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App Store listing kit

This folder holds what App Store Connect asks for when publishing the iOS and iPadOS app (gg.valour.app): listing text, privacy answers, age rating answers, and notes for App Review. The policy pages it links to are generated by Valour/Web from the documents at the repository root.

Item Value
Bundle ID gg.valour.app
Team Valour Software LLC (3BRGSQ2N5K)
Minimum OS iOS and iPadOS 17.0
Primary category Social Networking
Secondary category Productivity
Privacy policy URL https://valour.gg/privacy/
Support URL https://valour.gg/faq/
Marketing URL https://valour.gg
Terms of use (EULA) https://valour.gg/terms/
Copyright 2026 Valour Software LLC
Price Free

Store listing

Apple rejects listings that name other mobile platforms or competing products, so this text does not mention Android, Google Play, or Discord.

Name (30 characters max): Valour

Subtitle (30 characters max): Encrypted community chat

Promotional text (170 characters max, editable without a new build):

Chat, voice, threads and wikis for your communities. Every message is end-to-end encrypted, with no ads and no trackers.

Keywords (100 characters max, comma separated, no spaces after commas):

chat,community,encrypted,messaging,group chat,voice,forum,wiki,threads,friends,gaming,private,e2ee

Description (4,000 characters max):

Valour is a home for your communities. Join planets built around the things you love, chat in real time, and keep the best conversations going with threads and wikis.

Private by design Every chat message is end-to-end encrypted, in direct messages, group chats and planet channels. Your keys stay on your devices, and Valour stores your messages without them. There are no ads, no trackers, and we never sell your data.

Everything a community needs • Real-time chat with channels, categories, replies, reactions and file sharing • Threads: posts and discussions that show up in your home feed • Wikis for guides, rules and resources • Voice and video channels, and calls with friends • Calendars with events and reminders • Roles, permissions, moderation tools and automod • Themes, custom emoji and profile customization • Bots, webhooks and an open API

Safe communities Report messages and posts, block people, and moderate your own planets with roles, automod and an audit log. Valour never asks for a phone number, a government ID or a face scan.

Open source Valour's client and server are open source, so anyone can see how it works.

One account everywhere Use Valour on iPhone, iPad, Mac and the web at app.valour.gg. Your planets, messages and settings follow you.

Valour is free to use. The optional Stargazer subscription adds perks such as larger uploads and helps fund the platform.

What's New (for the first release):

Valour is now on the App Store.

Screenshots

App Store Connect needs at least one screenshot for each device family the app supports. Info.plist declares iPhone and iPad, so both are required.

Display Size (portrait) Files
iPhone 6.9" 1320 x 2868 screenshots/framed/iphone-*.png (6)
iPad 13" 2064 x 2752 screenshots/framed/ipad-*.png (3)

Upload them in file-name order. Apple scales them down for smaller devices. screenshots/raw/ holds the same screens without captions, which App Store Connect also accepts.

The raw screenshots were taken from the app's web client in WebKit, the engine the iOS app's web view uses, at 375 x 812 points for iPhone and 834 x 1112 points for iPad, then scaled to Apple's sizes. Those logical sizes keep the interface as large as in the Google Play screenshots. They used a local QA server with a made-up community: every name, avatar, message and planet in them is invented for the listing. The chat messages are end-to-end encrypted like any others, and were decrypted on the capturing device.

render.mjs adds the captions. Edit the shots list and run it again after replacing a raw screenshot. App Store Connect rejects images with an alpha channel, so convert any edited image to RGB before uploading.

App Privacy

Answer yes to collecting data and no to tracking. Valour has no advertising and no third-party analytics, and it does not link data with other companies' data. Every type below is linked to the user's identity.

Apple data type Purposes Notes
Contact Info: Email Address App Functionality Sign-in, verification, password recovery, service notices
Identifiers: User ID App Functionality Username, tag and account ID
Purchases: Purchase History App Functionality Subscription status and credit purchases, including App Store purchases
User Content: Photos or Videos App Functionality Files users upload
User Content: Other User Content App Functionality Profiles, threads, comments, wiki pages, events, and reported message text
Usage Data: Product Interaction App Functionality, Analytics Online status, last active time, read positions, daily active records
Diagnostics: Crash Data, Other Diagnostic Data App Functionality Only when the user opts in to error reporting
Other Data: Other Data Types App Functionality Date of birth, for the minimum age check

Not collected: name, phone number, physical address, location, contacts, health, browsing history, search history, advertising data, and sensitive info. Live call audio is relayed in real time and not stored, so it is not declared. Chat text is end-to-end encrypted and Valour cannot read it; the "Other User Content" entry covers text a recipient chooses to report.

Age rating

Valour requires users to be at least 13 and checks the date of birth at registration. In the questionnaire:

  • Messaging and chat: yes. Users talk with each other.
  • User-generated content: yes. Users post text, images and video.
  • Advertising: no.
  • Unrestricted web access: no. Links open in the system browser.
  • Mature themes, sexual content, violence, profanity: answer for what the iOS app shows by default. NSFW planets, channels and threads are hidden in the iOS app for accounts created there, and the setting can't be turned on inside the app.

App Review information

Sign-in required: yes. Create a review account on production, confirm its email, join it to a small demo planet with a few channels, and give Apple the email and password. Do not use a personal or staff account.

Notes (paste into the Notes field):

Valour is a community chat app. Messages are end-to-end encrypted. On first sign-in the app creates encryption keys on the device and shows a recovery code; tap "I saved it" to continue.

The review account is a member of the "App Review" planet, which has text channels, a thread feed and a wiki.

Moderation: long-press a message to report it. Tap a user's avatar to block them. Settings > Safety lists blocked users. Planet owners have roles, automod and an audit log.

Account deletion: Settings > Profile > Delete account.

In-app purchases: Settings > Subscriptions sells the Stargazer subscriptions and Valour Credit packs through In-App Purchase, with a Restore purchases button. Sign in with Apple is on the sign-in page.

NSFW content is hidden in the iOS app for accounts created in it, and the setting can't be changed inside the app.

The app uses only standard encryption algorithms. The French encryption declaration is uploaded under App Encryption Documentation.

Contact: Kobe Albright, kobe@valour.gg, +1 860 993 6587.

Encryption export compliance

The app uses non-exempt encryption (end-to-end encryption with standard algorithms) and is distributed in France, so App Store Connect needs the ANSSI acknowledgement of receipt under App Information > App Encryption Documentation. Once Apple approves the document, add these keys to Valour/Client.Maui/Platforms/iOS/Info.plist so builds skip the export questions:

<key>ITSAppUsesNonExemptEncryption</key>
<true/>
<key>ITSEncryptionExportComplianceCode</key>
<string>CODE FROM APPLE</string>

Before submitting

The app changes App Review requires are in version 0.9.20: In-App Purchase for Stargazer and Valour Credits with Restore purchases (guideline 3.1.1), Sign in with Apple (4.8), NSFW content hidden by default in the iOS app (1.1.4), and Apple token revocation on account deletion (5.1.1). What remains is configuration:

  • In-App Purchase products. Create the subscription group and credit packs with the IDs in Payments, add the In-App Purchase key to the server's AppStore settings, and set the App Store Server Notifications URL. Submit the products with the build.
  • Sign in with Apple. Enable it on the App ID, create the Services ID and key, and add them to the server's ExternalAuth:Apple settings (see Sign-in methods).
  • Upload pipeline. .github/workflows/ios.yml builds and signs the app and uploads it to App Store Connect from main. It needs three repository secrets: IOS_DIST_CERT_P12_BASE64 and IOS_DIST_CERT_PASSWORD (an Apple Distribution certificate exported as .p12) and IOS_PROVISION_PROFILE_BASE64 (an App Store provisioning profile for gg.valour.app). The upload uses the existing ASC_API_* key, which needs the App Manager or Developer role.
  • Encryption compliance code. Add it to Info.plist once Apple approves the French declaration (see above).