Blocks submissionBoth stores

The name, icon and interface are the developer's own and impersonate nothing

The question Search the App Store for the app's name and close variants. Does another app or service use this name, icon or look? Does anything in the listing borrow another developer's brand? Record what was searched and what was found.

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: Do not copy another app, its name, icon or interface, or impersonate another app or service; another developer's icon, brand or product name may not be used without their approval.
• Impersonation: No app or developer may pretend to be, or imply a relationship with, another developer, company, government or app through its name, icon, description or in-app elements; titles like 'Official' need the rights; Android brand guidelines apply.
• Misrepresentation: Developer identity, ownership, primary purpose and country of origin must be truthful; no coordinating with other apps, sites or accounts to hide who is behind an app, especially on political or social matters.

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; Google adds that "Official" needs the rights and that Android brand guidelines apply. same
• none; Google frames it around tricking users into actions meant for the trusted app. same
• none. same
• Google adds primary purpose, country of origin and a ban on coordinated concealment across apps or accounts. same

Check your app

pip install git+https://github.com/petresandu-cloud/okkok
okkok audit path/to/app

The report names this rule as apple.4.1.not-a-copycat and says what to do, who does it, where, and how it knows.