What are the chances Apple and Google just ban “vibe-coded” apps altogether?

Been thinking about this more lately as tools like Blackbox AI make it ridiculously easy to go from idea to a working app in a very short time.

With Blackbox AI’s App Builder and AI Agents, you can spin up something functional fast. That’s great, but it also means there’s a massive influx of apps being pushed toward app stores, many of them built quickly, sometimes without much depth behind them.

So the question is, could platforms like Apple (App Store) or Google (Google Play) respond by just banning or heavily restricting these kinds of apps?

Short answer: a blanket ban is very unlikely.

The reason is simple. App stores don’t regulate how an app is built, they regulate what the app does and the quality standards it meets. Whether something is coded manually or generated with Blackbox AI doesn’t really matter from a policy standpoint.

What they do care about is: Apps that are low quality or broken

Spammy or duplicated functionality

Misleading or deceptive behavior

Privacy and security violations

And this is where “vibe-coded” apps can run into problems.

Because they’re fast to build, a lot of them end up being: Thin wrappers around existing ideas

Poorly tested

Lacking clear value

Not meeting UX or policy expectations

That’s already covered under existing guidelines. No new “AI app ban” is needed.

What’s more likely is tighter enforcement, not new rules.

We’re already seeing signs of that direction where: Review processes get stricter on repetitive or template apps

Metadata and functionality are scrutinized more closely

Apps that don’t provide clear user value get rejected faster

So instead of banning AI-built apps, stores will just filter out the low-effort ones more aggressively.

Another angle is scale.

If Blackbox AI and similar tools keep lowering the barrier to entry, app stores will be dealing with a higher volume of submissions. That naturally pushes them toward: Better automated review systems

Stronger spam detection

Possibly higher standards for approval

But again, that targets outcomes, not tools.

The interesting part is what this means for developers.

If anything, using Blackbox AI raises the bar rather than lowering it. Because if everyone can build quickly, then speed is no longer the advantage. What matters is: Originality

Execution quality

Real user value

So the risk isn’t “AI apps get banned.”

The real risk is building something that feels disposable in an ecosystem that’s getting increasingly strict about quality.

Curious what others think. Do you see app stores eventually drawing a hard line around AI-built apps, or just continuing to tighten standards until low-effort ones naturally get filtered out?