Shipmate
Shipmate is a free Mac app for indie developers. Yesterday’s sales, new reviews, review status and keyword ranks, in one window and one notification.
Example apps and numbers. The wording is Shipmate’s own.
At 9:00 Shipmate sends a single summary: the latest sales day, new reviews and the ones still waiting for you.
Review status changes and finished builds still arrive on their own, and each one opens the right screen.
A widget in two sizes shows yesterday’s sales, a 7-day downloads line, new reviews and the most urgent review status.
The menu bar keeps today’s numbers one click away.
Track keywords by country and see 30 days of ranks. Shipmate checks them once a day and tells you when one falls.
Small drops near the top count; noise further down doesn’t.
Read, filter and answer without opening App Store Connect. Draft a reply with on-device AI, or with your own key for a cloud model.
You always edit and publish yourself.
Apple’s reports arrive a day late. Add your own RevenueCat key and the Dashboard shows MRR, subscribers and trials as they are.
Read-only, and the key stays in your Keychain.
No account and no Shipmate server. Your API key lives in the macOS Keychain, and sales and reviews are stored locally.
Shipmate talks to Apple directly.
Create an API key in App Store Connect.
Users and Access › Integrations › Team Keys, with the App Manager role. Download the .p8 file.
Then drop it into Shipmate.
Shipmate checks it with Apple before saving, so a typo never leaves you staring at an empty Dashboard.
Tomorrow at 9:00, your pulse arrives.
History imports in the background. From then on, everything syncs on its own while Shipmate runs.
Yes. Shipmate is free on the Mac App Store, with no account and no subscription.
Your App Store Connect key stays in the macOS Keychain and your sales and reviews are stored on your Mac, and Shipmate talks to Apple directly. Anonymous usage events, with no app names, reviews or sales, go to Amplitude and can be turned off in Settings. A cloud AI provider or RevenueCat only receive anything if you add your own key.
A team API key with the App Manager or Admin role, from App Store Connect › Users and Access › Integrations. Shipmate checks it with Apple before saving. Sales reports also need your vendor number.
Apple publishes daily sales reports the next day, and Shipmate imports them as soon as they appear. With your own RevenueCat key you also see MRR, subscribers and trials in real time.
Any Mac with macOS 14 Sonoma or later. On-device AI drafting works best on Apple silicon.
Yes. Add as many App Store Connect keys as you need, give each a name and switch between them.
No. Shipmate is an independent app that uses Apple’s official App Store Connect API and public App Store search.
Free on the Mac App Store. Add your key once and Shipmate takes it from there.