The VersionTracker URL is no longer active. Daily updates for programs are listed, and users can download CNET's TechTracker utility for maintaining their installed software through the site. The software update tracking features are all still available, but the old layout is no longer used. On September 7, 2010, VersionTracker became fully integrated into the CNET site structure and has merged with CNET's service. CNET's promotes VersionTracker heavily on its website, through ads and following file downloads, although without specifically referencing its ownership of CNET. In August 2007, VersionTracker and sister sites MacFixIt and iPhone Atlas became CNET sites. As releases of software for the older Mac OS dried up, its section was discontinued. Upon the advent of Mac OS X, the Macintosh section was split into Classic Mac OS and a section devoted to software for the new operating system. It started as an Apple-only site but eventually expanded to include software related to the Microsoft Windows and Palm Pilot platforms.
VersionTracker was created by Kurt Christenson, a Sacramento, CA native in 1995. Although most software for these platforms is automatically kept up to date by a package management system these sites can be used to find software not included in the standard repositories. GnomeFiles and Freshmeat are similar sites that cater to the open source and Linux communities. It competed against driver/program update sniffers, RadarSync, PC Pitstop, UpdateStar,, , SUMo, and to some degree with, Softpedia, Tucows, and other file download sites, as well as Info-Mac and MacUpdate for Macintosh software updates. VersionTracker Pro tracked software versions on the user's computer and compared those versions to VersionTracker's database. Paid users had access to a streamlined download process and the VersionTracker Pro software application. VersionTracker did not host the majority of the software listed - it merely linked to them.īrowsing and searching the database was free. It began as a Mac OS software tracker, eventually expanding into Mac OS X, iPhone, Microsoft Windows and Palm OS software. VersionTracker was a website that tracked software releases.
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