Platform changes become blocked-launch surprises
Apple review guidance and Google Play policy requirements evolve continuously, often with real subscription and release consequences.
Autory Labs • Policy Watch
Avoid blocked launches and subscription review surprises.
Policy Watch turns Apple and Google subscription changes into pre-release checks for small app teams before “waiting for review,” paywall friction, or monetization confusion costs them a launch window.
- Built for indie subscription apps and micro-studios
- Tracks Apple and Google subscription, billing, and review sources continuously
- Tells you what to check before your next paywalled release or review submission
This week’s release question
Did anything change that could stall my next subscription release or trigger review friction?
Policy Watch answers that from public Apple and Google sources without making you read every policy page, changelog, or developer update yourself.
Why this exists
Small subscription apps absorb launch and review risk that bigger teams staff around.
Subscription flows create extra review friction
Trials, paywalls, disclosures, and in-app purchase setup create more ways for small teams to get stuck before launch.
Missed changes are expensive
Rejections, monetization issues, privacy problems, and delayed launches are expensive for small publishers without dedicated policy staff.
Sample output
Recent changes rendered as subscription release-risk briefings
These are generated outputs from real Apple and Google publisher-facing sources. The paid product would deliver these continuously by email and dashboard.
How it works
Public-source monitoring with subscription-focused release output
Watch subscription sources
Track Apple and Google pages covering subscriptions, billing, pricing, review, and developer policies.
Detect changes
Capture additions, removals, and edits that matter for app publishers.
Score release and monetization risk
Turn raw updates into who-is-affected, urgency, and pre-release checks for subscription flows.
Deliver continuously
Publish by email digest and searchable archive without requiring calls or onboarding.
Search Guides
Answer specific release-risk questions before you dig through platform docs.
These focused pages are built for concrete search intents from small subscription app teams.
Apple App Review Guidelines for subscription apps
Understand which review and disclosure changes are most likely to matter for paywalls, trials, and subscription onboarding.
Open guideGoogle Play subscription policy changes
See what to watch in billing, offers, pricing, and subscription lifecycle changes before your next Android release.
Open guideApp Review “Information Needed” for subscription apps
See what Apple is usually asking for when subscription products or paywalls trigger review questions, even when the business model is not live yet.
Open guideGoogle Play subscription price changes
Understand the release and retention risk around subscription price changes, customer notifications, and billing expectations on Android.
Open guideApp Review paywall rejection
Check the paywall, disclosure, and subscription-flow issues that commonly create last-mile App Review friction for small teams.
Open guideApp Store subscription waiting for review
Understand what to verify when subscriptions or in-app purchases appear stuck before a revenue-critical release.
Open guideApple subscription trial rules
Review the trial and offer-framing issues that can quietly turn growth experiments into launch risk.
Open guideInitial packaging
Simple self-serve subscription release intelligence
Free
Public archive
- Recent subscription release-risk archive
- Selected public briefings
- Indexable pages for search
Paid
Subscription checks
- Email risk digests
- Full pre-release subscription checklists
- Billing and price-change watch
- Affected-publisher guidance
- Urgency and monetization framing
Early access
Get notified when the first live release-risk feed opens.
Join the waitlist to get the first live checks for review friction, subscription changes, and blocked-launch risk when Policy Watch opens.