Walkthrough: Bitrise Desktop App

Bitrise

Jul 24, 2026

Senior Product Manager Kaushal Vyas walks through the Bitrise desktop app, showing you how to rescue your focus from endless browser tabs. Inside: how to pin your mobile CI/CD pipelines right to your macOS menu bar, set up targeted build filters, customize failure notifications, trigger new builds, and utilize convenient shortcuts to access specific commits, pull requests, and logs.

⟢- TIMESTAMPS -⟢-

00:00 – Intro: installing and launching the app

00:36 – Signing in and authenticating via browser

01:02 – Selecting a workspace + overview of settings

01:39 – Adding a project from your workspace

02:08 – Configuring branch filters and build notifications

03:07 – Navigating build history, commit links, and pull requests

04:22 – Triggering a new build
05:01– Tracking a local directory and testing branch switching

⟢- ABOUT BITRISE -⟢-
Founded in 2014, Bitrise is the leading mobile DevOps platform, empowering over 8,500 brands worldwide including Generali, Shopify, TripAdvisor and BuzzFeed.

Bitrise provides a full-stack, vertically integrated mobile DevOps solution that unites the tools, processes and testing frameworks engineering teams need to build best-in-class mobile experiences. Over 400,000 developers use Bitrise’s products: Bitrise CI, Build Cache, Release Management, and Insights.

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