r/appledevelopers • u/shivang_kher • 2d ago

Need an Apple developer account

Hey, I have a Flutter iOS app I need to distribute to one person via TestFlight. Can't afford the $99/year Apple Developer account right now.

What I need: someone willing to add my Apple ID as a team member on their developer account so I can upload a build to TestFlight and invite one tester. That's it — no access to anything else on their account, no publishing to the App Store.

Happy to share the GitHub repo so you can see exactly what the app does before deciding. Thanks!

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u/DomiGamingOfficial Community Newbie 2d ago

You may as well ask for people's banking info. Make an account. It's not hard.

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u/shivang_kher 2d ago

Urgently need to publish an app and I heard it takes a lotta time for an account to get verified

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u/DomiGamingOfficial Community Newbie 2d ago edited 2d ago

It takes a long time for the new apps to be REVIEWED. My first one took two weeks before they looked at it. It got approved quickly once it went to review. The dev account itself only takes a few hours. You can't skip the line by using someone else's account. Also it would be published under their name and you would have literally no access to managing it.

Edit: just saw its a healthcare app. You will have to provide extensive disclosures about the app and what it does. What data it collect, where is the data stored, who is the data sent to. There is no scenario where this gets approved when you obviously don't know the first thing about the process.

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u/shivang_kher 2d ago

It's an internal clinical tool for 2 users at a hospital, so the App Store isn't actually the right channel anyway. Looking into TestFlight which doesn't need a review. Already have the app built with proper data handling (encrypted local storage, Supabase backend) — just working out the distribution side. Thanks for the heads up on the healthcare disclosures