We monitor 175 App Store storefronts to answer one question —

Is One Top censored by Apple?

Yes.

Apple offers One Top in only 4 of the 175 App Stores it operates: mainland China, the United States, Canada, and Australia. 2.23B people cannot install it. It has been unavailable in Indonesia since Jul 28, 2022.

902 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 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

    • 50% of Food and drink apps are unavailable in Nauru — 92 of 183 — against 16% of everything we test there.
    • Apple reports 1,213 government-ordered removals in Russia for 2025, naming none of them.
  • 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

    • 50% of Food and drink apps are unavailable in Nauru — 92 of 183 — against 16% of everything we test there.
  • 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.

    • 50% of Food and drink apps are unavailable in Nauru — 92 of 183 — against 16% 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.

    • 50% of Food and drink apps are unavailable in Nauru — 92 of 183 — against 16% of everything we test there.
    • Gone for 6 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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One Top

Developer: BuzzFeed · Category: Food & Drink · Released: Jul 27, 2018 · Rating: 2.9★

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4stores where available
87stores where blocked
2.23Bpeople behind the block
91of 175 stores tested
902tests on record

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Life of this app

  1. Jul 27, 2018Released on the App Store
  2. Sep 23, 2019First tested by AppleCensorship
  3. Mar 16, 2021Gone from 87 storefronts
  4. Sep 16, 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.

2019-092026-09

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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AngolaAOUnavailableNov 15, 20194 years ago
Antigua & BarbudaAGUnavailableApr 3, 20203 years ago
ArgentinaARUnavailableSep 23, 20193 years ago
BarbadosBBUnavailableMay 25, 20214 years ago
BelarusBYUnavailableDec 8, 20193 years ago
BelgiumBEUnavailableJul 4, 20202 years ago
BelizeBZUnavailableJul 5, 20203 years ago
BoliviaBOUnavailableOct 11, 20193 years ago
BotswanaBWUnavailableAug 30, 20203 years ago
British Virgin IslandsVGUnavailableNov 6, 20203 years ago
BruneiBNUnavailableApr 29, 20251 year ago
BulgariaBGUnavailableFeb 14, 20204 years ago
Cape VerdeCVUnavailableOct 7, 20212 years ago
ChadTDUnavailableJul 19, 20213 years ago
Costa RicaCRUnavailableDec 11, 20193 years ago
DenmarkDKUnavailableJul 4, 20203 years ago
DominicaDMUnavailableJul 7, 20213 years ago
Dominican RepublicDOUnavailableOct 13, 20193 years ago
DR CongoCDUnavailableJul 31, 20223 years ago
EgyptEGUnavailableApr 3, 20203 years ago
GhanaGHUnavailableJul 5, 20262 months ago
GreeceGRUnavailableNov 15, 20194 years ago
GrenadaGDUnavailableMay 25, 20213 years ago
GuatemalaGTUnavailableOct 31, 20256 months ago
Guinea-BissauGWUnavailableFeb 14, 20203 years ago
GuyanaGYUnavailableJan 28, 20223 years ago
Hong KongHKUnavailableSep 23, 20193 years ago
HungaryHUUnavailableFeb 14, 20203 years ago
IcelandISUnavailableDec 5, 20203 years ago
IndonesiaIDUnavailableJul 28, 20223 years ago
IsraelILUnavailableFeb 13, 20224 years ago
JapanJPUnavailableOct 10, 20193 years ago
KuwaitKWUnavailableMay 28, 202112 months ago
KyrgyzstanKGUnavailableOct 13, 20194 years ago
LaosLAUnavailableSep 18, 20213 years ago
LebanonLBUnavailableOct 10, 20192 months ago
LiberiaLRUnavailableApr 30, 20213 years ago
LithuaniaLTUnavailableNov 15, 20193 years ago
LuxembourgLUUnavailableSep 5, 20233 years ago
MacaoMOUnavailableSep 23, 20194 years ago
MadagascarMGUnavailableDec 8, 20213 years ago
MalaysiaMYUnavailableDec 7, 20193 years ago
MaldivesMVUnavailableJul 24, 202514 months ago
MaliMLUnavailableMar 16, 20213 years ago
MongoliaMNUnavailableNov 1, 20213 years ago
MozambiqueMZUnavailableNov 16, 20213 years ago
NauruNRUnavailableJul 7, 20242 months ago
NepalNPUnavailableMay 12, 20212 years ago
NicaraguaNIUnavailableJun 7, 20213 years ago
NigerNEUnavailableJul 23, 202514 months ago
NigeriaNGUnavailableJul 7, 20213 years ago
North MacedoniaMKUnavailableMay 28, 20213 years ago
NorwayNOUnavailableFeb 14, 20203 years ago
PalauPWUnavailableSep 2, 20203 years ago
PanamaPAUnavailableApr 3, 20212 years ago
PeruPEUnavailableJul 8, 20213 years ago
PhilippinesPHUnavailableDec 7, 20193 years ago
PolandPLUnavailableApr 10, 20223 years ago
PortugalPTUnavailableJul 1, 20224 years ago
QatarQAUnavailableMar 25, 20203 years ago
Republic of the CongoCGUnavailableDec 25, 20224 years ago
RomaniaROUnavailableDec 11, 20194 years ago
RussiaRUUnavailableApr 1, 20222 years ago
RwandaRWUnavailableJul 1, 20222 years ago
São Tomé & PríncipeSTUnavailableJul 4, 20204 years ago
Saudi ArabiaSAUnavailableNov 15, 20193 years ago
Sierra LeoneSLUnavailableApr 1, 20222 years ago
Solomon IslandsSBUnavailableJan 28, 20222 years ago
Sri LankaLKUnavailableApr 30, 20214 years ago
St. Kitts & NevisKNUnavailableAug 30, 20203 years ago
St. LuciaLCUnavailableJul 7, 20214 years ago
St. Vincent & GrenadinesVCUnavailableNov 18, 20213 years ago
SwedenSEUnavailableNov 1, 20214 years ago
SwitzerlandCHUnavailableNov 15, 20193 years ago
TaiwanTWUnavailableSep 23, 20193 years ago
TanzaniaTZUnavailableJul 19, 20213 years ago
ThailandTHUnavailableOct 11, 20194 years ago
TongaTOUnavailableJul 28, 20222 years ago
TunisiaTNUnavailableOct 27, 20203 years ago
UgandaUGUnavailableAug 2, 20233 years ago
UkraineUAUnavailableSep 23, 20192 years ago
United Arab EmiratesAEUnavailableNov 15, 20192 months ago
United KingdomGBUnavailableSep 23, 20194 years ago
UzbekistanUZUnavailableSep 18, 20213 years ago
VietnamVNUnavailableDec 8, 20193 years ago
YemenYEUnavailableSep 12, 20203 years ago
ZimbabweZWUnavailableNov 6, 20203 years ago
AustraliaAUAvailable3 years ago
CanadaCAAvailable3 years ago
China (Mainland)CNAvailable3 days ago
United StatesUSAvailable3 days ago
AfghanistanAFNot tested0
AlbaniaALNot tested0
AlgeriaDZNot tested0
AnguillaAINot tested0
ArmeniaAMNot tested0
AustriaATNot tested0
AzerbaijanAZNot tested0
BahamasBSNot tested0
BahrainBHNot tested0
BeninBJNot tested0
BermudaBMNot tested0
BhutanBTNot tested0
Bosnia & HerzegovinaBANot tested0
BrazilBRNot tested0
Burkina FasoBFNot tested0
CambodiaKHNot tested0
CameroonCMNot tested0
Cayman IslandsKYNot tested0
ChileCLNot tested0
ColombiaCONot tested0
Côte d’IvoireCINot tested0
CroatiaHRNot tested0
CyprusCYNot tested0
CzechiaCZNot tested0
EcuadorECNot tested0
El SalvadorSVNot tested0
EstoniaEENot tested0
EswatiniSZNot tested0
FijiFJNot tested0
FinlandFINot tested0
FranceFRNot tested0
GabonGANot tested0
GambiaGMNot tested0
GeorgiaGENot tested0
GermanyDENot tested0
HondurasHNNot tested0
IndiaINNot tested0
IraqIQNot tested0
IrelandIENot tested0
ItalyITNot tested0
JamaicaJMNot tested0
JordanJONot tested0
KazakhstanKZNot tested0
KenyaKENot tested0
KosovoXKNot tested0
LatviaLVNot tested0
LibyaLYNot tested0
MalawiMWNot tested0
MaltaMTNot tested0
MauritaniaMRNot tested0
MauritiusMUNot tested0
MexicoMXNot tested0
MicronesiaFMNot tested0
MoldovaMDNot tested0
MontenegroMENot tested0
MontserratMSNot tested0
MoroccoMANot tested0
Myanmar (Burma)MMNot tested0
NamibiaNANot tested0
NetherlandsNLNot tested0
New ZealandNZNot tested0
OmanOMNot tested0
PakistanPKNot tested0
Papua New GuineaPGNot tested0
ParaguayPYNot tested0
SenegalSNNot tested0
SerbiaRSNot tested0
SeychellesSCNot tested0
SingaporeSGNot tested0
SlovakiaSKNot tested0
SloveniaSINot tested0
South AfricaZANot tested0
South KoreaKRNot tested0
SpainESNot tested0
SurinameSRNot tested0
TajikistanTJNot tested0
Trinidad & TobagoTTNot tested0
TürkiyeTRNot tested0
TurkmenistanTMNot tested0
Turks & Caicos IslandsTCNot tested0
UruguayUYNot tested0
VanuatuVUNot tested0
VenezuelaVENot 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.