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AI App Store

Listings

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What gets into the AI App Store, what keeps it there and what takes it out, and how to propose a listing or a correction. A person approves every listing.

The full rule book is apps.mlx.app/rules (source docs/STORE-RULES.md). In short:

What gets listed

  1. AI, or directly for AI work: apps, command-line tools, agents, local runtimes, models, MCP servers, browser extensions, iPhone apps and workflows.
  2. Runs on a Mac or an iPhone: macOS 14 or later on Apple silicon, or a web or iOS app usable from a Mac.
  3. An official source: the maker's site, the Mac App Store or App Store, its GitHub or Hugging Face organisation, Homebrew, npm or PyPI. The store links the official download only and never re-hosts a binary.
  4. Signed downloads: a Mac app installed from a disk image must be Developer ID signed and notarized. Its listing pins the Developer ID team and bundle id that MLX Node will check (see Links).
  5. Alive: a release or commit in the last 12 months, or an official store listing.
  6. Nothing harmful: no malware, piracy, jailbreak, scraping or spam tools. Uncensored model builds are listed only with a clear label and are never featured.
  7. Factual: what it does, price, platforms, licence and where your data goes, each fact with its source and the date it was checked.

Flags and removal

A listing is flagged or removed when the project has been dead for 12 months, its download is broken, there is a security advisory (linked, with a banner, and installs paused) or the maker asks. A flagged listing stays visible with its reason (flag in the catalogue).

Who decides

An agent proposes new listings and changes from public sources: GitHub, Hugging Face, the App Store, Hacker News and the MLX community. Every proposal is checked by the same validator as the catalogue in git (entryProblems in lib/store/validate.ts) and waits in the admin until a person approves or rejects it. Nothing is published before that.

Propose a listing or a correction

To propose a listing, write to contact@mlx.app with the app's name and its official links: the site, the download, and the App Store, GitHub, Hugging Face, Homebrew, npm or PyPI page where it has one. For a correction, write to support@mlx.app naming the listing and linking the source that shows the right fact; every listing page has that address under "Something wrong?".

Makers can't pay to be listed, to rank higher or to change their score.

Check the catalogue yourself

The listings in git are checked before every release:

bash
npx tsx scripts/store-check.mts          # every entry: fields, sources, install paths
npx tsx scripts/store-check.mts --list   # and list them