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How to update AppPad on your Mac
AppPad publishes its updates through a Sparkle feed, the updater built into the app. Below is how to run that update yourself, then how Floodtide does it for you, alongside every other app on the Mac.
Update AppPad by hand
- Check for Updates inside AppPad. Open AppPad, open the AppPad menu beside the Apple menu and choose Check for Updates. Sparkle, the updater built into the app, downloads the new version, verifies it and relaunches AppPad on it.
- If nothing is offered. Sparkle reads the feed at fineusing.com on the schedule set in AppPad's preferences, so a build that is out may not be offered until the next check. The menu item forces one now.
That is one app. The same walk, through a different menu or page each time, is what every other app on the Mac asks of you, which is where Floodtide comes in.
The shorter route: one click in Floodtide
Floodtide's own signed catalog lists where AppPad's developer publishes each release, and Floodtide reads that source directly to learn which version is current. When yours is behind, the row appears under Updates with the version that is out, next to every other app on the Mac that is behind.
- The developer's own build is downloaded, with real progress.
- It is checked against a checksum where the source publishes one, otherwise against the developer signature of the copy already installed, and Gatekeeper has to accept it before anything is replaced.
- AppPad is asked to quit politely if it is open, and never forced.
What Floodtide knows about AppPad
- Floodtide reads
- AppPad's Sparkle feed at fineusing.com
- Bundle ID
- com.fineusing.apppad
- Needs
- macOS 12.4 or later
- Installed by Floodtide
- Yes, in one click, with the rest of your apps.
- Each download is checked against
- a checksum where the source publishes one, otherwise the developer signature already on the installed copy, and Gatekeeper
Read from the source on 18 October 2026. The app reads it live.
Questions about AppPad
Does Floodtide update AppPad?
Yes. AppPad is in Floodtide's signed catalog, which reads AppPad's own release source, so it appears in your update list automatically when a newer version is published, with no configuration.
How does Floodtide install a new version of AppPad?
It downloads the developer's own build and checks it before anything on your Mac changes: against a checksum where the source publishes one, otherwise by requiring the same developer signature as the copy already installed, and Gatekeeper has to accept it. Then it quits AppPad if it is running and puts the new version in place.
Will updating AppPad lose my settings?
No. Floodtide replaces the application only. Preferences, licences and documents live outside it and are untouched.
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