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 inlin…

Hey There @harithwick just checking if you were able to get around this as i am considering going the same route for my app

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: [image] Does a mobile app increase community engagement? Community our engagement more than doubled since launching our app. go for it …

Thanks for the response that helps alot

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. [image] Things to consider before deciding to white-label the Discourse Mobil…

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 homes…

Apple Appstore Approval for Discourse app with webview

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NateDhaliwal (Nate Dhaliwal) June 15, 2025, 12:02am 3

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:

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Apple Appstore Approval for Discourse app with webview

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