Comparisons
Termly vs OrbitKit for iOS apps: which actually passes App Review?
Termly is a website legal-compliance platform; OrbitKit is built for Apple App Store submission. A structural comparison for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS developers.
If you searched “Termly for iOS app,” you’re trying to solve the App Store privacy-policy requirement and Termly came up because it’s a well-known privacy-policy generator. The honest framing before you pick: Termly and OrbitKit solve adjacent but different problems. Termly is a website legal-compliance platform. OrbitKit is built for Apple App Store submission specifically.
This is the structural comparison — not a feature-count war — so you can tell which one matches what you’re actually trying to ship.
For the full list of what Apple requires, see every URL and file Apple requires for an iOS App Store submission.
The core difference
Termly is built for websites that need GDPR, CCPA, ePrivacy, and cookie-consent compliance. Its strengths are cookie scanners, consent management platforms (CMP), and jurisdiction-aware legal policies for a web business.
OrbitKit is built for Apple-platform apps. Its scope is the specific set of web URLs and files Apple’s App Review verifies: the privacy policy plus the support page, the data-deletion page, the apple-app-site-association file, the Smart App Banner, and Sign in with Apple / Apple Pay verification files.
A privacy policy is the one place these overlap. Everything else App Review checks, Termly doesn’t address — because it’s not what Termly is for.
Side by side
| Termly | OrbitKit | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Websites (GDPR/CCPA/cookies) | Apple App Store submission |
| Privacy policy | Yes — web-oriented | Yes — mapped to Apple’s 14 data categories |
| Hosted policy URL | Yes (paid plans) | Yes (custom domain, auto-SSL) |
| Support page (Apple Guideline 1.5) | No | Yes |
| Data deletion page (Guideline 5.1.1(v)) | No | Yes |
apple-app-site-association (Universal Links) |
No | Yes |
PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy generator |
No | Yes |
| Sign in with Apple / Apple Pay domain files | No | Yes |
| Cookie consent banner / CMP | Yes | No (not relevant to native apps) |
| Pricing (at time of writing — verify current) | ~$10–20/mo | $5/mo per app |
When Termly is the right pick
- You’re shipping a website or web app, not a native iOS/macOS app.
- You need a cookie consent banner and a CMP for an EU audience.
- Your compliance need is GDPR/CCPA-first, and App Store submission isn’t in scope.
If that’s you, Termly is a reasonable choice and OrbitKit isn’t built for your problem.
When OrbitKit is the right pick
- You’re submitting an iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS, or CarPlay app and need the web URLs Apple requires.
- You want the privacy policy answers to map 1:1 to the App Store Connect App Privacy questionnaire so there’s no translation step (and no mismatch rejection).
- You also need the support page, data-deletion page, and AASA file — the parts a website-compliance tool doesn’t generate.
- You want all of it on one hosted domain so the URLs don’t break on your next site redesign.
The App Review angle most comparisons miss
A generic privacy policy — even a legally solid one from Termly — can still get an App Review clarification because App Review cross-references the policy against your Info.plist permission strings, your App Privacy questionnaire, and your PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy. A tool built around Apple’s taxonomy keeps those four surfaces consistent by construction. A tool built around web GDPR doesn’t model them at all — not a flaw in Termly, just outside its scope.
We cover what App Review actually checks in the iOS privacy policy generator post.
Bottom line
Termly for a website’s legal compliance. OrbitKit for an Apple-platform App Store submission. If your app also has a marketing website with cookies, the two aren’t mutually exclusive — but for the App Store requirements specifically, OrbitKit is the tool built for that job. Generate your privacy policy free or see the full feature list.