We monitor 175 App Store storefronts to answer one question —

Is GINTER - Gay Video Chat, Find And Meet New Guys censored by Apple?

Gone.

GINTER - Gay Video Chat, Find And Meet New Guys is gone from every App Store storefront we test. It was last seen available on Mar 16, 2020.

789 tests on record·last checked 32 days 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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GINTER - Gay Video Chat, Find And Meet New Guys

Developer: MEW INC · Category: Social Networking · Released: May 29, 2017 · Rating: 2.3★

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0stores where available
125stores where blocked
5.71Bpeople behind the block
125of 175 stores tested
789tests on record

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Life of this app

  1. May 29, 2017Released on the App Store
  2. Dec 2, 2019First tested by AppleCensorship
  3. Mar 16, 2020Last seen available anywhere
  4. Dec 1, 2021Gone from 125 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.

2019-122026-08

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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AngolaAOUnavailableMay 1, 20212 years ago
AnguillaAIUnavailableDec 14, 20202 years ago
ArmeniaAMUnavailableJun 26, 20214 years ago
AustraliaAUUnavailableAug 7, 20224 years ago
AustriaATUnavailableMay 17, 20242 years ago
BahamasBSUnavailableDec 3, 20233 years ago
BahrainBHUnavailableNov 27, 20214 years ago
BelarusBYUnavailableOct 28, 20213 years ago
BelgiumBEUnavailableApr 2, 20233 years ago
BelizeBZUnavailableDec 18, 20203 years ago
BermudaBMUnavailableNov 9, 20222 years ago
BoliviaBOUnavailableJan 1, 20223 years ago
BotswanaBWUnavailableFeb 13, 20224 years ago
BrazilBRUnavailableDec 10, 20222 years ago
British Virgin IslandsVGUnavailableJun 20, 20223 years ago
BruneiBNUnavailableJul 15, 20233 years ago
BulgariaBGUnavailableOct 9, 20203 years ago
Burkina FasoBFUnavailableJun 29, 20212 months ago
CambodiaKHUnavailableAug 29, 20213 years ago
CameroonCMUnavailableNov 9, 20224 years ago
Cape VerdeCVUnavailableJan 1, 20223 years ago
ChadTDUnavailableDec 10, 20202 years ago
China (Mainland)CNUnavailableAug 17, 202032 days ago
ColombiaCOUnavailableNov 27, 20203 years ago
Costa RicaCRUnavailableNov 19, 20213 years ago
CroatiaHRUnavailableFeb 19, 20233 years ago
CyprusCYUnavailableMar 16, 20234 years ago
DenmarkDKUnavailableSep 9, 20213 years ago
DominicaDMUnavailableDec 7, 20233 years ago
Dominican RepublicDOUnavailableOct 5, 20213 years ago
DR CongoCDUnavailableJul 23, 20224 years ago
EcuadorECUnavailableJul 6, 20233 years ago
EgyptEGUnavailableJan 27, 202332 days ago
El SalvadorSVUnavailableOct 20, 202111 months ago
EstoniaEEUnavailableMar 26, 20222 years ago
FijiFJUnavailableDec 1, 20212 years ago
FinlandFIUnavailableNov 6, 20204 years ago
FranceFRUnavailableAug 2, 20242 years ago
GabonGAUnavailableAug 4, 20224 years ago
GambiaGMUnavailableMay 19, 20212 years ago
GhanaGHUnavailableAug 14, 20242 years ago
GreeceGRUnavailableOct 27, 20204 years ago
Guinea-BissauGWUnavailableNov 18, 20233 years ago
GuyanaGYUnavailableFeb 13, 20223 years ago
Hong KongHKUnavailableJan 2, 20223 years ago
HungaryHUUnavailableDec 12, 202010 months ago
IcelandISUnavailableAug 28, 20224 years ago
IndiaINUnavailableJul 21, 20224 years ago
IrelandIEUnavailableApr 16, 20242 years ago
IsraelILUnavailableMar 16, 20222 years ago
ItalyITUnavailableMay 1, 20222 years ago
JapanJPUnavailableAug 17, 20202 years ago
JordanJOUnavailableOct 5, 20213 years ago
KazakhstanKZUnavailableOct 28, 20213 years ago
KenyaKEUnavailableFeb 14, 20242 years ago
KuwaitKWUnavailableAug 17, 20202 months ago
KyrgyzstanKGUnavailableAug 4, 20224 years ago
LaosLAUnavailableAug 23, 20213 years ago
LatviaLVUnavailableSep 22, 20213 years ago
LebanonLBUnavailableDec 18, 20202 years ago
LiberiaLRUnavailableJun 26, 20212 years ago
LuxembourgLUUnavailableJun 20, 20223 years ago
MadagascarMGUnavailableApr 24, 20223 years ago
MalawiMWUnavailableJan 29, 20234 years ago
MalaysiaMYUnavailableDec 14, 20202 years ago
MaliMLUnavailableApr 29, 20213 years ago
MaltaMTUnavailableMay 19, 20214 years ago
MauritaniaMRUnavailableSep 22, 20213 years ago
MauritiusMUUnavailableApr 27, 20222 years ago
MexicoMXUnavailableMar 14, 20243 years ago
MicronesiaFMUnavailableSep 30, 20233 years ago
MoldovaMDUnavailableApr 29, 20214 years ago
MongoliaMNUnavailableAug 14, 20214 years ago
MontserratMSUnavailableJan 27, 20223 years ago
MoroccoMAUnavailableAug 28, 20224 years ago
MozambiqueMZUnavailableMar 16, 20223 years ago
Myanmar (Burma)MMUnavailableSep 22, 20233 years ago
NamibiaNAUnavailableAug 17, 20203 years ago
NauruNRUnavailableJun 19, 202432 days ago
NepalNPUnavailableDec 5, 20222 years ago
New ZealandNZUnavailableJun 29, 20214 years ago
NicaraguaNIUnavailableAug 25, 20213 years ago
NigerNEUnavailableApr 24, 20222 years ago
North MacedoniaMKUnavailableJun 8, 20214 years ago
NorwayNOUnavailableNov 21, 20202 years ago
OmanOMUnavailableDec 10, 20202 years ago
PalauPWUnavailableAug 12, 20213 years ago
PanamaPAUnavailableSep 9, 20212 years ago
ParaguayPYUnavailableAug 14, 20213 years ago
PhilippinesPHUnavailableDec 15, 20204 years ago
PolandPLUnavailableJun 4, 20213 years ago
PortugalPTUnavailableOct 20, 20213 years ago
QatarQAUnavailableAug 1, 20233 years ago
RomaniaROUnavailableNov 21, 20204 years ago
RussiaRUUnavailableDec 2, 20202 years ago
São Tomé & PríncipeSTUnavailableApr 11, 20265 months ago
Sierra LeoneSLUnavailableJul 3, 20213 years ago
SlovakiaSKUnavailableMay 16, 20233 years ago
SloveniaSIUnavailableMay 13, 20242 years ago
Solomon IslandsSBUnavailableMay 1, 20213 years ago
South AfricaZAUnavailableNov 27, 20202 years ago
South KoreaKRUnavailableJun 4, 20242 years ago
SpainESUnavailableJan 15, 20234 years ago
Sri LankaLKUnavailableAug 29, 20212 years ago
St. LuciaLCUnavailableMar 18, 20222 years ago
St. Vincent & GrenadinesVCUnavailableAug 12, 20213 years ago
SwitzerlandCHUnavailableAug 1, 20232 years ago
TaiwanTWUnavailableJun 10, 20233 years ago
TajikistanTJUnavailableOct 28, 20213 years ago
TanzaniaTZUnavailableJul 7, 20233 years ago
ThailandTHUnavailableApr 1, 20233 years ago
TongaTOUnavailableJul 20, 20224 years ago
Trinidad & TobagoTTUnavailableNov 27, 20213 years ago
TunisiaTNUnavailableOct 24, 20203 years ago
TurkmenistanTMUnavailableJul 25, 20262 months ago
Turks & Caicos IslandsTCUnavailableDec 1, 20213 years ago
UkraineUAUnavailableAug 17, 202011 months ago
United Arab EmiratesAEUnavailableDec 5, 202232 days ago
United KingdomGBUnavailableAug 9, 20242 years ago
United StatesUSUnavailableAug 17, 202032 days ago
UruguayUYUnavailableDec 2, 20202 years ago
UzbekistanUZUnavailableJul 20, 20224 years ago
VanuatuVUUnavailableJan 22, 20243 years ago
VietnamVNUnavailableDec 15, 20202 years ago
ZimbabweZWUnavailableOct 9, 20203 years ago
AfghanistanAFNot tested0
AlbaniaALNot tested0
AlgeriaDZNot tested0
Antigua & BarbudaAGNot tested0
ArgentinaARNot tested0
AzerbaijanAZNot tested0
BarbadosBBNot tested0
BeninBJNot tested0
BhutanBTNot tested0
Bosnia & HerzegovinaBANot tested0
CanadaCANot tested0
Cayman IslandsKYNot tested0
ChileCLNot tested0
Côte d’IvoireCINot tested0
CzechiaCZNot tested0
EswatiniSZNot tested0
GeorgiaGENot tested0
GermanyDENot tested0
GrenadaGDNot tested0
GuatemalaGTNot tested0
HondurasHNNot tested0
IndonesiaIDNot tested0
IraqIQNot tested0
JamaicaJMNot tested0
KosovoXKNot tested0
LibyaLYNot tested0
LithuaniaLTNot tested0
MacaoMONot tested0
MaldivesMVNot tested0
MontenegroMENot tested0
NetherlandsNLNot tested0
NigeriaNGNot tested0
PakistanPKNot tested0
Papua New GuineaPGNot tested0
PeruPENot tested0
Republic of the CongoCGNot tested0
RwandaRWNot tested0
Saudi ArabiaSANot tested0
SenegalSNNot tested0
SerbiaRSNot tested0
SeychellesSCNot tested0
SingaporeSGNot tested0
St. Kitts & NevisKNNot tested0
SurinameSRNot tested0
SwedenSENot tested0
TürkiyeTRNot tested0
UgandaUGNot tested0
VenezuelaVENot tested0
YemenYENot tested0
ZambiaZMNot 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.