Blocks submissionGoogle Play

A news or magazine app declares itself and names sources, contact and preview

The question The listing describes a news or magazine app. Is the self-declaration filed in Play Console? Is every article's publisher or author shown? Is contact information easy to find? Is there an in-app preview before subscribing?

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(news|magazine|journal|headlines)

Checked from on a test track, submitted and in review, published

The rule, in our words

• News & Magazines: A news or magazine app must declare itself in Play Console, name the publisher or author of every article, update its content, give clear contact details and sources for third-party content, offer an in-app preview before any subscription, and not exist mainly for affiliate or ad revenue.

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.

Check your app

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

The report names this rule as google.news-app-declaration and says what to do, who does it, where, and how it knows.