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We monitor 175 App Store storefronts to answer one question —

Is QRCode Ingressos censored by Apple?

Gone.

QRCode Ingressos is gone from every App Store storefront we test. It was last seen available on Dec 31, 2020.

162 tests on record·⚠ last verified 10 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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QRCode Ingressos

Developer: S S WEB LTDA ME · Category: Business · Released: Sep 10, 2016 ·

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0stores where available
36stores where blocked
2.7Bpeople behind the block
36of 175 stores tested
162tests on record

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Life of this app

  1. Sep 10, 2016Released on the App Store
  2. Dec 31, 2020First tested by AppleCensorship
  3. Dec 31, 2020Last seen available anywhere
  4. Jan 7, 2023Gone from 36 storefronts
  5. Nov 20, 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.

2020-122025-11

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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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Antigua & BarbudaAGUnavailableJul 30, 20233 years ago
AustraliaAUUnavailableJun 27, 20224 years ago
BoliviaBOUnavailableJul 28, 20224 years ago
Burkina FasoBFUnavailableJul 12, 202514 months ago
Cape VerdeCVUnavailableNov 20, 202510 months ago
China (Mainland)CNUnavailableMay 13, 202210 months ago
CyprusCYUnavailableMay 13, 20222 years ago
DR CongoCDUnavailableJun 27, 20224 years ago
FinlandFIUnavailableDec 17, 20233 years ago
FranceFRUnavailableAug 1, 202514 months ago
GabonGAUnavailableSep 7, 20224 years ago
GrenadaGDUnavailableJan 7, 20234 years ago
HungaryHUUnavailableOct 8, 20233 years ago
IrelandIEUnavailableDec 4, 20233 years ago
LaosLAUnavailableJan 18, 20252 years ago
LatviaLVUnavailableFeb 8, 20243 years ago
NauruNRUnavailableSep 7, 202410 months ago
NepalNPUnavailableDec 16, 20223 years ago
NigeriaNGUnavailableSep 7, 20224 years ago
PanamaPAUnavailableJan 31, 20252 years ago
PeruPEUnavailableDec 8, 20233 years ago
RomaniaROUnavailableDec 16, 20224 years ago
RussiaRUUnavailableMay 13, 20223 years ago
RwandaRWUnavailableAug 30, 202513 months ago
South KoreaKRUnavailableMay 8, 202516 months ago
St. LuciaLCUnavailableMay 13, 20222 years ago
SurinameSRUnavailableJun 7, 20222 years ago
TaiwanTWUnavailableJul 25, 20233 years ago
ThailandTHUnavailableAug 19, 20222 years ago
Trinidad & TobagoTTUnavailableSep 7, 20242 years ago
TunisiaTNUnavailableJun 7, 20222 years ago
UgandaUGUnavailableSep 20, 20233 years ago
UkraineUAUnavailableMay 13, 20223 years ago
United Arab EmiratesAEUnavailableDec 16, 202210 months ago
United StatesUSUnavailableMay 13, 202210 months ago
UruguayUYUnavailableOct 12, 20224 years ago
AfghanistanAFNot tested——0
AlbaniaALNot tested——0
AlgeriaDZNot tested——0
AngolaAONot tested——0
AnguillaAINot tested——0
ArgentinaARNot tested——0
ArmeniaAMNot tested——0
AustriaATNot tested——0
AzerbaijanAZNot tested——0
BahamasBSNot tested——0
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BelgiumBENot tested——0
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BrazilBRNot tested——0
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CanadaCANot tested——0
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ColombiaCONot tested——0
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GermanyDENot tested——0
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MaltaMTNot tested——0
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OmanOMNot tested——0
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PolandPLNot tested——0
PortugalPTNot tested——0
QatarQANot tested——0
Republic of the CongoCGNot 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
Solomon IslandsSBNot tested——0
South AfricaZANot tested——0
SpainESNot tested——0
Sri LankaLKNot tested——0
St. Kitts & NevisKNNot tested——0
St. Vincent & GrenadinesVCNot tested——0
SwedenSENot tested——0
SwitzerlandCHNot tested——0
TajikistanTJNot tested——0
TanzaniaTZNot tested——0
TongaTONot tested——0
TürkiyeTRNot tested——0
TurkmenistanTMNot tested——0
Turks & Caicos IslandsTCNot tested——0
United KingdomGBNot 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.