We monitor 175 App Store storefronts to answer one question —
Is Alone Coffee for Starbucks censored by Apple?
Alone Coffee for Starbucks is gone from every App Store storefront we test. It was last seen available on Jun 10, 2025.
969 tests on record·last checked 19 hours 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 it
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
- Photo and video apps in the United States are unavailable at 3%, near the 5% for everything there, which cuts neither way.
- 2 other apps left mainland China the same day, Aug 6, 2025.
- Apple reports 1,213 government-ordered removals in Russia for 2025, naming none of them.
Apple applied a rule, unasked
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
- Photo and video apps in the United States are unavailable at 3%, near the 5% for everything there, which cuts neither way.
- 2 other apps left mainland China the same day, Aug 6, 2025.
The developer withheld it
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 broke
a rejected update, a lapsed certificate, a payment or licensing problem, a mistake nobody has got round to noticing.
- 2 other apps left mainland China the same day, Aug 6, 2025.
- Gone for 2 years.
A local rule about paying for it
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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Alone Coffee for Starbucks
Developer: hong kijong · Category: Photo & Video · Released: Feb 28, 2017 · Rating: 1.3★
Other Photo and video apps missing from mainland China
Life of this app
- Feb 28, 2017Released on the App Store
- May 26, 2021First tested by AppleCensorship
- Jun 10, 2025Last seen available anywhere
- Aug 22, 2025Gone from 121 storefronts
- Sep 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.
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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| AfghanistanAF | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 2 months ago | ||
| AlbaniaAL | Unavailable | Dec 30, 2025 | 9 months ago | ||
| AlgeriaDZ | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 4 months ago | ||
| AnguillaAI | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 13 months ago | ||
| Antigua & BarbudaAG | Unavailable | Aug 22, 2025 | 9 months ago | ||
| ArgentinaAR | Unavailable | Mar 20, 2026 | 6 months ago | ||
| ArmeniaAM | Unavailable | Apr 10, 2024 | 1 month ago | ||
| AzerbaijanAZ | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 9 months ago | ||
| BahamasBS | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 4 months ago | ||
| BarbadosBB | Unavailable | Jan 17, 2026 | 8 months ago | ||
| BelgiumBE | Unavailable | Apr 14, 2026 | 5 months ago | ||
| BelizeBZ | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 14 days ago | ||
| BermudaBM | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 5 months ago | ||
| BhutanBT | Unavailable | Apr 13, 2026 | 2 months ago | ||
| BrazilBR | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 13 months ago | ||
| BruneiBN | Unavailable | Sep 16, 2025 | 5 months ago | ||
| BulgariaBG | Unavailable | Mar 31, 2024 | 11 months ago | ||
| Burkina FasoBF | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 3 months ago | ||
| CambodiaKH | Unavailable | Dec 6, 2025 | 9 months ago | ||
| CameroonCM | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 2 months ago | ||
| Cape VerdeCV | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 2 months ago | ||
| Cayman IslandsKY | Unavailable | Jun 6, 2026 | 3 months ago | ||
| China (Mainland)CN | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 7 days ago | ||
| Côte d’IvoireCI | Unavailable | Aug 24, 2026 | 25 days ago | ||
| CroatiaHR | Unavailable | Sep 4, 2026 | 14 days ago | ||
| DenmarkDK | Unavailable | May 14, 2024 | 2 years ago | ||
| DominicaDM | Unavailable | Feb 21, 2024 | 2 months ago | ||
| Dominican RepublicDO | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 6 months ago | ||
| DR CongoCD | Unavailable | Apr 27, 2026 | 5 months ago | ||
| EcuadorEC | Unavailable | Jul 12, 2026 | 2 months ago | ||
| EgyptEG | Unavailable | Jan 26, 2026 | 8 months ago | ||
| EswatiniSZ | Unavailable | Nov 13, 2025 | 10 months ago | ||
| FinlandFI | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 19 hours ago | ||
| GabonGA | Unavailable | Feb 17, 2026 | 6 months ago | ||
| GambiaGM | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 2 months ago | ||
| GeorgiaGE | Unavailable | Dec 2, 2025 | 7 months ago | ||
| GermanyDE | Unavailable | Oct 31, 2025 | 8 months ago | ||
| GhanaGH | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 6 months ago | ||
| GreeceGR | Unavailable | Dec 27, 2025 | 9 months ago | ||
| GrenadaGD | Unavailable | Aug 10, 2026 | 39 days ago | ||
| GuatemalaGT | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 11 months ago | ||
| GuyanaGY | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 9 months ago | ||
| HondurasHN | Unavailable | Dec 19, 2025 | 9 months ago | ||
| Hong KongHK | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 19 hours ago | ||
| HungaryHU | Unavailable | Aug 12, 2025 | 12 months ago | ||
| IndonesiaID | Unavailable | Mar 4, 2026 | 7 months ago | ||
| IraqIQ | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 2 months ago | ||
| IrelandIE | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 3 days ago | ||
| ItalyIT | Unavailable | Jul 8, 2026 | 2 months ago | ||
| JamaicaJM | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 9 days ago | ||
| KazakhstanKZ | Unavailable | Dec 20, 2025 | 8 months ago | ||
| KosovoXK | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 10 months ago | ||
| LebanonLB | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 8 days ago | ||
| LithuaniaLT | Unavailable | May 2, 2026 | 5 months ago | ||
| LuxembourgLU | Unavailable | May 12, 2026 | 4 months ago | ||
| MacaoMO | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 1 month ago | ||
| MadagascarMG | Unavailable | May 4, 2026 | 7 days ago | ||
| MalawiMW | Unavailable | Sep 3, 2026 | 15 days ago | ||
| MalaysiaMY | Unavailable | Aug 26, 2025 | 13 months ago | ||
| MaliML | Unavailable | May 18, 2026 | 4 months ago | ||
| MaltaMT | Unavailable | Jul 17, 2026 | 8 days ago | ||
| MauritaniaMR | Unavailable | Jan 2, 2026 | 2 months ago | ||
| MauritiusMU | Unavailable | Mar 30, 2026 | 6 months ago | ||
| MexicoMX | Unavailable | May 21, 2024 | 6 months ago | ||
| MicronesiaFM | Unavailable | Mar 28, 2026 | 43 days ago | ||
| MoldovaMD | Unavailable | May 21, 2026 | 2 months ago | ||
| MongoliaMN | Unavailable | Feb 18, 2024 | 12 months ago | ||
| MontenegroME | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 3 months ago | ||
| MontserratMS | Unavailable | Jun 14, 2026 | 3 months ago | ||
| MoroccoMA | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 15 days ago | ||
| MozambiqueMZ | Unavailable | Apr 1, 2024 | 5 months ago | ||
| NauruNR | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 19 hours ago | ||
| NepalNP | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 5 months ago | ||
| NetherlandsNL | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 2 months ago | ||
| New ZealandNZ | Unavailable | May 19, 2026 | 3 months ago | ||
| NicaraguaNI | Unavailable | Feb 15, 2024 | 3 years ago | ||
| NigerNE | Unavailable | Aug 30, 2025 | 13 months ago | ||
| NigeriaNG | Unavailable | Jul 26, 2026 | 2 months ago | ||
| North MacedoniaMK | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 2 months ago | ||
| NorwayNO | Unavailable | Dec 21, 2025 | 9 months ago | ||
| OmanOM | Unavailable | Mar 23, 2024 | 2 years ago | ||
| PalauPW | Unavailable | Apr 7, 2026 | 5 months ago | ||
| Papua New GuineaPG | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 43 days ago | ||
| ParaguayPY | Unavailable | May 2, 2024 | 8 months ago | ||
| PeruPE | Unavailable | May 14, 2026 | 4 months ago | ||
| PhilippinesPH | Unavailable | Sep 4, 2026 | 14 days ago | ||
| PortugalPT | Unavailable | Feb 16, 2024 | 3 years ago | ||
| QatarQA | Unavailable | Dec 29, 2025 | 9 months ago | ||
| RomaniaRO | Unavailable | Jan 20, 2026 | 2 months ago | ||
| RussiaRU | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 4 months ago | ||
| RwandaRW | Unavailable | Jan 2, 2026 | 9 months ago | ||
| São Tomé & PríncipeST | Unavailable | Oct 29, 2025 | 3 months ago | ||
| Saudi ArabiaSA | Unavailable | Feb 23, 2026 | 7 months ago | ||
| SenegalSN | Unavailable | Nov 13, 2025 | 4 months ago | ||
| SerbiaRS | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 13 months ago | ||
| SeychellesSC | Unavailable | Mar 4, 2026 | 3 months ago | ||
| Sierra LeoneSL | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 5 months ago | ||
| SloveniaSI | Unavailable | Jan 13, 2024 | 8 months ago | ||
| Solomon IslandsSB | Unavailable | Jul 21, 2026 | 2 months ago | ||
| South KoreaKR | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 39 days ago | ||
| SpainES | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 9 days ago | ||
| Sri LankaLK | Unavailable | Feb 13, 2026 | 7 months ago | ||
| St. LuciaLC | Unavailable | May 22, 2026 | 4 months ago | ||
| SwitzerlandCH | Unavailable | Mar 25, 2026 | 6 months ago | ||
| TaiwanTW | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 2 months ago | ||
| TajikistanTJ | Unavailable | Mar 21, 2026 | 4 months ago | ||
| TanzaniaTZ | Unavailable | Nov 30, 2025 | 10 months ago | ||
| ThailandTH | Unavailable | Apr 28, 2026 | 5 months ago | ||
| Trinidad & TobagoTT | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 13 months ago | ||
| TunisiaTN | Unavailable | Jan 15, 2026 | 8 months ago | ||
| TürkiyeTR | Unavailable | Feb 22, 2024 | 3 years ago | ||
| Turks & Caicos IslandsTC | Unavailable | Apr 16, 2024 | 2 years ago | ||
| UkraineUA | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 3 months ago | ||
| United Arab EmiratesAE | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 19 hours ago | ||
| United KingdomGB | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 2 months ago | ||
| United StatesUS | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 19 hours ago | ||
| VanuatuVU | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 11 months ago | ||
| VenezuelaVE | Unavailable | Dec 31, 2025 | 9 months ago | ||
| VietnamVN | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 7 months ago | ||
| YemenYE | Unavailable | Jul 25, 2026 | 2 months ago | ||
| ZambiaZM | Unavailable | Aug 7, 2026 | 42 days ago | ||
| AngolaAO | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| AustraliaAU | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| AustriaAT | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| BahrainBH | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| BelarusBY | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| BeninBJ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| BoliviaBO | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| Bosnia & HerzegovinaBA | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| BotswanaBW | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| British Virgin IslandsVG | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| CanadaCA | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| ChadTD | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| ChileCL | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| ColombiaCO | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| Costa RicaCR | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| CyprusCY | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| CzechiaCZ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| El SalvadorSV | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| EstoniaEE | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| FijiFJ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| FranceFR | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| Guinea-BissauGW | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| IcelandIS | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| IndiaIN | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| IsraelIL | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| JapanJP | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| JordanJO | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| KenyaKE | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| KuwaitKW | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| KyrgyzstanKG | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| LaosLA | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| LatviaLV | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| LiberiaLR | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| LibyaLY | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| MaldivesMV | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| Myanmar (Burma)MM | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| NamibiaNA | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| PakistanPK | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| PanamaPA | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| PolandPL | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| Republic of the CongoCG | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| SingaporeSG | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| SlovakiaSK | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| South AfricaZA | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| St. Kitts & NevisKN | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| St. Vincent & GrenadinesVC | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| SurinameSR | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| SwedenSE | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| TongaTO | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| TurkmenistanTM | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| UgandaUG | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| UruguayUY | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| UzbekistanUZ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| ZimbabweZW | Not 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.