Monitor vs Monitor and AutoUpdate

Monitor 

Means that Heimdal will only keep and eye over you applications but he will not autoupdate them if a new update is released. He will only announce you that a new version has be released.

How will Heimdal let me know that a new version appeared for the Monitored Softwares?

• the Overview tab will turn yellow

• the software that is OUTDATED will have an RED exclamation mark

Monitor and AutoUpdate

This means that Heimdal will both Monitor and AutoUpdate an application if a new update is released. Here you don't have to do anything, Heimdal will do all the job for you.