How to update Shortcut Bar on your Mac

1. Check for Updates inside Shortcut Bar. Open Shortcut Bar, open the Shortcut Bar 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 Shortcut Bar on it.
2. If nothing is offered. Sparkle reads the feed at fiplab.com on the schedule set in Shortcut Bar'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.

Floodtide's own signed catalog lists where Shortcut Bar'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.
• Shortcut Bar is asked to quit politely if it is open, and never forced.