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No, and be wary of anything that says it does. We verify that each day’s evidence is fresh, unique, and on the screen the tester was asked for. Whether your application is approved depends on your app, your store listing, and Google’s own review — none of which any third party controls.

Those find you people, which is the abundant part. What none of them produce is a checked record of engagement: daily evidence, hashed so a recycled screenshot is caught, on a screen that changes each day, with a day lock that makes backdating impossible. You finish the 14 days with something you can actually read rather than an install count.

Install the app from the closed-track opt-in link, keep it installed, and open it once a day to reach the screen they are asked for, then file evidence. It takes a minute or two a day. Testers are developers running their own tests, so the expectation runs both ways.

Two things, independently. Every image is hashed on its pixels, so re-encoding, resizing, or stripping metadata does not disguise it — and that check runs against the whole archive, not just that tester’s own history. On top of that, the screen being asked for rotates daily, so an old screenshot shows the wrong screen regardless.

Not today — each account runs one app in the exchange at a time. Every listing consumes real tester-days that other developers have to supply, so the limit keeps listings fillable rather than letting one account queue a portfolio. Close a finished listing and the slot frees up for the next app.

No. The queue is ordered by need — the listing furthest from a full party comes first. There is no promoted placement and no priority tier for sale. Charging for position is how the unattractive listings in a marketplace end up starved, which is the problem the ordering exists to solve.

They are nudged on the first missed day, warned on the second with you informed, given a last call on the third, and released from the seat on the fourth. You are told where your party stands each time, and the wording stays factual — "no proof submitted for two days", never a claim about whether they opened your app.

No. Screenshot verification works on its own and most listings will use it. If your app already runs the SupportDock feedback SDK, it can report real session telemetry instead, which is stronger evidence and earns priority in the queue — earned through adoption, never bought. Any telemetry must be disclosed in your app’s privacy policy, which SupportDock can host for you.

Google requires 12 opted in continuously, so a listing asks for more than that: some attrition across two weeks is normal and a party that starts at exactly 12 has no margin. You are shown a guaranteed floor, and if removals take the party under it you are told the real numbers and given a re-entry credit.