We monitor 175 App Store storefronts to answer one question —

Is 酷听音乐 - 歌曲音乐听你想听 censored by Apple?

Gone.

酷听音乐 - 歌曲音乐听你想听 is gone from every App Store storefront we test. It was last seen available on Mar 13, 2023.

385 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 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

    • 22% of Music apps are unavailable in Luxembourg — 35 of 160 — against 14% of everything we test there.
    • 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

    • 22% of Music apps are unavailable in Luxembourg — 35 of 160 — against 14% 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.

    • 22% of Music apps are unavailable in Luxembourg — 35 of 160 — against 14% of everything we test there.
  • Something brokeUnlikely

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

    • 22% of Music apps are unavailable in Luxembourg — 35 of 160 — against 14% of everything we test there.
    • Gone for 2 years.
  • 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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酷听音乐 - 歌曲音乐听你想听

Developer: 燕聪 李 · Category: Music · Released: Sep 5, 2017 · Rating: 1.7★

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0stores where available
68stores where blocked
2.91Bpeople behind the block
68of 175 stores tested
385tests on record

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Life of this app

  1. Sep 5, 2017Released on the App Store
  2. Feb 24, 2021First tested by AppleCensorship
  3. Mar 13, 2023Last seen available anywhere
  4. Apr 15, 2025Gone from 68 storefronts
  5. 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.

2021-022026-09

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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AfghanistanAFUnavailableDec 31, 20242 years ago
AlbaniaALUnavailableAug 5, 20248 months ago
AlgeriaDZUnavailableAug 5, 202440 days ago
AngolaAOUnavailableAug 5, 202438 days ago
AnguillaAIUnavailableAug 5, 20246 months ago
Antigua & BarbudaAGUnavailableJul 4, 202514 months ago
AustriaATUnavailableMay 11, 20264 months ago
AzerbaijanAZUnavailableAug 5, 202411 months ago
BarbadosBBUnavailableAug 5, 20246 months ago
BelarusBYUnavailableMay 6, 20251 year ago
BeninBJUnavailableMar 8, 20266 months ago
BermudaBMUnavailableJul 9, 20262 months ago
BotswanaBWUnavailableAug 19, 202631 days ago
BruneiBNUnavailableJan 14, 20268 months ago
ChileCLUnavailableNov 11, 20242 years ago
China (Mainland)CNUnavailableAug 5, 20242 months ago
Costa RicaCRUnavailableAug 11, 202638 days ago
CroatiaHRUnavailableOct 12, 202511 months ago
DR CongoCDUnavailableApr 30, 20251 year ago
EgyptEGUnavailableAug 28, 20242 years ago
EstoniaEEUnavailableAug 28, 202513 months ago
EswatiniSZUnavailableAug 9, 202640 days ago
FinlandFIUnavailableOct 19, 20255 days ago
GeorgiaGEUnavailableAug 12, 202513 months ago
GreeceGRUnavailableApr 20, 20265 months ago
Guinea-BissauGWUnavailableMay 10, 202516 months ago
GuyanaGYUnavailableAug 5, 20249 months ago
HondurasHNUnavailableApr 28, 20251 year ago
Hong KongHKUnavailableAug 5, 202431 days ago
IrelandIEUnavailableMay 15, 20256 months ago
ItalyITUnavailableJul 1, 202515 months ago
JamaicaJMUnavailableAug 2, 20262 months ago
KazakhstanKZUnavailableOct 15, 202511 months ago
KyrgyzstanKGUnavailableMay 3, 20265 months ago
LebanonLBUnavailableApr 8, 20251 year ago
LiberiaLRUnavailableAug 9, 202513 months ago
LibyaLYUnavailableApr 13, 20265 months ago
LithuaniaLTUnavailableMay 14, 202510 months ago
LuxembourgLUUnavailableMar 27, 20251 year ago
MacaoMOUnavailableAug 5, 20245 months ago
MalawiMWUnavailableNov 16, 20242 years ago
MalaysiaMYUnavailableApr 27, 20265 months ago
MaldivesMVUnavailableAug 19, 20242 years ago
MauritiusMUUnavailableDec 12, 20242 years ago
Myanmar (Burma)MMUnavailableAug 13, 202636 days ago
NamibiaNAUnavailableMar 24, 20251 year ago
NauruNRUnavailableAug 5, 20245 days ago
NepalNPUnavailableDec 12, 20242 years ago
NetherlandsNLUnavailableAug 5, 20245 months ago
PanamaPAUnavailableAug 5, 20242 years ago
QatarQAUnavailableApr 15, 20251 year ago
RussiaRUUnavailableAug 5, 20242 months ago
SerbiaRSUnavailableSep 1, 202513 months ago
SingaporeSGUnavailableAug 5, 20245 months ago
SloveniaSIUnavailableSep 3, 20242 years ago
South KoreaKRUnavailableMar 3, 20252 years ago
SpainESUnavailableAug 12, 202513 months ago
TaiwanTWUnavailableAug 5, 202411 months ago
TanzaniaTZUnavailableDec 27, 20242 years ago
TunisiaTNUnavailableJan 20, 20266 months ago
UkraineUAUnavailableSep 26, 20242 years ago
United Arab EmiratesAEUnavailableAug 5, 20245 days ago
United KingdomGBUnavailableAug 5, 20245 days ago
United StatesUSUnavailableAug 5, 20245 days ago
UruguayUYUnavailableMar 21, 20265 months ago
VanuatuVUUnavailableJul 11, 202511 months ago
VenezuelaVEUnavailableJun 10, 202515 months ago
ZambiaZMUnavailableNov 25, 202415 months ago
ArgentinaARNot tested0
ArmeniaAMNot tested0
AustraliaAUNot tested0
BahamasBSNot tested0
BahrainBHNot tested0
BelgiumBENot tested0
BelizeBZNot tested0
BhutanBTNot tested0
BoliviaBONot tested0
Bosnia & HerzegovinaBANot tested0
BrazilBRNot tested0
British Virgin IslandsVGNot tested0
BulgariaBGNot tested0
Burkina FasoBFNot tested0
CambodiaKHNot tested0
CameroonCMNot tested0
CanadaCANot tested0
Cape VerdeCVNot tested0
Cayman IslandsKYNot tested0
ChadTDNot tested0
ColombiaCONot tested0
Côte d’IvoireCINot tested0
CyprusCYNot tested0
CzechiaCZNot tested0
DenmarkDKNot tested0
DominicaDMNot tested0
Dominican RepublicDONot tested0
EcuadorECNot tested0
El SalvadorSVNot tested0
FijiFJNot tested0
FranceFRNot tested0
GabonGANot tested0
GambiaGMNot tested0
GermanyDENot tested0
GhanaGHNot tested0
GrenadaGDNot tested0
GuatemalaGTNot tested0
HungaryHUNot tested0
IcelandISNot tested0
IndiaINNot tested0
IndonesiaIDNot tested0
IraqIQNot tested0
IsraelILNot tested0
JapanJPNot tested0
JordanJONot tested0
KenyaKENot tested0
KosovoXKNot tested0
KuwaitKWNot tested0
LaosLANot tested0
LatviaLVNot tested0
MadagascarMGNot tested0
MaliMLNot tested0
MaltaMTNot tested0
MauritaniaMRNot tested0
MexicoMXNot tested0
MicronesiaFMNot tested0
MoldovaMDNot tested0
MongoliaMNNot tested0
MontenegroMENot tested0
MontserratMSNot tested0
MoroccoMANot tested0
MozambiqueMZNot tested0
New ZealandNZNot tested0
NicaraguaNINot tested0
NigerNENot tested0
NigeriaNGNot tested0
North MacedoniaMKNot tested0
NorwayNONot tested0
OmanOMNot tested0
PakistanPKNot tested0
PalauPWNot tested0
Papua New GuineaPGNot tested0
ParaguayPYNot tested0
PeruPENot tested0
PhilippinesPHNot tested0
PolandPLNot tested0
PortugalPTNot tested0
Republic of the CongoCGNot tested0
RomaniaRONot tested0
RwandaRWNot tested0
São Tomé & PríncipeSTNot tested0
Saudi ArabiaSANot tested0
SenegalSNNot tested0
SeychellesSCNot tested0
Sierra LeoneSLNot tested0
SlovakiaSKNot tested0
Solomon IslandsSBNot tested0
South AfricaZANot tested0
Sri LankaLKNot tested0
St. Kitts & NevisKNNot tested0
St. LuciaLCNot tested0
St. Vincent & GrenadinesVCNot tested0
SurinameSRNot tested0
SwedenSENot tested0
SwitzerlandCHNot tested0
TajikistanTJNot tested0
ThailandTHNot tested0
TongaTONot tested0
Trinidad & TobagoTTNot tested0
TürkiyeTRNot tested0
TurkmenistanTMNot tested0
Turks & Caicos IslandsTCNot tested0
UgandaUGNot tested0
UzbekistanUZNot tested0
VietnamVNNot tested0
YemenYENot 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.