AppGuidelines
Spot each change in Apple's App Store rules and developer agreements, with dates
Forpeople who build and publish apps for Apple devices Web
One sentence in Apple's rules has changed, and finding it means a game of spot-the-difference across pages of legal text. Apple updates the rules an app must follow to get into the App Store, and its own pages show only the current text. To see what changed, developers have to compare an old copy with the new one by hand. AppGuidelines fetches each document from apple.com every 4 hours, the about page says, and saves any change to the visible text as a new, dated version.
Each version gets a page with the full text, where added and deleted words are marked. Two menus at the top compare any pair of versions, and buttons or the j and k keys jump from one change to the next.
Besides the review rules, the list includes Apple's design guidelines for apps and its developer license agreements. A version's date is the moment the change was recorded, so it can trail Apple's update by up to one check. The project is independent of Apple and links each document to its source page on apple.com.
Good fit if you…
- need to know when Apple's review rules change before you send in an update
- follow Apple's developer agreements in a feed reader
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