// App Store Connect, from the terminal

Ship iOS apps with one API key.

Signing, build upload, listing, screenshots, in-app purchases and submission — all from a CLI. No Apple ID sign-in, no 2FA prompts, no Xcode account, no Ruby.

Early-access price for the waitlist. No spam, one email when it ships.

$ ascship doctor
✓ API key valid (role: App Manager)
✓ Distribution profile matches bundle id
! Entitlements: aps-environment missing
  ↳ xcodegen regenerated the project and dropped it
✗ Archive CFBundleVersion 11 ≠ project 12
  ↳ re-run xcodegen after bumping the version
✗ What's New contains emoji (ASC rejects)

$ ascship build --upload
archiving… exporting (manual signing)… uploading
✓ Build 12 processed in 6m 41s

$ ascship submit
✓ 1.3 (12) → WAITING_FOR_REVIEW
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The parts of shipping nobody warns you about.

Each of these cost an indie developer a rejected build, a broken release, or a lost afternoon. ascship doctor checks for all of them before you upload.

Entitlements silently wipedRegenerating the project with xcodegen drops Sign in with Apple or push — and the build still passes.

Signing without an Xcode accountWith only an API key, automatic signing fails. The fix is creating profiles via the API and exporting with manual signing.

App Privacy "saved" but not publishedThe submit button stays greyed out and nothing tells you why.

Preview video rejectedApp Previews need an audio track, even a silent one.

Wrong push environment keyThe bare aps-environment entitlement, not a com.apple.developer.* one.

Stuck on a rejected submissionFreeing the version to resubmit takes an API call the web UI hides.

Everything from archive to "Ready for Sale".

Your listing lives in one ascship.yaml in your repo. Change it, run a command, done.

initPoint at your .p8 key, pick your app

profileCreate dev & App Store profiles via API

buildArchive, export, upload, wait for processing

listingName, subtitle, keywords, description, What's New

screenshotsUpload sets per device size, plus previews

iap / subsCreate products, prices, review screenshots

submitAttach build, answer export compliance, submit

statusReview state, rejections, live version

Built for you and your coding agent.

Every command has --json output and clear exit codes, and ascship ships with a Claude Code skill. Tell your agent "ship it" and it can take the release through review without you clicking around App Store Connect.

no-login

API key only

Works on CI, on a fresh Mac, and in agent sandboxes. Your Apple ID password never touches it.

zero-deps

Just Node

npx ascship. No Ruby, no gems, no Bundler version fights.

agent-ready

JSON everything

Machine-readable output and a bundled skill, so agents can call it without scraping text.

	ascship	fastlane	ASC website
Works with only an API key	Yes	Partly	No
Signing without an Xcode account	Yes	Via match	No
Pre-upload checks for known traps	Yes	Limited	No
JSON output for agents	Yes	No	No
Runtime	Node	Ruby	Browser

Pricing

Buy it once. No per-app or per-seat fees.

Free

doctor — every trap check
status — review state

Pro · lifetime

$49 one-time

Every command
Unlimited apps
Claude Code skill
Waitlist gets early-access pricing