Version Tracker 1.2.1 is out. It adds two new licence types, a new source for audio plugins, and finishes off a Setapp protection fix started in 1.2.0 — alongside corporate proxy support, an update cooldown, and a diagnostic export built for support conversations, not for chasing down bugs.
New Licence Options: Mono and Lifetime Plans
Version Tracker now offers a Mono licence — a single-Mac subscription at €19.90/year — alongside the existing Solo (€29.90/year, 2 Macs) and Family (€44.90/year, 5 Macs) plans.
All three are also available as one-time lifetime licences: Mono at €49.90, Solo at €69.90, and Family at €99.90. A lifetime licence covers minor updates for as long as you use the app; major versions, like a future 2.0, are sold separately.
Your licence type is now shown in Settings and in the menu bar, so it's always clear what you're on. See the full pricing for details.
Audio Plugins Join the List of Tracked Sources
Version Tracker can now inventory audio plugins — AU, VST, VST3, and AAX — and reports updates for them like any other source. This brings the total to 48 tracked sources, alongside your package managers, developer tools, and the rest of your software stack.
Setapp Protection, Completed
Version Tracker 1.2.0 stopped Homebrew from adopting or upgrading casks for apps installed under /Applications/Setapp. But an update could still reach one of those apps through a different path.
In 1.2.1, the exclusion is anchored directly to the app's location on disk, so no source can offer it an update — installing one would have placed an unlicensed copy right beside the app Setapp already manages.
Built for How You Actually Work
Corporate proxy support
Version Tracker now works behind a corporate proxy. A manual proxy setting applies to Homebrew, curl, gem, and the app's own network requests alike, so scans and updates keep working on networks that require one.
Update cooldown
You can now hold a newly published version back for a chosen period before Version Tracker offers it, globally or per package, with the reason shown right on the row — useful if you'd rather wait a day or two after a release before installing it.
Diagnostic export
A new one-click report for support carries the state needed to explain a problem, including the raw output of a failed update.
Fixes
Crash at launch on smaller displays
Fixed a crash that struck about a second after launch on screens that couldn't fit the saved window size.
Fewer phantom updates
Several classes of false positive are gone: version-named casks, stale caches, App Store apps offered non-Store updates, and Chrome under Google Software Update.
Version Tracker updates itself automatically in the background, so there's nothing to do to get 1.2.1. If you're not running it yet, you can grab the latest build from Version Tracker.