Hi! I'm one of the developers of an open source browser extension startpage named Bonjourr that takes heavy inspiration from iOS' design language.
We've been working on it for almost three years and our users love it, but have been since the beginning asking for a Safari version (it's only available for Chrome, Firefox and Edge). That would totally make sense since our target audience is Apple users, but we haven't done it yet. Apple developers accounts are expensive and it wouldn't make financial sense for us.
Our users have been very kindly making donations for the last few years, and we're finally at a point where we can afford the Apple developer account (for a year anyway). The problem is that we're nervous about publishing it since our design looks a lot like Apple's (which is the whole point), and we aren't sure if they're gonna like it.
We're aware of the 4.1 "Copycat" part of the App Store guidelines and that will probably be the main problem. However, we feel like our extension is original, functional and well made enough that it's not a copycat.
What do you think? Should we go for it and spend the hundred bucks? That would be pretty sad to throw away three years worth of donations for virtually nothing.
Thank you 😊
