Audit engine
Policy Checker
Checks listing text that Apptonomy drafts, before it is published, for prohibited terms, misleading claims and competitor brand names.
What it reads
- Drafts from Apptonomy's content generator, one field at a time: title, subtitle, keyword field, description and promotional text. On Google Play, the metadata edited in the listing builder.
- The platform, the field, the locale, the app's brand and the publisher's name.
- Rule lists kept by Apptonomy for each store: price and promotion words, platform names such as 'iPhone' or 'Google Play', filler words such as 'app' or 'new', and claim patterns such as '#1', 'best' or 'guaranteed'.
- A language-model pass for competitor brand names, which reads the context so an ordinary word is not flagged as a brand.
What it scores
No score. Each flag carries:
- The term and the reason: competitor brand, prohibited term, misleading claim, or keyword quality.
- A level, prominent, standard or informational, that sets how strongly the flag is shown. Flags are listed most prominent first, and no level removes the term: the user decides.
- The likely consequence: rejection by the store, an edit to the app's keywords, action by a rights holder, or none.
What it recommends
- Flags on the draft. The draft's text is not changed and no term is removed automatically.
What it cannot see
- The live listing. The audit does not run this check; policy and trademark risks in the live text come from the Store Text engine.
- Screenshots, the icon, and the app's review history with Apple or Google.
- Store rules outside its lists. It is not a full reading of either store's guidelines.
Plans
What it checks depends on the plan. Compare plans
Edits in the Google Play listing builder are checked on: Free, Basic, Pro, Elite and Enterprise.
Drafts from the content generator, on either store, are checked on: Pro, Elite and Enterprise.
Run the audit on a listing
Paste an App Store or Google Play link, or type the app's name. The Free plan needs no credit card.
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