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The best free tools for your next App Store submission

AcceptMyApp publishes free, no-signup tools for the specific, narrow problems that come up while shipping an iOS app. Here they are, organized by the phase of submission where you'd actually reach for them — not an alphabetical dump.

2 min readUpdated August 2026
Validate idea
Build & polish
Metadata & privacy
Submit

Before you build: validating the idea

Worth doing before you write code — an idea that's thin, oversaturated, or hard to monetize is cheaper to catch now than after a Guideline 4.2 rejection.

Metadata and App Store listing

Your name, subtitle, keywords, and description are both a ranking surface and a Guideline 2.3 (Accurate Metadata) risk if they drift from what the app actually does.

Privacy and permissions

The single most common source of automated, same-day rejections — a missing manifest field or a vague permission string is an easy, avoidable fix.

Screenshots and icons

Wrong pixel dimensions or a non-flattened icon are rejected on upload before a human reviewer ever sees the binary.

Deep linking and entitlements

Not review-blocking by default, but broken universal links and AASA files quietly break the exact flows reviewers sometimes test.

Build and submission housekeeping

The mechanical checks that are easy to skip under deadline pressure and annoying to redo after a rejection.

After a rejection

If you're already past submission and reading this because Apple said no, start here instead of the top of this list.

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