diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-apps.yml b/.github/workflows/build-apps.yml
index 930038027..ba1bc55ea 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-apps.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-apps.yml
@@ -382,3 +382,14 @@ jobs:
           glob: '*'
           parent: false
           destination: 'dl.kittycad.io/releases/modeling-app/nightly'
+
+      - name: Tag nightly commit
+        if: ${{ env.IS_NIGHTLY == 'true' }}
+        uses: actions/github-script@v7
+        with:
+          script: |
+            const { VERSION } = process.env          
+            const { owner, repo } = context.repo
+            const { sha } = context
+            const ref = `refs/tags/nightly-${VERSION}`
+            github.rest.git.createRef({ owner, repo, sha, ref })
diff --git a/scripts/flip-files-to-nightly.sh b/scripts/flip-files-to-nightly.sh
index 7ed512e01..89f407240 100755
--- a/scripts/flip-files-to-nightly.sh
+++ b/scripts/flip-files-to-nightly.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 export VERSION=$(date +'%-y.%-m.%-d')
+export TAG="nightly-v$VERSION"
+export PREVIOUS_TAG=$(git describe --tags --match="nightly-v[0-9]*" --abbrev=0)
 export COMMIT=$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)
 
 # package.json
@@ -13,7 +15,7 @@ yq -i '.publish[0].url = "https://dl.zoo.dev/releases/modeling-app/nightly"' ele
 yq -i '.appId = "dev.zoo.modeling-app-nightly"' electron-builder.yml
 
 # Release notes
-echo "Nightly build $VERSION (commit $COMMIT)" > release-notes.md
+./scripts/get-nightly-changelog.sh > release-notes.md
 
 # icons
 cp assets/icon-nightly.png assets/icon.png
diff --git a/scripts/get-nightly-changelog.sh b/scripts/get-nightly-changelog.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..c599f4df8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/get-nightly-changelog.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+echo "## What's Changed"
+git log ${PREVIOUS_TAG}..HEAD --oneline --pretty=format:%s | grep -v Bump | awk '{print "* "toupper(substr($0,0,1))substr($0,2)}'
+echo ""
+echo "**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/KittyCAD/modeling-app/compare/${PREVIOUS_TAG}...${TAG}"