I have seen a number of complaints about this sort of thing: larger devs getting away with violations that smaller ones can’t. I wish they made it easier to side-load apps, but they have no real incentive to do so.
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Can you try to resubmit it later with different notes in the hopes of getting someone else?
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I have no idea what she thought we could work out.
Seems to me that she thinks you might be able to work it out with the core devs to make the app official and not third-party so that you can add the IAP subscriptions, which is a crazy suggestion.
… I don’t see any point. I can’t see it changing their mind.
Personally it sounds like it’s a very loose rule considering how many blatant exceptions there are, so it’s possible fighting it may work out in your favor…
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From what I’ve found online, some devs had luck getting around this by ensuring that there is no way to get to the source’s payment info page from the app. And I was able to confirm that there are many places in the app that gets me there.
For example, all of the forum links in the settings views. the “wanikani dashboard” and “wanikani community” links, the “home” button in the review/lesson summary page, the “safari” button on the subject detail views, and of course the WK login page.
I think it you remove those external links, and implement a simple native login view (username, pass, submit) that acts as a wrapper to a hidden WK login webview without the “sign up” and “return to landing page” buttons, then it may be acceptable.
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I see. I wonder what would be acceptable to them. Like would OAuth satisfy the condition?
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Please, we need AlliCrab. If AlliCrab goes away before 4.0, this might be the last this thing to turn myself against Apple…
EDIT: I am still hoping for native reviewing, and I hope plans are in progress to do so!
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I love how Apple is like: “Thank you developers for all you do” (see any WWDC)
Then, proceeds to slowly kick out half the developers from the App Store.
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Apple when they hear devs complaining about their App Store restrictions probably
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@cplaverty It’s not really necessary, but I would appreciate it if you would still consider the PR I put up on Thursday and made a testflight update with that (if you don’t have any objections of course 
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EDIT: Not sure why I added this as a reply to my own post… oh well 
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Could you continue to put updates on something like Ignition? I’ve found that to be a pretty easy to use third party App Store for iOS. The biggest downside is that you need to download the apps again every week because their certificate gets revoked, but there are some good apps there like NineAnimator. And I’d really like to continue to get updates for this app even if it requires frequent redownloads, it’s the only way I use WaniKani personally.
Welcome to the forums! We are hoping @cplaverty can resolve his issue with the true App Store first before we discuss where to go next, but I agree that this app can’t die.
Hey y’all just want to say the app is pretty sweet!
Mainly use it for the widget/badge to check my review count. Super convenient
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Hey guys, is AlliCrab still working for you?
It is getting API failures for me and doesn’t show up in the App Store anymore. I hope it gets fixed soon, it’s the only way I can fit Wanikani in my schedule. 
My AlliCrab stopped working today
I really rely on it for review notifications. Until it gets fixed, are there any alternatives for iOS that can send me reminders to do my reviews?
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Tsurukame is the other app that I use for reviews, but I much prefer AlliCrab for lessons.
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I have also been getting errors this morning. I hope it gets fixed, as I really like to do my lessons on my iPad.
@cplaverty Are you still able to push updates to TestFlight? If so (or if there is another way to distribute fixes to everyone like me still using the app) then I’d gladly look into this.
Unfortunately even if it gets fixed, since @cplaverty can no longer push new versions to the App Store it’s unlikely that the fix could be distributed out.
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