Catch App Store issues before App Review does.

Info.plist
  ✗ NSCameraUsageDescription   missing

CameraView.swift:18
  AVCaptureDevice.default(for: .video)

Example finding, from the example build above. Every finding carries its severity, its rule id, the file and line, an explanation and a recommended fix; most also carry a link to Apple’s own documentation.

• Permissions1 blocker foundPurpose strings matched against the frameworks you actually link
• Privacy manifest2 reasons undeclaredRequired-reason APIs checked against what your code and SDKs do
• Accounts & sign‑inSign in with Apple requiredGuideline 4.8, because GoogleSignIn is in your dependencies
• App Store Connect8 questions answeredRead from your real listing when you link the app

Also checked: release configuration, entitlements and background modes, StoreKit and subscriptions, account deletion, Sign in with Apple, export compliance, required screenshot sizes, local endpoints and test credentials left in source. The rules are deterministic and versioned: the same project checked twice gives the same report.

All 38 App Store readiness checks, explained one by one

Example rescan. A finding is only marked fixed when the rule stops firing against your new build. Rescanning an app whose report you already bought is $1.99 rather than $2.99: the second report is mostly the comparison. The build has to be the same app, checked on its bundle identifier.

• Never built, never run

  No compiler, no simulator, no scripts. ReviewAhead parses text files and reads a dependency graph. That is the whole mechanism.

• Deleted when it finishes

  Your files are extracted into a directory of their own, which is removed as the last step of the scan. You watch that step complete on screen.

• Credentials masked

  Anything credential-shaped is masked in the evidence before it is stored, so it never reaches the report, the PDF or your screen.

Archives are validated before anything is extracted, dependencies are never installed, and no URL found inside your project is ever contacted. ReviewAhead does not train AI models on your project, and does not sell it. Every figure here is the one the privacy policy gives.

Where your code goes during a scan

• Free scan

  $0
  • Readiness score and verdict
  • Your three most severe findings, in full
  • Count of findings at every severity
  • You can scan without an account
  Scan my project

• Full report

  $2.99 one time$4.99
  Founder edition
  • Every finding, with file, evidence and fix
  • PDF export for your team or client
  • Locked findings never leave the server until paid
  • Rescanning the same app is $1.99
  Unlock a report

• Unlimited

  $4.99 per month$9.99
  Founder edition
  • AI-assisted review on every scan
  • Scan and fix from your AI agent, such as Claude Code or Codex
  • Unlimited scans and full reports, no paywalls
  • PDF export on every report
  • Cancel any time, access runs to the end of the month
  • This price stays yours for as long as you keep the plan
  Go unlimited

Scanning is always free, and so are the score and your three most severe findings. Paying unlocks the rest of that one report. Unlimited is for shipping more than one app, or more than one build. How AI review and the agent connection work.

• Can ReviewAhead guarantee my app is approved?

  No, and nothing can. App Review evaluates a running app, its content and its metadata, none of which a project scan can see. What ReviewAhead does is find the preventable problems that are visible in your project, before Apple is the one telling you about them.

• Do I need an account?

  Not to scan, and not to buy a single report. The button takes you to sign-in first, and that page has a link straight past it to the scanner. An account keeps your reports and history across devices, and is needed for the unlimited plan, promotion codes and scanning straight from a GitHub repository.

• Is my source code stored?

  Not as files. The upload and the files extracted from it are deleted when the scan ends, whether it finished, failed or was cancelled. What is kept is the report: the score, the findings, file paths, short evidence excerpts with credentials masked, and the project settings needed to recalculate it. A free report is deleted 24 hours after the scan, one you bought 365 days after payment.

• What can I scan?

  The folder that holds your .xcodeproj, a .zip of it, an .ipa, or a GitHub repository you have shared with ReviewAhead, up to 512 MB. Archives are validated before anything is extracted. An archive holding only a Swift package gets dependency analysis but no target, configuration or Info.plist checks, because there is no Xcode project to read. An .ipa is read as a build: the shipped Info.plist, privacy manifests, embedded frameworks and the entitlements it was signed with, and nothing that needs source code, because a build carries none.

• Can ReviewAhead read App Store Connect?

  If you link the app, yes. The age rating questionnaire, screenshot uploads, release notes, purchase states and review details are then read from your own listing instead of being asked as questions, and that read becomes the evidence. Without a linked app those rules state the requirement and work out which parts of it apply to your build.

• Why not just ask an AI chat?

  AI can explain an App Store rule. ReviewAhead checks whether your project actually satisfies it: the same thirty-eight versioned rules against your parsed build settings, Info.plist, entitlements and dependency graph, with the file and line behind every finding. There is AI review here too, part of the unlimited plan and switched off until you turn it on from the scan screen, and even then it can only suggest wording and explain a finding: it can never add a finding, remove one, or change a severity.