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 Appleโs guidelines to catch rejection risks early, with an optional runtime verification tier for flow-dependent checks.
What to expect from an ideal product
- Greenlight runs locally in under a second, meaning you catch App Store rejection risks without uploading your code to any third-party server โ a hard requirement for teams handling sensitive IP or enterprise apps.
- Most App Store rejections trace back to missing privacy manifest entries, undeclared API usage, or metadata violations โ Greenlight scans all three layers before you ever hit the Submit button in App Store Connect.
- Because Greenlight is open-source, your team can audit exactly what rules it enforces, contribute new checks as Apple updates its guidelines, and integrate it into CI/CD pipelines without vendor lock-in.
- The optional runtime verification tier covers flow-dependent checks that static analysis misses โ like permission prompts that only appear after a specific user action โ reducing the back-and-forth cycles with Apple reviewers.
- Shipping a rejected build costs days of review queue time on top of the fix-and-resubmit cycle; running Greenlight as a pre-submission step turns that reactive scramble into a single local command before you archive.
