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We monitor 175 App Store storefronts to answer one question —

Is Avatar Life - Chat in 3D world censored by Apple?

Gone.

Avatar Life - Chat in 3D world is gone from every App Store storefront we test. It was last seen available on Dec 8, 2020.

191 tests on record·⚠ last verified 7 months ago — treat as historical

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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Avatar Life - Chat in 3D world

Developer: Beijing Linyun Information Technology Co., Ltd. · Category: Social Networking · Released: Jul 29, 2018 · Rating: 4.2★

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0stores where available
43stores where blocked
2.81Bpeople behind the block
43of 175 stores tested
191tests on record

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Life of this app

  1. Jul 29, 2018Released on the App Store
  2. Dec 8, 2020First tested by AppleCensorship
  3. Dec 8, 2020Last seen available anywhere
  4. Mar 17, 2023Gone from 43 storefronts
  5. Feb 11, 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.

2020-122026-02

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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AzerbaijanAZUnavailableJun 6, 202515 months ago
BhutanBTUnavailableNov 23, 20224 years ago
Bosnia & HerzegovinaBAUnavailableJul 24, 202514 months ago
British Virgin IslandsVGUnavailableJan 30, 20243 years ago
Burkina FasoBFUnavailableJun 12, 20227 months ago
CameroonCMUnavailableDec 9, 20259 months ago
Cape VerdeCVUnavailableApr 18, 20222 years ago
China (Mainland)CNUnavailableApr 18, 20229 months ago
ColombiaCOUnavailableOct 23, 20224 years ago
Côte d’IvoireCIUnavailableDec 19, 20259 months ago
DR CongoCDUnavailableAug 22, 20224 years ago
FinlandFIUnavailableMay 17, 20222 years ago
GhanaGHUnavailableApr 21, 20222 years ago
GreeceGRUnavailableMar 11, 20252 years ago
IsraelILUnavailableApr 18, 20222 years ago
KazakhstanKZUnavailableFeb 11, 20267 months ago
KuwaitKWUnavailableJun 12, 20227 months ago
LaosLAUnavailableApr 27, 20222 years ago
MalaysiaMYUnavailableJul 31, 20247 months ago
MaldivesMVUnavailableNov 23, 20224 years ago
MaltaMTUnavailableJul 22, 20242 years ago
MauritaniaMRUnavailableJul 28, 20242 years ago
MexicoMXUnavailableMar 17, 20234 years ago
MoldovaMDUnavailableMay 17, 20222 years ago
NauruNRUnavailableJul 20, 20247 months ago
NepalNPUnavailableMar 17, 20232 years ago
NigerNEUnavailableApr 26, 20242 years ago
PolandPLUnavailableApr 21, 20224 years ago
PortugalPTUnavailableApr 27, 20222 years ago
Republic of the CongoCGUnavailableJun 22, 20233 years ago
RussiaRUUnavailableApr 18, 20222 years ago
São Tomé & PríncipeSTUnavailableOct 9, 20242 years ago
Saudi ArabiaSAUnavailableFeb 11, 20267 months ago
SerbiaRSUnavailableNov 10, 20224 years ago
South KoreaKRUnavailableFeb 11, 20267 months ago
ThailandTHUnavailableNov 10, 20224 years ago
TunisiaTNUnavailableAug 8, 20242 years ago
TurkmenistanTMUnavailableMay 22, 20233 years ago
UkraineUAUnavailableApr 18, 20222 years ago
United Arab EmiratesAEUnavailableMar 17, 20237 months ago
United StatesUSUnavailableApr 18, 20227 months ago
UruguayUYUnavailableOct 28, 20233 years ago
VietnamVNUnavailableFeb 11, 20267 months ago
AfghanistanAFNot tested——0
AlbaniaALNot tested——0
AlgeriaDZNot tested——0
AngolaAONot tested——0
AnguillaAINot tested——0
Antigua & BarbudaAGNot tested——0
ArgentinaARNot tested——0
ArmeniaAMNot tested——0
AustraliaAUNot tested——0
AustriaATNot 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
BoliviaBONot tested——0
BotswanaBWNot tested——0
BrazilBRNot tested——0
BruneiBNNot tested——0
BulgariaBGNot tested——0
CambodiaKHNot tested——0
CanadaCANot tested——0
Cayman IslandsKYNot tested——0
ChadTDNot tested——0
ChileCLNot tested——0
Costa RicaCRNot tested——0
CroatiaHRNot tested——0
CyprusCYNot tested——0
CzechiaCZNot tested——0
DenmarkDKNot tested——0
DominicaDMNot tested——0
Dominican RepublicDONot tested——0
EcuadorECNot tested——0
EgyptEGNot tested——0
El SalvadorSVNot tested——0
EstoniaEENot tested——0
EswatiniSZNot tested——0
FijiFJNot tested——0
FranceFRNot tested——0
GabonGANot tested——0
GambiaGMNot tested——0
GeorgiaGENot tested——0
GermanyDENot tested——0
GrenadaGDNot tested——0
GuatemalaGTNot tested——0
Guinea-BissauGWNot tested——0
GuyanaGYNot tested——0
HondurasHNNot tested——0
Hong KongHKNot tested——0
HungaryHUNot tested——0
IcelandISNot tested——0
IndiaINNot tested——0
IndonesiaIDNot tested——0
IraqIQNot tested——0
IrelandIENot tested——0
ItalyITNot tested——0
JamaicaJMNot tested——0
JapanJPNot tested——0
JordanJONot tested——0
KenyaKENot tested——0
KosovoXKNot tested——0
KyrgyzstanKGNot tested——0
LatviaLVNot tested——0
LebanonLBNot tested——0
LiberiaLRNot tested——0
LibyaLYNot tested——0
LithuaniaLTNot tested——0
LuxembourgLUNot tested——0
MacaoMONot tested——0
MadagascarMGNot tested——0
MalawiMWNot tested——0
MaliMLNot tested——0
MauritiusMUNot tested——0
MicronesiaFMNot tested——0
MongoliaMNNot tested——0
MontenegroMENot tested——0
MontserratMSNot tested——0
MoroccoMANot tested——0
MozambiqueMZNot tested——0
Myanmar (Burma)MMNot tested——0
NamibiaNANot tested——0
NetherlandsNLNot tested——0
New ZealandNZNot tested——0
NicaraguaNINot 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
ParaguayPYNot tested——0
PeruPENot tested——0
PhilippinesPHNot tested——0
QatarQANot tested——0
RomaniaRONot tested——0
RwandaRWNot tested——0
SenegalSNNot tested——0
SeychellesSCNot tested——0
Sierra LeoneSLNot tested——0
SingaporeSGNot tested——0
SlovakiaSKNot tested——0
SloveniaSINot tested——0
Solomon IslandsSBNot tested——0
South AfricaZANot tested——0
SpainESNot tested——0
Sri LankaLKNot tested——0
St. Kitts & NevisKNNot tested——0
St. LuciaLCNot tested——0
St. Vincent & GrenadinesVCNot tested——0
SurinameSRNot tested——0
SwedenSENot tested——0
SwitzerlandCHNot tested——0
TaiwanTWNot tested——0
TajikistanTJNot tested——0
TanzaniaTZNot tested——0
TongaTONot tested——0
Trinidad & TobagoTTNot tested——0
TürkiyeTRNot tested——0
Turks & Caicos IslandsTCNot tested——0
UgandaUGNot tested——0
United KingdomGBNot tested——0
UzbekistanUZNot tested——0
VanuatuVUNot tested——0
VenezuelaVENot tested——0
YemenYENot tested——0
ZambiaZMNot tested——0
ZimbabweZWNot 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.