Can I send such an application to the App Store from several different accounts / identities?

Question

Working in a digital agency, you get a lot of interesting requests! :)

I have a client who asked a rather strange question:

Can I send the same application to the App Store from several different accounts / identifiers?

So, if you are looking for company A in the App Store, you will get this application as a result, and if you were also looking for company B, you would also get this application.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Check out the AppStore review guidelines Apple recently published.

2.20 Spam developers in the App Store with many versions of such applications will be removed from the iOS developers program

In addition, I think it would be wise to advise your client against such a move, as this will only lead to fragmentation for the application. Applications have keywords, so perhaps you should focus there to increase your search results. I think that you have problems sending the same application to the store under different developer accounts, not to mention that you have separate developer accounts to even try to submit such materials. In fact, it will be a headache.

Answer 2

Technically, yes. At least if you use different application identifiers and sign them with a distribution certificate for the account you want to download.

I do not know, however, if Apple checks for 100% identical codes / applications when viewing applications - if not, it will work conveniently, if not, maybe not :)

Answer 3

Even if several developers can get approval of the same application, they still have to change the application identifier and the name of the application, so the search results will not be displayed in one application, but several similar applications, all with different reviews and ratings, the combination of which will be much lower in popularity ratings.