Blocks submissionApp Store
Contests, gambling and lotteries are licensed, geo-restricted, free, and never funded by in-app purchase
The question The listing mentions betting, casino, lottery, sweepstakes or contest. Which is it? Are official rules shown in the app naming the developer as sponsor and Apple as uninvolved? For real-money play: licences in every territory, geo-restriction, free app, no in-app purchase for gaming credit?
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 when listing:\b(bet|betting|casino|poker|lottery|sweepstake|raffle|contest|gambl)
Checked from built, not yet uploaded, on a test track, submitted and in review, published
The rule, in our words
- App Review Guidelines: Sweepstakes and contests must be sponsored by the developer with official rules shown in the app that say Apple is not involved; in-app purchase may not buy currency for real-money gaming; real-money gaming and lotteries need licences everywhere they are offered, must be geo-restricted to those places and must be free; card counters and other illegal gambling aids are refused.
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
- Both require per-territory licences, geo-blocking, free download and no store billing. Google additionally requires a Google application, blocking under-age users, an AO rating, responsible-gambling information, and rules for gambling ads; Apple additionally requires sweepstakes official rules disclaiming Apple's involvement and refuses card counters. partial
- Google mandates a minor-blocking mechanism; Apple's 5.3 paraphrase names geography restrictions only. google-stricter
- none on the no-paid-chance principle; Google names NFTs specifically. 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.5.3.gaming-gambling-lotteries and says what to do, who does it, where, and how it knows.