Yorki

Platform rules

Last updated 12 October 2026

Yorki lets anyone build and publish an app by describing it. These rules keep that safe for the people who build with Yorki, for the people who visit their apps and for everyone else. They are part of our terms of use.

Where the rules apply

The rules apply to everything you do with Yorki:

  • the requests you type and the files you attach;
  • the apps you build, in the preview and once published on yorki.app;
  • what your app shows, what it collects and what it does;
  • content that your users add to your app. If your app lets people post, upload or share, you are responsible for keeping that content within these rules.

Most categories below list what is not allowed and what is allowed in context. Context matters: news, education, documentary, research, criticism and clearly labelled fiction can deal with difficult subjects, as long as they do not promote, glorify or give instructions for harm.

1. Violence and criminal activity

Not allowed

  • Threats of violence, or encouraging others to commit violence.
  • Glorifying or celebrating violent acts, attacks or their perpetrators.
  • Supporting, recruiting for or raising money for terrorist or violent extremist organisations.
  • Promoting, planning or giving instructions for crimes.
  • Promoting cruelty to animals.

Allowed

  • News, documentary and educational content.
  • Fiction and art that does not promote violence.
  • Content that raises awareness of violence or criticises it.

2. Child safety

We have zero tolerance for anything that sexualises or endangers children.

Not allowed

  • Any sexual content involving minors, including drawings, fiction and AI-generated images.
  • Content that sexualises, grooms, exploits or endangers children.
  • Apps designed to contact children for harmful purposes.

Such material is removed at once, the account is closed without notice, and we report it to the authorities.

Allowed

  • Child safety education and support resources that are not graphic.
  • Awareness content that is not graphic.

3. Harassment and bullying

Not allowed

  • Targeting a person or group with abuse, intimidation, humiliation or threats.
  • Encouraging others to harass or attack someone.
  • Apps built to shame, expose or rate private individuals without their consent.

Allowed

  • News, education and documentary content.
  • Fiction and art that does not promote abuse.
  • Awareness content and criticism.

4. Hate and discrimination

Not allowed

  • Attacking, dehumanising or calling for the exclusion of people because of their race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability or health.
  • Hate symbols or propaganda used to promote hate.
  • Apps that discriminate unlawfully, for example in housing, work or access to services.

Allowed

  • News, education and documentary content.
  • Fiction and art that does not promote hate.
  • Content that counters or criticises hate.

5. Self-harm, suicide and eating disorders

Not allowed

  • Promoting, encouraging or glorifying suicide, self-harm or eating disorders.
  • Instructions or methods for self-harm or disordered eating.
  • Graphic images of self-harm.

Allowed

  • Support, prevention and recovery resources.
  • Mental health education that is not graphic.
  • Fiction and art that does not promote these behaviours.

6. Adult and sexual content

Not allowed

  • Pornography and sexually explicit content.
  • Explicit nudity, or tools that create nude or sexual images of real people.
  • Selling sexual services, escort services, or anything that facilitates sex trafficking.

Allowed

  • Sex education and health information that is not explicit.
  • Shops for adult products, such as toys, lingerie and literature, without explicit imagery.
  • Fiction and art that is not explicit.

7. Deceptive media and misinformation

Not allowed

  • Fake or manipulated images, audio or video that present real people saying or doing things they did not, in a way meant to deceive.
  • Fake news sites, or apps that pass themselves off as real news organisations.
  • False information about elections, public safety, emergencies or health that could cause real harm.
  • Tools for creating deceptive deepfakes of real people.

Allowed

  • Satire and parody that is clearly identifiable as such.
  • Clearly labelled fiction and AI-generated content.
  • Research, education and reporting about misinformation.

8. Illegal and regulated goods and services

Not allowed

  • Selling or helping people obtain illegal drugs, controlled substances, weapons, ammunition, explosives or their parts.
  • Gambling, betting or lotteries without the licences the law requires where you and your users are.
  • Financial services without the licences the law requires, including payment, banking, lending, investment and crypto-asset services.
  • Fake financial services, such as imitation banks, crypto wallets, exchanges or payment pages.
  • Counterfeit goods, stolen goods, fake documents and fake reviews.
  • Human trafficking, forced labour and any other exploitation of people.
  • Selling regulated products such as medicines, alcohol or tobacco in breach of the law.

Allowed

  • Licensed businesses that follow the law where they operate.
  • Educational and harm-reduction content that is not instructional for illegal acts.
  • Clearly labelled fiction.

9. Private information

Not allowed

  • Publishing someone's private information without their consent, such as a home address, phone number, identity documents, financial details or health information.
  • Apps that track, locate or monitor people without their knowledge.
  • Collecting personal data in secret, or for a purpose different from the one the app tells its users.
  • Publishing passwords, keys or other credentials.

Allowed

  • Information that the person has made public themselves, or has agreed to share.
  • Public records used lawfully.

Apps that collect personal data must tell their users what they collect and why, and must follow data protection law.

Not allowed

  • Creating, publishing or sharing intimate or sexual images of someone without their consent, including fake or AI-generated ones.
  • Threatening to share intimate images.

Allowed

  • Support resources for victims that are not explicit.
  • Awareness content that is not explicit.

11. Security and malicious software

Not allowed

  • Malware, viruses, ransomware, spyware or other harmful code, or apps that deliver them.
  • Hacking or breaking into systems, accounts or data you have no permission to access, or tools built for that.
  • Sharing stolen credentials, data from breaches or ways around security measures.
  • Mining cryptocurrency in your visitors' browsers.
  • Attacking, overloading or scanning other systems, including denial-of-service attacks.
  • Testing the security of Yorki without our permission. Please report problems instead, see report abuse.

Allowed

  • Security education, documentation and research that does not harm real systems.
  • Security tools used on systems you own or are authorised to test.

12. Fraud, phishing and impersonation

This is the most common abuse of website builders, and we enforce it strictly.

Not allowed

  • Phishing: fake sign-in pages, fake payment pages, or any page designed to trick people into giving away passwords, card details or personal data.
  • Impersonating a person, company, bank, government body or brand, including copying an existing website one to one with its name or logo.
  • Scams: fake shops, fake giveaways, fake investment or crypto schemes, advance-fee fraud and fake support pages.
  • Fake coupons, misleading offers and hidden costs.
  • Instructions for fraud, scams or phishing.

Allowed

  • An app for your own business or brand, or one you are authorised to represent.
  • Fan sites and commentary that make clear they are not official.
  • Security awareness and training material that does not collect real data.

13. Spam and misuse of the platform

Not allowed

  • Spam tools, mass messaging, or apps that send unsolicited email, messages or comments.
  • Pages made only to manipulate search results, or to redirect visitors to unrelated or harmful sites.
  • Using published apps for file hosting, proxies or link shortening unrelated to the app itself.
  • Creating several accounts, or other ways around credit allowances, access limits or request refusals.

14. Dangerous acts

Not allowed

  • Encouraging or giving instructions for dangerous challenges, stunts or activities likely to cause serious injury or death.
  • Promoting dangerous medical or health practices.

Allowed

  • Safety information and prevention.
  • Clearly labelled fiction.

Not allowed

  • Using content that infringes someone else's copyright, such as images, text, music or code you do not have the right to use.
  • Using someone else's trademark in a way that confuses people about who is behind an app.

See the copyright policy for how rights holders can report infringement.

How we enforce these rules

  • Before work starts. Yorki checks requests and refuses those that clearly break these rules. A refused request costs nothing.
  • After publishing. Every published app is checked automatically after each publish and regularly afterwards, using our own checks and Google's list of unsafe sites.
  • Automatic takedown. An app that appears on Google's list of unsafe sites is taken offline at once.
  • Human review. Every other finding and every report is reviewed by a person, usually within 48 hours.

Depending on how serious a breach is, we may:

  • refuse a request;
  • take an app offline and pause publishing for the project, while keeping the project and its data;
  • suspend or close the account;
  • report the matter to the authorities, which we always do for child sexual abuse material.

When we act, we tell the owner by email which app is affected and why, unless the law prevents it. Repeated attempts to get around a refusal or a takedown can cost you your access. We decide how to interpret these rules, and we may act on harmful content that is not listed here.

Reporting and appeals