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We monitor 175 App Store storefronts to answer one question —

Is Guide for Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes censored by Apple?

Gone.

Guide for Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes is gone from every App Store storefront we test. It was last seen available on Oct 16, 2020.

190 tests on record·⚠ last verified 6 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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Guide for Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes

Developer: Linh Tran · Category: Reference · Released: Jan 28, 2016 · Rating: 0.5★

View in App Store ↗
0stores where available
41stores where blocked
3.19Bpeople behind the block
41of 175 stores tested
190tests on record

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Life of this app

  1. Jan 28, 2016Released on the App Store
  2. Sep 4, 2020First tested by AppleCensorship
  3. Oct 16, 2020Last seen available anywhere
  4. Dec 7, 2022Gone from 41 storefronts
  5. Mar 31, 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.

2020-092026-03

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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AlgeriaDZUnavailableOct 6, 20242 years ago
AngolaAOUnavailableAug 5, 20242 years ago
AnguillaAIUnavailableMar 4, 20222 years ago
AustriaATUnavailableJan 22, 20234 years ago
BelgiumBEUnavailableApr 22, 20242 years ago
BeninBJUnavailableJun 13, 20228 months ago
BermudaBMUnavailableAug 28, 20224 years ago
CambodiaKHUnavailableNov 17, 202511 months ago
China (Mainland)CNUnavailableJan 11, 202213 months ago
ColombiaCOUnavailableDec 7, 20224 years ago
Dominican RepublicDOUnavailableFeb 18, 20252 years ago
DR CongoCDUnavailableJul 1, 20224 years ago
EswatiniSZUnavailableJul 1, 20224 years ago
GabonGAUnavailableFeb 17, 20268 months ago
Guinea-BissauGWUnavailableApr 8, 20242 years ago
IndonesiaIDUnavailableMay 26, 20242 years ago
JamaicaJMUnavailableDec 25, 20224 years ago
JordanJOUnavailableJan 11, 20223 years ago
KazakhstanKZUnavailableJan 11, 20223 years ago
LebanonLBUnavailableSep 11, 20248 months ago
MongoliaMNUnavailableDec 30, 20233 years ago
NauruNRUnavailableAug 5, 20246 months ago
NepalNPUnavailableMay 14, 20222 years ago
NigeriaNGUnavailableJun 13, 20228 months ago
PakistanPKUnavailableMar 31, 20266 months ago
PeruPEUnavailableMar 4, 20222 years ago
RussiaRUUnavailableMar 4, 20222 years ago
RwandaRWUnavailableAug 28, 20224 years ago
SenegalSNUnavailableApr 25, 20222 years ago
Solomon IslandsSBUnavailableMar 18, 20222 years ago
St. Kitts & NevisKNUnavailableMay 14, 20222 years ago
SurinameSRUnavailableMar 18, 20222 years ago
ThailandTHUnavailableMay 19, 20242 years ago
TongaTOUnavailableMay 7, 20242 years ago
TunisiaTNUnavailableSep 7, 202513 months ago
TurkmenistanTMUnavailableMar 22, 20234 years ago
Turks & Caicos IslandsTCUnavailableApr 25, 20222 years ago
UgandaUGUnavailableDec 14, 20224 years ago
UkraineUAUnavailableMar 4, 20222 years ago
United Arab EmiratesAEUnavailableDec 7, 20226 months ago
United StatesUSUnavailableJan 11, 20226 months ago
AfghanistanAFNot tested——0
AlbaniaALNot tested——0
Antigua & BarbudaAGNot tested——0
ArgentinaARNot tested——0
ArmeniaAMNot tested——0
AustraliaAUNot tested——0
AzerbaijanAZNot tested——0
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BelarusBYNot 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
BulgariaBGNot tested——0
Burkina FasoBFNot tested——0
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CanadaCANot tested——0
Cape VerdeCVNot tested——0
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ChadTDNot tested——0
ChileCLNot tested——0
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CyprusCYNot tested——0
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GermanyDENot tested——0
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NicaraguaNINot tested——0
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North MacedoniaMKNot tested——0
NorwayNONot tested——0
OmanOMNot tested——0
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PanamaPANot tested——0
Papua New GuineaPGNot tested——0
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PolandPLNot tested——0
PortugalPTNot tested——0
QatarQANot tested——0
Republic of the CongoCGNot tested——0
RomaniaRONot tested——0
São Tomé & PríncipeSTNot tested——0
Saudi ArabiaSANot 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. LuciaLCNot tested——0
St. Vincent & GrenadinesVCNot tested——0
SwedenSENot tested——0
SwitzerlandCHNot tested——0
TaiwanTWNot tested——0
TajikistanTJNot tested——0
TanzaniaTZNot tested——0
Trinidad & TobagoTTNot tested——0
TürkiyeTRNot tested——0
United KingdomGBNot tested——0
UruguayUYNot tested——0
UzbekistanUZNot tested——0
VanuatuVUNot 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.