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We monitor 175 App Store storefronts to answer one question —

Is FX Currency powered by Barclays censored by Apple?

Gone.

FX Currency powered by Barclays is gone from every App Store storefront we test. It was last seen available on Oct 2, 2020.

206 tests on record·⚠ last verified 15 months ago — treat as historical

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 itLikely

    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, unaskedLikely

    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 itUnlikely

    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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FX Currency powered by Barclays

Developer: Barclays Services Limited · Category: Travel · Released: Aug 11, 2015 · Rating: 3.4★

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0stores where available
44stores where blocked
4.08Bpeople behind the block
44of 175 stores tested
206tests on record

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Life of this app

  1. Aug 11, 2015Released on the App Store
  2. Apr 9, 2019First tested by AppleCensorship
  3. Oct 2, 2020Last seen available anywhere
  4. Mar 4, 2022Gone from 44 storefronts
  5. Jul 21, 2025Most 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.

2019-042025-07

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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AlbaniaALUnavailableDec 21, 20193 years ago
AnguillaAIUnavailableJul 21, 202515 months ago
ArgentinaARUnavailableApr 17, 20203 years ago
BahrainBHUnavailableApr 17, 20203 years ago
China (Mainland)CNUnavailableApr 9, 20194 years ago
EswatiniSZUnavailableOct 2, 20203 years ago
FijiFJUnavailableDec 21, 20213 years ago
Hong KongHKUnavailableJan 1, 20223 years ago
HungaryHUUnavailableDec 21, 20213 years ago
IcelandISUnavailableDec 29, 20233 years ago
IndiaINUnavailableOct 16, 20193 years ago
ItalyITUnavailableDec 21, 20193 years ago
JamaicaJMUnavailableDec 21, 20213 years ago
JapanJPUnavailableMar 10, 20243 years ago
KyrgyzstanKGUnavailableJul 28, 20222 years ago
LatviaLVUnavailableFeb 11, 20223 years ago
LebanonLBUnavailableNov 29, 20233 years ago
MalawiMWUnavailableFeb 11, 20223 years ago
MexicoMXUnavailableNov 5, 20233 years ago
MongoliaMNUnavailableDec 21, 20213 years ago
MontserratMSUnavailableNov 5, 20233 years ago
NauruNRUnavailableApr 21, 202415 months ago
NepalNPUnavailableMay 25, 20232 years ago
NetherlandsNLUnavailableOct 2, 20203 years ago
New ZealandNZUnavailableMar 4, 20222 years ago
NicaraguaNIUnavailableMay 23, 20222 years ago
NorwayNOUnavailableJul 12, 202515 months ago
OmanOMUnavailableOct 16, 20193 years ago
PalauPWUnavailableOct 12, 20224 years ago
ParaguayPYUnavailableFeb 22, 20223 years ago
RussiaRUUnavailableMar 4, 20222 years ago
Solomon IslandsSBUnavailableMar 4, 20222 years ago
SurinameSRUnavailableMay 23, 20222 years ago
TajikistanTJUnavailableSep 26, 20242 years ago
TongaTOUnavailableJul 28, 20224 years ago
TunisiaTNUnavailableMay 25, 20233 years ago
UgandaUGUnavailableOct 2, 20203 years ago
UkraineUAUnavailableMar 4, 20222 years ago
United Arab EmiratesAEUnavailableMay 25, 202315 months ago
United KingdomGBUnavailableDec 21, 202115 months ago
United StatesUSUnavailableApr 9, 201915 months ago
VenezuelaVEUnavailableMar 31, 20243 years ago
VietnamVNUnavailableMay 12, 20242 years ago
ZambiaZMUnavailableJun 8, 20233 years ago
AfghanistanAFNot tested——0
AlgeriaDZNot tested——0
AngolaAONot tested——0
Antigua & BarbudaAGNot tested——0
ArmeniaAMNot tested——0
AustraliaAUNot tested——0
AustriaATNot tested——0
AzerbaijanAZNot tested——0
BahamasBSNot tested——0
BarbadosBBNot tested——0
BelarusBYNot tested——0
BelgiumBENot tested——0
BelizeBZNot tested——0
BeninBJNot tested——0
BermudaBMNot 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
BulgariaBGNot tested——0
Burkina FasoBFNot tested——0
CambodiaKHNot tested——0
CameroonCMNot tested——0
CanadaCANot tested——0
Cape VerdeCVNot tested——0
Cayman IslandsKYNot tested——0
ChadTDNot tested——0
ChileCLNot 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
EcuadorECNot tested——0
EgyptEGNot tested——0
El SalvadorSVNot tested——0
EstoniaEENot tested——0
FinlandFINot tested——0
FranceFRNot tested——0
GabonGANot tested——0
GambiaGMNot tested——0
GeorgiaGENot tested——0
GermanyDENot tested——0
GhanaGHNot tested——0
GreeceGRNot tested——0
GrenadaGDNot tested——0
GuatemalaGTNot tested——0
Guinea-BissauGWNot tested——0
GuyanaGYNot tested——0
HondurasHNNot tested——0
IndonesiaIDNot tested——0
IraqIQNot tested——0
IrelandIENot tested——0
IsraelILNot tested——0
JordanJONot tested——0
KazakhstanKZNot tested——0
KenyaKENot tested——0
KosovoXKNot tested——0
KuwaitKWNot tested——0
LaosLANot tested——0
LiberiaLRNot tested——0
LibyaLYNot tested——0
LithuaniaLTNot tested——0
LuxembourgLUNot tested——0
MacaoMONot tested——0
MadagascarMGNot tested——0
MalaysiaMYNot tested——0
MaldivesMVNot tested——0
MaliMLNot tested——0
MaltaMTNot tested——0
MauritaniaMRNot tested——0
MauritiusMUNot tested——0
MicronesiaFMNot tested——0
MoldovaMDNot tested——0
MontenegroMENot tested——0
MoroccoMANot tested——0
MozambiqueMZNot tested——0
Myanmar (Burma)MMNot tested——0
NamibiaNANot tested——0
NigerNENot tested——0
NigeriaNGNot tested——0
North MacedoniaMKNot tested——0
PakistanPKNot tested——0
PanamaPANot tested——0
Papua New GuineaPGNot tested——0
PeruPENot tested——0
PhilippinesPHNot tested——0
PolandPLNot tested——0
PortugalPTNot 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
SeychellesSCNot 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. LuciaLCNot tested——0
St. Vincent & GrenadinesVCNot tested——0
SwedenSENot tested——0
SwitzerlandCHNot tested——0
TaiwanTWNot tested——0
TanzaniaTZNot tested——0
ThailandTHNot tested——0
Trinidad & TobagoTTNot tested——0
TürkiyeTRNot tested——0
TurkmenistanTMNot tested——0
Turks & Caicos IslandsTCNot tested——0
UruguayUYNot tested——0
UzbekistanUZNot tested——0
VanuatuVUNot tested——0
YemenYENot 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.