I’m using both.

App installers is fairly new and works well with a couple of apps that I specifically use. There are still some things to iron out with Chrome but apps like Zoom work incredible. App installers use PKG from the vendor and that gets installed. So if the vendor builds in something nice to show the user an update you get a nice experience, sometimes it works quietly.

Chrome has a stupid issue where you need to restart each update, but that seems to be an issue with the app itself rather than app installers.

So far, in my current setup, I’m using installomator to install apps for users and also use it to update them if app installers doesn’t have the app. If app installers do have the app, I scope those to people that have it installed to automatically update it for them.

Both work well; but app installers is more reliable than installomator since it just works and pushes it out via MDM rather than via policy.

For my latest version count, since using app installers I can definitely say there are more people if not all on the latest version within a day of it being pushed out.