What the App Check is
The App Check is a fixed-price inventory of one app that tells you who controls each account, where the risks sit and what the next step would cost. It is written for owners and managing directors, not for developers, so every finding comes in plain language.
Who it is for
Companies that run an app but have no technical lead of their own. Typical situations:
- The developer or agency that built the app is gone, or answers more slowly every month.
- You built an AI prototype, and real customers are about to use it: see taking an AI prototype to production.
- Apple rejected an update and the launch date is slipping: see help after an App Store rejection.
The App Check covers one app with one backend. If you run several systems or have your own IT team, the Architecture Review at $10,500 to $13,900 is the better fit.
The surprise is rarely the code. It's the account nobody remembers.
Control means you can answer these seven questions without calling anyone. A ZIP file of the source code is not a handover.
- Who owns the Apple and Google developer accounts?
- Where are the signing keys and certificates?
- Whose name is on the servers, the database and the domain?
- Which payment, email and API services does the app use, and who can log in?
- How does a new version get from the code into the stores?
- When was the last backup restored as a test?
- Who gets the alert when the app goes down?
The App Check answers all seven in writing and shows which accounts still sit in someone else's name.
What I check
Everything your app depends on, not only the code:
- Accounts and logins: code repository, Apple and Google developer accounts, cloud, database, domain, payment provider, email sending and API accounts. For each one: who owns it and who has access.
- Keys and passwords: whether any sit in the code or in the browser, whether database tables are open, whether access rules are missing.
- Build: whether the app can still be built with current tools and shipped to the stores.
- Store risk: what in Apple's and Google's rules could block the next update.
- Payments: whether payments arrive and actually unlock what customers paid for.
- Backups: whether they exist and whether one has ever been restored.
What you get
A clear picture and a fixed price for the next step:
- A traffic-light report within five business days: green, yellow or red for every area above.
- The most critical gap fixed, after we have agreed on it.
- A recommendation: keep it and take it over, rescue it, or rebuild it, with a fixed price for the next step in two variants.
- A report that belongs to you. Even without a follow-up order you can take it to any provider.
Price
The App Check costs $2,000. For the first five clients (until 31 December 2026 at the latest) there is an introductory price of $1,100. If you order a next step within 60 days, the amount you paid is credited in full. All prices are net; the tax treatment is clarified before contract and stated in the offer. All steps side by side are on the pricing page.
What comes after
Whatever the report recommends, the next step has a fixed price, and you decide whether to take it:
- App Takeover from $10,500: take over an app whose developer is gone, with every account moved into your name.
- App Rescue from $27,800: rescue a stalled or unsafe app project, including security, payments and store readiness.
- Setup for Care at $3,500: for apps whose check came back green or yellow and that only need to move into operation.
- Operation from $1,400 a month: updates, monitoring and restore-tested backups.
The code sits in your repository from day one; with each paid milestone, the rights to everything delivered up to that point pass to you.
What it is not
The App Check is a practical inventory with clear limits:
- Not a penetration test. I look for open doors, I do not attack your systems.
- Not a certificate. It does not confirm that your app meets any standard or law.
- Not legal advice. Where data protection is affected, the report says so, and the legal assessment stays with you.
- No store guarantee. Nobody but Apple can promise approval, and the same applies to Google.
Confidential from the first call: we are happy to sign an NDA before we talk.
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