Getting started
Connect a repository and publish your first release in about five minutes.
1. Create your workspace
Register and verify your email, and onboarding creates your first workspace. A workspace is one product: its repositories, releases, brand voice and public changelog all live together.
The free trial includes enough tokens for a few full releases, no card needed.
2. Connect a git provider
On Repositories, pick GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket. Once connected, your repositories import automatically.
- GitHub is one click: hit Connect with GitHub, and GitHub itself shows you the read-only permissions and lets you pick the repos. No tokens involved.
- Every provider also accepts a read-only access token; the page walks you through creating one.
- Shipnote reads commits, pull requests and tags. It never writes to your repo and never stores your source code.
- Bitbucket also asks for your Atlassian email and workspace ID (the name in your repo URLs).
3. Generate your first release
Hit New release, pick a repository and a date range (since your last tag is the usual choice), and preview the changes. Shipnote analyses the commits and pull requests, separates internal plumbing from customer-visible work, and groups everything into categories.
Before generating, the change list is yours to shape: untick anything you don't want mentioned, and add a manual line for things git can't see (a milestone, a launch).
4. Review and publish
Each output lives in its own tab: changelog, release notes, Plain English, Discord, an email, a thread and more. Edit any line by hand, or ask the assistant to rewrite a section ("shorter", "more exciting", or your own instruction).
When it reads right, Publish opens the destination picker: tick your public changelog page and any connected integrations, choose which copy each destination receives, and send. Every destination remembers what it already received, so you can publish in stages without double-posting.
Where things live
- Dashboard is the at-a-glance view: tokens left, releases, reads.
- Releases is the archive and the editor.
- History is everything you've generated, flat and searchable.
- Public changelog manages your hosted page.
- Integrations and Automations wire up destinations and triggers.
- Brand voice shapes how everything is written.
- Help & support goes straight to a human.