Thank you for using Kickstart! This update includes a fresh batch of new features and improvements to help grow your success on the App Store: - NEW: There’s now a dedicated Help tab, where key Kickstart features have a detailed explanation and full tutorial video. - NEW: The Competitors view now tells you which search terms competitors rank for, and where applicable gives you direct links to Kickstart Screens to explore them further. - NEW: Kickstart’s MCP has been dramatically upgraded to support full Apple Ads read and write for agents. - NEW: Sign up to the Kickstart newsletter for occasional emails about new features, growth tips, and more. - NEW: You can submit feature requests in the new Help activity – let me know how Kickstart can help you grow faster! - NEW: Kickstart Overdrive now supports custom keyboard shortcuts for the most common Device Hub tasks. - IMPROVED: Adding suggested competitors is now faster and more effective. - IMPROVED: Keyword Tracking, Keyword Explorer, Keyword Trends, and Search Suggestions now work for Greece, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and Vietnam. - IMPROVED: You can now create Custom Product Pages in multiple languages. - IMPROVED: Competitor screenshots now let you tap any screenshot to get a zoomed view. - IMPROVED: Keyword Trends has a new All Categories mode, to show the most popular keywords across the whole App Store. - IMPROVED: Creating a custom AI narration voice works better for users with quiet microphones. - FIXED: Some users reported problems with Big Picture mode; this should now be resolved. - FIXED: Past in-app events could sometimes show “Draft” status; they now correctly show Past or Archived. - FIXED: The Reviews tab now loads much faster for apps that have many reviews.

This corrects a Kickstart Pro glitch that affected some users in Keyword Tracker. The update also includes all the new features from Kickstart 2.0: - NEW: macOS 27 users can opt in to Apple’s powerful new Private Cloud Compute for all AI-powered operations, upgrading almost every part of Kickstart. Users on macOS 26.4 or later also benefit from improved offline Foundation Models. - NEW: Keyword Tracker now optionally includes search popularity scores across the 28 biggest App Store territories, so you can see exactly which keywords real users are looking for. - NEW: Keyword Explorer lets you optimize your keywords by finding synonyms and measuring their search popularity. - NEW: Keyword Trends lets you track the most popular searches across every category in the 28 biggest App Store territories. - NEW: Explore the most likely App Store search suggestions, inspect their popularity, and send them directly to Keyword Tracker or Keyword Explorer. - NEW: Get inspiration from the onboarding and paywalls of top-selling apps with Kickstart Screens in the Build tab. - NEW: Explore pricing using the Van Westendorp price survey system in the Analytics tab. - NEW: Big Picture mode shows key performance indicators across all your apps, all in one place. - NEW: You can now edit your app’s store listing and keywords right through Kickstart, getting live App Store Optimization feedback as you work. - NEW: Kickstart Overdrive now supports Xcode 27’s Device Hub and the iPhone 18 Pro simulator. - NEW: Kickstart Exchange is here, making it easy for indie app developers to get discovered with free advertising. - IMPROVED: You can now quickly export all your tracked keywords and their results to a CSV.

This update for Kickstart is the biggest yet, packing in several huge new features and popular user requests: - NEW: macOS 27 users can opt in to Apple’s powerful new Private Cloud Compute for all AI-powered operations, upgrading almost every part of Kickstart. Users on macOS 26.4 or later also benefit from improved offline Foundation Models. - NEW: Keyword Tracker now optionally includes search popularity scores across the 28 biggest App Store territories, so you can see exactly which keywords real users are looking for. - NEW: Keyword Explorer lets you optimize your keywords by finding synonyms and measuring their search popularity. - NEW: Keyword Trends lets you track the most popular searches across every category in the 28 biggest App Store territories. - NEW: Explore the most likely App Store search suggestions, inspect their popularity, and send them directly to Keyword Tracker or Keyword Explorer. - NEW: Get inspiration from the onboarding and paywalls of top-selling apps with Kickstart Screens in the Build tab. - NEW: Explore pricing using the Van Westendorp price survey system in the Analytics tab. - NEW: Big Picture mode shows key performance indicators across all your apps, all in one place. - NEW: You can now edit your app’s store listing and keywords right through Kickstart, getting live App Store Optimization feedback as you work. - NEW: Kickstart Overdrive now supports Xcode 27’s Device Hub and the iPhone 18 Pro simulator. - NEW: Kickstart Exchange is here, making it easy for indie app developers to get discovered with free advertising. - IMPROVED: You can now quickly export all your tracked keywords and their results to a CSV.

Thank you for using Kickstart! There's another huge collection of improvements in this update – I appreciate everyone who wrote in with requests and bug reports! - NEW: Keyword tracking has been greatly expanded, and is now its own top-level activity rather than being inside Competitors. It now has a trend sparkline so you can see movement over the last 30 days, you can filter by specific platforms, double-clicking a keyword row shows more details, you can also control whether keywords must match all tags or any tag, and can also immediately add all your initial keywords from App Store Connect. It's also significantly faster for users who are tracking many keywords, and should happily scale up to 1000 keywords and beyond. - NEW: You can now add subtitles to any video – double click on it, then enable "Use video speech as narration", then you're done! - NEW: The video editor can now create and animate arrows, has new bounce animation styles, and can split multiple clips at a time. - NEW: Adding an existing app to Kickstart now has a custom task list that is more focused on helping you grow your app faster. - NEW: Submitting an Editorial Nomination has a new "Enhance" button, so you can turn a few sentences into something pitch-worthy. - NEW: You can now reduce or remove reflections in all 3D device models. To enable this new behavior, download the new v2 models. - NEW: Kickstart now shows a What's New screen when you update the app, so you can see what's changed across each version. - IMPROVED: You can now select keywords to track straight from the Keyword Analysis screen. - IMPROVED: Added editorial nominations guidance directly from meeting Apple's editorial team at WWDC. - IMPROVED: Generating content for a website will use real customer reviews if enough exist. - IMPROVED: By popular demand, Kickstart Overdrive and the video editor are now both on the welcome screen. - IMPROVED: Clicking any device resolution in Kickstart Overdrive's menu bar icon switches between points and pixels. - IMPROVED: Adding your App Store Connect credentials now uses a step-by-step approach to make it easier. - IMPROVED: Kickstart Overdrive's settings now has an option to launch Overdrive automatically when you log in. - IMPROVED: You can now backdate journal entries. - FIXED: Apps with very low analytics numbers (very new apps, for example) now no longer get stuck on the Preparing Analytics screen. - FIXED: Website image filenames now get lowercased and slugged to avoid publishing problems – "My Screenshot 1.png" will be converted to "my-screenshot-1.png". - FIXED: Complex subscription scheduling is now handled more clearly, allowing you to selectively replace existing schedules as needed. - FIXED: Website homepages now use the Site Name value for the title tag, and you can now use landscape device images in website screenshots. - FIXED: If you push back a task, its new date is calculated from today rather than from its original date. - FIXED: Added a "Delete" context menu to release checklist items to complement the swipe to delete option. - FIXED: Terms of Service and Privacy Policy links are now cleaner. - FIXED: Downloading app analytics is now much faster, and less likely to cause performance problems for popular apps. - FIXED: The Press Kit's "About the Developer" box now supports Markdown. - FIXED: Fixed a rare crash when using update_project with the MCP. - FIXED: The Competitors comparison table has clearer behavior for sorting the current app. This release also adjusts the privacy policy, planning ahead for a future release. The change is to note that AI integration will either be done locally on your Mac or using Apple's Private Cloud Compute. Either way, it's always private to you – Kickstart continues to track nothing at all.

Thank you for using Kickstart! This update contains a fresh batch of new features, improvements, and bug fixes – I appreciate everyone who took the time to email me with their requests and bug reports! If there's something you would like to see added, email hello@kickstart.tools. - NEW: Apple Ads integration is here! Kickstart can download and present all your campaign data in one place, provide insights and trends, and give you specific advice on which campaigns to scale – and which to cut back. (And yes, it works with the MCP too!) - NEW: You can now search for and track competitors on the Mac and iPad App Stores. Each platform is tracked independently because search ranks will vary. - NEW: Kickstart Overdrive has a new Data inspector for browsing SwiftData/Core Data databases. - NEW: You can now right-click on any tracked keyword and track it in a different region as well, plus you can now attach tags to competitor keywords to help you group and filter. - NEW: You can now make a custom audio recording and have Kickstart add subtitles for it. - NEW: You can now bulk import keywords to track by separating them with commas. - NEW: You can now edit the default review reply templates, or add your own. - NEW: There's a new "Submit to a Directory" activity in Marketing, providing direct links to various app listing directories online. - IMPROVED: Your support email and website address are now set once, in Basic Information, and used in your website, in review replies, press kit generation, and more. - IMPROVED: The Video Editor now supports importing and exporting videos with transparency, and has reset buttons for all value entry fields. - IMPROVED: The Website Editor now supports a custom CNAME file. - IMPROVED: Kickstart Overdrive can now round screenshot corners without applying a device bezel. - IMPROVED: The competitors Comparison Table now shows your app, so you can see it directly alongside competitors. - IMPROVED: You can now select how many days of upcoming tasks you want to see, defaulting to 7. - IMPROVED: Selecting a tracked keyword now shows you the full search results for that term. - FIXED: Zero subscription days are now presented more clearly. - FIXED: Creating a website with generated content now always reloads the final site when generation completes. - FIXED: When downloading user reviews, Kickstart now requests as many as possible from Apple. - FIXED: When adjusting price parity, Kickstart now scrolls to the top so you can see overall progress. - FIXED: If you select the wrong folder for Build Analysis, Kickstart will make you select again. - FIXED: Converting a Journal entry into a Build in Public post was failing for some users; this has been made more resilient. - FIXED: Timeline shortcut keys in the video editor now no longer interfere with system shortcuts like copy and paste.

Thank you for using Kickstart! This update adds several new features, and fixes most of the early bug reports. If you hit any problems, please get in touch at hello@kickstart.tools! - NEW: You can now create custom voices to use with AI narration in the video editor – just press Manage Voices next time you add narration. - NEW: You can now add your own custom tasks for a project. - NEW: You can now add your app's terms of service in the website editor, or select to use Apple's default terms. Website templates also now describe their contents before creation. - NEW: The MCP has been upgraded to include support for refreshing details on App Store optimization, revenue details, user reviews, and more. - IMPROVED: Competitor keywords can now be filtered and sorted, the refresh/delete buttons are now wider and easier to hit, and the competitor overview can also now be sorted. - IMPROVED: When sharing user reviews as images, you can now adjust the text that gets shared. - IMPROVED: Added a dedicated Contact Support menu item under Help, to make it easier to get in touch with feedback, and the double Help menu item has been removed. - FIXED: Resolved a problem some users were facing with Build in Public, where posts would refuse to generate. - FIXED: Fixed a video editor bug that caused video export to fail when clips were trimmed at the start, and another bug that caused media to be oriented wrongly in some situations. - FIXED: The App Store Connect video export sizes have been updated. - FIXED: In the subscription analytics screen it's now much clearer how many subscriptions are active versus in a free trial. - FIXED: Some users were reporting occasional action buttons in Overview weren't visible; this should be resolved now. - FIXED: The Clear Credentials settings button now shows as soon as any credentials are entered, it also validates your Issuer ID is correct to avoid mistakes, and the whole Settings window also now has a fixed width. - FIXED: A bug affecting some users with Editorial Nomination submissions has been resolved. - FIXED: Importing an existing app from App Store Connect now only shows achievement highlights rather than all achievements. - FIXED: You can now change the folder Kickstart scans in Build Insights, and scanning is also significantly faster. - FIXED: Overdrive will now accept Xcode apps that have custom names. - FIXED: Fixed a UI misalignment in release checklists. - FIXED: Added suggested app directories such as AlternativeTo and MacUpdate to new project tasks.

This corrects a bug with iCloud storage, fixes a rare crash in the website generator, and also removes a handful of typos.

This contains a handful of bug fixes for website editing.

This corrects a handful of early bugs.