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Perian vs Sparkle

A side-by-side look at Perian and Sparkle. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Perian

Perian

Video & Movies

Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats like AVI, FLV, and MKV to QuickTime Player and other QuickTime-based applications on Mac OS X.

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Sparkle

Sparkle

Development

Sparkle is an open-source software update framework for macOS applications. It allows developers to easily provide automatic updates to their users by packaging and delivering app updates from a server.

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