Exporting or copying release history in apps

💬 App Building
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Hello!

I have a client where they are doing an internal audit of their Retool software and they need a history of the app development.

Is there a way to export or copy the release history in apps? I know if you click on compare changes you can see the history of changes. Copying this could work but would be extremely clunky and time-consuming.

They are on the Business plan.

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While looking into ways to export or copy Retool release history, I ended up implementing a small pattern that worked well for us and documented it here:

A Structured GitHub Archive Pattern for Retool Releases

In short, the approach is:

  1. Export the app JSON for each release
  2. Store those exports in a Git repository (we used GitHub)
  3. Organize them chronologically and optionally by module
  4. Use Git for searchable diffs, history exports, and long-term archival

If you plan ahead, exporting the JSON after each published release makes this straightforward. In our case we reconstructed history retroactively by reverting to older releases, exporting them, and then restoring the latest version.

This ended up giving us a structured, searchable release archive outside the Retool UI.

Hope that helps anyone else looking for a similar approach.