Google Play Data Safety Forms for New App Makers

The evidence

Score: 28 out of 100

• No opening found
• 37 pay or would pay
• 539 people describe it
• 41% hit it at least weekly
• 4.5K upvotes on their posts

Free open-source agent skills and fastlane precheck already audit for Apple rejections, and the need is one-off per app.

In their words

The actual code is never the bottleneck — it's the policy questionnaires, the data safety form, the content rating wizard

r/googleplayconsole on Reddit

I'm currently trying to complete Google's requirement of 12 Android testers for 14 consecutive days before I can apply for production access.

Indie Hackers

If at the end of the 14-day testing on App_hive, or any time during the 14-day testing cycle, one or more of the testers uninstall my app, then Google resets my 14-day clock.

r/App_Hive on Reddit

The tools that already cover it

• safaiyeh/app-store-review-skill (and 8 similar skills): Apple only and a text report; no Play forms, no fixing. Runs inside the coding agent builders already use.
• fastlane precheck: iOS only; scans App Store Connect text for placeholders, bad URLs and rule-breaking words, not crashes or privacy forms.
• 12 Testers: Supplies the 12 testers for 14 days; no audit and no store forms.
• Expo EAS: Builds and submits Expo apps; its store metadata tool is beta, Apple only, with built-in validation but no Play listing.
• Codemagic: Build service with automatic signing; no review readiness or store form drafting.
• Bitrise: Priced and built for teams with pipeline skills, not solo first-time shippers.
• Capawesome Cloud: Capacitor focused builds, signing and store publishing; no review checks listed on its pricing page.
• MySigner: Ships iOS and Android from the command line, with ASO, review monitoring and screenshots; no rejection pre-checks or privacy form drafting listed.
• NoMac: Rents a cloud Mac to AI agents; no metadata, submission or review checks.
• iOSPreCheck: Scans a finished iOS file only; no Android, no store form drafting, no signing.
• Rubber Duck: Tests the live iOS app on real iPhones; no signing, store forms or Android.
• Android Studio Play Policy Insights: Listed under Publish in Android Studio docs; we could not confirm which checks it runs, and it is Android only.

How it was challenged

• Demand is thin and vendor-adjacent: the one on-topic quote is a reply under a builder's own launch post, and 76 subreddits means mostly unrelated chatter.
• The Apple half is already free: nine agent skills audit a repo for rejection causes, the top one open-source with 359 stars and pushed in September.
• The Google gate is a short hurdle: 12 Testers sells verified testers for $11.99 per app, so a $19 monthly subscription is hard to justify.
• Paying is a hard sell: buyers already pay Apple $99 a year, and RevenueCat is free to $2 500 monthly revenue, then 1%.
• AI builders absorb the wedge: Rork says it publishes to the App Store and Google Play itself, so the AI-built segment is served upstream.

The pain point it solves: App Store Publishing Pain

Developers struggle with the complex, manual, and error-prone process of packaging, submitting, and maintaining apps across app stores, often facing rejections and delays.

App developers and builders

Where they talk

• r/SaaS
• r/androiddev
• r/appledevelopers
• r/iOSProgramming
• r/Base44
• r/reactnative
• r/lovable
• r/SideProject

Tools they use today

• App Store Connect
• Base44
• Lovable
• Capacitor
• Google Play Console
• Stripe
• Claude
• Expo

Why those fall short

• no install prompt, no browser affordance, flow changes break docs
• Setup does not amortize; every new app feels like the first time
• Alternatives find only a fraction of outdated apps; MacUpdater discontinued.
• agency doesn't explain rejections and can't fix them
• install process convoluted, especially iOS; users expect app store links