RIP, MacUpdater

[laptopllama]

The announcement from CoreCode:

CoreCode Ltd., the developer behind the award-winning MacUpdater software, today announced that it will be discontinuing active development of MacUpdater after January 1, 2026.

As promised, all MacUpdater 3 licenses will be supported until 2026-01-01. After that date we will no longer continue to develop or support MacUpdater but we hope to find some other company to continue the product or its technology:

 

[RecentlyConverted]

Very sad to hear this!

 

[Apple_Robert]

It has been a good program. Disappointed to read this news.

 

[RecentlyConverted]

I use this as well -

https://github.com/mangerlahn/Latest

Very good. Both apps miss the odd app. I have made a donation.

 

[gilby101]

Hopefully it won't die. Developer is looking to have it acquired by a person/organisation who would keep it going with (probably) a subscription.

The alternatives (e.g. Latest, Applite) are nowhere near as comprehensive.

 

[Weaselboy]

The alternatives (e.g. Latest, Applite) are nowhere near as comprehensive.

Latest seems to be working fine for me. Is it missing some app updates for you?

 

[gilby101]

Latest seems to be working fine for me. Is it missing some app updates for you?

Latest supports apps from Apple App Store and those that use the Sparkle framework for updates. That leaves lots of my apps not covered - around half the non AppStore apps.

Macupdater has a much broader coverage - hence the effort and cost of maintaining its servers.

 

[tosbsas]

whoow, ok. Hope they got someone that honors licenses.

 

[Sven G]

Strange that there still seems to be nobody interested in MacUpdater’s acquisition; even Apple itself could be a perfect candidate, as the MacUpdater infrastructure would permit updates and upgrades for all installed apps, not only the Mac App Store ones: which would give macOS an experience similar to Linux, which has had centralized software updates from the beginning (and even Microsoft now is thinking about implementing this in Windows 11: so why not macOS?). MacUpdater has an almost perfect app and especially infrastructure already available: someone should acquire it, while it’s possible…

(BTW, why don’t they - CoreCode - at least try to make it a subscription service, if that is really the way to go (not sure, but who knows)…? It would be a real pity if this excellent app only ended up discontinued and thus with no future: especially considering that its closest historical commercial competitor - the resurrected MacUpdate - is still at a beta stage and so far much less promising. Integration of MacUpdater into macOS (towards a centralized software management) would be the best thing possible: but lacking that, at least try to develop it further as a great third party app; or open-source it, if there is no more interest in it…)