Your home for Mac updates.

Works with Homebrew, Mac App Store, Sparkle, Electron, and GitHub Releases.

Updatest showing unified update management dashboard

Install with Homebrew

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$ brew tap updatest/tap https://github.com/updatest/tap.git$ brew install --cask updatest

Requires macOS 15.0 or later

Homebrew recommended for full update detection

What's new

Featured In

Lifehacker

"This App Updates All Your Mac Apps in One Place"

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Product Hunt

Launched January 2026

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Homebrew

App Store

Sparkle

Electron

GitHub

Community

Discover updates.

Updatest scans each app to find supported update sources, using the app's own internal metadata. Fully automatic.

Local sources include Homebrew, Mac App Store, Sparkle, Electron, and GitHub.

No source detected? Add a manual source, or try the optional Community Updates feature to discover versions from the Updatest community.

Learn how it works Learn about Community Updates

Homebrew's power.
Updatest's simplicity.

Bringing visual clarity to Homebrew's --adopt feature.

Updatest

Terminal

$ brew search firefox

=> Casks

firefox firefox@beta firefox@cn firefox@developer-edition

firefox@esr firefox@nightly multifirefox

$ brew install --cask --adopt firefox

=> Auto-updating Homebrew...

=> Auto-updated Homebrew!

=> Downloading https://example.com/app.dmg

...

=> Installing Cask firefox

=> Adopting existing App at '/Applications/Firefox.app'

🍺 firefox was successfully installed!

$ # Now I gotta do the next app...

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Search, verify, and install each app manually, one at a time

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Guess which cask name matches your app from multiple options

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Run separate commands to check versions and verify matches

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Review your apps one-by-one to see which are installed outside of Brew

Brew updates?
Easy peasy.

Keep your Homebrew formulae up to date with a visual interface.

Formulae Updates

Update command-line tools without the terminal

One-Click Updates

No more remembering brew upgrade commands

Know your apps.
Inside and out.

Deep insights into every application on your Mac.

Download URLs

Grab direct download links for versions where available.

App Details

Version numbers, bundle IDs, file sizes, and developer info.

Security & Permissions

Code signing, notarization, and permission requirements.

Updatest app information and security insights

Your privacy.
Our promise.

No personal data. No tracking. You control what's shared.

Data

Stays local by default.
Anonymous when shared.
Choose when you share.

Your Apps

Discovered locally on your Mac.
Share anonymous bundle identifiers and versions only if you decide.

Updates

Checked from supported sources.
Compared locally on your Mac.
Minimal network usage.

Community UpdatesOptional

Contribute anonymously.
See versions from the Updatest community.
Ignore specific apps.

Updatest requires App Management permission to update applications. Without it, macOS will show “Updatest.app was prevented from modifying apps” notifications.