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Show HN: StoreReady, which AI app builders clear App Store review

StoreReady launched as a Show HN comparison tool that scores AI app builders on their ability to clear Apple App Store review, publishing head-to-head verdicts on six pairs including Rork vs Vibecode, Rork vs a0.dev, Vibecode vs Replit Mobile, Bolt.new vs Rork, Lovable vs Rork, and FlutterFlow vs Rork. The corpus found no published record of App Store review outcomes for Rork, Vibecode, a0.dev, or Replit Mobile, and concluded Lovable does not generate React Native at all, meaning a wrapped web app would fall under guideline 4.2. StoreReady's stated finding is that a0.dev has no evidence establishing what happens at submission, while FlutterFlow carries years of App Store history and Bolt.new documents that it stops at source code, requiring users to run `eas build --platform ios --auto-submit` themselves.

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Show HN: StoreReady, which AI app builders clear App Store review
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The docket

Every builder, its answer to the same five questions, and the sources behind it. Open a row to read them. The last row is a hand-written Expo and EAS baseline, carried as a control so the rest can be read against what the builders are automating.

Head to head

The six pairs the corpus resolves, each one a verdict written against both records.

1Rork vs VibecodeBoth compile React Native through Expo, so the output is not the deciding factor — the paperwork is. Vibecode documents the requirement that you hold the Apple Developer Program membership yourself, which is the arrangement 4.2.6 asks for, and ships a preflight check against the mechanical rejection causes. Rork is reported to let you export the source and push to GitHub free of charge, which matters most on the day the one-click publish fails and you need to finish the submission by hand. Pick Vibecode if you want the documented path; pick Rork if you want the escape hatch. Neither has a published record of review outcomes, and anyone claiming otherwise has not shown you one.

2Rork vs a0.devNot a close comparison on evidence. Rork has dated third-party coverage of its pricing, its output and its export path, plus explicit App Store marketing. For a0.dev, nothing was found that establishes what happens at submission — the team is described as helping users get released, which is an intention. That gap is the finding. a0.dev may well be fine; it simply has not been shown to be.

3Vibecode vs Replit MobileThe same shape from two directions. Both build React Native on Expo, both leave the Apple Developer account in your name, both put the binary through ordinary App Review. Replit gives you a real repository you can take anywhere, which Vibecode’s deployment docs do not mention. Vibecode gives you a preflight check aimed squarely at the rejections that are nobody’s fault but the metadata’s. Replit Mobile launched in early 2026 and Vibecode is not much older, so neither has the review history you would want.

4Bolt.new vs RorkBolt is honest that it stops at source code: its docs tell you to download the project and run eas build --platform ios --auto-submit yourself, because the browser sandbox cannot compile anything native. Rork aims at the whole path and markets App Store shipping as the outcome. If you have a Mac and a working toolchain, Bolt’s ending is not a limitation — it is the normal way apps get built. If you do not, Bolt will leave you holding a repository you cannot ship.

5Lovable vs RorkThese are not competitors, and the most useful thing this page can tell you is to stop comparing them. Lovable’s own FAQ says it builds web applications and does not generate React Native — reaching the App Store means wrapping it with Capacitor, and a wrapped web app walks straight into guideline 4.2. Rork produces an Expo binary. If the deliverable is an iOS app, this comparison has one entrant.

6FlutterFlow vs RorkThe generational comparison: a visual builder with years of App Store history against a chat interface with months of it. FlutterFlow compiles Flutter to native, documents code export and a GitHub push, and submits under your own account. Rork gets you to a first build far faster and also exports. Choose FlutterFlow when the app has to outlive the tool and you want a long public track record behind that bet; choose Rork when speed to a working binary is the point.

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