Insight Timer is a popular meditation app that allows students to tip teachers directly, but an App Review mistake that took over a year to catch has forced the developer to adopt in-app purchases and pay Apple’s 30% commission.
Insight Timer on the App Store
Insight Timer on the App Store
Apple’s in-house app approval system, App Review, has proven unreliable time and time again. Despite that, it is Apple’s go-to defense when it claims that the App Store is safer and better without external app marketplaces.
According to a story from TechCrunch and information from a LinkedIn post from the Insight Timer CEO Christopher Plowman, App Review is at it again. After an app update in 2022 added in-app tips to Insight Timer, was approved by App Review, and then approved for 47 additional updates across 12 months, App Review suddenly rejected the app.
App Review’s sudden enforcement of an in-app gift rule catches a meditation app off guard
App Review’s sudden enforcement of an in-app gift rule catches a meditation app off guard