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by leoapagano 408 days ago
Ignoring the obvious question of "why does a screen recorder that checks for updates every 5 minutes need to be installed if macOS already has a screen recorder built in"—writing your own (buggy) auto updater for a macOS app, in 2025, is nuts considering you also have two existing options for auto updates at your disposal, the Mac App Store and Sparkle (https://sparkle-project.org/), both of which are now nearly two decades old.