What is it all about?

Ketarin is a small application which automatically updates setup packages. As opposed to other tools, Ketarin is not meant to keep your system up-to-date, but rather to maintain a compilation of all important setup packages which can then be burned to disc or put on a USB stick.

I created this application, because I couldn't find anything like it when I needed such a functionality. Since I don't want my efforts go to waste, I decided to release it to the public. Ketarin is open source, so you can also extend its functionality to fit your needs (just note that you may not use the icons that ship with it freely as well). I'd also appreciate source code contributions. Ketarin is written in C#, for the .NET Framework 4.5 and uses SQLite as database engine.

How does it work?

Basically, it monitors the content of web pages for changes and downloads files to a specified location. There is a tutorial explaining it all. Currently, you can either rely on a service based on FileHippo, or you can define your own rules, even using regular expressions (for advanced users). A similar application, for monitoring web pages, is "Webmon" and has sometimes served as guide.

 

Some features

  • Clean and lean user interface
  • Groupable application overview
  • Flexible methods to specify save paths
  • Regular expression support
  • Group applications by user defined categories
  • XML based import/export of applications
  • Run custom commands after downloading
  • Support for PowerShell scripts
  • Online database

Testimonials

“Ketarin is a great, great, great, great, great tool for system builders.” (MadDog)

Current version

The latest version of Ketarin is 1.8.11.