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Lance App Manager MCP Server

Lance connects Claude to your real App Store Connect account. Not an API wrapper: an autonomous operator holding your team's credentials on a real Mac, driving the actual ASC website where Apple's API falls short.

Ask anything, get answers in seconds from live account data: apps, versions, builds, TestFlight, IAPs, subscription prices, customer reviews, submission status.

Delegate what you'd do by hand in ASC: create listings, fill metadata/privacy details, set up IAPs/subscriptions (including clearing the Missing Metadata state API-created products get stuck in), diagnose rejections, drive to submit-ready. Work runs in the background, typically 1-10 minutes; keep chatting while it runs.

The operator carries shipping tradecraft no API exposes: which rejections need a Resolution Center reply vs a fixed resubmission, what each Guideline citation actually requires, when an expedited review request is justified.

Ship builds without a Mac: stage a private git remote, push, and Lance reads the authoritative next build number live from ASC, then builds/signs/uploads to TestFlight on a managed Mac. Works from Windows/Linux/CI; re-pushes transfer only deltas; a typed receipt reports the outcome. For reads the named tools don't cover, mint short-lived audit-logged ASC API tokens and call any endpoint from your own runtime, no .p8 keys to manage. Files move through expiring artifact slots (.ipas in, APNs keys/provisioning profiles out); an account health check flags expiring certificates/unsigned agreements before they block a release.

Built for people shipping with AI: first-time submitters, rejection loops (2.1, 5.1.2(i)), the gap build tools leave open between TestFlight and review.

Safe by design: your Apple password never enters the conversation, the operator never overwrites existing ASC values, Submit for review happens only when you explicitly ask, every account read is audit-logged.

Connect your team at lance.app, then ask Claude to ship.

Publisher claimed. 12 tools reported by the publisher. Pod has not connected to this server, so nothing here is verified.

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Status

Pod has not dialled Lance App Manager yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

Tools

Its publisher lists 12 tools. Pod has not verified these against the live server yet.

Connect

A hosted endpoint at https://api.lance.app/mcp/directory, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "lance-app-manager": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.lance.app/mcp/directory"
    }
  }
}

Firsthand observations

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