We monitor 175 App Store storefronts to answer one question —

Is Intl JavaScript Conference censored by Apple?

Gone.

Intl JavaScript Conference is gone from every App Store storefront we test. It was last seen available on Apr 7, 2022.

397 tests on record·last checked 6 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 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

    • Education apps in the United States are unavailable at 4%, near the 5% for everything there, which cuts neither way.
    • 2 other apps left Malta the same day, Aug 28, 2024.
    • Apple reports 1,213 government-ordered removals in Russia 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

  • 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.

  • 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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Intl JavaScript Conference

Developer: Software & Support Verlag GmbH · Category: Education · Released: Jul 24, 2017 ·

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0stores where available
71stores where blocked
3.6Bpeople behind the block
71of 175 stores tested
397tests on record

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Life of this app

  1. Jul 24, 2017Released on the App Store
  2. Jan 8, 2020First tested by AppleCensorship
  3. Apr 7, 2022Last seen available anywhere
  4. Dec 10, 2024Gone from 71 storefronts
  5. Sep 12, 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.

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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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AlbaniaALUnavailableDec 28, 20242 years ago
AlgeriaDZUnavailableJun 29, 20242 months ago
AngolaAOUnavailableAug 17, 20249 months ago
Antigua & BarbudaAGUnavailableMay 6, 20251 year ago
AustraliaAUUnavailableJun 29, 20244 months ago
AzerbaijanAZUnavailableJul 13, 202514 months ago
BahrainBHUnavailableSep 8, 202512 months ago
BarbadosBBUnavailableSep 20, 20242 years ago
BelarusBYUnavailableApr 27, 20265 months ago
BeninBJUnavailableJul 23, 202514 months ago
BotswanaBWUnavailableJun 29, 20246 months ago
BrazilBRUnavailableSep 22, 20243 months ago
British Virgin IslandsVGUnavailableNov 13, 20245 months ago
ChadTDUnavailableDec 10, 20242 years ago
China (Mainland)CNUnavailableJun 29, 20242 years ago
Costa RicaCRUnavailableJul 12, 20242 years ago
Dominican RepublicDOUnavailableJul 12, 20262 months ago
DR CongoCDUnavailableApr 3, 20266 months ago
EcuadorECUnavailableFeb 12, 20266 months ago
El SalvadorSVUnavailableJun 30, 20242 years ago
EswatiniSZUnavailableJun 17, 202515 months ago
FranceFRUnavailableJun 29, 202411 months ago
GhanaGHUnavailableAug 4, 202513 months ago
GreeceGRUnavailableMay 22, 20264 months ago
GuatemalaGTUnavailableApr 12, 20251 year ago
GuyanaGYUnavailableJul 4, 20262 months ago
Hong KongHKUnavailableFeb 1, 20252 years ago
HungaryHUUnavailableOct 30, 20242 years ago
IsraelILUnavailableDec 22, 20259 months ago
ItalyITUnavailableApr 16, 20265 months ago
JamaicaJMUnavailableJan 8, 20268 months ago
JapanJPUnavailableSep 12, 20266 days ago
KazakhstanKZUnavailableSep 6, 20242 years ago
KenyaKEUnavailableOct 25, 20245 months ago
LebanonLBUnavailableJul 7, 20245 months ago
LibyaLYUnavailableDec 28, 20242 years ago
MalawiMWUnavailableJan 22, 20252 years ago
MalaysiaMYUnavailableJun 21, 202515 months ago
MaltaMTUnavailableAug 28, 20242 years ago
MauritaniaMRUnavailableJun 29, 20245 months ago
MicronesiaFMUnavailableSep 2, 20242 years ago
MongoliaMNUnavailableSep 24, 202512 months ago
MontenegroMEUnavailableJun 29, 20249 months ago
NauruNRUnavailableJun 29, 20246 days ago
NigerNEUnavailableNov 16, 202510 months ago
NigeriaNGUnavailableFeb 14, 20267 months ago
North MacedoniaMKUnavailableJun 29, 20242 months ago
NorwayNOUnavailableOct 28, 202511 months ago
PakistanPKUnavailableAug 20, 20242 years ago
PortugalPTUnavailableApr 3, 20266 months ago
RussiaRUUnavailableJun 29, 20242 months ago
SenegalSNUnavailableApr 22, 20265 months ago
SerbiaRSUnavailableSep 7, 202512 months ago
SeychellesSCUnavailableOct 31, 202511 months ago
Sierra LeoneSLUnavailableJul 27, 20262 months ago
SloveniaSIUnavailableJul 22, 20245 months ago
SpainESUnavailableJul 12, 20262 months ago
SwedenSEUnavailableDec 14, 20242 years ago
SwitzerlandCHUnavailableJul 14, 20242 years ago
TaiwanTWUnavailableOct 22, 202511 months ago
TajikistanTJUnavailableJun 29, 20242 years ago
TongaTOUnavailableJul 1, 202515 months ago
Trinidad & TobagoTTUnavailableJun 29, 20249 months ago
TurkmenistanTMUnavailableJun 29, 20245 months ago
Turks & Caicos IslandsTCUnavailableJun 29, 202416 months ago
UkraineUAUnavailableJun 29, 20246 days ago
United Arab EmiratesAEUnavailableJun 29, 20246 days ago
United StatesUSUnavailableJun 29, 20246 days ago
UzbekistanUZUnavailableSep 13, 20245 months ago
VanuatuVUUnavailableSep 28, 20242 years ago
VenezuelaVEUnavailableNov 24, 20242 years ago
AfghanistanAFNot tested0
AnguillaAINot tested0
ArgentinaARNot tested0
ArmeniaAMNot tested0
AustriaATNot tested0
BahamasBSNot tested0
BelgiumBENot tested0
BelizeBZNot tested0
BermudaBMNot tested0
BhutanBTNot tested0
BoliviaBONot tested0
Bosnia & HerzegovinaBANot tested0
BruneiBNNot tested0
BulgariaBGNot tested0
Burkina FasoBFNot tested0
CambodiaKHNot tested0
CameroonCMNot tested0
CanadaCANot tested0
Cape VerdeCVNot tested0
Cayman IslandsKYNot tested0
ChileCLNot tested0
ColombiaCONot tested0
Côte d’IvoireCINot tested0
CroatiaHRNot tested0
CyprusCYNot tested0
CzechiaCZNot tested0
DenmarkDKNot tested0
DominicaDMNot tested0
EgyptEGNot tested0
EstoniaEENot tested0
FijiFJNot tested0
FinlandFINot tested0
GabonGANot tested0
GambiaGMNot tested0
GeorgiaGENot tested0
GermanyDENot tested0
GrenadaGDNot tested0
Guinea-BissauGWNot tested0
HondurasHNNot tested0
IcelandISNot tested0
IndiaINNot tested0
IndonesiaIDNot tested0
IraqIQNot tested0
IrelandIENot tested0
JordanJONot tested0
KosovoXKNot tested0
KuwaitKWNot tested0
KyrgyzstanKGNot tested0
LaosLANot tested0
LatviaLVNot tested0
LiberiaLRNot tested0
LithuaniaLTNot tested0
LuxembourgLUNot tested0
MacaoMONot tested0
MadagascarMGNot tested0
MaldivesMVNot tested0
MaliMLNot tested0
MauritiusMUNot tested0
MexicoMXNot tested0
MoldovaMDNot tested0
MontserratMSNot tested0
MoroccoMANot tested0
MozambiqueMZNot tested0
Myanmar (Burma)MMNot tested0
NamibiaNANot tested0
NepalNPNot tested0
NetherlandsNLNot tested0
New ZealandNZNot tested0
NicaraguaNINot tested0
OmanOMNot tested0
PalauPWNot tested0
PanamaPANot tested0
Papua New GuineaPGNot tested0
ParaguayPYNot tested0
PeruPENot tested0
PhilippinesPHNot tested0
PolandPLNot tested0
QatarQANot tested0
Republic of the CongoCGNot tested0
RomaniaRONot tested0
RwandaRWNot tested0
São Tomé & PríncipeSTNot tested0
Saudi ArabiaSANot tested0
SingaporeSGNot tested0
SlovakiaSKNot tested0
Solomon IslandsSBNot tested0
South AfricaZANot tested0
South KoreaKRNot tested0
Sri LankaLKNot tested0
St. Kitts & NevisKNNot tested0
St. LuciaLCNot tested0
St. Vincent & GrenadinesVCNot tested0
SurinameSRNot tested0
TanzaniaTZNot tested0
ThailandTHNot tested0
TunisiaTNNot tested0
TürkiyeTRNot tested0
UgandaUGNot tested0
United KingdomGBNot tested0
UruguayUYNot tested0
VietnamVNNot tested0
YemenYENot tested0
ZambiaZMNot tested0
ZimbabweZWNot 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.