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Right now, 40,175 apps are censored on the App Store.

Apple is the sole gatekeeper of software on every iPhone, and it assigns each person to one of 175 separate catalogues by billing address. When an app vanishes from yours there is no notice, no appeal and no record: you simply cannot find Signal, a VPN or the news any more. We keep the record Apple does not.

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0App Stores monitored
19.9%of widely-used apps missing from the typical storefront
0unavailable app records
0.0%of tested apps unavailable, median storefront

Where apps disappear

Fiji — no App StoreTanzania — no App StoreWestern Sahara — no App StoreCanada — no App StoreUnited States — no App StoreKazakhstan — no App StoreUzbekistan — no App StorePapua New Guinea — no App StoreIndonesia — no App StoreArgentina — no App StoreChile — no App StoreDR Congo — no App StoreSomalia — no App StoreKenya — no App StoreSudan — no App StoreChad — no App StoreHaiti — no App StoreDominican Republic — no App StoreRussia — no App StoreBahamas — no App StoreFalkland Islands — no App StoreNorway — no App StoreGreenland — no App StoreFrench Southern Territories — no App StoreTimor-Leste — no App StoreSouth Africa — no App StoreLesotho — no App StoreMexico — no App StoreUruguay — no App StoreBrazil — no App StoreBolivia — no App StorePeru — no App StoreColombia — no App StorePanama — no App StoreCosta Rica — no App StoreNicaragua — no App StoreHonduras — no App StoreEl Salvador — no App StoreGuatemala — no App StoreBelize — no App StoreVenezuela — no App StoreGuyana — no App StoreSuriname — no App StoreFrance — no App StoreEcuador — no App StorePuerto Rico — no App StoreJamaica — no App StoreCuba — no App StoreZimbabwe — no App StoreBotswana — no App StoreNamibia — no App StoreSenegal — no App StoreMali — no App StoreMauritania — no App StoreBenin — no App StoreNiger — no App StoreNigeria — no App StoreCameroon — no App StoreTogo — no App StoreGhana — no App StoreCôte d’Ivoire — no App StoreGuinea — no App StoreGuinea-Bissau — no App StoreLiberia — no App StoreSierra Leone — no App StoreBurkina Faso — no App StoreCentral African Republic — no App StoreRepublic of the Congo — no App StoreGabon — no App StoreEquatorial Guinea — no App StoreZambia — no App StoreMalawi — no App StoreMozambique — no App StoreEswatini — no App StoreAngola — no App StoreBurundi — no App StoreIsrael — no App StoreLebanon — no App StoreMadagascar — no App StorePalestinian Territories — no App StoreGambia — no App StoreTunisia — no App StoreAlgeria — no App StoreJordan — no App StoreUnited Arab Emirates — no App StoreQatar — no App StoreKuwait — no App StoreIraq — no App StoreOman — no App StoreVanuatu — no App StoreCambodia — no App StoreThailand — no App StoreLaos — no App StoreMyanmar (Burma) — no App StoreVietnam — no App StoreNorth Korea — no App StoreSouth Korea — no App StoreMongolia — no App StoreIndia — no App StoreBangladesh — no App StoreBhutan — no App StoreNepal — no App StorePakistan — no App StoreAfghanistan — no App StoreTajikistan — no App StoreKyrgyzstan — no App StoreTurkmenistan — no App StoreIran — no App StoreSyria — no App StoreArmenia — no App StoreSweden — no App StoreBelarus — no App StoreUkraine — no App StorePoland — no App StoreAustria — no App StoreHungary — no App StoreMoldova — no App StoreRomania — no App StoreLithuania — no App StoreLatvia — no App StoreEstonia — no App StoreGermany — no App StoreBulgaria — no App StoreGreece — no App StoreTürkiye — no App StoreAlbania — no App StoreCroatia — no App StoreSwitzerland — no App StoreLuxembourg — no App StoreBelgium — no App StoreNetherlands — no App StorePortugal — no App StoreSpain — no App StoreIreland — no App StoreNew Caledonia — no App StoreSolomon Islands — no App StoreNew Zealand — no App StoreAustralia — no App StoreSri Lanka — no App StoreChina (Mainland) — no App StoreTaiwan — no App StoreItaly — no App StoreDenmark — no App StoreUnited Kingdom — no App StoreIceland — no App StoreAzerbaijan — no App StoreGeorgia — no App StorePhilippines — no App StoreMalaysia — no App StoreBrunei — no App StoreSlovenia — no App StoreFinland — no App StoreSlovakia — no App StoreCzechia — no App StoreEritrea — no App StoreJapan — no App StoreParaguay — no App StoreYemen — no App StoreSaudi Arabia — no App StoreCyprus — no App StoreMorocco — no App StoreEgypt — no App StoreLibya — no App StoreEthiopia — no App StoreDjibouti — no App StoreUganda — no App StoreRwanda — no App StoreBosnia & Herzegovina — no App StoreNorth Macedonia — no App StoreSerbia — no App StoreMontenegro — no App StoreKosovo — no App StoreTrinidad & Tobago — no App StoreSouth Sudan — no App StoreVatican City — no App StoreMicronesia — no App StoreMarshall Islands — no App StoreNorthern Mariana Islands — no App StoreU.S. Virgin Islands — no App StoreGuam — no App StoreAmerican Samoa — no App StoreSouth Georgia & South Sandwich Islands — no App StoreBritish Indian Ocean Territory — no App StoreSt. Helena — no App StorePitcairn Islands — no App StoreAnguilla — no App StoreCayman Islands — no App StoreBermuda — no App StoreBritish Virgin Islands — no App StoreTurks & Caicos Islands — no App StoreMontserrat — no App StoreJersey — no App StoreGuernsey — no App StoreIsle of Man — no App StoreTonga — no App StoreSingapore — no App StoreSeychelles — no App StoreSão Tomé & Príncipe — no App StoreSan Marino — no App StoreSamoa — no App StoreSt. Vincent & Grenadines — no App StoreSt. Lucia — no App StoreSt. Kitts & Nevis — no App StorePalau — no App StoreNiue — no App StoreCook Islands — no App StoreAruba — no App StoreCuraçao — no App StoreNauru — no App StoreMonaco — no App StoreMauritius — no App StoreMalta — no App StoreMaldives — no App StoreLiechtenstein — no App StoreKiribati — no App StoreGrenada — no App StoreSt. Pierre & Miquelon — no App StoreWallis & Futuna — no App StoreSt. Martin — no App StoreSt. Barthélemy — no App StoreFrench Polynesia — no App StoreÅland Islands — no App StoreDominica — no App StoreFaroe Islands — no App StoreComoros — no App StoreMacao — no App StoreHong Kong — no App StoreCape Verde — no App StoreBarbados — no App StoreBahrain — no App StoreHeard & McDonald Islands — no App StoreNorfolk Island — no App StoreAntigua & Barbuda — no App StoreAndorra — no App StoreSint Maarten — no App Store
Missing the mostFar more than mostMore than mostAbout typicalFewer than mostNo App StoreShading is the share of the widely-used apps we have tested in a storefront — 10,000+ user ratings worldwide, still on sale somewhere — that are unavailable there. Both sides of that share are what we tested in that storefront, so the shading is not a report of where we have crawled hardest, and an app pulled from the App Store everywhere is not counted anywhere. It is not the share of all missing apps: most absence is commercial, and that figure says almost nothing about censorship. Read the shading by comparison rather than as a verdict — a region-locked app is missing nearly everywhere, so about three-quarters of a typical share is a floor almost all of them stand on, and the three at the top of the scale exceed that floor by far more than the rest.

The storefronts missing the most widely-used apps

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