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Google Play listing checker for your website app

Play Console rejects a title over 30 characters and a short description over 80, and its metadata policy pushes back on caps, emoji and “best app” claims. Paste your copy and see every problem before you press publish.

Check your listing copy

Counts are in characters as Play counts them. Warnings are a linter for Play's metadata policy, not the policy itself.

Three fields, three jobs

A Google Play listing for a website app is mostly the same listing any app gets, and it is written in three fields with very different purposes. The title (30 characters) is the app's name plus, if it fits, one phrase saying what it is. The short description (80 characters) is the line under the screenshots that decides whether someone taps "Read more"; it is also shown in search results. The full description (4,000 characters) is what Play indexes for search and what a careful buyer reads before installing.

The checker counts each against its limit as you type and runs the copy past the parts of Play's metadata policy that catch website apps most often.

What Play's metadata policy actually bans

Violations are usually a rejection with a note, not a ban, but each costs a review cycle. The checker's warnings map to these items; a warning means "Play may push back", which for a first submission is reason enough to reword.

Writing the listing for a website app

Reviewers and buyers both ask the same question of an app that wraps a site: why not just use the website? The description should answer it in the first paragraph. Name the things the app does that the browser tab does not — a home-screen icon, push notifications for order updates, an offline menu, a login that stays signed in, native tabs. If the honest answer is "nothing yet", that is also the answer to why Play's minimum functionality review may reject it; the policy guide explains what to add.

Keywords, without stuffing

Play's search ranks the title highest, the short description next and the full description after that. One natural mention of a term in each place is roughly all the credit you can get; a tenth mention earns nothing and reads as stuffing. The coverage table shows where each of your target phrases appears so you can place them once and stop. Write for the person deciding whether to install, and the search engine will follow.

Frequently asked questions

What are Google Play's character limits?

Title 30, short description 80, full description 4,000 — counted in characters as displayed. Play Console will not save a field over its limit.

Can I say 'free' in my app title?

Play's metadata policy lists 'free' among the promotional words it does not allow in the title or short description. Say it in the full description, and set the price to free — the listing shows 'Install' rather than a price anyway.

Does the full description affect search?

Yes, it is indexed, though the title and short description carry more weight. Mention each important phrase naturally once or twice; repetition beyond that is treated as keyword stuffing.

Are the warnings the same as Play's review?

No. They are a linter for the most common metadata rejections. A clean result here does not guarantee approval, and Play's reviewers apply judgement the tool cannot.

Is my listing copy sent anywhere?

No. The counts and checks run in your browser; nothing you type leaves the page.

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