Every app on your Mac, up to date in one click.
Floodtide is a Mac app updater. It reads each app's own update source, Sparkle feeds, the Homebrew catalog and its own curated chart, then brings the whole Mac current in a single pass. Built for the people MacUpdater left behind.
14-day full trial, no account. macOS 13+, universal for Apple Silicon and Intel.
Coming from MacUpdater? Read how Floodtide replaces it. Unsigned beta: one extra step on first launch.
Three sources, read directly. No hand-fed database to die.
MacUpdater kept 100,000 apps current by hand until the work killed it. Floodtide asks the sources that already know.
The app's own feed
Most indie Mac apps publish a Sparkle feed. Floodtide reads the URL from the app bundle itself and checks the developer's appcast directly. Authoritative, signed, current the second a release ships.
The Homebrew catalog
A community-maintained index of Mac software, 7,482 apps today, refreshed continuously by thousands of contributors. Floodtide matches your installed apps against it and pulls each vendor's official download, checksummed.
The Floodtide chart
A small curated feed for apps the first two miss. It grows from real requests, one click in the app nominates an uncovered app, and never from a maintenance treadmill.
What Floodtide asks of your Mac. All of it.
Is your app on the chart?
7,482 apps in the Homebrew catalog alone, checked live · 2026-08-15
The field, honestly drawn.
| Updater | Price | Update sources | Posture |
|---|---|---|---|
| Floodtide | £19.99 once, 3 Macs | Sparkle feeds + Homebrew catalog + curated chart | No telemetry by default, explains every prompt, undo for every update |
| Updatest | $12.99 once | Homebrew catalog | In beta (Aug 2026); misses apps outside the catalog |
| Latest | Free | Sparkle + App Store only | Open source; roughly half of most non-App-Store apps are invisible to it |
| CleanMyMac | $40/yr subscription | Own database | Updater is a side feature of a large suite |
- Every update source, unlimited apps
- One-click Update All with automatic backups and undo
- 14-day full trial before any money moves
- After the trial the scanner stays free, only installing locks
- All 1.x updates included; 2.0 will be half price for owners
- Built and answered by one person, not a portfolio company
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Questions from the pier
Is this a subscription?
No. £19.99 buys the app outright, with every 1.x update included. If a 2.0 ever ships as a paid upgrade, owners get it at half price. The app keeps working forever either way.
What happens when my trial ends?
Floodtide keeps scanning and showing you what is outdated, free, forever. The Update buttons lock until a license is entered. Nothing nags on a timer.
Does it update Mac App Store apps?
No. The App Store already does that well, and Floodtide marks those apps as managed so you always know who is responsible for what.
What if an update breaks something?
Every install keeps the previous version zipped for seven days. Undo Last Update restores it in one click, and Floodtide verifies each new bundle's code signature before calling the job done. A build signed worse than the one you had is refused and rolled back automatically.
Why does it sometimes ask for my password?
Some apps live in folders macOS protects. Replacing those needs the same administrator prompt any installer shows. Floodtide batches the whole run into one prompt, tells you before it appears, and never sees the password itself; macOS handles it.
Is my data involved at all?
The app makes network requests to check updates, validate your license, and nothing else. One opt-in switch shares anonymous coverage data (app name, version, covered or not) to improve the chart; the exact payload is shown in Settings before you enable it.