matuschak’s excellent sparkle