Before You Ship an AI-Made App Icon or Image: A Ledger and Four Checks
Can you ship an AI-generated icon or illustration as is? Before deciding, run four checks: a provenance ledger, the tool's terms, resemblance to existing work, and store size rules, with a working script.
Can a Booking or Shop App Use Stripe? Apple Draws the Line at Where the Thing Gets Used
Whether a booking or shop app may take payment with Stripe or must use in-app purchase comes down to Guidelines 3.1.1 and 3.1.3. A table by what you sell, a small routing helper, and a three-line review note.
Should You Ship a Web Version While the Store Reviews Your App? Choosing a Release Order for a Rork App With Three Questions
Web first or store first for an app built in Rork? I checked Rork's FAQ and Expo's docs: Rork Pro and Rork Max give you different options, and three questions help you decide the release order.
App Review Says "Guideline 2.1, Blank Screen": Three Places to Look in an Expo Release Build
It opens fine in TestFlight, yet review rejects it for a blank screen. Here is the order I check things in an Expo + EAS release build: which environment holds your variables, secret visibility during config resolution, and what the reviewer's device does differently.
Auditing Privacy Manifests for Rork-Generated Expo Apps — A One-Day Pre-Submission Workflow for Indie Developers
A pre-submission workflow for indie developers shipping Rork-generated Expo apps: enumerate every dependency, tell ITMS-91053 apart from ITMS-91061, and catch the Pods that npm names never show you — hermes included.
Sign in with Apple in Rork: Server-Side Verification, Account Linking, and the Mandatory Deletion Flow
A Sign in with Apple button that only lives on the client tends to fray on the server before it ever fails review. This guide builds the rest on Cloudflare Workers: a server-issued nonce, ID token verification, prompt authorizationCode exchange, an account deletion flow that revokes properly, and Apple's server-to-server notifications.
Make ITMS-91053 Stop Catching Your Rork Max App — A Release-Proof Privacy Manifest Workflow
Fixing ITMS-91053 once doesn't keep it away — every new dependency can bring it back. Here's a field-tested workflow to audit your dependency tree, generate declarations, and catch the rejection locally before you upload.
Reading Steps and Sleep into Your Rork Max Native App — HealthKit for Calm, Number-Light Wellness Apps
A walkthrough of adding HealthKit to the native Swift app Rork Max generates: reading steps, sleep, and heart rate, writing mindful sessions, and handling background delivery — including the App Store review wording and the production-only 'permission granted but zero data' trap.
When Your Rork App Gets ITMS-91053 — A Practical Guide to Privacy Manifests and Required Reason APIs
Submitting a Rork-generated Expo app to the App Store can trigger Privacy Manifest warnings even when you never wrote the offending code. Here is how to clear both Required Reason API and SDK manifest issues before you submit.
Why Your Rork App Gets Rejected for Broken Restore Purchases — Fixing App Store Guideline 3.1.1
If your Rork-built subscription app is getting rejected for Guideline 3.1.1, the Restore Purchases button is almost always the cause. Learn how to wire it up correctly with expo-in-app-purchases or react-native-iap and pass review on the next try.
Designing Subscription Apps with Rork — From Revenue Model to App Store Approval
How to add a subscription revenue model to apps built with Rork — covering pricing design, StoreKit integration, and the specific issues that cause App Store rejections.
Shipping a Kids App with Rork Max — Kids Category Review, COPPA, and Parental Gates
A complete guide to developing and publishing kids apps with Rork Max. Covers App Store Kids category requirements, COPPA-compliant implementation patterns, parental gate code examples, and Ask to Buy integration for indie developers.