Porchlight support
The vendors your app relies on. Answers in plain English.
Getting started
3 articles- Get started with PorchlightAdd your app, check what it uses, and Porchlight starts watching.
- Look around with sample dataTry every screen first, with made-up apps on real vendors.
- How Porchlight finds your stackIt reads your repo and your domain on your Mac, and shows the evidence for each service.
Purchases
3 articles- What does it cost?One app is free. One €24.99 purchase unlocks the rest.
- Restore your purchaseBought it on another Mac, or after reinstalling.
- Ask for a refundRefunds go through Apple.
Connections
2 articles- ConnectionsOptional, read-only, and kept in your Keychain.
- Make a GitHub token for PorchlightA fine-grained token, read-only, for your app’s repo.
Customers
2 articles- Tell your customers about an outagePorchlight drafts the notice; you post it.
- Connect your status pagePorchlight posts to your Atlassian Statuspage only when you press Post.
Dates
1 articleReference
4 articles- Every service Porchlight knowsThe 56 services Porchlight recognises and watches, and where it reads each one.
- What Porchlight needsmacOS 26 or later.
- What Porchlight reads, and what stays on your MacYour code never leaves your Mac, and nothing comes to us.
- A service I use isn’t listedAdd it by hand, or tell us which one.
Releases
2 articles- Will a release break my app?Porchlight quotes the breaking line and shows where your code meets it.
- Where summaries come fromWritten on your Mac by Apple Intelligence, from the quoted line only.
Reports
1 articleVerdicts
3 articles- Affecting you, might have, not youHow Porchlight decides whether a vendor’s outage reached your app.
- What the coloured strip meansOne cell a day, judged against your app, not the vendor.
- What needs you, and when you’re notifiedThree levels: now, this week, and the weekly summary.