Unsupported Apps

[jvimedia]

Calibre (E-Book Management Software) has no auto-update capabilities. This app might be capable of providing a solution to that issue? (maybe)

[mangerlahn]

Thanks for writing! Maybe is a good point here ;)

To build the update checking for one specific app, I have to reverse engineer how the software updates itself and then reimplement that. There are a lot of apps that fall under this, like Steam or the Microsoft Office suite.. I thought about what I can do here, but I currently don't see a good solution. The complexity of adding a single app is as big (or bigger) as supporting the entirety of the Mac App Store.

Maybe a plugin structure would work, so that the app (and its code) itself is not blown up unnecessarily. Plugins could be loaded automatically if the app is installed. But that is something for the future :)

[specter78]

There is an app called MacUpdater (https://www.corecode.io/macupdater/) which provides update functionality for all apps including sparkle apps. Maybe you can have a look and try something out.

[core-code]

thanks for mentioning our MacUpdater! FYI, MacUpdater uses 'HomebrewCask' to support automatic updates for Calibre and 3300 other apps. The Calibre 'caskfile' is here:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/master/Casks/calibre.rb

[mangerlahn]

I should really look at the hombrew updater more closely. I added it to #9, which is quite ambitious tbh. But hey, we've got time here right? 😉

[TaciteOFF]

Hello,

Latest is a very good alternative to the MacUpdater shareware app.
However, it doesn't detect updates for Firefox and for Zoom on my machine.

Thanks

[miwka]

Hello, please add updates for:

AnyDesk
Cisco Webex Meetings
Double Commander
foobar2000
freac
Google Chrome
Google Drive
GoToMeeting
Hugin
LuLu
Microsoft Edge
Microsoft Teams
Mos
MusicBrainz Picard
OneDrive
OpenVPN Connect
RawTherapee
Signal
Sublime Text
TeamViewer
Tor Browser
UTM
Viber
Visual Studio Code
VLC
XnViewMP
zoom.us

[Employee9833]

Hi, mangerlahn
Can you add functionality for unsupported apps to update from Installomator
it will help many users to increase the list of supported apps with any updater.

[ashishbhateja]

Unsupported apps from my machine:
1Password
Bearly
Audio Hijack
Devonthink
EasyOrg
Evernote
Fission
Grammarly
Lazy
Microsoft Edge
Notesnook
Pathfinder
Popclip
Raycast
Safari
Scrintal
Sidekick
Speedy
Stats
Sublime Text
Superhuman
Texts
The Archive
Zoom
😅

[nicholascarey]

R - the GUI, which is also tied to the language version. I have 4.3, 4.4 was not reported
Brave browser

Thanks!

[nicholascarey]

None of these are reported by Latest.

[petert89]

FYI: Apps it seemed to miss on my mac.

• DEVONThink
• MEGAsync
• Opera (browser)
• Rectangle
• Warp (terminal)

[aitianci]

Hello! The Amazon Send to Kindle app is not supported, see here https://www.amazon.com/sendtokindle/mac
Please consider add it to the list, thank you !

[fsafq41]

FYI, some famous/popular apps that do not seem to be supported:

• Audacity
• DaVinci Resolve
• Capture One
• ChatGPT
• Firefox, even though strangely Tor Browser (which is based on Firefox) is supported
• VLC
• Spotify

Thanks for your consideration