UpdateStar - Simplify your software life

What is UpdateStar?

Trusted by 2.5 million active users of our products and services each month [Jan 2012], our products allow users to securely backup their data on our server facilities, receive updates for their software and device drivers and maintain their computers in good shape.

Headquartered in Berlin our mission is to deliver essential software Made in Germany to home users as well as corporate users. UpdateStar provides users with software update information for 5.7 million installations every day. UpdateStar is a standard for providing software information as well as complete software setups with the Packs to easily equip a PC with popular software. The UpdateStar software search engine additionally offers users access to our database with more than 1,273,000 software products.

UpdateStar allows users to access and acquire all of their software, updates and downloads as well as licenses from one place. Our state-of-the-art UpdateStar Online Backup service delivers unlimited online storage space for home user as well as businesses. More than 130,000 accounts are currently managed on our server facilities.

Why you can trust UpdateStar

UpdateStar puts users first and offers world-class products and services combined with a world-class support. That's why UpdateStar is trusted by a community of millions of users! UpdateStar is a long-year Microsoft Certified Partner and has an excellent reputation among the world-wide user base, as for example our Web of Trust (WOT) reputation scorecard shows. Press and customers alike give our products and services excellent reviews.

Feel free to test-drive our products. Plus the UpdateStar portal acts as your free software source for all the software you are looking for. Plus our users get a free UpdateStar membership and can create free accounts. No more fear of losing a license. This way our users can get easy access to all of their UpdateStar licenses at any time. Get your own free account here!

Team

The management team consists of members with a proven track and years of experience in building successful companies within the software industry.

Mission

The UpdateStar project aims to ease every computer user's software life. UpdateStar provides an outstanding free service every computer user can benefit from. Our global user community helps to build and complete the UpdateStar database by providing up to date data to the UpdateStar database. The positive reactions we receive every day show us just how much users world-wide love the idea of UpdateStar - easing everyone's software life.

UpdateStar not only provides the users with valuable information, but also offers optimal licensing options for shareware and commercial products. As a further advantage, UpdateStar delivers focused software news and coupons for more than 4,000 products. You not only receive licensing options through UpdateStar, but purchases made through UpdateStar also allow us to keep providing UpdateStar as a free service for the millions of users worldwide. We additionally provide clients with software market analysis services.

How our users support UpdateStar

Crowdsourcing works and the UpdateStar program database successfully relies on the users. Users of UpdateStar voluntarily submit update information for software products to the benefit of all other users. Programs and program information are constantly anonymously added to the UpdateStar software database making it already the most complete software database available - always up-to-date.

Secure Crowdsourcing

After reviewing submitted program and update information, UpdateStar provides newly added information via update alerts in the UpdateStar software client and the software search engine. UpdateStar's secure crowdsourcing approach allows our users to keep their PC's software updated to minimize their PC's security vulnerability level.

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