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No need to ship a launcher. You can already do this on iOS/iPadOS:

https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/add-a-web-link-to-home-scre...

When you tap on the icon on the home screen, it'll open up in Safari without any browser chrome visible.

Yes but then users know it's a weblink, and you're back to square one: "when is the Android/iOS app coming out?"

Apple will not accept that, unfortunately. :(

They will accept apps if it does something lame like implement login natively and have a bottom menu bar launcher.

I hate to say it, but I’d probably pay apple a cut if they’d let me distribute PWAs through their App Store without going through the trouble of building a lame native wrapper.

Or a PWA!

These two are not mutually exclusive, and well supported by most app stores now.

Apple rejects apps that are just wrappers around a website. :(