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We monitor 175 App Store storefronts to answer one question —

Is 恋与制作人 censored by Apple?

Yes.

Apple does not offer 恋与制作人 in most of the App Stores it operates — 35 of 175, including India. 2.61B people cannot install it. It has been unavailable in India since Mar 22, 2024.

210 tests on record·last checked 5 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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恋与制作人

Developer: PAPE Co.,Ltd · Category: Games · Released: Dec 13, 2017 · Rating: 4.8★

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1stores where available
35stores where blocked
2.61Bpeople behind the block
36of 175 stores tested
210tests on record

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Life of this app

  1. Dec 13, 2017Released on the App Store
  2. Feb 25, 2019First tested by AppleCensorship
  3. Sep 11, 2021Gone from 35 storefronts
  4. Sep 13, 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.

2019-022026-09

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 15, 20243 years ago
AustriaATUnavailableNov 27, 20193 years ago
BrazilBRUnavailableApr 29, 20233 years ago
British Virgin IslandsVGUnavailableMar 8, 20203 years ago
BruneiBNUnavailableFeb 14, 20223 years ago
Burkina FasoBFUnavailableJun 30, 20233 years ago
Cayman IslandsKYUnavailableJul 28, 20193 years ago
ChileCLUnavailableJun 30, 20233 years ago
ColombiaCOUnavailableApr 29, 20233 years ago
DominicaDMUnavailableOct 21, 20193 years ago
EstoniaEEUnavailableSep 11, 20213 years ago
FranceFRUnavailableOct 21, 20193 years ago
HungaryHUUnavailableOct 6, 20193 years ago
IndiaINUnavailableMar 22, 20242 years ago
LiberiaLRUnavailableOct 15, 20213 years ago
MexicoMXUnavailableJan 1, 20203 years ago
MicronesiaFMUnavailableJul 28, 20193 years ago
NamibiaNAUnavailableAug 5, 20203 years ago
NepalNPUnavailableApr 29, 20232 years ago
New ZealandNZUnavailableFeb 14, 20223 years ago
ParaguayPYUnavailableSep 11, 20213 years ago
PortugalPTUnavailableNov 27, 20193 years ago
QatarQAUnavailableMar 15, 20243 years ago
RussiaRUUnavailableApr 29, 20236 months ago
SeychellesSCUnavailableMay 4, 20203 years ago
SlovakiaSKUnavailableOct 6, 20193 years ago
South KoreaKRUnavailableMar 8, 20203 years ago
St. Kitts & NevisKNUnavailableNov 6, 20203 years ago
SwitzerlandCHUnavailableAug 5, 20203 years ago
TajikistanTJUnavailableOct 15, 20213 years ago
UkraineUAUnavailableApr 29, 20232 years ago
United Arab EmiratesAEUnavailableApr 29, 20232 years ago
United StatesUSUnavailableOct 6, 20195 days ago
YemenYEUnavailableFeb 14, 20223 years ago
ZimbabweZWUnavailableNov 6, 20203 years ago
China (Mainland)CNAvailable—5 days ago
AfghanistanAFNot tested——0
AlgeriaDZNot tested——0
AngolaAONot tested——0
AnguillaAINot tested——0
Antigua & BarbudaAGNot tested——0
ArgentinaARNot tested——0
ArmeniaAMNot tested——0
AustraliaAUNot 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
BermudaBMNot tested——0
BhutanBTNot tested——0
BoliviaBONot tested——0
Bosnia & HerzegovinaBANot tested——0
BotswanaBWNot tested——0
BulgariaBGNot tested——0
CambodiaKHNot tested——0
CameroonCMNot tested——0
CanadaCANot tested——0
Cape VerdeCVNot tested——0
ChadTDNot tested——0
Costa RicaCRNot tested——0
Côte d’IvoireCINot tested——0
CroatiaHRNot tested——0
CyprusCYNot tested——0
CzechiaCZNot tested——0
DenmarkDKNot tested——0
Dominican RepublicDONot tested——0
DR CongoCDNot tested——0
EcuadorECNot tested——0
EgyptEGNot tested——0
El SalvadorSVNot tested——0
EswatiniSZNot tested——0
FijiFJNot tested——0
FinlandFINot tested——0
GabonGANot tested——0
GambiaGMNot tested——0
GeorgiaGENot 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
Hong KongHKNot tested——0
IcelandISNot tested——0
IndonesiaIDNot tested——0
IraqIQNot tested——0
IrelandIENot tested——0
IsraelILNot tested——0
ItalyITNot tested——0
JamaicaJMNot tested——0
JapanJPNot tested——0
JordanJONot tested——0
KazakhstanKZNot tested——0
KenyaKENot tested——0
KosovoXKNot tested——0
KuwaitKWNot tested——0
KyrgyzstanKGNot tested——0
LaosLANot tested——0
LatviaLVNot tested——0
LebanonLBNot tested——0
LibyaLYNot tested——0
LithuaniaLTNot tested——0
LuxembourgLUNot tested——0
MacaoMONot tested——0
MadagascarMGNot tested——0
MalawiMWNot tested——0
MalaysiaMYNot tested——0
MaldivesMVNot tested——0
MaliMLNot tested——0
MaltaMTNot tested——0
MauritaniaMRNot tested——0
MauritiusMUNot tested——0
MoldovaMDNot tested——0
MongoliaMNNot tested——0
MontenegroMENot tested——0
MontserratMSNot tested——0
MoroccoMANot tested——0
MozambiqueMZNot tested——0
Myanmar (Burma)MMNot tested——0
NauruNRNot tested——0
NetherlandsNLNot tested——0
NicaraguaNINot tested——0
NigerNENot tested——0
NigeriaNGNot tested——0
North MacedoniaMKNot tested——0
NorwayNONot tested——0
OmanOMNot tested——0
PakistanPKNot tested——0
PalauPWNot tested——0
PanamaPANot tested——0
Papua New GuineaPGNot tested——0
PeruPENot tested——0
PhilippinesPHNot tested——0
PolandPLNot 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
Sierra LeoneSLNot tested——0
SingaporeSGNot tested——0
SloveniaSINot tested——0
Solomon IslandsSBNot tested——0
South AfricaZANot tested——0
SpainESNot tested——0
Sri LankaLKNot tested——0
St. LuciaLCNot tested——0
St. Vincent & GrenadinesVCNot tested——0
SurinameSRNot tested——0
SwedenSENot tested——0
TaiwanTWNot tested——0
TanzaniaTZNot tested——0
ThailandTHNot tested——0
TongaTONot tested——0
Trinidad & TobagoTTNot tested——0
TunisiaTNNot tested——0
TürkiyeTRNot tested——0
TurkmenistanTMNot tested——0
Turks & Caicos IslandsTCNot tested——0
UgandaUGNot tested——0
United KingdomGBNot tested——0
UruguayUYNot tested——0
UzbekistanUZNot tested——0
VanuatuVUNot tested——0
VenezuelaVENot tested——0
VietnamVNNot tested——0
ZambiaZMNot 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.