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How to update Input Source Pro on your Mac

Input Source Pro is published as the Homebrew cask input-source-pro, and the app can also update itself. Below is how to run that update yourself, then how Floodtide does it for you, alongside every other app on the Mac. Homebrew describes Input Source Pro as "Tool for multi-language users".

Update Input Source Pro by hand

  1. Let Input Source Pro update itself. Open Input Source Pro. It checks for new versions on its own, and if it has not offered one yet, look in the Input Source Pro menu, or under Help or its preferences, for Check for Updates, then let it download and relaunch.
  2. Upgrade the Homebrew cask. If you installed Input Source Pro with Homebrew, open Terminal and run brew upgrade --cask input-source-pro. Homebrew downloads the current build, checks it against the checksum it publishes and replaces the app in your Applications folder.
  3. Or download it from inputsource.pro. Otherwise get the current build from inputsource.pro, which is the same download Homebrew points at. Quit Input Source Pro, open the download and put the new Input Source Pro in Applications in place of the old one: a disk image is dragged across, an installer package runs its own steps. Your settings and documents live outside the app and are kept.
brew upgrade --cask input-source-pro

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 reads the same Homebrew record for Input Source Pro that the brew command above does, without needing Homebrew installed, to learn which version is current. When yours is behind, the row appears under Updates with the version it will move to and the download size. Pressing Update, or Update All, does the rest:

  • The vendor's own build is downloaded, several apps at a time, with real progress.
  • The download is verified against the checksum the catalogue publishes.
  • Input Source Pro is asked to quit politely if it is open, and never forced.
  • The bundle is swapped and the old version kept for seven days, so Undo Last Update always works.
  • The replacement's code signature is checked; a build signed worse than the one you had is rolled back automatically.

Every download of Input Source Pro is checked against the checksum Homebrew publishes before anything is replaced.

If Input Source Pro lives in a folder macOS protects, the swap asks for your administrator password once for the whole batch, exactly as the Finder does when you install anything by hand.

What Floodtide knows about Input Source Pro

Floodtide reads
the Homebrew cask input-source-pro
Developer
inputsource.pro
Version the source named on 18 October 2026
2.13.2
Downloads come from
inputsource.pro
Installed by Floodtide
Yes, in one click, with the rest of your apps.
Updates itself
Yes, when you open it. Floodtide covers it anyway, so the Mac is checked whether or not you do.
Each download is checked against
the checksum Homebrew publishes

Read from the source on 18 October 2026. The app reads it live.

Questions about Input Source Pro

Does Floodtide update Input Source Pro?

Yes. Input Source Pro also ships its own updater, so it can keep itself current when you launch it. Floodtide covers it anyway, because a self-updating app only updates when you happen to open it, and it tells you nothing about the other apps on the Mac. Floodtide shows Input Source Pro beside everything else and updates the whole set in one pass.

How does Floodtide install a new version of Input Source Pro?

It downloads the vendor's official build, verifies it against the checksum the catalogue publishes, quits Input Source Pro if it is running, swaps the bundle, and keeps the previous version for seven days so the update can be undone.

Will updating Input Source Pro lose my settings?

No. Floodtide replaces the application only. Preferences, licences and documents live outside it and are untouched.