Uploading your first build
Last updated 16 August 2026
Drag an .apk or .ipa onto the box on the homepage, or tap it to browse. There’s no form to fill in first — App Dropper reads the app’s name, icon, version, build number and bundle ID straight out of the binary.
What happens next
Sign in
If you’re not signed in, App Dropper asks for that first. Your file stays selected while you sign in or create a free account, and the upload continues on its own once you’re verified.
The file uploads
A progress bar tracks the transfer. Free accounts can upload up to 150 MB per file, Pro up to 500 MB.
App Dropper reads the binary
A background job unpacks it to pull out the app name, icon, version string, build number and bundle ID — and, for iOS, the device UDIDs registered in the provisioning profile. This usually takes a few seconds.
Your link is ready
You get a share link and a QR code immediately, plus a button through to the app’s dashboard page.
Builds group into projects
You’ll never see a flat list of uploads. Every build is filed into a projectautomatically, matched on its bundle ID — so v1.0.1 and v1.0.2 of the same app land in the same place with full version history, with nothing to organise by hand. A bundle ID App Dropper hasn’t seen before creates a new project on the spot.
If it doesn’t work
If the file isn’t a valid signed .apk or .ipa, or it hits a plan limit — the number of builds a project can hold on the free plan, say — the upload card tells you which, rather than leaving you guessing, and offers a retry once you’ve sorted it out.
Doing this after every merge?
Don’t. Your CI can upload the build for you with one extra step — see Set up CI uploads.
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Ready to try it?
Drop an .apk or .ipa and get a shareable install link in seconds.