Issues updating from 25.07.3 --> 25.07.4 on macOS

Anki Help
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Hey everyone,

I just updated from 25.07.3 → 25.07.4 on my MacBook via the new update menu. It seems to have worked (kind of) because when I have a look at the “About” section, it says that I have 25.07.4 installed but when I have a look at my “Programs” folder and I right-click the Anki app and then I click on “Info”, it tells me that I have 25.07.3 installed.

This also causes “MacUpdater” (an app that I use to check if there are any updates available for any of my apps) to get confused because it still tells me that I have 25.07.3 installed.

Would appreciate any help / info here. Thanks in advance!

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The version shown in Finder is the version of Anki’s launcher, and not Anki itself. Not every release going forward may come with a launcher update.

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Ah, okay. Thanks for the explanation.

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I believe that things would be less confusing if the launcher is called Anki Launcher in the Installed apps section in Windows (and equivalent on Mac) and has a version scheme different from that used by Anki itself (e.g. SemVer).

Similarly, the launcher should be named as anki-launcher in package managers such as WinGet and HomeBrew so that users know that the package manager is updating only the launcher, not the app itself.

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There’s no equivalent on macOS - the program name is the name of the .app folder. And we still want users to be able to start Anki by clicking on “Anki”, not “Anki Launcher”.