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Settings

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Connect accounts, manage storage, and adjust app-wide behavior.

What It Is

Settings is where you connect Kickstart to the services it can work with, manage local storage, and adjust app-wide preferences. Debug-only settings are not shown in normal builds, so this page covers the tabs you will see in the released app.

General

General contains everyday preferences and maintenance tools.

Notifications

Enable the daily sales report if you want a once-a-day summary of yesterday's App Store earnings. This needs App Store Connect credentials and a vendor number, because the data comes from your own sales reports.

TestFlight

Hide tester email addresses when you want feedback screens and exports to avoid showing personal email addresses while you review beta feedback.

Caches

Clear cached App Store Connect, Apple Ads, competitor, exchange-rate, and screenshot data when you want Kickstart to fetch fresh copies. You can also delete downloaded narration models; bundled voice previews stay inside the app.

Support

Start temporary diagnostic logging when support asks for more detail about a problem. Logs are private files on your Mac, run for ten minutes, and are only shared if you choose to send them.

What's New

Kickstart shows a What's New window after app updates so you can see what changed. You can reopen the same release notes from Help > What's New.

MCP

Advanced users can copy the bundled MCP helper configuration so AI assistants can work with Kickstart projects through the local helper.

Kickstart Pro

Kickstart Pro shows whether your subscription is active and which plan is currently recognized by the app. Upgrade and subscription-management entry points appear from locked Pro features and Apple's subscription UI.

App Store

The App Store tab stores App Store Connect API credentials, your vendor number for sales reports, and Apple Ads API credentials.

App Store Connect API

To connect Kickstart to App Store Connect, Apple gives you three pieces of information. Kickstart walks through them step-by-step so each value is added in the right place.

Why Kickstart Recommends an Admin Key

An Admin key can sound like a big permission, but Kickstart recommends it because the app covers a broad range of App Store Connect work. That role lets you use Kickstart to fetch and change information about your apps, access TestFlight feedback, download sales figures, read and respond to user reviews, create custom product pages, and more.

The key is not requested because Kickstart wants broad access for its own sake. It is requested because Apple splits everyday launch and growth work across many App Store Connect permissions, and a narrower key can make some screens appear broken even when your credentials are technically valid.

Your credentials are stored in Kickstart's encrypted credentials vault on your Mac and can sync through your iCloud account. They are used by Kickstart to talk directly to Apple's APIs; they are not sent to Kickstart's website or to us. If you ever feel unsure, you can revoke the key in App Store Connect and create a new one.

You can try a lower-permission key if your workflow is limited. Some features may not be able to read or write the data they need, and those requests may fail until the key has enough access.

Vendor Number

Add your vendor number if you want Kickstart to retrieve sales and financial reports. This powers sales summaries, revenue analysis, and daily sales notifications.

Apple Ads

Add Apple Ads credentials when you want Kickstart to inspect campaign performance and connect ad activity to App Store work such as custom product pages, localization, and revenue.

GitHub

The GitHub tab stores a Personal Access Token for publishing websites to GitHub Pages. Kickstart uses the token only for website publishing tasks, stores it securely, and lets you clear it when you no longer want GitHub publishing connected.

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