Compliance tool comparisons
Start with a free option. Free Claude Code plugins exist in the same install surface as shipcheck, and for a native app with a simple dependency tree they may be all you need. The honest reasons to pay are React Native and Expo depth, and a policy corpus somebody maintains.
The three axes that actually differentiate these tools
Where your code goes. Web-based checkers need an upload or a repository grant. shipcheck runs inside the Claude Code session already open on your machine and uploads nothing. For a developer with client code or an unreleased product this is a gate rather than a preference.
Whether it understands the dependency tree. Metadata and content checks are framework-independent and well served everywhere. Transitive privacy manifests, Expo config-plugin side effects and generated-project pitfalls are not, and they are where RN and Expo apps lose cycles.
Whether the policy corpus is demonstrably current. Every tool claims to check against "the guidelines." Apple and Google change them continuously. A tool that can show you a diff of what changed since your last scan is making a checkable claim; one that cannot is making a marketing one.
About shipcheck
shipcheck is a pre-submission checker from Baker Ventures LLC that runs inside Claude Code. It reads your React Native or Expo project, finds the things that get apps rejected or blocked at upload, cites the exact App Store Review Guideline or Google Play policy clause, and names the file and line to fix.
It exists because React Native and Expo apps fail for reasons that are invisible in the code you wrote: capability arriving through a dependency, purpose strings added by a config plugin, a privacy manifest missing from an SDK you never chose directly, and a generated ios/ directory that discards your edits on the next prebuild. shipcheck checks what the binary and the config actually declare, not what you intended. The rejection references on this site are free, need no account, and link to the primary Apple or Google document for every claim.
Everything in this section
- What you can check for free before submitting — Most of the pre-submission pass costs nothing and takes an afternoon. What each free tool actually covers, where the gaps are, and what no tool can ch
shipcheck. “Compliance tool comparisons.” Baker Ventures LLC, September 6, 2026. https://shipcheck.bakerventuresstudio.com/compare/