Pricing
One payment for one report. Not a subscription, so there is nothing to cancel.
| What you get | App StoreFree | Google PlayBefore you pay | Google Play$19 |
|---|---|---|---|
| How many issues, and how severe | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Which part of the submission each one is in | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| What we could not check, and why | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| One finding in full, before paying anything | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| What exactly is wrong, on every finding | Yes | No | Yes |
| The policy clause behind each one | Yes | No | Yes |
| How to fix it | Yes | No | Yes |
The App Store column is free in full — there is no paid Apple report to compare it against. Why.
Apple is free
Apple checks are free, and stay free until we have measured them against real rejections. They come from Apple’s published guidelines rather than from rejections we have seen ourselves, and every report says so. Charging for a judgement we have not earned would be dishonest. The longer version.
If a scan fails
It refunds itself. You do not have to ask.
Listings in other languages — not built yet
Play already gives you machine translation for nothing, and will sell you human translation through the Console. If the free one has ever handed you a German title that will not fit in 30 characters, this section is for you. If it has not, we would genuinely rather hear that too.
Translating is the easy half. Fitting is the half that fails: ten languages means ten titles under 30 characters, ten short descriptions under 80, and ten full descriptions that keep the formatting Play renders. A title that runs to 34 characters cannot be submitted at all, and shortening it without breaking the meaning is work you currently do by hand.
We are considering building that, and only that: machine translation — clearly labelled as machine translation, because we cannot read most of these languages either — with every locale checked against the same limits and formatting rules this report already applies, delivered in one file you can paste straight into the Console. Have a speaker read it before you ship. We would be promising that it fits, not that it is good.
It does not exist, there is no date, and we are not taking money for it. We would rather know whether anyone wants it before building it than after. If you do, say which languages — that is the part that is actually useful to know.
If we were wrong
If we said something was fine and the store rejected it for exactly that, ask and you get your money back. See refunds.