{"id":3790,"date":"2007-12-13T08:59:56","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T07:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/top-5-essential-updaters\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:38:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:38:18","slug":"top-5-essential-updaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/top-5-essential-updaters\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 essential updaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" title=\"UpdateStar logo\" id=\"image3789\" alt=\"UpdateStar logo\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2007\/12\/updatestar-logo.png\" \/>One of the biggest problems I find with software is that it gets outdated very quickly. The best programs come bundled with automatic updaters that automatically update the program when I new version is released by the developers. The worst are those that have no automatic notifiers, no link to an update page, and once you&#8217;ve found it, require you to uninstall an application and then reinstall it again. Here are 5 essential tools that will make your life a lot easier when it comes to keeping your software in synch with the latest releases.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes-library-updater.en.softonic.com\">iTunes Library Updater<\/a> &#8211; Constantly synchronises your music with the iTunes database<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/updatestar.en.softonic.com\">UpdateStar<\/a> &#8211; Updates all the software installed on your PC where supported<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/trueupdate.en.softonic.com\">TrueUpdate<\/a> &#8211; Create automatic software patches for your programs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ftpupdatesearcher.en.softonic.com\">FTPUpdateSearcher<\/a> &#8211; Scans specified FTP sites for software updates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/actisetup.en.softonic.com\">ActiSetup<\/a> &#8211; Create your own installers with automatic updaters<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest problems I find with software is that it gets outdated very quickly. The best programs come bundled with automatic updaters that automatically update the program when I new version is released by the developers. The worst are those that have no automatic notifiers, no link to an update page, and once &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/top-5-essential-updaters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Top 5 essential updaters&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-3790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336603,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3790\/revisions\/336603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3790"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=3790"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=3790"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=3790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}