# Apple Appstore Approval for Discourse app with webview
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/apple-appstore-approval-for-discourse-app-with-webview/302211
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 3, 2024, 12:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/apple-appstore-approval-for-discourse-app-with-webview/302211 "2024-04-03T12:30:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@harithwick](https://meta.discourse.org/u/harithwick)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2024, 12:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/apple-appstore-approval-for-discourse-app-with-webview/302211/1 "2024-04-03T12:30:47Z")
Hey everyone! Im launcing a discourse app for my community and it will be a webview to begin with as I dont see the point of spending time and money to build a native app as the mobile view is still quite good.
However, I keep getting rejected from the Apple appstore due to the site not being inline with their strict design requirements. Was wondering if anyone came across this issue while submitting the app to the appstore.
I’ve already submitted the app to the Android playstore and gotten approved!
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@GS\_App](https://meta.discourse.org/u/GS_App)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2025, 7:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/apple-appstore-approval-for-discourse-app-with-webview/302211/2 "2025-06-14T19:15:19Z")
Hey There @harithwick just checking if you were able to get around this as i am considering going the same route for my app
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### Author:  [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2025, 12:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/apple-appstore-approval-for-discourse-app-with-webview/302211/3 "2025-06-15T00:02:28Z")
People have done this before, putting Discourse in a webview as part of their mobile app. They didn’t seem to run into a lot of problems:
> [@Does a mobile app increase community engagement?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-a-mobile-app-increase-community-engagement/355879/8):
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> our engagement more than doubled since launching our app. go for it if you can afford it. we just put discourse as a webview inside the rest of the app. our other parts of the app is totally native. it was approved by both google and apple.
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### Author:  [@GS\_App](https://meta.discourse.org/u/GS_App)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2025, 2:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/apple-appstore-approval-for-discourse-app-with-webview/302211/4 "2025-06-15T14:49:44Z")
Thanks for the response that helps alot
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### Author:  [@jahan\_gagan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jahan_gagan)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2025, 3:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/apple-appstore-approval-for-discourse-app-with-webview/302211/5 "2025-06-15T15:11:15Z")
Apple usually rejects webview apps if they look exactly like a website and don’t add clearly native features, such as push notifications, offline access, Apple login, or native navigation elements.
> [@Things to consider before deciding to white-label the Discourse Mobile apps](https://meta.discourse.org/t/things-to-consider-before-deciding-to-white-label-the-discourse-mobile-apps/53063):
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> Since we released the iOS and Android apps a number of people have asked expressed interest in white labeling the Discourse app. information_source We do not offer a white labeling service and would only consider it for enterprise customers as an added bundle. If this is something you’re interested in, please discuss with us privately. Beware of the costs White-labeling Discourse is a complex task and involves a significant amount of long term maintenance across Android and iOS. It is rar…
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2025, 6:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/apple-appstore-approval-for-discourse-app-with-webview/302211/6 "2025-06-15T18:58:47Z")
I’ve successfully deployed apps using the Whitelisted repo previously which uses a Webview.
If you initially get reluctance press your case. They were all approved eventually.
It’s in Apple’s interest to populate the Appstore.
You now have the great option of users just deploying as PWA on homescreen now so if they are playing games, all is not lost, just go the PWA route and sidestep them completely.