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We monitor 175 App Store storefronts to answer one question —

Is Freshly - Food Delivery censored by Apple?

Gone.

Freshly - Food Delivery is gone from every App Store storefront we test. It was last seen available on Jul 9, 2021.

258 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

    • 59% of Food and drink apps are unavailable in Grenada — 53 of 90 — against 15% of everything we test there.
    • Apple reports 1,213 government-ordered removals in Russia for 2025, naming none of them.
  • 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

    • 59% of Food and drink apps are unavailable in Grenada — 53 of 90 — against 15% of everything we test there.
  • 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.

    • 59% of Food and drink apps are unavailable in Grenada — 53 of 90 — against 15% of everything we test there.
  • Something brokeUnlikely

    a rejected update, a lapsed certificate, a payment or licensing problem, a mistake nobody has got round to noticing.

    • 59% of Food and drink apps are unavailable in Grenada — 53 of 90 — against 15% of everything we test there.
    • Gone for 3 years.
  • 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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Freshly - Food Delivery

Developer: Freshly Inc. · Category: Food & Drink · Released: Nov 21, 2017 · Rating: 2.4★

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0stores where available
44stores where blocked
3.11Bpeople behind the block
44of 175 stores tested
258tests on record

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Life of this app

  1. Nov 21, 2017Released on the App Store
  2. Jul 6, 2020First tested by AppleCensorship
  3. Jul 9, 2021Last seen available anywhere
  4. Aug 9, 2023Gone from 44 storefronts
  5. Aug 17, 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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AlbaniaALUnavailableMar 19, 20243 years ago
AngolaAOUnavailableMay 19, 20241 year ago
AnguillaAIUnavailableJun 20, 20232 years ago
Antigua & BarbudaAGUnavailableJun 24, 20233 years ago
ArgentinaARUnavailableAug 2, 20233 years ago
BeninBJUnavailableJan 26, 20252 years ago
CambodiaKHUnavailableApr 25, 20251 year ago
ChileCLUnavailableMay 23, 20233 years ago
China (Mainland)CNUnavailableJan 2, 20236 months ago
CroatiaHRUnavailableJul 10, 20233 years ago
Dominican RepublicDOUnavailableSep 17, 20257 months ago
DR CongoCDUnavailableAug 9, 20233 years ago
EcuadorECUnavailableSep 9, 20233 years ago
EswatiniSZUnavailableAug 17, 20262 months ago
FinlandFIUnavailableJan 2, 20234 years ago
GambiaGMUnavailableJan 1, 20252 years ago
GermanyDEUnavailableAug 1, 20233 years ago
GrenadaGDUnavailableMay 21, 20242 years ago
GuyanaGYUnavailableNov 27, 202510 months ago
IcelandISUnavailableDec 29, 20233 years ago
KenyaKEUnavailableAug 25, 20233 years ago
LaosLAUnavailableJan 2, 20234 years ago
LiberiaLRUnavailableJul 5, 202310 months ago
MalawiMWUnavailableMar 23, 20243 years ago
MauritiusMUUnavailableFeb 5, 20234 years ago
NauruNRUnavailableJul 4, 20242 months ago
NepalNPUnavailableJan 2, 20232 years ago
NigeriaNGUnavailableJan 2, 20232 months ago
PanamaPAUnavailableSep 11, 20233 years ago
PhilippinesPHUnavailableApr 7, 20234 years ago
RussiaRUUnavailableJan 2, 20232 years ago
SenegalSNUnavailableOct 12, 20233 years ago
SlovakiaSKUnavailableJan 2, 20237 months ago
South AfricaZAUnavailableAug 6, 20262 months ago
Sri LankaLKUnavailableJul 22, 20233 years ago
SwedenSEUnavailableSep 18, 202513 months ago
TongaTOUnavailableJan 30, 20234 years ago
TürkiyeTRUnavailableFeb 7, 20243 years ago
UkraineUAUnavailableJan 2, 20232 years ago
United Arab EmiratesAEUnavailableJan 2, 20232 months ago
United KingdomGBUnavailableJul 27, 20242 years ago
United StatesUSUnavailableJan 2, 20232 months ago
VietnamVNUnavailableJul 31, 20233 years ago
YemenYEUnavailableOct 24, 20246 months ago
AfghanistanAFNot tested——0
AlgeriaDZNot tested——0
ArmeniaAMNot tested——0
AustraliaAUNot tested——0
AustriaATNot tested——0
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BelgiumBENot tested——0
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BermudaBMNot tested——0
BhutanBTNot tested——0
BoliviaBONot tested——0
Bosnia & HerzegovinaBANot tested——0
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BrazilBRNot tested——0
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LebanonLBNot tested——0
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LithuaniaLTNot tested——0
LuxembourgLUNot tested——0
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MadagascarMGNot tested——0
MalaysiaMYNot tested——0
MaldivesMVNot tested——0
MaliMLNot tested——0
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MauritaniaMRNot tested——0
MexicoMXNot tested——0
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OmanOMNot tested——0
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Republic of the CongoCGNot tested——0
RomaniaRONot tested——0
RwandaRWNot tested——0
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Saudi ArabiaSANot tested——0
SerbiaRSNot tested——0
SeychellesSCNot tested——0
Sierra LeoneSLNot tested——0
SingaporeSGNot tested——0
SloveniaSINot tested——0
Solomon IslandsSBNot tested——0
South KoreaKRNot tested——0
SpainESNot tested——0
St. Kitts & NevisKNNot tested——0
St. LuciaLCNot tested——0
St. Vincent & GrenadinesVCNot tested——0
SurinameSRNot tested——0
SwitzerlandCHNot tested——0
TaiwanTWNot tested——0
TajikistanTJNot tested——0
TanzaniaTZNot tested——0
ThailandTHNot tested——0
Trinidad & TobagoTTNot tested——0
TunisiaTNNot tested——0
TurkmenistanTMNot tested——0
Turks & Caicos IslandsTCNot tested——0
UgandaUGNot tested——0
UruguayUYNot tested——0
UzbekistanUZNot tested——0
VanuatuVUNot tested——0
VenezuelaVENot 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.