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Getting started

Bitrise Release Management simplifies distributing your iOS and Android apps to testers or directly to app stores. Release Management works by adding one or more Release Management apps to a Bitrise project. You upload installable artifacts (either IPA or APK/AAB files) to Release Management and then you can distribute the files to testers or release them to an online store.

You can go to Release Management from the Dashboard or by selecting Releases from the left navigation sidebar. Both ways takes you to the Release Management overview screen where you will be able to see your apps in the future.

To start using Release Management:

  1. Learn about the key concepts of Release Management.

  2. Make sure you have at least one Bitrise project.

  3. Add one or more new app(s).

  4. Check out build distribution for testing: you can distribute installable artifacts to testers without involving Google Play or the App Store.Build distribution for testing

  5. Connect the app(s): this requires setting up a connection to App Store Connect or Google Play.

  6. Once you have a connected app, add a new release.

  7. Configure your release.

  8. Go through the stages of the release process to release the app.

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