Blocks submissionBoth stores
No objectionable content, and no fake or joke features such as a fake location tracker
The question From the listing, the screenshots and the app's own strings: is anything offensive, discriminatory, violent, sexual or inflammatory? Does any feature fake device data or pretend to do something it does not, such as a location tracker that does not track? Name what you looked at.
A person or a model answers it from the app's texts and screens; the answer is kept only while the facts it saw are unchanged.
Applies to every app
Checked from built, not yet uploaded, on a test track, submitted and in review, published
The rule, in our words
- App Review Guidelines: Apps should not include content that is offensive, defamatory, violent, sexual, inflammatory about religion, or false, including fake device data, joke features such as fake location trackers, or anything that profits from a current tragedy; apps enabling anonymous or prank calling or messaging will be rejected. Saying it is for entertainment does not excuse it.
- Illegal Activities: No facilitating or promoting illegal activity: no sale of illegal drugs, no depicting drug, alcohol or tobacco use by minors, no instructions for making illegal drugs.
- Child Endangerment: Zero tolerance for anything that endangers children: no content or use that facilitates abuse, grooming, sexualisation, sextortion or trafficking; no adult themes, excessive violence, dangerous acts or negative body-image content in an app that appeals to children. Anonymous chat, random chat, social and dating apps must publish standards prohibiting child abuse, offer in-app reporting, remove such material on knowledge, comply with child-safety law including reporting to the relevant authority, and name a child-safety contact.
Okkok never stores the stores' text. Each item above is our paraphrase, and the link is the page it rests on, verified unchanged by fingerprint on every run.
The other store
- none on the joke/prank principle. Apple also bans defamatory, sexual, religiously inflammatory content and profiting from tragedy, which Google places in other content policies not in this bundle. same
- Google's clause is specific to fake security/infection warnings; Apple's covers any false device data. partial
- Google's ban is conditioned on child appeal and adds a zero-tolerance list (grooming, sextortion, trafficking); Apple's 1.1 applies regardless of audience. partial
- Google names specific app types and demands published child-safety standards, legal reporting and a named child-safety contact; Apple has no equivalent named-contact or reporting-to-authority duty. google-stricter
Check your app
pip install git+https://github.com/petresandu-cloud/okkok
okkok audit path/to/app
The report names this rule as apple.1.1.no-objectionable-or-fake-features and says what to do, who does it, where, and how it knows.