A project per app, milestones per release
App A 1.5, App A 1.6, App B 2.0 — each release is a milestone. The active milestone tells you exactly what's blocking your next submission.
For app developers
Plan every release. Ship every build.
Milestones is the planner for people who actually ship apps. A project per app, milestones per release, tasks for every TestFlight build, App Store submission, and post-release fix.
Download on the App Store Free · Works on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
What's not working today
- Linear and Jira are configured for someone else's team workflow.
- GitHub Issues works for code, not for App Store screenshots and review notes.
- You forgot to update the privacy manifest because it lived only in your head.
- Switching between three apps to plan three apps is a context-switching tax.
- Tracking 'submitted', 'in review', 'rejected', 'released' across products is a mess.
How Milestones fixes that
For app developers
App Store checklist as tasks
Screenshots, release notes, privacy manifest, what's new, App Review notes — every recurring submission task lives as a checkable task. No more rediscovering them on submission day.
Tag everything: bug, polish, feature, blocker
Color tags work across apps. Pull up every blocker across every app in one tap before a release week.
Private — no account, no team admin
Your iCloud. Your apps. Your unannounced features. No team plan, no shared board for that random freelancer to leak from.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
How is this different from your indie / iOS developer pages?
App developers covers the full ecosystem — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, visionOS — and any team size shipping native apps. The indie page is for solo devs running a portfolio; the iOS-developers page goes deep on Apple-platform engineering. This page is the broadest entry point.
Does it integrate with App Store Connect or TestFlight?
No direct API integration — by design. Most app developers want a planner, not yet another API surface. Milestones tracks the human side: what's left, what's submitted, what got rejected and why.
Can I plan multiple apps?
Absolutely — that's the sweet spot. One project per app, the sidebar holds your full portfolio, the active-milestone view across projects shows what's next regardless of which app it's for.
What about post-release / hotfix work?
Make a milestone called '1.5.1 hotfix' the moment a crash report comes in. Tasks are the fix, the regression check, the resubmission. The Mac app is great for triaging Sentry / TestFlight feedback during release week.
Cross-platform (Flutter, RN) developer — does this still fit?
Yes. The model is platform-agnostic; many cross-platform devs use it for the planning side and keep their language-specific tools (Linear, GitHub Projects) for engineering tickets.
Is there a Pro plan?
Free for personal use. An optional Pro upgrade unlocks the project archive (great for shipped apps you keep around) and custom icons.
How does Milestones compare?
Side-by-side with the apps you might already be using.
Milestones vs
Linear
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Milestones vs
Notion
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Milestones vs
Trello
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Ship the next version with a clear head.
Free to download. Native on every Apple device you own. Private iCloud. Built by an indie app developer for indie app developers.
Download on the App StoreFree · No account required · Private iCloud sync