Works with
HexSign works with Bitrise
Bitrise builds and ships your app. HexSign keeps the certificates and provisioning profiles those builds depend on from quietly expiring. They are different layers, so there is nothing to choose between: add the hexsign-fetch-signing-material Step to a workflow and Bitrise pulls the .p12 and the .mobileprovision from the HexSign vault at build time, instead of from code-signing files somebody uploaded last year and has to remember to replace this year.
TL;DR
- HexSign is not a CI. It is the certificate and profile layer under whichever CI you already run, so keeping Bitrise costs you nothing.
- One Step, hexsign-fetch-signing-material, downloads the certificate and profile and hands the paths to certificate-and-profile-installer. Nothing goes into Bitrise's code-signing file storage.
- Renewal runs on a schedule, not at build time. A daily job reissues distribution certificates and rebuilds profiles 30 days before expiry, so the failure never reaches a build log.
- Expiry alerts reach a human in email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira, PagerDuty, or incident.io. Bitrise documents build notifications, not certificate expiry alerts.
- Bitrise caps each app at 30 uploaded certificates and provisioning profiles, and its help docs point teams past that at the Fastlane Match Step or at fetching profiles on the fly. The HexSign vault has no cap and is shared across every app and Apple account you connect.
By Ash Dan, Founder, HexSign · Last reviewed
Where teams hit friction
Common pain points with Bitrise
Why teams pick HexSign
What HexSign adds on top of Bitrise
Live relationship graph
An interactive graph linking certificates, provisioning profiles, bundle IDs, and devices. Click any node to see its dependencies and the blast radius of revoking or rotating it.
Expiration alerts before things break
Alerts to email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira, PagerDuty, Jira Service Management, or incident.io at thresholds you choose (7, 14, 30, 60, 90 days). Send a test alert before enabling delivery, so there are no surprise expirations during a release.
Health score & expiring items
A 0-100% health score across every Apple account you connect, plus an expiring-items panel that surfaces what to act on first. No CLI invocation required.
Guided provisioning profile wizard
A step-by-step wizard picks the right profile type, identifier, signing certificate, and devices, then generates the profile through Apple's API. No portal tab-switching.
Multi-account dashboard
Connect one or many Apple Developer team accounts. Each syncs independently with its own status and error reporting, all visible from a single dashboard.
Audit logs, RBAC & MFA
Owner / Admin / Member roles, per-user auth activity log, and MFA via SMS or TOTP authenticator apps. Every certificate, profile, device, and identifier change is logged.
Side-by-side
HexSign vs Bitrise, feature by feature
HexSign | Bitrise | |
|---|---|---|
| Approach | ||
| Primary purpose | Apple Developer asset dashboard | Mobile CI/CD platform |
| Asset scope | Workspace-wide (multi-account) | Per-app / per-project |
| Asset cap | Unlimited | 30 uploaded certs+profiles per app |
| Standalone of CI | Tied to CI workspace | |
| Asset Management | ||
| Certificate generation | Yes (dashboard) | Yes (auto-provisioning step) |
| Certificate revocation | Yes (dashboard) | Done in Apple Developer Portal |
| Profile creation | Yes, via wizard | Yes (auto-provisioning step) |
| Profile regeneration | Yes, at build time | |
| Manual cert/profile upload | Synced via API; .p12 key upload for certs made elsewhere | Yes (.p12 + .mobileprovision) |
| Bundle ID & capability management | Via Apple Developer Portal | |
| CSR generation with KMS-encrypted private key | ||
| Visibility & Monitoring | ||
| Relationship graph | ||
| Health score dashboard | ||
| Assets-over-time analytics | ||
| Multi-account dashboard | Per-app config | |
| Alerts | ||
| Cert/profile expiration alerts (email) | Yes, custom thresholds | Not documented |
| Slack alerts for expiry | Build notifications only | |
| Microsoft Teams alerts for expiry | Build notifications only | |
| Team & Security | ||
| Role-based access control | Owner / Admin / Member | Workspace-level |
| Multi-factor authentication | TOTP / SMS | Workspace-level |
| Audit logs | Build-centric | |
| Open-source CLI | codesigndoc (MIT) | |
| Pricing | ||
| Free tier | ||
| Free trial | 14 days | Free tier (no separate trial) |
| Enterprise plan | Yes (custom VMs, unlimited builds) | |
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