Publishing to the App Store and Google Play with your own accounts

Phone apps are published under your own Apple Developer and Google Play accounts. That is not a limitation we are working around — it is the arrangement you want. The listing, the ratings, the payouts and the app itself stay in your name, and you are not locked to us to keep it available.

Both stores charge a fee and both verify who you are, individually or as a company, and that verification is measured in days, not minutes. Start it before your app is finished. Google also requires a privacy policy URL and a data-safety declaration; Apple asks the equivalent in its privacy questions.

The listing text — name, subtitle, description, keywords — written to the real character limits, in each language you want. Store artwork at the exact sizes the stores require, as device-framed mockups of your screens. A paywall and product setup if your app sells subscriptions, since on phones purchases of digital goods go through the stores' own billing.

Compiling and signing a binary and uploading it under your account needs a build service and your signing certificates. We do not have those yet, so the submit step fails with a plain message naming exactly what is missing. It will never show you a progress bar or a review status that is not real. Everything up to that point is genuinely done and reusable when you submit by hand.

Common causes are ordinary: a sign-in the reviewer cannot get past, a purchase that does not restore, a permission request without an explanation, or a privacy answer that does not match what the app does. Fix and resubmit — it is a normal part of shipping, not a verdict.