This task can be performed using Greenlight
Catch App Store issues early, before Apple rejects you.
Best product for this task
Greenlight
dev-tools
Greenlight is an open-source pre-submission compliance scanner for Apple App Store review that runs locally in under a second. It analyzes code, privacy manifests, binaries, and metadata against Apple’s guidelines to catch rejection risks early, with an optional runtime verification tier for flow-dependent checks.
What to expect from an ideal product
- Greenlight scans your app's privacy manifest files locally before submission, flagging missing required reason API declarations that Apple's review team routinely rejects during the binary analysis phase.
- Unlike waiting days for an App Store rejection email, Greenlight runs its binary metadata checks in under a second on your machine, letting you catch violations during development rather than after a release candidate is built.
- Privacy manifest violations tied to third-party SDKs are notoriously hard to trace — Greenlight surfaces which specific framework is triggering the non-compliance so you fix the right file without guessing.
- Greenlight's optional runtime verification tier catches flow-dependent privacy and metadata issues that static scanners miss, covering edge cases Apple reviewers increasingly flag in 2024 submissions.
- Because Greenlight is open-source and runs entirely offline, teams with strict data policies can audit the scanner itself and integrate it into CI pipelines without routing sensitive binary metadata through external servers.
