App Store Rejection Checker
Check your app metadata against Apple App Store and Google Play guidelines before submitting. Catch common rejection reasons instantly.
Top 10 App Store Rejection Reasons
The most common Apple App Store Review Guidelines that cause rejections. Know these before you submit.
Guideline 2.1 — App Completeness
Crashes, placeholder content, or incomplete features. Test thoroughly before submitting.
Guideline 2.3 — Accurate Metadata
Misleading descriptions, irrelevant screenshots, or metadata that doesn't match the app's functionality.
Guideline 2.5.2 — Self-Contained Apps
Apps must function independently. Vibe-coded apps relying on external services that could disappear are flagged.
Guideline 4.0 — Design Quality
Apps must meet minimum quality standards for UI/UX. Broken layouts, poor usability, and web-view-only apps get rejected.
Guideline 5.1.1 — Data Collection & Privacy
Missing or invalid privacy policy. All apps must clearly disclose what data they collect.
Guideline 5.1.2 — Data Use & Sharing
Failing to disclose the purpose of data collection or sharing data with third parties without consent.
Guideline 1.2 — User Generated Content
Apps with UGC must include content moderation, reporting, and blocking features.
Guideline 3.1.1 — In-App Purchase
Digital goods must use Apple's IAP system. Linking to external payment methods for digital content is not allowed.
Guideline 4.2 — Minimum Functionality
Apps that are too simple, just a website wrapper, or don't provide enough value beyond a web page get rejected.
Guideline 2.5.1 — Private APIs
Using undocumented or private Apple APIs. This is common with auto-generated or AI-scaffolded code.
How It Works
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Select your platform
Choose iOS (App Store) or Android (Google Play). The checker adapts its rules and character limits to the platform you select.
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Fill in your metadata
Enter your app title, description, privacy policy URL, and other fields. Live character counts help you stay within limits.
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Run the audit
Click "Check My Listing" to run 16 automated checks against real App Store and Google Play guidelines.
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Fix issues and re-check
Review each flagged issue, follow the fix suggestions, update your metadata, and run the checker again until you hit a high score.
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Avoid App Store Rejection Before You Submit
About 40% of first-time app submissions get rejected by Apple, and the most common reasons are entirely preventable — missing privacy policies, character limit violations, prohibited words in titles, and misleading metadata. Each rejection costs days of lost time and delays your launch. This free checker validates your listing against 16 real App Store and Google Play guidelines so you can fix issues before hitting submit.
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The checker covers the guidelines that cause the most rejections: metadata accuracy (Guideline 2.3), privacy policy requirements (Guideline 5.1.1), promotional claims in titles, character limit compliance, and keyword stuffing detection. While this tool focuses on metadata-level checks, remember that code-level issues like private API usage (Guideline 2.5.1) and minimum functionality (Guideline 4.2) are also common rejection reasons. For help generating compliant, ASO-optimized metadata, try AppDrift's AI metadata generator — it produces store-ready content that follows all guidelines automatically.