Summit Log

New users get every feature for ten days beginning only after Save & Test successfully connects their first App Store Connect account. After that, one $9.99 in-app purchase unlocks Summit Log for life; there is no subscription or recurring charge. If the preview ends first, saved fleet data, history, release journeys, and trends remain readable, while refreshes and notifications pause. Demo mode stays available and never starts the preview.

No. Anyone whose original Mac App Store download was Summit Log 1.0 or 1.1 receives lifetime access automatically. If that status does not appear, use gear menu → Restore Purchase while signed in to the Apple Account that originally downloaded the app.

During the preview, choose Keep Forever; after it ends, choose Unlock for $9.99. You can also open the gear menu and choose Unlock Lifetime. Restore Purchase rechecks both a previous lifetime purchase and qualifying 1.0 or 1.1 ownership. Purchases are processed by Apple through the Mac App Store.

macOS 13 Ventura or later, plus — to see your own fleet — an Apple Developer account and an App Store Connect API key. To try it first, you need neither: turn on Demo mode (see below) for a full sample fleet with no key and no network. It's a menu-bar-only app — look for the mountain at the top-right of your screen.

Generate a Team API key in App Store Connect under Users and Access → Integrations → App Store Connect API. Download the .p8 file — Apple lets you download it exactly once — then open Summit Log's gear menu → Credentials…, name the account, pick the file, and paste the Issuer ID and Key ID. Save & Test confirms the connection and, for a new user, starts the ten-day preview. Repeat to add another team.

Open Release & Store Trends, choose an app, then select Enable Analytics Reports…. Apple requires an Admin API key to create the first ongoing report request. The first reports normally take 24–48 hours; Summit Log shows a waiting state until they exist. After that, Refresh from Apple downloads the latest Standard reports directly to your Mac. Apple considers daily analytics complete after two days, and low-volume rows can be withheld or privacy-adjusted, so the newest values may change.

Yes. Open Credentials…, select Add account, and add each team's key. Use the account picker to view one team or All Accounts. Removing one account does not remove another team's key or erase local history.

Sales & Trends needs your vendor number, which Apple shows in App Store Connect under Payments and Financial Reports. Add it in Credentials. Two more quirks are normal: reports lag about a day (they appear around 9 am Pacific), and a key without Sales access shows “no access” for downloads while everything else keeps working.

Apple's App Store Connect API has no average-rating endpoint, so Summit Log reads the public storefront rating. Ratings are per-country; pick which storefront under Settings → Ratings storefront (US, UK, Germany, Japan, Canada, or Australia), and hover a rating to see which storefront it's from. Written reviews come from your account via the API. That's also why a review count can be lower than the rating count — stars-only ratings have no text to show.

Review-state transitions are always on — they're the point of the app. New-review alerts are optional with a star threshold (for example, only ★★★ and below, so praise doesn't ping you but problems do). An optional daily summary arrives at a time you choose. Two more are on by default, each with its own switch in the gear menu: a one-time reminder when an approved version has waited 12 hours for you to release it, and an unusual activity alert — at most one a day — for a download spike or a burst of low ratings. Clicking a review-state notification opens that version in App Store Connect. If Summit Log has no notification permission, the popover says so and links you to System Settings. To keep details off a locked screen, turn on Settings → Redact notification text.

The key lives in your Mac's Keychain, is never synced by Summit Log, and is used only to sign short-lived tokens sent directly to Apple. Nothing is ever sent to Fourteener Labs. See the Privacy Policy. If a key is ever exposed, revoke it in App Store Connect and add a new one.

Event history, daily download and in-app purchase totals, daily rating snapshots, and daily trend aggregates live in ~/Library/Application Support/SummitLog/; settings live in macOS preferences; each account's API key lives in the Keychain. Raw Analytics Report files are parsed in memory and are not kept. The desktop widgets read a small display copy of your fleet (plus app icons) that Summit Log writes to its own App Group folder on your Mac.

Two independent controls in the gear menu. Credentials → Remove account deletes that team's App Store Connect API key from your Keychain. Erase history deletes the local event feed, download and purchase history, rating snapshots, and trend aggregates. Neither touches the other, and both ask for confirmation.

On macOS 14 or later, right-click the desktop and choose Edit Widgets, then search for Summit Log. Fleet Status comes in small, medium, and large; Yesterday's Units in small and medium; Single App in small and medium — right-click it and choose Edit Widget to pick the app. Widgets refresh whenever Summit Log does, so keep Summit Log running (turn on Launch at login). Clicking a widget opens Release & Store Trends. Widgets show the apps visible in the popover and never show Demo data.

The bag count is in-app purchases (for example, lifetime unlocks) in the latest daily sales report, net of refunds; it appears only on days with purchases and is also included in the daily summary. The small arrow beside a rating shows its direction versus about a month ago. It appears once Summit Log has at least a week of rating history and only when the rating moved by 0.05★ or more.

Press ⌃⌥⌘L (Control-Option-Command-L) from any app to open Release & Store Trends. You can turn it off in the gear menu. It doesn't need Accessibility permission and doesn't see any other keystrokes.

Yes — right-click any row and choose Hide. The gear menu has “Unhide all” when you want them back.

On first run, choose Preview with demo data; you can also use gear menu → Demo mode. The sample fleet includes a scripted App Review journey and selectable store trends, using no credentials, network, or real history.