Floodtide
Update all of you mac apps from one place
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Details
- External ID
- 1263364
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Floodtide
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 5, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.77
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Menu Bar Apps
Description
Update supported Mac apps together, including App Store apps, and manage Homebrew packages in one place. Choose optional automatic updates. Free scanning and a 14-day full trial, then £10.99 once for 3 Macs. macOS 13+.
Enrichment
- Niche
- macOS utilities and system tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- centralized app updater for mac users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A menu-bar UI interacting with Homebrew is trivial, but programmatically inspecting and updating third-party Mac App Store apps requires undocumented private APIs or external CLI tooling like `mas`.
What it would actually take: The app needs Swift/Objective-C to manage subprocesses executing Homebrew and the open-source `mas` CLI wrapper to trigger Mac App Store installations. To do this reliably as a packaged commercial app without triggering sandboxing or notarization rejections from Apple, developers must handle elevated helper tools and security entitlements. It requires solid macOS systems engineering knowledge and reverse-engineering of macOS app bundle metadata.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 119 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #38 of 120 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 331 days after the earliest competitor.
- Greypaint · ph · 2026-09-27 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Sippo: Water reminder app for Mac · ph · 2026-10-07 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Glu · hn · 2026-09-16 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Cupola · ph · 2026-10-04 · 63 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Taphouse · hn · 2026-02-10 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Snapstack · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- AppDock · github · 2026-10-12 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- N8Island · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
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