Launching today
Updatest
Your new home for Mac updates.
134 followers
Your new home for Mac updates.
134 followers
Updatest is a Mac app that unifies updates from Homebrew, Mac App Store, Sparkle, Electron, and GitHub Releases into one clean dashboard. Discover outdated apps, adopt manual installs into Homebrew, get security details, and bulk‑update with confidence—no sketchy update databases, your data stays local.
Updatest
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I’m Jared, an indie macOS developer and the creator of Updatest.
Updatest is your new home for Mac updates. It unifies updates from Homebrew, Mac App Store, Sparkle, Electron, and GitHub Releases into one clean dashboard.
Updatest started as a small tool I built for myself to bring manually installed apps under Homebrew, making it easier to keep everything up to date without spending time in the terminal. Over time it grew into a single place to keep all my apps updated, regardless of how they update.
I shared the first version of Reddit, got more feedback, and most recently felt I really hit a nerve. We can even go all the way back in time to when Updatest was called Caskly.
The response showed this was a problem a lot of macOS users were running into, which helped drive the direction of the app. I’m excited to finally share it here now that it’s officially out of beta.
How it fits together
macOS apps update through many different systems, and some apps you install manually can also be managed by Homebrew later on. Updatest was the first updater to surface this capability in a clear, guided way, long before it became a common pattern.
What’s included?
- Automatic detection of supported update sources per app
- Clear, guided Homebrew adoption for apps installed outside of Homebrew
- Homebrew formulae updates alongside app updates
- Source aware update checks that reflect how each app updates
- A fully native macOS experience with no tracking and no telemetry
The goal is simple: make macOS updates understandable without compromising privacy.
Would love to hear what you think, especially now that it’s out of beta.
Congrats on the launch! Love how Updatest unifies Homebrew, MAS, Sparkle, Electron, and GitHub updates into one trusted, local-first dashboard.
Updatest
@zeiki_yu thank you, I appreciate it!
Love the thought. But some updates may be unnecessary, while some may include major new features that totally upgrade the experience. Will you also include such info?
Updatest
@jiawei_liu6 Hey there!
Yes! We have a major version warning letting users know when there's a major version update (to the best of our ability based on the version information). We also surface release notes where possible for users to compare before updating.
Triforce Todos
This is basically a dashboard for people who hate juggling updates as I do. Can it also handle apps I installed years ago and forgot about?
Updatest
@abod_rehman great question!
It totally can. Updatest doesn't care where or when you installed your app, just if it has an update source, and an update. 🙂
how does the app handle Homebrew conflicts or dependencies that usually require manual terminal intervention, does that surface in the UI?
Updatest
@samet_sezer Hey there!
We surface all dependencies and dependants in the UI in both the sidebar and the detail view of the app, letting users know which formulae depend on what. 🙂
Product Hunt
Updatest
@curiouskitty Great question!
I wouldn't consider that messy - I think that's pretty standard! Updatest's goal is to match all your apps to their appropriate sources and then provide you with updates for them when they come out.
If you want to centralize your apps (or, your apps don't expose a supported update source), Updatest allows you to adopt your existing manually installed apps to Homebrew so that Updatest can then provide you updates for them.
Some Homebrew adoptions require the users password, and Updatest doesn't see or ask for this password, instead providing you a one click button to execute the command in your Terminal on your Mac, where you can safely enter the password to complete the adoption. This also applies for any internal Brew commands Updatest needs to run on your behalf to install updates too, everything is delegated to the correct native MacOS application where applicable.
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