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DESCRIPTION
MacUpdate Desktop is the best way to automatically keep all the software on your Mac up-to-date. Apple Software Update only updates Apple branded apps. MacUpdate Desktop updates everything on your Mac with a single click.
When you purchase MacUpdate Desktop, you'll also receive a free MacUpdate.com Membership ($20 value).
A fully-functional 10 day trial is available to all users. You may use MacUpdate Desktop on up to five (5) Macs with just one membership.
Check out our guided tour, read more information about the app and become an owner today.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 5.0.4:
- Improved version matching
- Improved application matching
- Updated counts to display the number of available updates shown for each grouping
- Checks minimum system requirements and alerts user if an update requires a newer OS version than what they are using
- Checks CPU type and alerts user an update will not run on their current CPU (Intel only updates on PPC Macs for example)
- Alerts user if an update is considered to be a "paid" update
- Alerts user if an update is considered to be a "beta" release
- Added context menu to show/hide table columns
- Improved updating of Adobe and Microsoft apps
- Updated to latest Growl version
- Bugfix - certain account passwords were incorrectly rejected
- Bugfix - don't allow Set Version to Current for skipped apps
- Bugfix - don't add to recent updated list if user cancels out of "this is the same version"
- Added Dutch localization
- Added Latvian localization
- Other performance improvements
- Other UI changes
- Other bug fixes
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| MacUpdate Desktop User Reviews (78 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Feb 8 2010 |
RUBAIYAT Extremely useful and time saver. I have it crash on me regularly, guess it is working through a long list. Also need to resolve paid update issues. Certain applications you do not want to update, due to poor quality, upgrade charge, switch from free to pay. Very hard to stop at the moment, would a warning be possible?
(Version 5.0.4) | |
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 | Feb 8 2010 |
DP8 Please send any crash reports to desktop at macupdate.com As noted in the release notes, version 5.0.4 now alerts users if an update is considered to be a "paid" update. | |
 | Feb 8 2010 |
RUBAIYAT Thanks Chad for the fast reply. I have just installed the update and shall let you know if I have any crashes.
(Version 5.0.4) | |
| Feb 1 2010 |
ROBOTSPACER This app is fantastic overall and I'm impressed with how well it works. I've tried every other similar app and widget over long periods of time, and I think this is the clear winner. I have run into some issues though. The worst is that it will often get "stuck" while checking for updates. The progress bar just stops, it says it's checking on a particular app, and it never proceeds. I have to quit the app and reopen it to get it working again. This happens almost every time I launch the app (about once a week). Today it's also telling me there's an update to Apple Calculator widget. When I open the MacUpdate.com page, it takes me to the page for MacJournal! http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7759/calculator This is very strange and makes me nervous what might happen if I update one of my apps to a completely different app. This is the only time I've seen an incorrect match though, which is one of the reasons I prefer this app over the competition. My last complaint is that the main purpose of this app is to see if your software is up to date. Yet for some reason the "Outdated" filter doesn't stick, and I have to look in four different sections to check on all my software. It would be a tremendous benefit if there was an "Outdated" category in the sidebar, so I could see all of my outdated software in one place. Ideally if I select this view it should take me back there every time I launch the app.
(Version 5.0.3) | |
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| Feb 1 2010 |
MISHA Thanks for your thorough review. We'll investigate the issue of MacUpdate Desktop getting stuck, that clearly shouldn't be happening. Regarding the mismatches, this is caused by a rare bug that we're correcting. As I'm sure you can imagine tracking 10,000s of apps/widgets/prefpanes and their alternatively-named versions (in foreign languages) is no small feet. Occasionally an item's bundle identifier is matched to the wrong MacUpdate listing, as was the case with Calculator & MacJournal. Had you "updated" Calculator you would have simply had MacJournal installed -- we never delete anything from your drive (at most we move a replaced item to the Trash if the older version has the same name as the newer one, and this can be adjusted in the Preferences). Like I said, though, this is a rare bug that we hope to have squashed in the very very near future and I have already corrected this particular instance (go ahead and run MacUpdate Desktop again and Calculator will not show up as outdated!). We are also refactoring the Outdated behavior to better function how you would like it to. Thank you for your support and feedback!
(Version 5.0.3) | |
| Jan 24 2010 |
JERROLD SMITH Am I the only one that see an error message in the description pane when you choose an application from any of the MacUpdate Community section?
(Version 5.0.3) | |
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| Jan 24 2010 |
ROBFOL STOP this app jumping in the Dock when it starts to scan TOTALLY unnecessary and damn irritating Cheers, Robert.
(Version 5.0.3) | |
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| Feb 1 2010 |
MISHA Unfortunately this is an OS X thing or we'd change it (it bugs me, too). Discovering a workaround is on the list of "nice but not necessary" additions for the future (we'd like to get all the "nice and needed" items checked off first, and there are plenty of those since we want to make MacUpdate Desktop even better than it is).
(Version 5.0.3) | |
| Jan 12 2010 |
ROBERTCOOGAN2 Overall works well, but it misses almost a quarter of the apps in my list (usually telling me either it is already updated when it isn't, or telling me that it needs updating when it already has the most current version installed). This would really work best if one had the ability to run a quick scan from the menubar, rather than having to launch it each and every time.
(Version 5.0.3) | |
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| Jan 13 2010 |
MISHA Could you please send us the list of 1/4 of your apps that are not matching correctly (name or version issues)? A screenshot is fine if that's easiest -- misha@macupdate and desktop@macupdate We're actively correcting app issues as we learn of them; it's a bit of an arduous task as there's no standard for developers to follow with regards to naming or assigning version #s, so we have to account for many many cases rather than just one.
(Version 5.0.3) | |
| Jan 10 2010 |
TIAGO It's curious that a search for "AppFresh" directs the user to this page... I know that MacUpdate is a commercial site, but it would be fairer to say that no result was found.
(Version 5.0.3) | |
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 | Dec 12 2009 |
HMURCHISON I don't know what's causing it but for the second time in a row MUD borked the update to SOHO Organizer. SOHO Notes updates fine but SOHO Organizer fails to install. This happened for the recent 8.09 to 8.10 and now 8.11 updates. Is anyone else noticing this problem?
(Version 5.0.3) | |
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| Dec 12 2009 |
FREEDMAN Two requests for the developers: 1. There doesn't seem to be a way to "reactivate" applications you select to stop watching (Apple-S). 2. Automate the program so it can be user configured to check for updates daily and, if selected by the user, automatically install those updates. The program will be worth the cost once automation is implemented. Until then, I'm on the fence.
(Version 5.0.3) | |
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| Dec 18 2009 |
JOEL MUELLER 1) You re-activate the scan that you've skipped by telling it to, "Check for update next scan" in the same way you skipped it (right click or action menu at the bottom). 2) We plan to add scheduled scanning so you don't have to manually ask Desktop to scan, in the future.
(Version 5.0.3) | |
| Dec 11 2009 |
RUBAIYAT Whilst I find this extremely useful, it is time consuming as it crashes with monotonous regularity and I prefer to manually DL & install my software. If you let it do it automatically I can't see how to have it have exceptions, which I need as it updates to unregistered later version, where I don't want it to. Not Macupdate's fault, but some developers foolishly have different names for their software and the installers. Wish I could note these somewhere. It certainly has cleaned up my installations! Thumbs up. Now if it would only stop crashing.
(Version 5.0.3) | |
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