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# App Store listing — Poker Tutor 1.0
Everything App Store Connect asks for, in the order it asks. Copy each block straight in.
Character limits are Apple's and are counted here.
Drafted 2026-08-09. Where this and App Store Connect disagree, App Store Connect is what
shipped — bring this file back in line rather than trusting it.
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## Identity
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| App Name (30) | `Poker Tutor` |
| Bundle ID | `com.thedigitaladlab.pokertutor` — **permanent after first submission** |
| SKU | `pokertutor-ios-1` |
| Primary language | English (U.S.) |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Copyright | `2026 The Digital Ad Lab, LLC` |
⚠️ **Seller name is not the same field as copyright.** Copyright is free text and is the LLC. The
seller name shown on the App Store comes from the account type: **Kenneth Rona** while the
membership is an individual one, **The Digital Ad Lab, LLC** once Apple converts it to an
organization. Ken asked to convert on 2026-08-10 — see `SUBMISSION.md`.
## Subtitle (30)
```
A coach, not a card game
```
29 characters. This is the tagline already used on thedigitaladlab.com/poker-tutor, so the
listing and the site say the same thing. If it should read as a plain claim instead, use
`Find the leaks in your game` (27).
## Promotional text (170) — editable without a new review
```
Play real hands against opponents who get harder as you do. After a hand that cost you money, the coach names the decision. After a hand you played well, it says nothing.
```
169 characters.
## Description (4000)
```
Most poker software is built for people who are already good. It assumes you know what a continuation bet is, that you size a bet as a share of the pot, and that the seat you are in matters more than the cards you hold. Poker Tutor assumes none of that.
You play real hands against eight opponents whose difficulty rises as you improve. After a hand where something went wrong, the coach tells you which decision cost money and what it would have done instead. After a hand you played well, it says nothing at all — stopping somebody to tell them they did nothing wrong costs attention and teaches nothing.
Over a few hundred hands it works out which mistakes are habits rather than accidents, ranks them by what each one is costing you, and turns any of them into a focused set of hands that puts you in that exact situation until you stop getting it wrong. Then it checks back days later to see whether the fix held.
WHAT YOU GET
• Nine-handed tournaments with rising blinds, real bubble pressure and a ladder of tables that only opens as your rating earns it
• A coach that reviews the hands worth reviewing and stays out of the way on the rest
• A scorecard of your habits, ranked by what each is costing you
• Practice sets built from your own mistakes, and a check days later to see whether the fix held
• A forty-hand assessment that adapts as it goes
• Every hand you have played, replayable street by street
• Your real numbers — how often you play a hand, how often you raise, how you do from each seat — over this sitting or all time
• A short course on the things nobody says out loud: how much to bet, what price a bet is offering you, how much to raise before the flop, why where you sit beats what you hold
WHY IT IS DIFFERENT
It stays quiet when it is not sure. The coach will not name a habit until it has watched enough of the same situation to be confident. Every threshold it uses was set by measuring a scripted flawless player against a scripted flawed one. Six of the eighteen habits it tracks were found, during development, to be capable of accusing a player who had done nothing wrong. All six were re-derived from measured data. One of them cannot be judged honestly at all, so the app refuses to judge it.
It does not flatter you. Where it cannot work out what a mistake cost, it says the cost is not known rather than printing a zero. Small samples are labelled as small samples. Hands played in a drill are kept out of your real numbers, because an arranged table would flatter or punish them without either being true.
It explains itself in English. No ranges, no fold equity, no being told you were "out of position". Every unavoidable poker word is tappable and defined in a sentence. Seats are numbered — the small blind is 1 and the dealer is last — with a diagram, rather than expecting you to already know what "under the gun" means.
NOTHING IS WAGERED
There is no real money gambling in Poker Tutor and no way to put any in. Nothing is bet, chips cannot be bought, and no chip has any value outside the app. It is a coaching tool that happens to use a poker table, in the way a driving instructor uses a car.
WHAT IT COSTS
Your first 100 hands are free, the 40-hand assessment included, and they come with something concrete: the coach names your most common habit and opens the drill for it. The rest of your scorecard is there too, blurred, so you can see how much else it found. After that Poker Tutor is a subscription, and that is the only thing there is to buy. Everything you have already played stays yours either way: your hands, your numbers and the coach's write-ups do not go anywhere if you decide not to subscribe.
YOUR HANDS STAY ON YOUR DEVICE
Every hand you play is written to a plain text file on your own device. Nothing is uploaded, there is no account, there are no analytics, and nobody — including us — can see a hand you have played. The file is readable text on purpose: a tool whose whole job is being honest about your game should let you check its working.
Built by The (Digital) Ad Lab.
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## Keywords (100, comma separated, no spaces after commas)
```
texas holdem,coach,tutor,learn,training,drills,tournament,strategy,hand history,no limit,beginner
```
97 characters. "Poker" is deliberately absent — words in the app name are already indexed and
repeating them wastes the budget.
## URLs — all three verified live 2026-08-09
| Field | URL |
|---|---|
| Support URL (required) | https://www.thedigitaladlab.com/poker-tutor |
| Marketing URL (optional) | https://www.thedigitaladlab.com/poker-tutor |
| Privacy Policy URL (required) | https://www.thedigitaladlab.com/poker-tutor-privacy |
## Categories
- Primary: **Games → Card**
- Secondary: **Education**
## Age rating questionnaire
Answer honestly; the gambling question is the one that matters.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Simulated gambling | **Yes — frequent/intense.** The whole app is a poker table. |
| Contests | No |
| Real-money gambling | **No** |
| Violence, sexual content, profanity, drugs, horror | No to all |
| Unrestricted web access | No |
| In-app purchases | **Yes** — one auto-renewable subscription (see Price) |
Expect the highest age band (17+ under the old scheme, 18+ under the new one). This is normal
for anything with a card table and is not a rejection. Do not soften the gambling answer to get
a lower rating — a wrong answer here is grounds for removal later.
## App Privacy questionnaire
**"Data Not Collected"** for every category. The app has no account, no analytics and no
third-party SDKs. Hands are written to a file on the device and never leave it.
The subscription does not change this answer. Apple handles the transaction; the app never sees a
card number, a billing address or a name, and nothing about a purchase is stored or sent anywhere
by us. The only network traffic the app makes at all is to the App Store, for the subscription.
## Export compliance
Answered in the build itself (`ITSAppUsesNonExemptEncryption = NO`), so App Store Connect will
not ask on upload. The app uses no encryption of any kind.
## Content rights
No third-party content. Cards, chips, table and sounds are all drawn or synthesised in the repo
(`Scripts/make-icon.py`, `Scripts/make-sounds.py`) precisely so this answer stays simple.
## Screenshots
`App/screenshots/` — 8 shots at 1320×2868 (iPhone 6.9"), which is the only iPhone size Apple
still requires.
**1.0 ships iPhone-only** (Ken, 2026-08-09), so the 8 shots above are the complete set. iPad
returns in a later version with its own screenshots at 2064×2752.
## Review notes (the box Apple's reviewer reads)
```
Poker Tutor is a coaching tool, not a gambling app. Nothing is wagered, chips cannot be bought
or sold, and no chip has any value outside the app. Chips exist only to keep score within a
hand. There is no way to gamble real money in it.
The only purchase is one auto-renewable subscription, which removes the limit on how many
hands can be played. It buys nothing inside the game itself: no chips, no advantage, no
content a free player cannot see.
There is no login and no account. Launch the app and tap "Tournament" to sit at a table.
TO REVIEW THE SUBSCRIPTION WITHOUT PLAYING 100 HANDS: open "More" from the bottom bar and tap
"See the price" under "Free hands". Tapping any blurred row on My game opens it too. That is the same screen a player reaches when their free
hands run out.
The app makes no network requests other than to the App Store for the subscription itself.
Hand history is written to a plain text file in the app's own container and never leaves the
device.
The coach deliberately says nothing after a well-played hand and holds its verdict on close
decisions, so a short review session may see no coaching feedback at all. To see the coach
speak, play twenty or so hands, or open "Drills" from the home screen, which puts you straight
into the situation being taught.
```
## Price (decided 2026-08-09)
Free to download. 100 free hands, then an **auto-renewable subscription at $9.99/year**.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Subscription group | `Poker Tutor` |
| Reference name | `Poker Tutor Yearly` |
| Product ID | `com.thedigitaladlab.pokertutor.yearly` — **permanent** |
| Duration | 1 year |
| Price | $9.99 |
| Display name (shown to the buyer) | `Poker Tutor` |
| Description (shown to the buyer) | `Unlimited hands, drills and coaching. Renews yearly until cancelled.` |
App Store Connect also wants a **screenshot of the paywall** for the subscription itself, separate
from the app screenshots. That cannot be taken until the paywall exists.
⚠️ Apple requires the paywall to state, on the screen where the buyer taps buy: the price, that it
renews yearly, and that it renews until cancelled — plus links to the Terms of Use and the privacy
policy. A paywall missing any of those is the single most common rejection for a subscription app.
Apple's standard Terms of Use link is https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
The free allowance is **100 hands** (`FreeTrial.freeHands`), set 2026-09-11, and the 40-hand
assessment counts against it. What the free tier sells is not a settled rating but the player's
**most common habit** — named in full, with its drill open — while every other row on the
scorecard, the report and the drills list is present but blurred (`FreeView` in PokerSession
decides; the screens only obey). A habit is shown only once the hands support naming it, exactly
as for a subscriber; with nothing proved yet, the most common watched habit is shown and labelled
as not proved.