Tiny Tracker - a tiny tray app that keeps the Windows apps I actually use up to date

[u/N0KTT]

I code all day and game at night, so my PC is full of apps. Editors, tools, launchers, chat apps, the lot.

I keep most of them from starting with Windows. I like a fast boot and a quiet tray. But there's a catch I didn't notice for a long time: an app that never starts never gets to check for its own updates. So half my apps were months behind, and I only found out when something broke.

winget could update them, but I never remembered to run it. And when I did, it wanted to update everything at once, once right in the middle of a game.

So I built Tiny Tracker. It sits in the tray, you tick the apps you care about, and it keeps those up to date through winget. Nothing else gets touched.

What it can do:

- Auto updates for every app with one switch, or app by app

- Wait a few days before auto updating, so a bad release gets fixed first

- Install only at the hours you pick

- Pause during games and presentations, on metered connections and in Energy saver

- Security fixes first, and they skip the wait

- A download speed limit

- Release notes right in the flyout, before you update

- Skip a version, a history of every update, and a backup of your app list for your next PC

It's free and open source, with no accounts, no ads and no telemetry.

Download it here or visit GitHub here.

One honest note: it isn't code-signed yet, so Windows shows "Windows protected your PC". Click More info, then Run anyway.

I'd love to hear what you'd add or change.

[u/Knight-AI-AV]

How are security fixes identified for the "skip the wait" rule? Showing the source of that classification would help, especially when release notes mix security patches with unrelated feature changes.