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DESCRIPTION
MacUpdate Desktop 5.0 is the best way to automatically keep all the software on your Mac up-to-date.
Note: A fully-functional 10 day trial is available to all users. A MacUpdate account (free) is required and can be setup from within the app.
You may use MacUpdate Desktop on up to five (5) Macs with just one membership.
Visit the MacUpdate Desktop feature page for more info.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 5.0:
- Complete re-write from the ground-up - Leverages the newest Mac OS X technologies
- Improved user interface - Cleaner and easier to use than ever before
- Smart scanning - Searches more than 30,000 applications, Widgets, screen savers, and preference panes to identify those out of date
- One-click updating - Download and install updates with a single click (whether it's a single outdated item or all of them)
- Update verification - Confirm which updates were installed successfully
- Archive older versions - In case you need to revert to a previous release of an updated item
- Watch Lists - Organize your apps; sync Watch Lists to macupdate.com for email notifications and more
- In-app registration and 10-day trial activation
- Lower price! Just $20/year covers up to 5 of your Macs
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| MacUpdate Desktop User Reviews (37 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Nov 6 2009 |
JOHN QUINN How do I get the trial to start? After launching the app, I am prompted to log in with my MacUpdate account, after which again I am told that it was a free account and that I should upgrade to gain access to the app. What about the 10 days of trial? I tried to "register" from within the app to see if a trial option would come up, but all it says is "checking account status" and my log in details become greyed out.
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 | Nov 6 2009 |
JOHN QUINN Sorry, nevermind. I TOTALLY overlooked that same question further down the page. Clicking on the provided link to register is certainly the easiest way. The entire process could have been made a little more intuitive though.
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 | Nov 6 2009 |
DP8 The login panel has a "Register" button, which will present the MacUpdate Member Registration window - you enter in your name and email, and then on the next screen you can select "Trial" or payment method. If you already have a MacUpdate member account for the email address you enter, it will use that account for the Trial, otherwise, it will create a new Trial membership. You can also sign up for the trial on the macupdate.com website if you already have a membership and are logged into the site.
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 | Nov 6 2009 |
VERYVITO As a several-times daily visitor to Macupdate, I've been interested in the idea of a desktop app for a while now (I've tried similar apps, but the failure rate just seems to make them useless). I just downloaded and tried this, and I have to say, I'm impressed so far. Response time from the developer seen in earlier comment feedback is also a good sign, so I finally laid down the 20 bucks to become a desktop member. Looking forward to seeing where this goes. Thanks! Still keeping MUMenu to view the new stuff I don't have yet, though. :)
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| Nov 6 2009 |
DP8 Thanks for the support!
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| Nov 5 2009 |
RICHCASTILLO I have been using the MacUpdate website for several years and I love it. I place a lot of weight on the user reviews in making software purchasing decisions. So, when MacUpdate Desktop came out in v5 I was persuaded to finally anty up and become a paying member. However, I am generally unhappy with this desktop application. It does not feel like a refined v5 app. It feels like a 0.9 beta because it has so many rough edges and bugs. Since I am using it on 3 computers between work and home I believe the problems cannot be attributed to my computer, except that the common thread is that they all are running Snow Lep. On my MacBook Pro with Airport connection the program barley functions. It will be downloading 2 updates with an advancing progress bars while 2 others update complain that I have lost Internet connectivity. On all of the machines, when any event takes place like the completion of a download, it will bounce back to the beginning of my list, loosing the place I was working at. If you have a dozen apps downloading this can be a real irritant. There are at least 50 programs in my list that have no lookup and most of them are mainstrean apps that are referenced on the MacUpdate website. Some programs such as Email Commander simply will not update, just return an error. When downloading a dozen updates at a time frequently half of them will install and half of them will give a timed out error and I'll have to go back and do them one at a time. This app has great potential to be a huge time saver in keeping my Macs maintained. However, it has so many irritating rough edges that I cannot give it better than 2 stars right now. I hope the developer is able to resolve all of the issues and make this a solid app.
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| Nov 5 2009 |
DP8 Thank you for your feedback. We have been working hard this year on MacUpdate Desktop 5 to not only improve upon what MacUpdate Desktop 4 offered, but to make it the best Mac update solution out there. As noted in the listing, this is a completely brand new application, and we realize that has has room for improvement, which is why we welcome your feedback! It was extensively beta tested, and your issue with timing out has not been reported before, but we will look into it. We are committed to improving MacUpdate Desktop but can only do so with your feedback and support - look for an update soon that will address some of your other issues. Please feel free to send in feedback from the application, or to desktop@macupdate.com. | |
| Nov 4 2009 |
ARCHMISSION This program does not seem to scan my HD. Also, it does not pull all the current info from MacUpdate website. Also MUMenu has quit working. The desktop program will not scan folders within other folders, etc. Sorry to say that MacUpdate Desktop is currently worthless to me and also the fact that MUMenu is now broken I am not able to do anything that I could do freely since I can only find out new updates via the web. Any help would be appreciated.
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| Nov 4 2009 |
ARCHMISSION The follow up. The response from MacUpdate has been tremendous and Extremely helpful. I recommend them above all in customer service. The response was immediate. Microsoft could learn from them as much as GM, Ford, etc. I am impressed!
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| Nov 4 2009 |
JOEL MUELLER Is Spotlight turned on? Did you make sure you have the latest "5.0" version that was updated a day after the main release?
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| Nov 5 2009 |
ARCHMISSION Yes Spotlight is turned on. Yes I have the latest version. I have been in contact with your team and they have helped out other than it will not download the latest from the communities. Thank you all so much.
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| Nov 5 2009 |
DP8 The issue you emailed to us concerning the community listing has been fixed for the update we will be releasing soon, but should also show up properly in 5.0 as well. If you could please email me your issue with MUMenu, we would appreciate that too - it should be working fine. | |
| Nov 4 2009 |
SERGESOUSZERO I have free MacUpdate account member, but I can't benefit from the 10 day trial because it says that I have to updrage my account to be able to use it. Bug ?
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| Nov 5 2009 |
DP8 You need to register your account for the Trial membership. You may do this in the application itself in the Register window - the second step will allow you to select Trial or payment. You can also sign up for the Trial online here - https://www.macupdate.com/members/desktoptrial | |
| Nov 3 2009 |
HIGHERTERRAIN It's a pain on MacUpdate when you try to download a app and nothing happens, which is happening with this one.
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| Nov 3 2009 |
DP8 Most likely, you are hiding or blocking the referrer when you are browsing (various security programs enable this for "private" browsing). In order to download apps hosted on MacUpdate servers, they need to come from macupdate.com domain names. So if you block the referrer URL, it can't see that and loops you back. This is to prevent extreme bandwidth costs from direct outside linking. Try disabling the referrer blocking - or contact me desktop@macupdate.com and I will be glad to help you out. | |
 | Nov 3 2009 |
MUTANT Appfresh (http://metaquark.de/appfresh/) is a free updater, at least for now.
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| Nov 3 2009 |
SERGESOUSZERO Try to type AppFresh in the search field above and watch the result. ;-)
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| Nov 3 2009 |
MUTANT i noticed that as well, how odd. i also submitted appfresh as an app, we'll see how that goes.
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| Nov 3 2009 |
DP8 AppFresh is a nice application, but the goal of MacUpdate Desktop is to offer a cleaner, faster, and more accurate update experience by leveraging our long history as the leader in Mac software updates. An important part of MacUpdate Desktop is the ability to create Watch Lists of the apps that you care about, and have them synced automatically to your account on the website. You can add new applications to your Watch Lists from the website, and then install them with one click from MacUpdate Desktop. Watch List items will also send you an email the instant a new version is released. We are also focused on providing a better user experience through our Smart Scan system - which shows you the applications and updates that you care about, and not every little applescript executable or helper application or readme.app that can't be updated. Finally, we want to provide the most accurate update information possible and go to great lengths to deliver the most updates to you - AppFresh will often mark an app as being up-to-date when it isn't, or will mark an app as outdated when it isn't or as unknown. We realize that MacUpdate Desktop has room for improvement - and we welcome your feedback. We lowered the membership price specifically so that we could help as many Mac users as possible keep their Mac updated and secure in the easiest way possible. Give it a try, and let is know what you think - desktop@macupdate.com | |
| Nov 2 2009 |
SSCHMIED Not sure why my original post isn't available any more . . . Just wanted to comment that I've downloaded the programme again after reading something about a "silent update" and it's now showing what it should (before it was stubbornly convinced I had only 39 applications on my Mac.) As I've already mentioned (in internet nirvana somewhere) I think this is a great idea for keeping tabs on your applications and whatnot. I agree that most apps automatically download the latest version - or at least suggest it - but I do like to have a general overview of what I have. And let's be honest: $20 for a whole year is too much? How much did you pay for your last pizza? Your last tank of fuel? Complaining about a little under $2 per month is, in my opinion, silly. Many thanks for whenever, whatever, whoever did to get things straightened out again :-)
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| Nov 2 2009 |
RCARLTON This kind of app is by nature a byzantine undertaking to write. Not all publishers deliver their apps the same way, and an app like this has to be something like the "VLC of installers" in terms of knowing as many apps and methods as possible. That being said, after a day's worth of rough start - I'm finally up to date. I think this is a good app. It's a bit young - but well worth the price if like me - you get busy with work and can't keep up with the latest incremental updates. A very, very welcome feature would be some method of prioritizing the update downloads instead of the all-at-once model. I realize that most of the time this only affects new installs, but some sort of preference that allows "Update apps in groups of x" or "If an app can't be updated mark to skip and move on" would be most welcome. My net connection got so saturated a couple of times that every update started failing one by one. Or - when the list of updates is presented, a method to select/deselect individual or multiple updates [Update selected apps] and and options to Update/Cancel/Resume via Contextual Menu and/or buttons would be nice too. In my case, I had something like 50 updates needed and it overwhelmed the app. Oftentimes, it was impossible to tell until I'd let the app do its thing. A number of apps wouldn't update until I deleted the original app manually, and it took at least 10 times running MacUpate before I got everything working. And - some apps - especially games - installed Trials on top of purchased games - that somehow reverted the games back to trials. BUT - that being said - it's off to a great start, and I'm looking forward to it getting better and better.
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| Nov 2 2009 |
JOEL MUELLER Thanks for your input. I have a few suggestions or semi-solutions for a couple things you were looking for. Instead of downloading and installing everything, you can simply double-click individual listings that you want to update. That's pretty similar to selecting an update, one at a time, and asking it to then download all of the selected updates. It just starts the process for each individual update right away instead of waiting for you to finish your group of selections. As if something doesn't update, you can skip it and move by right clicking (or use the action menu below) and tell the listing to,"Set version to current" or "Don't check for updates." By setting the version to current, it'll ignore the update until the next time a new release happens. By selecting not to check for updates, it will ignore updates indefinitely until you manually re-active it.
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| Nov 1 2009 |
Some issue here with the d/l link: h**p://www.macupdate.com/download.php/8544/MacUpdate-Desktop-5.0.dmg h**p://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/8544 plz feel free to delete this post once solved. Thanks
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| Nov 1 2009 |
JOEL MUELLER I've posted it on a mirror here: http://download.macupdate.com/MacUpdate-Desktop-5.0.dmg Usually if the download loops back to the info page, it's because you are blocking from showing the referral website. In order to download apps hosted on MacUpdate servers, they need to come from macupdate.com domain names. So if you block the referrer URL, it can't see that and loops you back. This is to prevent extreme bandwidth costs from direct outside linking.
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| Nov 2 2009 |
Everything OK with the mirror link. BTW from time to time the culprit can be found @ 1 Infinite Loop. | |
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