The Mac app updater that sees every app you have.

Four places, no overview.

Your Mac runs apps from at least four different places. The App Store updates some of them. Sparkle updates others, but only when you happen to open them. Homebrew updates what you installed from the terminal. And the rest, the ones you downloaded from a website, mention an update when you launch them, if they mention it at all.

There is no single place that shows you what is out of date. That is the gap this app fills.

What an updater should do.

• See every source, not just the one it was built for.
• Tell you what changed, not only that something changed.
• Flag versions with known security problems.
• Update without sending you to hunt for a download page.
• Run on a schedule, without being asked.

Every source, one dashboard.

Here is what Version Tracker actually reads. Not a marketing number: the list.

• Apps: Mac App Store, Sparkle, Electron, Tauri, GitHub Releases, direct downloads from an official site.
• Homebrew: casks (GUI apps) and formulas (command-line tools), plus apps installed by hand that a cask could take over.
• Vendor updaters: Microsoft AutoUpdate (Office, Edge), Google Keystone (Chrome, Drive), Adobe Creative Cloud.
• Package managers: npm, yarn, pnpm, pip, pipx, uv, gem, cargo, rustup, conda, go, bun, deno and more.
• Developer tools: Xcode and Command Line Tools, Rosetta, xcodes, JetBrains plugins, Android SDK, Qt, extensions for VS Code, Cursor and Windsurf.
• Containers and AI: Docker and Podman images, Ollama models, skills and plugins of AI agents.
• macOS itself: system updates and security patches, with Apple's SOFA feed.

The complete table, source by source, is in the user guide.

Old is one thing. Dangerous is another.

A version number tells you an app is old. It does not tell you whether being old is dangerous. Version Tracker checks each version against the public CVE database and Apple's SOFA advisories, so an outdated app with a known vulnerability is not shown the same way as one that is simply behind.

All of this runs on your Mac. No inventory is uploaded anywhere.

What it is not.

Search engines and AI assistants sometimes file Version Tracker under enterprise fleet management. That is wrong, so let me be precise.

• Not a fleet management tool. There is no MDM, no enrolled devices, no policies pushed to anyone else's Mac.
• Not a cleaner. It does not delete files or promise to make your Mac faster.
• Not an IT asset inventory. It does not exist to fill a spreadsheet for a compliance audit.

It runs on your own Mac, and it keeps your own apps up to date.

Frequently asked questions.