Feature requests for Apple platform apps
Kickstart Signal adds feature requests, voting, and comments to your app with one SwiftUI view. Nothing goes public until you approve it.
Show today’s streak without opening the app.
I want to keep a copy of my data in a spreadsheet.
Let me log an entry from a Shortcut or Siri.
Same data on my iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
How it works
Anyone using your app can suggest a feature or vote for one that already exists. Every suggestion arrives privately in your dashboard first, so you decide what other users see, and you can rewrite it before it goes live.
Once a request is public, votes rank it, comments gather the details, and its status tells users where it stands: open, planned, in progress, completed, or declined.
Inside your app
Signal is pure SwiftUI: a request list, a detail screen with comments, and a form for new ideas. It runs on iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS, and watchOS, with support for VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, and other system accessibility features.
Each installation of your app gets one vote per request. Users can undo a vote and cast it again later, and the count only ever moves by one.
Requests are grouped by status: open, planned, in progress, completed, or declined. Users can filter by status and sort by votes or by newest.
Where Apple’s Translation framework is available, users can translate a request’s title and description into their own language without any text leaving the device.
Your controls
New requests and comments wait for you in your dashboard. Approve, edit, reject, or merge duplicates into one request, and reply as the developer whenever you want.
Use your own titles and messages, and set a tint color to match your app. Turn comments and voting on or off together from your dashboard.
Download your boards, feedback, votes, and request history as one file. You can also clear feedback and request history while keeping your boards, settings, account, and registered apps.
Four steps
Create your free Kickstart account. The same account works with Signal and Exchange.
Register your app once and prove you own it. A human reviews every app, and that one registration serves every Kickstart service.
Place SignalBoardView wherever it suits your app, using the same API key as Exchange.
Ideas arrive privately. Approve the good ones, merge the duplicates, and mark them completed when they ship.
Privacy
Signal keeps feature requests, comments, and votes for participating apps, never a profile of the people who wrote them.
import KickstartSignal
import SwiftUI
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var body: some View {
NavigationStack {
SignalBoardView(apiKey: "ks_live_…")
}
}
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The Kickstart SDK package supports iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS 15, tvOS 18, visionOS 2, and watchOS 11 or later. It is MIT licensed and depends on nothing. The board handles listing, voting, comments, and new ideas by itself, and all of its text is localized.
Already using Kickstart Exchange? The same package and the same API key cover both, so adding Signal means linking one more product.
FAQ
Nothing. Kickstart Signal is free for every Kickstart account, with no plans or tiers.
Only after you approve them. A new request or comment is visible to you alone until you publish it, and you can unpublish or delete it later. That makes everything on the board something you chose to show, rather than an open forum.
Each installation of your app gets one vote per request, which it can undo and restore. Repeated taps do not add extra votes.
No. Exchange and Signal are separate services on one Kickstart account. Register an app once and use either service, or both.
Yes. The API key on your app’s Integration tab identifies the app to every Kickstart service. It ships inside your app, so it grants no access to your dashboard. If you ever reissue it, both Exchange and Signal move to the new key at the same time.
A title and description for a request, and comments on published requests if you enable this feature. There is no field for a name, email address, or anything else about the person. Free text is still user content, so read it before you publish it.
Yes. Your replies appear as comments from the developer, and they are published straight away rather than waiting in the queue.
Merge them. The duplicate is folded into the request you keep, its history stays on record, and users who open the old one are taken to the one that survived.
Apps for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS, or watchOS can join once ownership is verified and a human has approved them. A public App Store listing is required, including for apps available for preorder.
The first time you add an app from an App Store developer ID, we give you a short verification code. Prove it’s yours either by publishing that code on the website listed on your App Store page, or by pasting it into your app’s promotional text in App Store Connect, which needs no app update. Later apps from the same developer ID skip this step but still need human approval. If your app is already on Kickstart Exchange, it’s already verified.
Yes! The board has excellent support for VoiceOver, Switch Control, Dynamic Type, and other system accessibility features. It uses standard SwiftUI controls with clear accessibility labels and hints.
SwiftUI, plus iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS 15, tvOS 18, visionOS 2, or watchOS 11 and later. It has no dependencies, builds with Xcode 26, and is MIT licensed.
A random installation identifier, request titles and descriptions, comments, and votes. Developers may also indicate whether a user has unlocked paid features. The guide has the matching App Privacy answers for App Store Connect, and the privacy notice has the details.
Yes. Set a tint color and provide your own titles and messages. Light and dark mode follow the system. You can turn comments and voting on or off together from your dashboard.
Yes. From your account page you can download your boards, requests, comments, votes, and request history as one file. You can also clear feedback and request history while keeping your boards, settings, account, and registered apps.
No. Kickstart Signal is free for every indie developer, whether or not you use Kickstart.
That said, Signal tells you what to build, and Kickstart helps with everything after that: it’s a Mac app that walks you through marketing your app step by step, from App Store page to launch and beyond. If you want more people to find your work, Kickstart is the perfect companion to Signal.
Kickstart Signal is free to use, and it takes minutes to add.
