Yes: deploys vercel autodeploy-on |--all and deploys render autodeploy-on |--all, or in the Vercel and Render dashboards. See Auto-deploy off and on.

My login has several Vercel teams.

deploys vercel team picks one. The error message lists the ids.

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Q: Does it deploy anything by itself?

No. It deploys when you press Deploy or run a deploys command. The daily reminder in Settings is only a notification, and only when something waits. If you want a scheduled deploy, set it up yourself: scripts/daily-deploy.plist.example on a Mac, or Deploy from CI for CI.

Q: Where is my Render key stored?

In your macOS keychain, as the item deploy-center-render. deploys hands it to curl on stdin, so it does not show in the process list, and sends it only to api.render.com. The key gives full access to your Render account.

Q: Do I need the GitHub CLI?

For deploying, no. For seeing what is waiting (New changes, commits and PRs waiting, Select all changed, deploys changed and deploy-changed), yes: those read GitHub through gh.

Q: Windows or Linux?

The app needs macOS 15 or newer. The deploys script is bash and runs on Linux and in WSL (install it inside the Linux distribution): curl -fsSL https://deploycenter.app/install.sh | sh. In CI the key comes from RENDER_API_KEY instead of the keychain. See Deploy from CI.

Q: I disconnected a Vercel project before I used Deploy Center. It says "repo unknown".

Tell it where the project deploys from: deploys vercel map my-project me/my-repo main.

What does it cost?#

Nothing. Deploy Center is free and open source (MIT). You pay your hosts (Vercel, Render, and the opt-in ones: Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, AWS Amplify, DigitalOcean, Coolify) for the builds you start, and fewer of them. deploys simulate estimates what auto-deploy would cost you a month, deploys ledger what turning it off saved: Savings: simulate and ledger.

Does it deploy anything by itself?#

No. It deploys when you press Deploy or run a deploys command. The daily reminder in Settings is only a notification, and only when something waits. If you want a scheduled deploy, set it up yourself: scripts/daily-deploy.plist.example on a Mac, or Deploy from CI for CI.

What happens when I turn auto-deploy off?#

See Auto-deploy off and on. In short: Vercel loses the Git connection (the repo is remembered), Render's auto-deploy is set to Off, and a push builds nothing.

Can I go back?#

Yes: deploys vercel autodeploy-on <project>|--all and deploys render autodeploy-on <service>|--all, or in the Vercel and Render dashboards. See Auto-deploy off and on.

Where is my Render key stored?#

In your macOS keychain, as the item deploy-center-render. deploys hands it to curl on stdin, so it does not show in the process list, and sends it only to api.render.com. The key gives full access to your Render account.

Does the app send data anywhere?#

No telemetry, no account, no server of ours. It talks to Vercel and Render with your logins, to GitHub through your gh login, to your own sites for their logos and the check after a deploy, and once a day to deploycenter.app/appcast.xml to see whether a new version is out; an update itself is downloaded from GitHub (Settings → Look for a new version once a day turns that off). Claude features and Autofix send data to Anthropic only after you set them up: SECURITY.md.

Do I need the GitHub CLI?#

For deploying, no. For seeing what is waiting (New changes, commits and PRs waiting, Select all changed, deploys changed and deploy-changed), yes: those read GitHub through gh.

GitLab or Bitbucket?#

GitLab, yes: gitlab.com and self-managed GitLab are read like GitHub, through glab or GITLAB_TOKEN (+ GITLAB_HOST). See GitLab as a source. Bitbucket is not supported yet.

Windows or Linux?#

The app needs macOS 15 or newer. The deploys script is bash and runs on Linux and in WSL (install it inside the Linux distribution): curl -fsSL https://deploycenter.app/install.sh | sh. In CI the key comes from RENDER_API_KEY instead of the keychain. See Deploy from CI.

I disconnected a Vercel project before I used Deploy Center. It says "repo unknown".#

Tell it where the project deploys from: deploys vercel map my-project me/my-repo main.

deploys vercel team <id> picks one. The error message lists the ids.

A monorepo builds every project on every deploy.#

Use Vercel's Ignored Build Step, see Glossary.

A build ran although auto-deploy is off.#

Run deploys triggers. It lists builds of the last 24 hours that nobody started from here, GitHub workflows that deploy, and Render Blueprints with auto-sync.

How are "commits waiting" and "PRs waiting" counted?#

See Numbers explained.

Something does not work.#

See Troubleshooting.

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