Just set the application.update property to skip in the launcher script / configuration. -Dapplication.update=skip @see https://www.filebot.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2051#p11887 I highly recommend using the latest major version though. Especially if you use OpenSubtitles, TheTVDB, TheMovieDB ...

Is there a way to disable updates?

I use this program as a simple renamer to match subtitle files with video names and never have any problems, but having to hit ignore all the time when the update pops up is really annoying.