We monitor 175 App Store storefronts to answer one question —

Is Open Era - Live tennis scores censored by Apple?

Gone.

Open Era - Live tennis scores is gone from every App Store storefront we test. It was last seen available on Jan 6, 2022.

468 tests on record·last checked 26 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

    • 27% of Sports apps are unavailable in the Maldives — 17 of 63 — against 15% 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

    • 27% of Sports apps are unavailable in the Maldives — 17 of 63 — against 15% 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.

    • 27% of Sports apps are unavailable in the Maldives — 17 of 63 — against 15% 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.

    • 27% of Sports apps are unavailable in the Maldives — 17 of 63 — against 15% 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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Open Era - Live tennis scores

Developer: Alex Paduraru · Category: Sports · Released: Jul 31, 2018 · Rating: 0.2★

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0stores where available
78stores where blocked
3.45Bpeople behind the block
78of 175 stores tested
468tests on record

Life of this app

  1. Jul 31, 2018Released on the App Store
  2. Dec 3, 2021First tested by AppleCensorship
  3. Jan 6, 2022Last seen available anywhere
  4. Jun 10, 2024Gone from 78 storefronts
  5. Aug 23, 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.

2021-122026-08

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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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AfghanistanAFUnavailableJan 18, 20252 years ago
AnguillaAIUnavailableJun 21, 20263 months ago
AustraliaAUUnavailableAug 31, 20242 years ago
BahamasBSUnavailableMar 18, 20252 years ago
BahrainBHUnavailableJul 10, 202514 months ago
BarbadosBBUnavailableJun 12, 20242 years ago
BeninBJUnavailableOct 17, 20233 years ago
BermudaBMUnavailableOct 3, 20232 months ago
BoliviaBOUnavailableOct 3, 202326 days ago
BrazilBRUnavailableFeb 17, 20243 years ago
BulgariaBGUnavailableNov 7, 20242 years ago
Burkina FasoBFUnavailableAug 5, 20242 years ago
CameroonCMUnavailableJul 31, 20262 months ago
CanadaCAUnavailableOct 3, 20233 months ago
Cayman IslandsKYUnavailableOct 3, 20232 months ago
ChadTDUnavailableDec 6, 20232 years ago
ChileCLUnavailableJun 17, 202515 months ago
China (Mainland)CNUnavailableOct 3, 20237 months ago
ColombiaCOUnavailableMay 21, 20242 years ago
Costa RicaCRUnavailableMar 14, 20243 years ago
CzechiaCZUnavailableOct 3, 20233 years ago
DenmarkDKUnavailableMar 15, 20243 years ago
DominicaDMUnavailableDec 25, 20259 months ago
DR CongoCDUnavailableJul 12, 20262 months ago
EcuadorECUnavailableOct 3, 20239 months ago
EgyptEGUnavailableMay 31, 20242 years ago
FinlandFIUnavailableOct 3, 20232 years ago
GabonGAUnavailableMay 28, 202516 months ago
GambiaGMUnavailableFeb 2, 20267 months ago
GeorgiaGEUnavailableMar 23, 20266 months ago
Guinea-BissauGWUnavailableJan 20, 202416 months ago
GuyanaGYUnavailableJun 16, 20242 years ago
HungaryHUUnavailableJan 23, 20243 years ago
IndonesiaIDUnavailableJan 22, 20252 years ago
IrelandIEUnavailableMar 4, 20267 months ago
IsraelILUnavailableNov 14, 20233 years ago
ItalyITUnavailableOct 22, 202511 months ago
JapanJPUnavailableMay 30, 20264 months ago
JordanJOUnavailableApr 25, 20251 year ago
KazakhstanKZUnavailableJan 17, 20252 years ago
KosovoXKUnavailableNov 4, 20233 years ago
MalawiMWUnavailableFeb 21, 20267 months ago
MaldivesMVUnavailableNov 2, 20233 years ago
MaliMLUnavailableDec 18, 20232 months ago
MauritiusMUUnavailableJun 12, 20263 months ago
MontserratMSUnavailableJan 25, 20268 months ago
MoroccoMAUnavailableAug 23, 202626 days ago
NamibiaNAUnavailableMay 20, 202516 months ago
NauruNRUnavailableAug 5, 202426 days ago
NepalNPUnavailableOct 3, 20232 years ago
New ZealandNZUnavailableFeb 6, 20243 years ago
NicaraguaNIUnavailableOct 3, 202313 months ago
NigerNEUnavailableDec 25, 20247 months ago
North MacedoniaMKUnavailableJun 10, 20242 years ago
NorwayNOUnavailableDec 28, 20259 months ago
OmanOMUnavailableDec 22, 20242 years ago
PalauPWUnavailableJul 7, 20262 months ago
PortugalPTUnavailableJul 19, 20262 months ago
QatarQAUnavailableDec 7, 20233 years ago
Republic of the CongoCGUnavailableDec 14, 20233 years ago
RussiaRUUnavailableOct 3, 20232 years ago
RwandaRWUnavailableDec 8, 20233 years ago
Saudi ArabiaSAUnavailableMar 3, 20243 years ago
SerbiaRSUnavailableAug 26, 202513 months ago
SeychellesSCUnavailableMar 23, 20242 years ago
SingaporeSGUnavailableOct 15, 20242 years ago
Solomon IslandsSBUnavailableDec 8, 20233 years ago
South KoreaKRUnavailableDec 4, 20242 years ago
St. Kitts & NevisKNUnavailableOct 3, 20234 months ago
St. Vincent & GrenadinesVCUnavailableOct 3, 20232 months ago
TongaTOUnavailableAug 9, 202513 months ago
Trinidad & TobagoTTUnavailableOct 3, 20232 months ago
TunisiaTNUnavailableMay 20, 20242 years ago
Turks & Caicos IslandsTCUnavailableApr 7, 20242 years ago
UkraineUAUnavailableOct 3, 20233 months ago
United Arab EmiratesAEUnavailableOct 3, 202326 days ago
United StatesUSUnavailableOct 3, 202326 days ago
VanuatuVUUnavailableSep 5, 20242 years ago
AlbaniaALNot tested0
AlgeriaDZNot tested0
AngolaAONot tested0
Antigua & BarbudaAGNot tested0
ArgentinaARNot tested0
ArmeniaAMNot tested0
AustriaATNot tested0
AzerbaijanAZNot tested0
BelarusBYNot tested0
BelgiumBENot tested0
BelizeBZNot tested0
BhutanBTNot tested0
Bosnia & HerzegovinaBANot tested0
BotswanaBWNot tested0
British Virgin IslandsVGNot tested0
BruneiBNNot tested0
CambodiaKHNot tested0
Cape VerdeCVNot tested0
Côte d’IvoireCINot tested0
CroatiaHRNot tested0
CyprusCYNot tested0
Dominican RepublicDONot tested0
El SalvadorSVNot tested0
EstoniaEENot tested0
EswatiniSZNot tested0
FijiFJNot tested0
FranceFRNot tested0
GermanyDENot tested0
GhanaGHNot tested0
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PakistanPKNot tested0
PanamaPANot tested0
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PeruPENot tested0
PhilippinesPHNot tested0
PolandPLNot tested0
RomaniaRONot tested0
São Tomé & PríncipeSTNot tested0
SenegalSNNot tested0
Sierra LeoneSLNot tested0
SlovakiaSKNot tested0
SloveniaSINot tested0
South AfricaZANot tested0
SpainESNot tested0
Sri LankaLKNot tested0
St. LuciaLCNot tested0
SurinameSRNot tested0
SwedenSENot tested0
SwitzerlandCHNot tested0
TaiwanTWNot tested0
TajikistanTJNot tested0
TanzaniaTZNot tested0
ThailandTHNot tested0
TürkiyeTRNot tested0
TurkmenistanTMNot tested0
UgandaUGNot tested0
United KingdomGBNot tested0
UruguayUYNot tested0
UzbekistanUZNot tested0
VenezuelaVENot 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.