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Privacy Policy Templates for Rork Apps: A Practical Guide for App Store Submission in 2026
Right before submitting a Rork-built app to the App Store, the part that quietly trips up most indie developers isn't the code — it's the privacy policy. Here's a working English template plus the gotchas I learned the hard way.
Keep Rork-Generated UI From Drifting: A Practical Visual Regression Workflow with Storybook and Chromatic
A field-tested guide to wiring Storybook for React Native and Chromatic into a Rork project so you can spot AI-induced UI regressions before they ship — covering install pitfalls, story design, GitHub Actions, and a review workflow built for AI-generated code.
Don't Ship Rork Apps With an Empty EXPO_PUBLIC_RORK_AUTH_URL — A Practical Setup Walkthrough
What to put in EXPO_PUBLIC_RORK_AUTH_URL when Rork generates an app with login, and how to wire it up across dev, EAS Build, and production safely.
Use Apple FoundationModels in Rork — A Practical Guide to On-Device LLM Apps That Keep Working Offline
Call Apple's FoundationModels framework from a Rork-generated SwiftUI app to add AI features that keep working offline. Covers text generation, streaming, structured output via @Generable, and tool calling — all with full Swift code and production-ready error handling.
Why Your Rork Modal Won't Close — 5 Common Pitfalls and How to Fix Them
The close button doesn't fire, tapping the backdrop does nothing, and buttons inside the modal feel dead. In Rork-generated React Native code, eight times out of ten the cause is one of these five patterns.
Choosing an AI App Builder in 2026 — A Decision Framework Comparing Rork, Lovable, Bolt, and FlutterFlow
'Which AI app builder should I pick?' — getting this question more often. Five practical questions to choose between Rork, Lovable, Bolt, and FlutterFlow based on your situation, not on spec sheets.
Native iOS Apps with Rork: SwiftUI to TestFlight
New iPhone projects in Rork are generated in Swift and SwiftUI, and Rork Pro carries them all the way to the App Store. How to tell an old Expo project from a new one, costs in credits, the skeleton prompt, device testing, when to drop into Xcode, and TestFlight submission.
Taking a Rork Max Native App Up the App Store Charts — The Order I Build Ads, StoreKit 2, and Subscriptions
The order I follow to grow a Rork Max SwiftUI app into one that stays near the top of its App Store category: a single AdGate that decides when ads may show, StoreKit 2 Transaction.updates monitoring, and where I draw the lines on ASO and retention — with working code.
Making a SwiftUI App on Rork Max Profitable: Three Decisions — Plan, Monetization, Timing
When you build a SwiftUI native app on Rork Max, profitability rarely hinges on the price tag — it hinges on which plan, which monetization model, and when you ship. Three decisions from indie experience that make the subscription pay back from month one.
Usage-Based Billing for Rork AI Apps with Stripe Meter — Charge by API Calls and Tokens, Not Flat Rates
Implement usage-based billing in your Rork AI app with Stripe Meter — meter setup, Cloudflare Workers reporting, retry queues, event aggregation, and how to choose between metered billing and prepaid credits.
App Store Rejection Playbook for Rork Apps
Rork-generated apps tend to bump into specific App Store review patterns. Here is a guideline-by-guideline playbook of the rejections I actually hit, a quick-reference table, the age rating answers that became mandatory in September 2026, review-note pitfalls, and a pre-resubmission checklist.
Rork's Free Plan and Free Trial — What You Actually Keep When the Credits Run Out
What ends a Rork free trial is messages, not days. Export while it is still free, verify it builds outside Rork with a small script, then decide about paying.