For vibe coders
You vibe-coded an app. Now get it on the App Store.
You built an app without writing much code, and it works. Now you want it on your actual phone, or up in the App Store, and Apple stops you cold. It wants a signing certificate. A provisioning profile. A bundle ID. This is the first time any of that has ever come up, and here is the annoying part: your AI editor can't fix it for you, because none of it lives in your code. It lives in your Apple account. That is where HexSign comes in. Connect your Apple account once and it sorts out the signing pieces Apple insists on, keeps an eye on them so nothing expires on you, and shows the whole setup in one place instead of scattered across Apple's portal. You wrote the app. Let HexSign deal with Apple.
TL;DR
- The app is done. It's the Apple signing part, certificates and provisioning profiles, standing between you and the App Store. That's the bit HexSign does.
- Doesn't matter what you built it in. Expo, React Native, Flutter, Capacitor, or a native project the AI spat out. Same Apple signing either way.
- You won't touch Xcode. A wizard walks you through the certificate and the profile and makes them straight through Apple's API.
- Two things HexSign can't do for you: pay for the Apple Developer account, and build the actual app file. Everything Apple-side in between, it handles.
- It also remembers the thing you'll forget. Certificates die after a year. HexSign warns you before yours does, so your live app doesn't just stop working one day.
Where teams hit friction
Common pain points signing vibe coding apps
What HexSign adds
What HexSign adds for vibe coding teams
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.
How it works
How HexSign fits a vibe coding workflow
- 1
First, the one thing nobody can do for you
You need an Apple Developer account. It's a real thing you pay Apple for, roughly 99 dollars a year, and there's no way around it. Sign up as yourself or as a company. Once you're in, you have an App Store Connect account, and that's where all the signing stuff we're about to deal with actually lives.
- 2
Connect HexSign to Apple with an API key
Inside App Store Connect there's a spot to generate an API key. You get three things out of it: an Issuer ID, a Key ID, and a small .p8 file. Drop those into HexSign once and it pulls in everything Apple has on you. No terminal, no commands to memorize.
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Look at what's there, and what's missing
HexSign draws your certificates, profiles, and bundle IDs as a connected map. If your app is missing a piece, you see it right there, instead of finding out when a build blows up at the worst possible moment.
- 4
Let the wizard make the certificate and profile
This is the part that usually eats an afternoon. The wizard asks you a few things, works out which certificate type and which profile you actually need, and creates them through Apple's API. No Xcode, no pasting CSR commands from a five-year-old Stack Overflow answer.
- 5
Build it, ship it, and forget about it safely
HexSign doesn't build your app. Your builder does, whether that's EAS, Codemagic, Xcode Cloud, or a Mac on your desk, and it reads the exact signing assets HexSign just set up. Same API key. Then months later, when that certificate is about to expire, HexSign pings you first, so the live app never quietly stops working.
Side-by-side
Signing vibe coding apps with HexSign vs without
With HexSign | Without HexSign | |
|---|---|---|
| Getting to your first signed build | ||
| Know which signing assets Apple wants | Graph shows what is missing | Read Apple docs and guess |
| Create a distribution certificate | Guided wizard | Xcode or portal + CSR |
| Create a provisioning profile | Guided wizard | Apple portal, tab by tab |
| Working without a Mac | ||
| Manage signing from a browser | Xcode is macOS only | |
| Feed a cloud build (EAS, Codemagic) | Same API key | Configure each by hand |
| Register a test iPhone before launch | Per-device view | Apple portal |
| A year after launch | ||
| Warning before the certificate expires | Email + Slack + Teams at custom thresholds | Apple 30-day notice |
| See every expiring item in one place | Expiring-items panel | Check each by hand |
| Know what breaks if you revoke something | Blast-radius graph | |
| When it stops being a solo project | ||
| Add a cofounder or contractor safely | Owner / Admin / Member roles | Share the Apple login |
| See who changed what | Audit log | |
| Protect the account with MFA | TOTP / SMS | Apple ID only |
FAQ
Questions about HexSign for vibe coding
Other use cases
HexSign for other frameworks
Native iOS apps in Xcode
Code signing for iOS Native (Swift)
Read the iOS Native (Swift) use caseCross-platform UI toolkit
Code signing for Flutter
Read the Flutter use caseNative mobile from JavaScript
Code signing for React Native
Read the React Native use caseCross-platform desktop apps
Code signing for Electron
Read the Electron use caseComparing HexSign to a specific tool? See HexSign vs Fastlane Match, HexSign vs Apple Developer Portal, HexSign vs Codemagic, HexSign vs Bitrise, and HexSign vs Xcode Cloud.