I have 150 items in my applications folder on my iMac. That’s a lot of apps. Most of them are still under active development and therefore updates are often released. OS X has a nice update utility built in, but this, of course, does not check third party apps.

AppFresh is an app which will help keep your other apps up-to-date. The app is free to download, although they are yet to reach version 1.0 which means that it is still in “Beta.”

When you run the app, it will scan your Mac for everything which may need updating -- apps, preference panes, system updates and more. It will then automatically download the latest version of each app and replace the outdated version. If it can’t find the latest version, it will do its best to locate the website of the app to be updated, open the built in web browser and ask you to click on the download link.

It updated most of my apps perfectly. There were some that it couldn’t update for various reasons, but AppFresh is in Beta and it’s free, so I can’t complain. It didn’t make a mess of any apps, which is a good thing. I was a little hesitant to try it out incase it replaced apps settings/config files as well. It handled everything well, though.

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