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We monitor 175 App Store storefronts to answer one question —

Is 译学馆 censored by Apple?

Gone.

译学馆 is gone from every App Store storefront we test. It was last seen available on Jun 14, 2022.

131 tests on record·last checked 10 days ago

Why it is unavailable

Five things can put an app out of one App Store. Each is weighed below against what can be seen from outside — open a card for the reasoning.

  • A government or a court demanded itPossible

    and Apple complied. Apple publishes a count of these per country each year and never says which apps they were. Apple's 2025 App Store Transparency Report

  • Apple applied a rule, unaskedPossible

    either its own review guidelines, or its own reading of a local law, with nobody having demanded anything. This is the largest category in Apple's own removal figures by a wide margin, and it covers distribution permits as well as content — Apple kept a free Bible app out of mainland China in 2021 for want of one. Apple's 2025 App Store Transparency Report

  • The developer withheld itPossible

    freely, or under legal advice of their own, or because Apple's guidelines require that kind of app to be limited to certain countries. Switching a country off is easy for a developer to do in Apple's own tools: it needs no new version of the app, and it leaves no public trace other than the app being unavailable.

  • Something brokeUnlikely

    a rejected update, a lapsed certificate, a payment or licensing problem, a mistake nobody has got round to noticing.

  • A local rule about paying for itRuled out

    gambling licences, financial rules, tax — the kind of law that governs a transaction. Apple can obey every one of them by refusing the payment, which is why this is the only restriction we would accept and the only one that cannot touch a free app.

    • It is free, so Apple sells nothing here.
How this is weighed, and what it cannot tell you

Weighed from the evidence under each card, not from a model. There is no published figure for how Apple's removals divide up, so these are ordered words rather than percentages. For scale on the same-day counts: across the whole record an app leaves a storefront with fewer than two others, so a dozen at once is not a dozen coincidences.

None of this is certain, and a citation does not make it so: Apple naming a Chinese agency tells you what Apple said, not everything that happened. What can be said is that the readings alone cannot separate these five — a developer switching off a country and a government ordering it removed arrive at Apple's catalogue looking identical — and that nobody has ever measured how they divide across the App Store. The one careful study of the question was done on Google's store, using an error message Apple does not emit.

Apple publishes no record of which apps are unavailable in which of its App Stores. For the removals it makes on a government's demand it publishes the agency and the law behind every one — 2,045 of the 166,899 apps it removed during 2025 — and never which app. Where a reason reaches the public at all, it is usually because a developer chose to say so. Apple's App Store Transparency Report

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译学馆

Developer: Beijing Jiuwei Technology Co., Ltd. · Category: Education · Released: Feb 24, 2016 · Rating: 2.0★

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0stores where available
34stores where blocked
2.35Bpeople behind the block
34of 175 stores tested
131tests on record

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Life of this app

  1. Feb 24, 2016Released on the App Store
  2. Feb 17, 2021First tested by AppleCensorship
  3. Jun 14, 2022Last seen available anywhere
  4. Jun 7, 2025Gone from 34 storefronts
  5. Oct 1, 2026Most recent test

Testing history

One column per month, every month from the first reading to the last. Height follows how many readings we took that month; red is the share of them that found the app unavailable. An empty month is one nobody tested.

2021-022026-10

Found availableFound unavailable

Availability by storefront

Every storefront we test, current status first. Data is a measurement, not a promise: each row carries its own date.

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AlbaniaALUnavailableSep 16, 20242 months ago
AlgeriaDZUnavailableDec 14, 202510 months ago
BahamasBSUnavailableSep 2, 202513 months ago
BeninBJUnavailableOct 8, 20242 years ago
BermudaBMUnavailableSep 11, 202631 days ago
BulgariaBGUnavailableSep 16, 20242 years ago
CanadaCAUnavailableJun 10, 202516 months ago
ChileCLUnavailableDec 13, 20242 years ago
China (Mainland)CNUnavailableSep 16, 202431 days ago
EcuadorECUnavailableJul 31, 20262 months ago
GhanaGHUnavailableMay 10, 20251 year ago
Guinea-BissauGWUnavailableSep 3, 202513 months ago
HondurasHNUnavailableOct 19, 202512 months ago
IraqIQUnavailableOct 1, 202610 days ago
JamaicaJMUnavailableJun 7, 202516 months ago
KazakhstanKZUnavailableDec 16, 20242 years ago
LiberiaLRUnavailableSep 16, 20242 years ago
MontenegroMEUnavailableOct 1, 202610 days ago
NauruNRUnavailableSep 16, 202431 days ago
NetherlandsNLUnavailableApr 23, 20266 months ago
ParaguayPYUnavailableJul 1, 20263 months ago
PortugalPTUnavailableDec 8, 20242 years ago
RussiaRUUnavailableSep 16, 20246 months ago
SeychellesSCUnavailableDec 21, 20242 years ago
Solomon IslandsSBUnavailableOct 1, 202610 days ago
St. LuciaLCUnavailableJan 6, 20269 months ago
TanzaniaTZUnavailableSep 16, 20249 months ago
TunisiaTNUnavailableJan 22, 20269 months ago
TurkmenistanTMUnavailableMay 8, 20251 year ago
UgandaUGUnavailableJun 18, 20264 months ago
UkraineUAUnavailableSep 16, 202410 days ago
United Arab EmiratesAEUnavailableSep 16, 202431 days ago
United StatesUSUnavailableSep 16, 202431 days ago
VanuatuVUUnavailableOct 26, 202512 months ago
AfghanistanAFNot tested——0
AngolaAONot tested——0
AnguillaAINot tested——0
Antigua & BarbudaAGNot tested——0
ArgentinaARNot tested——0
ArmeniaAMNot tested——0
AustraliaAUNot tested——0
AustriaATNot tested——0
AzerbaijanAZNot tested——0
BahrainBHNot tested——0
BarbadosBBNot tested——0
BelarusBYNot tested——0
BelgiumBENot tested——0
BelizeBZNot tested——0
BhutanBTNot tested——0
BoliviaBONot tested——0
Bosnia & HerzegovinaBANot tested——0
BotswanaBWNot tested——0
BrazilBRNot tested——0
British Virgin IslandsVGNot tested——0
BruneiBNNot tested——0
Burkina FasoBFNot tested——0
CambodiaKHNot tested——0
CameroonCMNot tested——0
Cape VerdeCVNot tested——0
Cayman IslandsKYNot tested——0
ChadTDNot tested——0
ColombiaCONot tested——0
Costa RicaCRNot tested——0
Côte d’IvoireCINot tested——0
CroatiaHRNot tested——0
CyprusCYNot tested——0
CzechiaCZNot tested——0
DenmarkDKNot tested——0
DominicaDMNot tested——0
Dominican RepublicDONot tested——0
DR CongoCDNot tested——0
EgyptEGNot tested——0
El SalvadorSVNot tested——0
EstoniaEENot tested——0
EswatiniSZNot tested——0
FijiFJNot tested——0
FinlandFINot tested——0
FranceFRNot tested——0
GabonGANot tested——0
GambiaGMNot tested——0
GeorgiaGENot tested——0
GermanyDENot tested——0
GreeceGRNot tested——0
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GuatemalaGTNot tested——0
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Hong KongHKNot tested——0
HungaryHUNot tested——0
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IndiaINNot tested——0
IndonesiaIDNot tested——0
IrelandIENot tested——0
IsraelILNot tested——0
ItalyITNot tested——0
JapanJPNot tested——0
JordanJONot tested——0
KenyaKENot tested——0
KosovoXKNot tested——0
KuwaitKWNot tested——0
KyrgyzstanKGNot tested——0
LaosLANot tested——0
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LebanonLBNot tested——0
LibyaLYNot tested——0
LithuaniaLTNot tested——0
LuxembourgLUNot tested——0
MacaoMONot tested——0
MadagascarMGNot tested——0
MalawiMWNot tested——0
MalaysiaMYNot tested——0
MaldivesMVNot tested——0
MaliMLNot tested——0
MaltaMTNot tested——0
MauritaniaMRNot tested——0
MauritiusMUNot tested——0
MexicoMXNot tested——0
MicronesiaFMNot tested——0
MoldovaMDNot tested——0
MongoliaMNNot tested——0
MontserratMSNot tested——0
MoroccoMANot tested——0
MozambiqueMZNot tested——0
Myanmar (Burma)MMNot tested——0
NamibiaNANot tested——0
NepalNPNot tested——0
New ZealandNZNot tested——0
NicaraguaNINot tested——0
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NigeriaNGNot tested——0
North MacedoniaMKNot tested——0
NorwayNONot tested——0
OmanOMNot tested——0
PakistanPKNot tested——0
PalauPWNot tested——0
PanamaPANot tested——0
Papua New GuineaPGNot tested——0
PeruPENot tested——0
PhilippinesPHNot tested——0
PolandPLNot tested——0
QatarQANot tested——0
Republic of the CongoCGNot tested——0
RomaniaRONot tested——0
RwandaRWNot tested——0
São Tomé & PríncipeSTNot tested——0
Saudi ArabiaSANot tested——0
SenegalSNNot tested——0
SerbiaRSNot tested——0
Sierra LeoneSLNot tested——0
SingaporeSGNot tested——0
SlovakiaSKNot tested——0
SloveniaSINot tested——0
South AfricaZANot tested——0
South KoreaKRNot tested——0
SpainESNot tested——0
Sri LankaLKNot tested——0
St. Kitts & NevisKNNot tested——0
St. Vincent & GrenadinesVCNot tested——0
SurinameSRNot tested——0
SwedenSENot tested——0
SwitzerlandCHNot tested——0
TaiwanTWNot tested——0
TajikistanTJNot tested——0
ThailandTHNot tested——0
TongaTONot tested——0
Trinidad & TobagoTTNot tested——0
TürkiyeTRNot tested——0
Turks & Caicos IslandsTCNot tested——0
United KingdomGBNot tested——0
UruguayUYNot tested——0
UzbekistanUZNot tested——0
VenezuelaVENot tested——0
VietnamVNNot tested——0
YemenYENot tested——0
ZambiaZMNot tested——0
ZimbabweZWNot tested——0

Testing asks Apple whether it will sell this app in that storefront, right now, by the same method the crawler has used since 2019. Your browser asks Apple directly, so the answer describes what Apple serves your connection — and if your browser cannot reach Apple at all, we ask on your behalf and say so. The result is a link: open it to see Apple's own answer and check ours. Readings are added to the record above; roughly a quarter of the readings taken each day come from people testing.

How we test

Availability is checked against Apple's own catalog servers for every storefront, the same way the App Store app asks. "Unavailable" means Apple's servers say the app cannot be offered in that country — it does not say who asked for the removal. Removals initiated by the developer and removals demanded by governments look the same from outside; the history and context on this page are how we tell them apart.