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We monitor 175 App Store storefronts to answer one question —

Is Stir Fry Cafe To Go censored by Apple?

Gone.

Stir Fry Cafe To Go is gone from every App Store storefront we test. It was last seen available on Jan 28, 2023.

174 tests on record·⚠ last verified 4 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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Stir Fry Cafe To Go

Developer: ChowNow, LLC · Category: Food & Drink · Released: Dec 22, 2016 ·

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0stores where available
41stores where blocked
2.79Bpeople behind the block
41of 175 stores tested
174tests on record

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Life of this app

  1. Dec 22, 2016Released on the App Store
  2. Sep 9, 2019First tested by AppleCensorship
  3. Nov 28, 2022Gone from 41 storefronts
  4. Jan 28, 2023Last seen available anywhere
  5. Jun 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.

2019-092026-06

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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AlgeriaDZUnavailableNov 12, 201914 months ago
AustraliaAUUnavailableNov 28, 20224 years ago
AustriaATUnavailableJan 28, 20243 years ago
BermudaBMUnavailableFeb 8, 20204 years ago
Burkina FasoBFUnavailableJun 21, 20214 years ago
CameroonCMUnavailableDec 24, 20233 years ago
ChileCLUnavailableFeb 8, 20204 years ago
China (Mainland)CNUnavailableNov 12, 20194 years ago
Costa RicaCRUnavailableJun 27, 20204 years ago
CroatiaHRUnavailableJan 28, 20234 years ago
El SalvadorSVUnavailableJun 21, 20214 years ago
EswatiniSZUnavailableNov 28, 20224 years ago
GeorgiaGEUnavailableNov 28, 20224 years ago
Hong KongHKUnavailableJan 2, 20223 years ago
HungaryHUUnavailableFeb 8, 20204 years ago
IraqIQUnavailableDec 2, 20233 years ago
IrelandIEUnavailableJun 27, 20204 years ago
JamaicaJMUnavailableJun 21, 20214 years ago
JapanJPUnavailableNov 28, 20224 years ago
LatviaLVUnavailableDec 5, 20223 years ago
LibyaLYUnavailableNov 28, 20224 years ago
LuxembourgLUUnavailableNov 28, 20224 years ago
MadagascarMGUnavailableJun 1, 20264 months ago
MaldivesMVUnavailableNov 28, 20224 years ago
MoldovaMDUnavailableJan 2, 20223 years ago
MontenegroMEUnavailableNov 28, 20224 years ago
Myanmar (Burma)MMUnavailableFeb 4, 20243 years ago
NauruNRUnavailableJul 25, 20254 months ago
NepalNPUnavailableDec 28, 20223 years ago
OmanOMUnavailableJun 27, 20204 years ago
PakistanPKUnavailableJun 21, 20214 years ago
QatarQAUnavailableNov 12, 20194 years ago
RussiaRUUnavailableNov 28, 20223 years ago
SloveniaSIUnavailableFeb 8, 20204 years ago
Solomon IslandsSBUnavailableJan 2, 20223 years ago
TajikistanTJUnavailableJun 21, 20214 years ago
TürkiyeTRUnavailableJan 28, 20234 years ago
UgandaUGUnavailableJun 21, 20214 years ago
UkraineUAUnavailableNov 28, 20223 years ago
United Arab EmiratesAEUnavailableDec 28, 20224 months ago
United StatesUSUnavailableDec 2, 20234 months ago
AfghanistanAFNot tested——0
AlbaniaALNot tested——0
AngolaAONot tested——0
AnguillaAINot tested——0
Antigua & BarbudaAGNot tested——0
ArgentinaARNot tested——0
ArmeniaAMNot tested——0
AzerbaijanAZNot tested——0
BahamasBSNot tested——0
BahrainBHNot tested——0
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
British Virgin IslandsVGNot tested——0
BruneiBNNot tested——0
BulgariaBGNot tested——0
CambodiaKHNot tested——0
CanadaCANot tested——0
Cape VerdeCVNot tested——0
Cayman IslandsKYNot tested——0
ChadTDNot tested——0
ColombiaCONot tested——0
Côte d’IvoireCINot 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
FijiFJNot tested——0
FinlandFINot tested——0
FranceFRNot tested——0
GabonGANot tested——0
GambiaGMNot 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
IcelandISNot tested——0
IndiaINNot tested——0
IndonesiaIDNot tested——0
IsraelILNot tested——0
ItalyITNot tested——0
JordanJONot tested——0
KazakhstanKZNot tested——0
KenyaKENot tested——0
KosovoXKNot tested——0
KuwaitKWNot tested——0
KyrgyzstanKGNot tested——0
LaosLANot tested——0
LebanonLBNot tested——0
LiberiaLRNot tested——0
LithuaniaLTNot tested——0
MacaoMONot tested——0
MalawiMWNot tested——0
MalaysiaMYNot tested——0
MaliMLNot tested——0
MaltaMTNot tested——0
MauritaniaMRNot tested——0
MauritiusMUNot tested——0
MexicoMXNot tested——0
MicronesiaFMNot tested——0
MongoliaMNNot tested——0
MontserratMSNot tested——0
MoroccoMANot tested——0
MozambiqueMZNot tested——0
NamibiaNANot tested——0
NetherlandsNLNot tested——0
New ZealandNZNot tested——0
NicaraguaNINot tested——0
NigerNENot tested——0
NigeriaNGNot tested——0
North MacedoniaMKNot tested——0
NorwayNONot tested——0
PalauPWNot tested——0
PanamaPANot tested——0
Papua New GuineaPGNot tested——0
ParaguayPYNot tested——0
PeruPENot tested——0
PhilippinesPHNot tested——0
PolandPLNot tested——0
PortugalPTNot 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
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
TanzaniaTZNot tested——0
ThailandTHNot tested——0
TongaTONot tested——0
Trinidad & TobagoTTNot tested——0
TunisiaTNNot tested——0
TurkmenistanTMNot tested——0
Turks & Caicos IslandsTCNot 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.