Two different apps in apple app store with same name?

Question

I have an app I want to launch for iphone and for ipad. The ipad version will be used by businesses to input content. The iphone app will be used by their customers on the go to just access the data.

The iphone app is customer oriented, while the ipad app is business oriented. I would like them to have the same name.

Since the first app will only be available on iphone and the second on ipads, I was wondering whether it's possible for them to have the same name.

Is that possible?

Answer 1

Two iOS apps currently can not have the same App store name (as entered in iTunes Connect), nor the same bundle ID suffix. They can, however, have the same name under the icon (the Bundle Display Name as entered in the app's plist). And two App store names can differ by as little as one character, punctuation mark or space. Or one can add a suffix, such as "for iPad" (check Apple's rules on use of the latter).