{"id":52078,"date":"2026-06-03T13:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=52078"},"modified":"2026-06-03T13:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:09:09","slug":"whisperpad-rejected-from-the-mac-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/03\/whisperpad-rejected-from-the-mac-app-store\/","title":{"rendered":"WhisperPad Rejected From the Mac App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mitmllc.com\/blog\/apple-rejected-my-dictation-app\/\">Rene Zelaya<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=48369088\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.mitmllc.com\/blog\/apple-rejected-my-dictation-app\/\">\n<p>In April, Apple rejected an update to my Mac dictation app, WhisperPad, under Guideline 2.4.5. Their position was that I was using the accessibility API in a way that wasn't an accessibility use. The app exists because I have a hand injury. Apple had approved earlier versions doing the same thing. This time they did not.<\/p>\n<p>I had used Apple's built-in dictation first, and the experience was a particular kind of frustrating. The transcription was close but rarely right, and every correction meant going back in with the keyboard, deleting, retyping. I was hurting my hands to fix the tool that was supposed to be saving them. <\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>They responded that they would take a closer look. They told me not to reply in the thread, and said they would come back with a decision. That was April 21st.<\/p>\n<p>Then it went quiet. By May 21st I had heard nothing[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Finally he heard back and was rejected again. He didn&rsquo;t want to &ldquo;sacrifice the reach of the App Store&rdquo; so he made a &ldquo;compromised version&rdquo; for the store and is also selling the full version via Paddle.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/25\/iris-rejected-from-the-app-store\/\">Iris Rejected From the App Store<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/22\/textexpander-rejected-from-app-store\/\">TextExpander Rejected From App Store<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rene Zelaya (Hacker News): In April, Apple rejected an update to my Mac dictation app, WhisperPad, under Guideline 2.4.5. Their position was that I was using the accessibility API in a way that wasn't an accessibility use. The app exists because I have a hand injury. Apple had approved earlier versions doing the same thing. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-06-03T17:09:12Z","apple_news_api_id":"48f5f2cc-fee1-4ad3-84d7-f155a75b15b8","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-06-03T17:09:12Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ASPXyzP7hStOE1_FVp1sVuA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[930,130,812,30,32,39,2742],"class_list":["post-52078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-accessibility","tag-rejection","tag-dictation","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macappstore","tag-macos-tahoe-26"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52079,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52078\/revisions\/52079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}