We monitor 175 App Store storefronts to answer one question —

Is VPN - TX-VPN网络云Master censored by Apple?

Gone.

VPN - TX-VPN网络云Master is gone from every App Store storefront we test. It was last seen available on Aug 6, 2019.

1,089 tests on record·last checked 3 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

    • 79% of VPN and proxy apps are unavailable in mainland China — 1,295 of 1,648 — against 28% 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

    • 79% of VPN and proxy apps are unavailable in mainland China — 1,295 of 1,648 — against 28% 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.

    • 79% of VPN and proxy apps are unavailable in mainland China — 1,295 of 1,648 — against 28% 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.

    • 79% of VPN and proxy apps are unavailable in mainland China — 1,295 of 1,648 — against 28% of everything we test there.
    • Gone for 7 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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VPN - TX-VPN网络云Master

Developer: EXCEED TECHNOLOGIES, INCORPORATED · Category: Book · Released: Jan 10, 2018 · Rating: 3.0★

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0stores where available
137stores where blocked
4.98Bpeople behind the block
137of 175 stores tested
1,089tests on record

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Life of this app

  1. Jan 10, 2018Released on the App Store
  2. May 4, 2019First tested by AppleCensorship
  3. Aug 6, 2019Last seen available anywhere
  4. Jul 8, 2021Gone from 137 storefronts
  5. Sep 15, 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.

2019-052026-09

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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AngolaAOUnavailableJul 26, 202111 months ago
AnguillaAIUnavailableJul 12, 20214 years ago
Antigua & BarbudaAGUnavailableMar 14, 20222 years ago
ArgentinaARUnavailableDec 31, 20224 years ago
ArmeniaAMUnavailableNov 21, 20202 years ago
AustraliaAUUnavailableNov 14, 20202 years ago
AustriaATUnavailableJun 29, 20263 months ago
AzerbaijanAZUnavailableDec 1, 20214 years ago
BahamasBSUnavailableApr 29, 20203 years ago
BahrainBHUnavailableMay 9, 20213 years ago
BarbadosBBUnavailableJun 26, 20233 years ago
BelarusBYUnavailableNov 14, 20204 years ago
BelgiumBEUnavailableJul 23, 20233 years ago
BelizeBZUnavailableFeb 22, 20232 years ago
BeninBJUnavailableJul 12, 20242 years ago
BoliviaBOUnavailableDec 6, 20204 years ago
Bosnia & HerzegovinaBAUnavailableOct 9, 20232 years ago
BotswanaBWUnavailableOct 2, 20194 years ago
BrazilBRUnavailableFeb 21, 20202 years ago
British Virgin IslandsVGUnavailableDec 14, 20202 years ago
BruneiBNUnavailableMay 30, 20214 years ago
Burkina FasoBFUnavailableFeb 28, 20222 years ago
CambodiaKHUnavailableJun 30, 20233 years ago
CameroonCMUnavailableJul 19, 20262 months ago
CanadaCAUnavailableJan 26, 20202 years ago
Cayman IslandsKYUnavailableMar 2, 20222 years ago
ChileCLUnavailableFeb 15, 20222 years ago
China (Mainland)CNUnavailableAug 6, 20192 years ago
ColombiaCOUnavailableJul 15, 20203 years ago
Côte d’IvoireCIUnavailableOct 28, 20224 years ago
CroatiaHRUnavailableNov 23, 20224 years ago
CyprusCYUnavailableSep 9, 20224 years ago
Dominican RepublicDOUnavailableJul 1, 20212 months ago
DR CongoCDUnavailableSep 9, 20224 years ago
EcuadorECUnavailableJul 8, 20212 years ago
EgyptEGUnavailableNov 26, 20202 years ago
El SalvadorSVUnavailableMay 30, 20212 years ago
EstoniaEEUnavailableJun 10, 20214 years ago
FijiFJUnavailableApr 24, 20214 years ago
FinlandFIUnavailableJul 5, 20224 years ago
GabonGAUnavailableJul 3, 20222 years ago
GambiaGMUnavailableJun 29, 20224 years ago
GeorgiaGEUnavailableNov 22, 20223 years ago
GermanyDEUnavailableSep 10, 20213 years ago
GhanaGHUnavailableMar 15, 20214 years ago
GreeceGRUnavailableNov 21, 20204 years ago
GrenadaGDUnavailableDec 1, 20213 years ago
GuatemalaGTUnavailableJul 5, 20212 years ago
Guinea-BissauGWUnavailableSep 18, 20233 years ago
GuyanaGYUnavailableJan 26, 20223 years ago
Hong KongHKUnavailableMay 25, 20215 months ago
HungaryHUUnavailableDec 12, 20202 years ago
IcelandISUnavailableJan 27, 20243 years ago
IndonesiaIDUnavailableMay 11, 20242 years ago
IraqIQUnavailableNov 17, 20233 years ago
IrelandIEUnavailableNov 5, 20192 months ago
IsraelILUnavailableNov 5, 20194 years ago
ItalyITUnavailableJun 4, 20214 years ago
JapanJPUnavailableOct 19, 20192 months ago
KazakhstanKZUnavailableMar 15, 20214 years ago
KenyaKEUnavailableFeb 26, 20223 months ago
KosovoXKUnavailableNov 26, 20224 years ago
KuwaitKWUnavailableApr 29, 20203 years ago
LatviaLVUnavailableMay 6, 20214 years ago
LebanonLBUnavailableJul 3, 20223 years ago
LiberiaLRUnavailableJul 1, 20212 years ago
LithuaniaLTUnavailableNov 19, 20194 years ago
LuxembourgLUUnavailableJul 2, 20212 years ago
MacaoMOUnavailableAug 15, 20224 years ago
MadagascarMGUnavailableAug 18, 20212 years ago
MalawiMWUnavailableApr 7, 20242 years ago
MalaysiaMYUnavailableNov 19, 201912 months ago
MaliMLUnavailableMar 19, 202114 months ago
MaltaMTUnavailableMay 6, 20214 years ago
MauritaniaMRUnavailableJul 8, 20214 years ago
MexicoMXUnavailableNov 12, 20203 years ago
MicronesiaFMUnavailableJun 8, 20202 years ago
MoldovaMDUnavailableMar 3, 20212 years ago
MongoliaMNUnavailableJun 16, 20212 years ago
MontserratMSUnavailableOct 8, 20213 years ago
MoroccoMAUnavailableJun 25, 20224 years ago
MozambiqueMZUnavailableJul 22, 20224 years ago
NamibiaNAUnavailableNov 26, 20202 years ago
NauruNRUnavailableJul 12, 20243 days ago
NepalNPUnavailableDec 31, 20222 years ago
NetherlandsNLUnavailableFeb 11, 20223 years ago
New ZealandNZUnavailableJun 17, 20212 years ago
NigerNEUnavailableDec 10, 20212 years ago
NigeriaNGUnavailableMar 7, 20213 months ago
North MacedoniaMKUnavailableJul 26, 202112 months ago
OmanOMUnavailableMar 10, 20212 years ago
PalauPWUnavailableAug 4, 20242 years ago
PanamaPAUnavailableMar 7, 20212 years ago
Papua New GuineaPGUnavailableOct 24, 20214 months ago
ParaguayPYUnavailableAug 18, 20212 years ago
PeruPEUnavailableJan 10, 20223 years ago
PhilippinesPHUnavailableJun 25, 20222 years ago
PortugalPTUnavailableMar 31, 20242 years ago
Republic of the CongoCGUnavailableJul 28, 20212 years ago
RomaniaROUnavailableApr 26, 20223 years ago
RussiaRUUnavailableJul 5, 20212 years ago
RwandaRWUnavailableJul 23, 20224 years ago
São Tomé & PríncipeSTUnavailableJul 15, 20204 years ago
Saudi ArabiaSAUnavailableDec 29, 20194 years ago
SenegalSNUnavailableJun 8, 20203 years ago
SeychellesSCUnavailableSep 15, 20263 days ago
Sierra LeoneSLUnavailableMay 25, 20212 years ago
SlovakiaSKUnavailableOct 2, 20194 years ago
SloveniaSIUnavailableFeb 16, 20243 years ago
Solomon IslandsSBUnavailableMar 10, 20212 years ago
South AfricaZAUnavailableOct 19, 20193 years ago
South KoreaKRUnavailableDec 6, 20206 months ago
Sri LankaLKUnavailableOct 15, 20224 years ago
St. Kitts & NevisKNUnavailableDec 12, 20204 years ago
St. LuciaLCUnavailableJun 10, 20212 years ago
St. Vincent & GrenadinesVCUnavailableApr 24, 20212 years ago
SurinameSRUnavailableJul 12, 20212 years ago
TaiwanTWUnavailableJun 14, 20223 months ago
TajikistanTJUnavailableFeb 2, 20222 years ago
TanzaniaTZUnavailableMar 3, 20213 years ago
TongaTOUnavailableJul 22, 20223 years ago
Trinidad & TobagoTTUnavailableNov 25, 20214 years ago
TunisiaTNUnavailableOct 20, 20203 years ago
TürkiyeTRUnavailableMar 19, 20214 years ago
TurkmenistanTMUnavailableOct 19, 201913 months ago
Turks & Caicos IslandsTCUnavailableFeb 11, 20223 months ago
UgandaUGUnavailableJul 2, 20213 years ago
UkraineUAUnavailableMar 2, 20222 years ago
United Arab EmiratesAEUnavailableNov 5, 20193 days ago
United KingdomGBUnavailableNov 5, 20194 years ago
United StatesUSUnavailableMay 4, 20193 days ago
UruguayUYUnavailableFeb 16, 20234 years ago
UzbekistanUZUnavailableSep 10, 20214 years ago
VanuatuVUUnavailableNov 23, 20224 years ago
VenezuelaVEUnavailableDec 29, 20192 years ago
YemenYEUnavailableFeb 21, 20202 years ago
ZimbabweZWUnavailableSep 17, 202512 months ago
AfghanistanAFNot tested0
AlbaniaALNot tested0
AlgeriaDZNot tested0
BermudaBMNot tested0
BhutanBTNot tested0
BulgariaBGNot tested0
Cape VerdeCVNot tested0
ChadTDNot tested0
Costa RicaCRNot tested0
CzechiaCZNot tested0
DenmarkDKNot tested0
DominicaDMNot tested0
EswatiniSZNot tested0
FranceFRNot tested0
HondurasHNNot tested0
IndiaINNot tested0
JamaicaJMNot tested0
JordanJONot tested0
KyrgyzstanKGNot tested0
LaosLANot tested0
LibyaLYNot tested0
MaldivesMVNot tested0
MauritiusMUNot tested0
MontenegroMENot tested0
Myanmar (Burma)MMNot tested0
NicaraguaNINot tested0
NorwayNONot tested0
PakistanPKNot tested0
PolandPLNot tested0
QatarQANot tested0
SerbiaRSNot tested0
SingaporeSGNot tested0
SpainESNot tested0
SwedenSENot tested0
SwitzerlandCHNot tested0
ThailandTHNot tested0
VietnamVNNot 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.