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These apps "phone home" when you open them in order to determine if there is an update or not.

I don't personally know about CCleaner, DivX. and Safari updates come from Software Update/Mac App Store.

Skype self updates though I don't remember the process.

Adobe has their own software updater framework.

Firefox/Thunderbird each have their own self-updaters possibly written by Mozilla.

I'm fairly certain uTorrent does (I'm a Transmission guy, personally, which also self-updates via Sparkle).

The point is that Sparkle (or some other self-updater) is already part of the application.

It's a developer tool intended to be added as part of the application's code. Tons of Mac OS X apps use a framework called Sparkle for self updating.ĭon't download Sparkle, it won't do you any good. looks great, but it doesn't seem to officially offer an equivalent 'update checker' app from looking at its website.Īnd as for Apple's Mac App Store solution, that doesn't cover the apps I listed above so could not be considered an adequate solution, unless all those players unanimously participated in that ecosystem which I don't think is the case.Ĭoincidentally, FileHippo isn't necessary for the vast majority of those apps you listed. Is there anything like this for the OS X world? I used to love for keeping a lot of my well-loved tools on Windows up to date with its tool that you could check to scan your current program versions (both freeware and paid - in the case of paid it still works to download the latest installer as your license is still located in the system - I assume it would work for Mac too), and a simple repository on the site to directly download the new updater installer files from once the results screen online shows you what you can download and update.Ĭommon apps monitored by FileHippo would be VLC, uTorrent, Firefox, Chrome (all the way up to dev channel), CCleaner, Adobe Reader, Adobe Air, DivX, Safari, Skype, Thunderbird - and all these apps I now have on the Mac too.