app transfer

A verified publisher first takes your app live on their established console, then uses Google's official app-transfer process to move it to a console you own. Speed now, ownership later. How it works, step by step.

Yes. Google provides a documented process to transfer an app between developer accounts, preserving the listing, reviews and install base. It's the legitimate backbone of the live-and-transfer model.

Yes. The official app-transfer process keeps the same listing — URL, reviews, ratings and installs all move with the app to the new account.

Yes. An agency can publish under its own developer account and later hand the app over using Google’s official app transfer, which moves the listing, installs, ratings and reviews to the client’s account intact. Alternatively the client opens the account and the agency is added as a user with Release manager permissions — cleaner ownership, but the client then has to clear verification and, if the account is new, the 12-tester rule. Agencies on a deadline usually publish first and transfer after.