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We monitor 175 App Store storefronts to answer one question —

Is BuzzVideo（バズビデオ） censored by Apple?

Gone.

BuzzVideo（バズビデオ） is gone from every App Store storefront we test. It was last seen available on Feb 13, 2022.

161 tests on record·last checked 2 months 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 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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BuzzVideo（バズビデオ）

Developer: BYTEDANCE PTE. LTD. · Category: Entertainment · Released: Sep 24, 2016 · Rating: 4.5★

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0stores where available
35stores where blocked
3.89Bpeople behind the block
35of 175 stores tested
161tests on record

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Life of this app

  1. Sep 24, 2016Released on the App Store
  2. Jul 13, 2020First tested by AppleCensorship
  3. Feb 13, 2022Last seen available anywhere
  4. Dec 8, 2022Gone from 35 storefronts
  5. Aug 18, 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.

2020-072026-08

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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Antigua & BarbudaAGUnavailableMar 13, 20243 years ago
AustraliaAUUnavailableFeb 13, 20223 years ago
BermudaBMUnavailableDec 6, 20213 years ago
British Virgin IslandsVGUnavailableMay 19, 20233 years ago
Burkina FasoBFUnavailableFeb 13, 20223 years ago
CanadaCAUnavailableAug 13, 20242 years ago
Cayman IslandsKYUnavailableMar 13, 20243 years ago
China (Mainland)CNUnavailableJul 13, 20203 years ago
El SalvadorSVUnavailableApr 20, 20233 years ago
Hong KongHKUnavailableJan 2, 20223 years ago
IndiaINUnavailableDec 23, 20233 years ago
IsraelILUnavailableOct 11, 202512 months ago
JamaicaJMUnavailableJan 8, 20223 years ago
JapanJPUnavailableDec 8, 20222 months ago
LatviaLVUnavailableDec 5, 20224 years ago
MaliMLUnavailableDec 6, 20212 months ago
MauritaniaMRUnavailableSep 8, 20213 years ago
MauritiusMUUnavailableDec 23, 20224 years ago
MontenegroMEUnavailableDec 8, 20224 years ago
MontserratMSUnavailableApr 20, 20233 years ago
NauruNRUnavailableAug 13, 20242 months ago
NepalNPUnavailableDec 8, 20222 years ago
ParaguayPYUnavailableMar 31, 20234 years ago
PhilippinesPHUnavailableJan 8, 20223 years ago
PolandPLUnavailableOct 17, 202512 months ago
RussiaRUUnavailableDec 8, 20222 years ago
SingaporeSGUnavailableApr 21, 20242 years ago
South KoreaKRUnavailableJan 30, 20213 years ago
TajikistanTJUnavailableSep 8, 20213 years ago
TanzaniaTZUnavailableNov 28, 20233 years ago
TongaTOUnavailableDec 2, 20233 years ago
Turks & Caicos IslandsTCUnavailableAug 24, 20242 years ago
UkraineUAUnavailableDec 8, 20222 years ago
United Arab EmiratesAEUnavailableDec 8, 20222 months ago
United StatesUSUnavailableJul 13, 20202 months 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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BarbadosBBNot tested——0
BelarusBYNot tested——0
BelgiumBENot tested——0
BelizeBZNot tested——0
BeninBJNot tested——0
BhutanBTNot tested——0
BoliviaBONot tested——0
Bosnia & HerzegovinaBANot tested——0
BotswanaBWNot tested——0
BrazilBRNot tested——0
BruneiBNNot tested——0
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ChadTDNot tested——0
ChileCLNot tested——0
ColombiaCONot tested——0
Costa RicaCRNot tested——0
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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
EstoniaEENot tested——0
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FinlandFINot tested——0
FranceFRNot tested——0
GabonGANot tested——0
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GeorgiaGENot tested——0
GermanyDENot tested——0
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ItalyITNot tested——0
JordanJONot tested——0
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KenyaKENot tested——0
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KuwaitKWNot tested——0
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LebanonLBNot tested——0
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LithuaniaLTNot tested——0
LuxembourgLUNot tested——0
MacaoMONot tested——0
MadagascarMGNot tested——0
MalawiMWNot tested——0
MalaysiaMYNot tested——0
MaldivesMVNot tested——0
MaltaMTNot tested——0
MexicoMXNot tested——0
MicronesiaFMNot tested——0
MoldovaMDNot tested——0
MongoliaMNNot tested——0
MoroccoMANot tested——0
MozambiqueMZNot tested——0
Myanmar (Burma)MMNot tested——0
NamibiaNANot tested——0
NetherlandsNLNot tested——0
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NicaraguaNINot tested——0
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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
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
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. LuciaLCNot tested——0
St. Vincent & GrenadinesVCNot tested——0
SurinameSRNot tested——0
SwedenSENot tested——0
SwitzerlandCHNot tested——0
TaiwanTWNot tested——0
ThailandTHNot tested——0
Trinidad & TobagoTTNot tested——0
TunisiaTNNot tested——0
TürkiyeTRNot tested——0
TurkmenistanTMNot tested——0
UgandaUGNot 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.