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We monitor 175 App Store storefronts to answer one question —

Is Flappy Twins : Original Bird Returns censored by Apple?

Gone.

Flappy Twins : Original Bird Returns is gone from every App Store storefront we test. It was last seen available on Jan 2, 2022.

237 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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Flappy Twins : Original Bird Returns

Developer: yang xiaobin · Category: Games · Released: Dec 16, 2016 · Rating: 2.8★

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0stores where available
43stores where blocked
2.77Bpeople behind the block
43of 175 stores tested
237tests on record

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Life of this app

  1. Dec 16, 2016Released on the App Store
  2. Dec 15, 2020First tested by AppleCensorship
  3. Jan 2, 2022Last seen available anywhere
  4. Jan 22, 2024Gone from 43 storefronts
  5. Aug 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.

2020-122026-08

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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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AlgeriaDZUnavailableMar 4, 20252 years ago
AngolaAOUnavailableJan 29, 20234 months ago
BahamasBSUnavailableFeb 21, 20232 years ago
BelarusBYUnavailableOct 28, 20242 years ago
BermudaBMUnavailableJan 22, 20243 years ago
British Virgin IslandsVGUnavailableFeb 5, 20241 year ago
CambodiaKHUnavailableMar 12, 20243 years ago
CameroonCMUnavailableApr 25, 20233 years ago
Cape VerdeCVUnavailableMay 10, 202516 months ago
ChileCLUnavailableFeb 26, 20267 months ago
China (Mainland)CNUnavailableOct 21, 20213 years ago
Dominican RepublicDOUnavailableSep 29, 20242 years ago
EswatiniSZUnavailableMar 5, 20243 years ago
FijiFJUnavailableFeb 13, 20234 years ago
FranceFRUnavailableJun 30, 20232 years ago
GhanaGHUnavailableAug 14, 20233 years ago
GreeceGRUnavailableJul 5, 20242 years ago
Hong KongHKUnavailableDec 7, 20222 months ago
LatviaLVUnavailableDec 6, 20224 years ago
MalawiMWUnavailableJan 24, 20243 years ago
MaliMLUnavailableSep 3, 20233 years ago
MontserratMSUnavailableJan 24, 20252 years ago
NauruNRUnavailableJul 4, 20242 months ago
NepalNPUnavailableDec 7, 20222 years ago
NicaraguaNIUnavailableJul 4, 20242 years ago
NigeriaNGUnavailableJun 7, 20263 months ago
North MacedoniaMKUnavailableDec 7, 202216 months ago
OmanOMUnavailableMar 13, 20252 years ago
PeruPEUnavailableFeb 22, 20252 years ago
PortugalPTUnavailableApr 7, 20265 months ago
Republic of the CongoCGUnavailableAug 1, 20262 months ago
RussiaRUUnavailableDec 7, 20222 years ago
RwandaRWUnavailableMay 15, 20242 years ago
Sierra LeoneSLUnavailableDec 7, 20225 months ago
SlovakiaSKUnavailableDec 7, 202211 months ago
TanzaniaTZUnavailableDec 19, 20224 years ago
UgandaUGUnavailableOct 5, 20242 years ago
UkraineUAUnavailableDec 7, 20222 years ago
United Arab EmiratesAEUnavailableDec 7, 20222 months ago
United KingdomGBUnavailableDec 26, 20224 years ago
United StatesUSUnavailableDec 7, 20222 months ago
UruguayUYUnavailableDec 7, 20224 years ago
ZimbabweZWUnavailableOct 20, 202511 months ago
AfghanistanAFNot tested——0
AlbaniaALNot 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
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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
BulgariaBGNot tested——0
Burkina FasoBFNot tested——0
CanadaCANot tested——0
Cayman IslandsKYNot tested——0
ChadTDNot 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
DR CongoCDNot tested——0
EcuadorECNot tested——0
EgyptEGNot tested——0
El SalvadorSVNot tested——0
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FinlandFINot tested——0
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GeorgiaGENot tested——0
GermanyDENot tested——0
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JordanJONot tested——0
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KenyaKENot tested——0
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KuwaitKWNot tested——0
KyrgyzstanKGNot tested——0
LaosLANot tested——0
LebanonLBNot 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
MaltaMTNot tested——0
MauritaniaMRNot tested——0
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MexicoMXNot tested——0
MicronesiaFMNot tested——0
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MoroccoMANot tested——0
MozambiqueMZNot tested——0
Myanmar (Burma)MMNot tested——0
NamibiaNANot tested——0
NetherlandsNLNot tested——0
New ZealandNZNot tested——0
NigerNENot tested——0
NorwayNONot tested——0
PakistanPKNot tested——0
PalauPWNot tested——0
PanamaPANot tested——0
Papua New GuineaPGNot tested——0
ParaguayPYNot tested——0
PhilippinesPHNot tested——0
PolandPLNot tested——0
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RomaniaRONot tested——0
São Tomé & PríncipeSTNot tested——0
Saudi ArabiaSANot tested——0
SenegalSNNot tested——0
SerbiaRSNot tested——0
SeychellesSCNot tested——0
SingaporeSGNot tested——0
SloveniaSINot tested——0
Solomon IslandsSBNot 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
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
TunisiaTNNot tested——0
TürkiyeTRNot tested——0
TurkmenistanTMNot tested——0
Turks & Caicos IslandsTCNot tested——0
UzbekistanUZNot tested——0
VanuatuVUNot tested——0
VenezuelaVENot tested——0
VietnamVNNot tested——0
YemenYENot tested——0
ZambiaZMNot 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.