hey, wondering if anyone has any input on paying 20/year for this application, i did the 10 day trial and it seemed to do the job with minor bugs only...
wondering if theres a better application to keep my 3rd party apps up to date or is this the best bet?
thanks
Hi - I am the main developer of MacUpdate Desktop, and can assure you that there is no other solution out there that will handle updating your 3rd party apps, screen savers, pref panes, widgets, and plugins as well as MacUpdate Desktop does. We spent a lot of time analyzing the best and fastest way to scan your Mac for all of the software you want to update. While there are other solutions out there, they are all less sophisticated and more problematic. The Mac App Store does handle updating your apps purchased from Apple fairly well, but that only covers a small fraction of the software you may have installed, and does not include screen savers, widgets, plugins, or pref panes, and will never include many awesome apps that are not "allowed" to be in the Mac App Store. There are also many cases where a developer will release a new version on their own web site and MacUpdate.com, but it takes weeks or months to get updated on the Mac App Store - MacUpdate Desktop will let you know about a new version as soon as a developer releases the update.
There are a handful of apps that do not offer direct downloads for updates - in those cases MacUpdate Desktop will still let you know that there is a new version available, and will take you to the page (for customers to log in or whatever) needed to get the update. For apps purchased from the Mac App Store, MacUpdate Desktop will launch the App Store app or Apple Software update for you.
We are constantly working to improve the system, and welcome both feedback and bug reports - if there are apps that are causing a problem, we want to know about them so that we can make sure that MacUpdate Desktop is able to update as many apps as possible.
We would love to make MacUpdate Desktop free for everyone, but at this time, it takes a staff off real people to update MacUpdate.com 24/7, and we really want to make sure that MacUpdate Desktop is the best solution out there. Other solutions that are free do not come close to doing as good of a job - in our tests, we have found MacUpdate Desktop to find up to 60% more updates and also find them faster. Other solutions are clunky or require you to click multiple links and go to website and manually install downloads etc. In our view, $1.66 a month is very cost effective in terms of spending your time finding, downloading, and installing software updates. With the free solutions - you get what you pay for. The $20 fee is equivalent to spending 13 minutes a month if you make minimum wage. So save yourself some time, money, and hassle, and help support MacUpdate and Mac developers!
In addition to the automated software update features, your paid membership also features a bunch of other benefits like Watch Lists, download history, email notifications and newsletters, website features, and discounts on Mac software. MacUpdate Desktop will automatically show you all of the apps that you have purchased from
MacUpdate Promo, so that you can download and install them with 1 click.
Please feel free to send any comments, suggestions, or questions to
desktop@macupdate.com - we really do appreciate your input! We are a small group of Mac geeks and do what we do at MacUpdate to help support other Mac users and developers like you.
thanks!
Chad
