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The thing is, the copy you get from the App Store is encumbered by the ToS licensing terms, which conflicts with the GPL. That you can get an unencumbered copy from Github doesn't fix that.

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I don't understand the distinction. Does that mean any DRM encumbered store would also automatically be in violation of GPL? I'm thinking steam, origin, or any store that doesn't like you sharing binaries with others.

Depends on their specific Terms of Service. Some GPL software is distributed through Steam, so the platform itself apparently doesn't have mandatory rules like that (or nobody complained yet, although I remember some press when they forgot to include a GPL license notice a while back, so people have at least been looking at it). Just because the platform can do DRM doesn't mean it's not compatible with GPL code, if proper exceptions exist.

If they blanket-apply restrictions to usage of all software redistributed through the store, then yes, they are incompatible.

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