How iRecord updates, and what to do when no update appears

iRecord checks for a new version once a day and installs nothing without being asked.

How an update reaches you

• A found update appears as a quiet pill on Home. Click it when you are ready.
• The update window only opens when iRecord is already the app you are looking at. It never jumps in front of what you are doing.
• No check ever runs during a recording. Installing an update quits and relaunches the app, which would end the take. If you ask for a check mid-recording, iRecord refuses and says why.
• To check on demand: the menu bar icon, or Settings → Check for Updates….

No update ever appears

Almost always the app is not in a place it can replace itself.

1. Quit iRecord.
2. Open the disk image and drag iRecord onto the Applications alias inside it.
3. Eject the disk image and launch iRecord from Applications.

Two locations look normal and cannot update: running the app straight off the mounted disk image (the image is read-only), and running a still-quarantined copy from wherever it was downloaded — macOS executes that from a read-only temporary location. Moving it to Applications fixes both.

"The app is damaged." The download did not complete cleanly. Delete it, empty the Trash and download again. If it happens a second time, write in — see Contacting support.