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Real-time tracking, alerts, and predicted wait times for Apple App Store review submissions.
Added Mar 22, 2026
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iOS developers face unpredictable and often frustratingly long App Store review times, ranging from under an hour to over two weeks with no transparency from Apple. Developers have no way to know if their wait is normal, if something is wrong with their submission, or when they can expect a resolution, leading to anxiety and inability to plan release schedules.
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Hey all. I shipped a small iOS app in late March called \*\*SpeakCove\*\* — a document-to-speech reader (PDF, ePub, DOCX, MOBI, FB2, HTML, plain text) with on-device neural voices. Everything runs offline, no accounts, no tracking. Built it because I kept wanting to listen to PDFs on walks and hated that every decent TTS reader was either subscription-locked or phoning home with my documents. [https://apps.apple.com/ch/app/speakcove-text-to-speech/id6760540041](https://apps.apple.com/ch/app/speakcove-text-to-speech/id6760540041) if you're curious. 1.0 shipped fine. Then I submitted \*\*1.1.0 on April 3rd\*\* with voice quality improvements and some UX fixes. It went "In Review" on \*\*April 6th\*\*. Today is April 24th and it's still there. No rejection, no communication, nothing: https://preview.redd.it/cnmoqp4l86xg1.png?width=1275&format=png&auto=webp&s=e692da2494ca1dee714e0dcfeac2534c9411dc16 18 days of radio silence on a minor update feels off, especially when 1.0 went through normally and the app has no server-side component for Apple to even scrutinize. A few questions for anyone who's been here: 1. Has App Review gotten noticeably slower/quieter in the last month or two for anyone else? 2. What's actually worked to get a stuck review moving — formal escalation form, phone support, something else? 3. Is there any signal in the timing itself (e.g. "if it's been 14+ days, it's usually flagged for something specific")? Should I cancel and resubmit? I'm afraid to start at the very beginning of the queue again :(
Hey all. I shipped a small iOS app in late March called \*\*SpeakCove\*\* — a document-to-speech reader (PDF, ePub, DOCX, MOBI, FB2, HTML, plain text) with on-device neural voices. Everything runs offline, no accounts, no tracking. Built it because I kept wanting to listen to PDFs on walks and hated that every decent TTS reader was either subscription-locked or phoning home with my documents. [https://apps.apple.com/ch/app/speakcove-text-to-speech/id6760540041](https://apps.apple.com/ch/app/speakcove-text-to-speech/id6760540041) if you're curious. 1.0 shipped fine. Then I submitted \*\*1.1.0 on April 3rd\*\* with voice quality improvements and some UX fixes. It went "In Review" on \*\*April 6th\*\*. Today is April 24th and it's still there. No rejection, no communication, nothing: https://preview.redd.it/cnmoqp4l86xg1.png?width=1275&format=png&auto=webp&s=e692da2494ca1dee714e0dcfeac2534c9411dc16 18 days of radio silence on a minor update feels off, especially when 1.0 went through normally and the app has no server-side component for Apple to even scrutinize. A few questions for anyone who's been here: 1. Has App Review gotten noticeably slower/quieter in the last month or two for anyone else? 2. What's actually worked to get a stuck review moving — formal escalation form, phone support, something else? 3. Is there any signal in the timing itself (e.g. "if it's been 14+ days, it's usually flagged for something specific")? Should I cancel and resubmit? I'm afraid to start at the very beginning of the queue again :(
New app, "Waiting for Review". Did I did something wrong? Initial version was made 3 weeks ago, I was making updates with reuploads, but non of my versions was never in public, only "Waiting". Then I stopped development, returned back after two weeks, and it's still "Waiting".
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