We monitor 175 App Store storefronts to answer one question —

Is Spacetoon Go: Anime & Cartoon censored by Apple?

Yes.

Apple does not offer Spacetoon Go: Anime & Cartoon in most of the App Stores it operates — 78 of 175, including mainland China. 3.11B people cannot install it. It has been unavailable in mainland China since Oct 25, 2025.

212 tests on record·last checked 3 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 itPossible

    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

    • 25% of Entertainment apps are unavailable in Grenada — 104 of 418 — against 12% of everything we test there.
    • Apple reports 196 government-ordered removals in mainland China for 2025, naming none of them.
  • Apple applied a rule, unaskedPossible

    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

    • 25% of Entertainment apps are unavailable in Grenada — 104 of 418 — against 12% of everything we test there.
  • The developer withheld itPossible

    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.

    • 25% of Entertainment apps are unavailable in Grenada — 104 of 418 — against 12% of everything we test there.
  • Something brokePossible

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

    • 25% of Entertainment apps are unavailable in Grenada — 104 of 418 — against 12% of everything we test there.
  • 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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Spacetoon Go: Anime & Cartoon

Developer: SPACETOON INTERNATIONAL FZ LLC · Category: Entertainment · Released: May 24, 2019 · Rating: 3.6★

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20stores where available
78stores where blocked
3.11Bpeople behind the block
98of 175 stores tested
212tests on record

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Life of this app

  1. May 24, 2019Released on the App Store
  2. Oct 17, 2024First tested by AppleCensorship
  3. Jun 21, 2026Gone from 78 storefronts
  4. Jun 21, 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.

2024-102026-06

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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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AngolaAOUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
AnguillaAIUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
Antigua & BarbudaAGUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
ArgentinaARUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
AustraliaAUUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
BahamasBSUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
BarbadosBBUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
BelizeBZUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
BeninBJUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
BermudaBMUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
BhutanBTUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
BoliviaBOUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
BotswanaBWUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
BrazilBRUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
British Virgin IslandsVGUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
BruneiBNUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
Burkina FasoBFUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
CameroonCMUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
Cape VerdeCVUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
Cayman IslandsKYUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
ChadTDUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
ChileCLUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
China (Mainland)CNUnavailableOct 25, 20258 months ago
ColombiaCOUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
Costa RicaCRUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
Côte d’IvoireCIUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
DominicaDMUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
Dominican RepublicDOUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
DR CongoCDUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
EcuadorECUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
El SalvadorSVUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
EswatiniSZUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
GabonGAUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
GambiaGMUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
GhanaGHUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
GrenadaGDUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
GuatemalaGTUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
Guinea-BissauGWUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
GuyanaGYUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
HondurasHNUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
JamaicaJMUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
JapanJPUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
KenyaKEUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
LiberiaLRUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
MadagascarMGUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
MalawiMWUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
MalaysiaMYUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
MaliMLUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
MauritiusMUUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
MexicoMXUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
MicronesiaFMUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
MongoliaMNUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
MontserratMSUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
MozambiqueMZUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
NamibiaNAUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
NauruNRUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
NicaraguaNIUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
NigerNEUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
NigeriaNGUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
PanamaPAUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
ParaguayPYUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
PeruPEUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
Republic of the CongoCGUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
RwandaRWUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
São Tomé & PríncipeSTUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
SenegalSNUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
SeychellesSCUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
Sierra LeoneSLUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
South AfricaZAUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
St. Kitts & NevisKNUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
St. LuciaLCUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
St. Vincent & GrenadinesVCUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
TanzaniaTZUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
UgandaUGUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
UruguayUYUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
VenezuelaVEUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
ZambiaZMUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
ZimbabweZWUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
AlgeriaDZAvailable3 months ago
BahrainBHAvailable3 months ago
CanadaCAAvailable3 months ago
EgyptEGAvailable3 months ago
IraqIQAvailable3 months ago
IsraelILAvailable3 months ago
JordanJOAvailable3 months ago
KuwaitKWAvailable3 months ago
LebanonLBAvailable3 months ago
LibyaLYAvailable3 months ago
MauritaniaMRAvailable3 months ago
MoroccoMAAvailable3 months ago
OmanOMAvailable3 months ago
QatarQAAvailable3 months ago
Saudi ArabiaSAAvailable3 months ago
TunisiaTNAvailable3 months ago
United Arab EmiratesAEAvailable3 months ago
United KingdomGBAvailable3 months ago
United StatesUSAvailable3 months ago
YemenYEAvailable3 months ago
AfghanistanAFNot tested0
AlbaniaALNot tested0
ArmeniaAMNot tested0
AustriaATNot tested0
AzerbaijanAZNot tested0
BelarusBYNot tested0
BelgiumBENot tested0
Bosnia & HerzegovinaBANot tested0
BulgariaBGNot tested0
CambodiaKHNot tested0
CroatiaHRNot tested0
CyprusCYNot tested0
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DenmarkDKNot tested0
EstoniaEENot tested0
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FranceFRNot tested0
GeorgiaGENot tested0
GermanyDENot tested0
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MacaoMONot tested0
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Myanmar (Burma)MMNot tested0
NepalNPNot tested0
NetherlandsNLNot tested0
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North MacedoniaMKNot tested0
NorwayNONot tested0
PakistanPKNot tested0
PalauPWNot tested0
Papua New GuineaPGNot tested0
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PolandPLNot tested0
PortugalPTNot tested0
RomaniaRONot tested0
RussiaRUNot tested0
SerbiaRSNot tested0
SingaporeSGNot tested0
SlovakiaSKNot tested0
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Solomon IslandsSBNot tested0
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SpainESNot tested0
Sri LankaLKNot tested0
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SwedenSENot tested0
SwitzerlandCHNot tested0
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TurkmenistanTMNot tested0
Turks & Caicos IslandsTCNot tested0
UkraineUANot tested0
UzbekistanUZNot tested0
VanuatuVUNot tested0
VietnamVNNot tested0

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.