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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