Appversion For Mac

If you, like many others, install and use a significant number of applications, it can be difficult to keep track of their versions and ensure they all are up-to-date. While the App Store notifies you when Apple products are updated, other applications usually have to be checked individually.

Appversion aims to provide you with a solution to this problem, as it can perform a thorough scan of all your installed apps, display their current versions and check for available updates.

At first glance, Appversion stands out through its simplicity. There are no unnecessary interface elements, and the data is displayed in a rudimentary table consisting of four columns that each list the application’s name, installed and online version, as well as update status.

While keeping things simple is certainly not a bad thing, it would help if the table used alternating colors for each row, so as to improve readability.

Appversion can perform two types of scans, depending on whether or not you want to be informed of potential updates. A full scan can take some time, based on the number of apps installed on your Mac, and the application will be unresponsive until the process is completed.

Afterward, the utility lists each app’s current and online version, in addition to informing you of available updates. However, it would help if the list could be sorted based on each item’s status.

The generated report can then be saved on your Mac or printed directly.

Appversion is a simple utility that does the job it was designed for, and offers a no-nonsense method of checking for potential app updates. It would, however, benefit from some minor improvements to its interface, along with an online scanning engine that does not render the app temporarily unresponsive.