ReleasePad Is Now on the GitHub Marketplace

ReleasePad is now officially listed on the GitHub Marketplace — connect your repos, generate release notes from your commits with AI, and publish them everywhere.

After passing GitHub’s review process, ReleasePad can now be installed directly from the Marketplace. For you, that means tighter integration, faster setup, and the confidence that comes with GitHub’s own vetting.

Here’s what this means in practice.

What ReleasePad Does

Every update you don’t communicate is a feature your users never find.

Your team ships bug fixes, new features, improvements. But if users don’t hear about them, those changes might as well not exist. Features go undiscovered. Support tickets pile up for problems already fixed. Users churn from products that feel abandoned — even when they’re actively improving.

ReleasePad connects to your GitHub repos and uses AI to turn every commit into clear, human-friendly release notes. You ship code, ReleasePad tells the story.

How the GitHub App Works

Getting started is quick:

Sign in to ReleasePad with GitHub — Create your account using GitHub as your identity provider. This is just login — it doesn’t grant access to any repo contents.
Install the GitHub App — From your ReleasePad dashboard, trigger the App install. This is a separate, explicit step that grants read-only access to the repos you pick.
Select your repositories — Grant access to all repos or only specific ones. You can change this anytime from GitHub settings.
Push code — ReleasePad reads your commit messages and drafts release notes with AI.
Review and publish — Edit if you want, then publish to your changelog page and in-app widget at once.

No templates to set up. No commit message conventions to adopt. No process changes for your team. It works with your existing workflow, no matter how messy your commit history is.

What You Get

Alongside the AI drafting, every account comes with a hosted public changelog page on your domain — a single searchable home for every update you’ve shipped — and a lightweight in-app widget (4.3kb gzipped) that surfaces those updates inside your product, where users are already engaged. You stay in control: every draft is editable before it goes live.

Security and Permissions

ReleasePad never writes to your repositories or modifies your code. It’s read-only by design.

The GitHub App requests exactly two permissions:

Repository contents (read) — to read your commit messages
Metadata (read) — required by all GitHub Apps

That’s it. Your codebase stays untouched.

Why This Matters

Being on the GitHub Marketplace isn’t just a distribution channel. It means:

One-click installation — No API keys to copy, no OAuth flows to configure manually. Install directly from GitHub.
Granular repo access — Choose exactly which repositories ReleasePad can see. Revoke access anytime from your GitHub settings.
GitHub-reviewed — The app has been through GitHub’s review process. You’re not installing an unknown integration.
Centralized management — Manage ReleasePad alongside all your other GitHub Apps from a single place.

Free to Install

ReleasePad is free to install from the GitHub Marketplace. Connect your repos, generate your first set of release notes, and see the result before you commit to anything.

If you’ve been meaning to set up a changelog but the writing part keeps blocking you, this removes the friction. Push code, get release notes, publish.

Install ReleasePad from the GitHub Marketplace →