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We monitor 175 App Store storefronts to answer one question —

Is CR戦国乙女5～10th Anniversary～ censored by Apple?

Yes.

Apple does not offer CR戦国乙女5～10th Anniversary～ in most of the App Stores it operates — 43 of 175, including mainland China. 2.92B people cannot install it. It has been unavailable in mainland China since Jul 29, 2019.

232 tests on record·⚠ last verified 2 years 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

  • A local rule about paying for itLikely

    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.

  • 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.

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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CR戦国乙女5～10th Anniversary～

Developer: Commseed Corporation · Category: Games · Paid app · Released: Sep 26, 2018 · Rating: 4.1★

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1stores where available
43stores where blocked
2.92Bpeople behind the block
44of 175 stores tested
232tests on record

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Life of this app

  1. Sep 26, 2018Released on the App Store
  2. Mar 3, 2019First tested by AppleCensorship
  3. Mar 11, 2022Gone from 43 storefronts
  4. Jul 6, 2024Most 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.

2019-032024-07

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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BulgariaBGUnavailableMay 9, 20202 years ago
China (Mainland)CNUnavailableJul 29, 20193 years ago
CroatiaHRUnavailableMay 5, 20242 years ago
CzechiaCZUnavailableMay 5, 20242 years ago
DenmarkDKUnavailableJan 5, 20202 years ago
El SalvadorSVUnavailableJan 2, 20223 years ago
GreeceGRUnavailableNov 19, 20202 years ago
Guinea-BissauGWUnavailableMar 11, 20223 years ago
Hong KongHKUnavailableJan 2, 20223 years ago
IrelandIEUnavailableOct 23, 20192 years ago
ItalyITUnavailableNov 19, 20202 years ago
KuwaitKWUnavailableNov 19, 20202 years ago
LatviaLVUnavailableDec 5, 20224 years ago
LithuaniaLTUnavailableJul 29, 20192 years ago
MaldivesMVUnavailableJun 4, 20242 years ago
MongoliaMNUnavailableMar 11, 20222 years ago
MontserratMSUnavailableJan 5, 20243 years ago
NauruNRUnavailableJul 6, 20242 years ago
NepalNPUnavailableDec 9, 20222 years ago
NigeriaNGUnavailableMar 11, 20222 years ago
North MacedoniaMKUnavailableMar 11, 20222 years ago
OmanOMUnavailableSep 13, 20233 years ago
PakistanPKUnavailableOct 23, 20192 years ago
PolandPLUnavailableJan 2, 20222 years ago
QatarQAUnavailableMay 5, 20242 years ago
RussiaRUUnavailableMay 9, 20202 years ago
Saudi ArabiaSAUnavailableDec 9, 20224 years ago
Sierra LeoneSLUnavailableApr 10, 20222 years ago
SloveniaSIUnavailableMay 9, 20202 years ago
South KoreaKRUnavailableJan 5, 20202 years ago
St. Kitts & NevisKNUnavailableMar 11, 20222 years ago
SurinameSRUnavailableMar 11, 20222 years ago
SwedenSEUnavailableNov 19, 20203 years ago
SwitzerlandCHUnavailableMay 9, 20202 years ago
TanzaniaTZUnavailableJul 6, 20242 years ago
ThailandTHUnavailableDec 6, 20233 years ago
TürkiyeTRUnavailableJul 6, 20242 years ago
UkraineUAUnavailableMar 11, 20222 years ago
United Arab EmiratesAEUnavailableDec 9, 20222 years ago
United StatesUSUnavailableOct 23, 20192 years ago
UruguayUYUnavailableJul 29, 20192 years ago
ZambiaZMUnavailableJan 9, 20234 years ago
ZimbabweZWUnavailableMay 5, 20242 years ago
JapanJPAvailable—2 years 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
AzerbaijanAZNot 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
BhutanBTNot tested——0
BoliviaBONot tested——0
Bosnia & HerzegovinaBANot tested——0
BotswanaBWNot tested——0
BrazilBRNot tested——0
British Virgin IslandsVGNot tested——0
BruneiBNNot tested——0
Burkina FasoBFNot tested——0
CambodiaKHNot tested——0
CameroonCMNot tested——0
CanadaCANot tested——0
Cape VerdeCVNot tested——0
Cayman IslandsKYNot tested——0
ChadTDNot tested——0
ChileCLNot tested——0
ColombiaCONot tested——0
Costa RicaCRNot tested——0
Côte d’IvoireCINot tested——0
CyprusCYNot tested——0
DominicaDMNot tested——0
Dominican RepublicDONot tested——0
DR CongoCDNot tested——0
EcuadorECNot tested——0
EgyptEGNot tested——0
EstoniaEENot tested——0
EswatiniSZNot tested——0
FijiFJNot tested——0
FinlandFINot tested——0
FranceFRNot tested——0
GabonGANot tested——0
GambiaGMNot tested——0
GeorgiaGENot tested——0
GermanyDENot tested——0
GhanaGHNot tested——0
GrenadaGDNot tested——0
GuatemalaGTNot tested——0
GuyanaGYNot tested——0
HondurasHNNot tested——0
HungaryHUNot tested——0
IcelandISNot tested——0
IndiaINNot tested——0
IndonesiaIDNot tested——0
IraqIQNot tested——0
IsraelILNot tested——0
JamaicaJMNot tested——0
JordanJONot tested——0
KazakhstanKZNot tested——0
KenyaKENot tested——0
KosovoXKNot tested——0
KyrgyzstanKGNot tested——0
LaosLANot tested——0
LebanonLBNot tested——0
LiberiaLRNot tested——0
LibyaLYNot tested——0
LuxembourgLUNot tested——0
MacaoMONot tested——0
MadagascarMGNot tested——0
MalawiMWNot tested——0
MalaysiaMYNot tested——0
MaliMLNot tested——0
MaltaMTNot tested——0
MauritaniaMRNot tested——0
MauritiusMUNot tested——0
MexicoMXNot tested——0
MicronesiaFMNot tested——0
MoldovaMDNot tested——0
MontenegroMENot 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
NigerNENot tested——0
NorwayNONot tested——0
PalauPWNot tested——0
PanamaPANot tested——0
Papua New GuineaPGNot tested——0
ParaguayPYNot tested——0
PeruPENot tested——0
PhilippinesPHNot tested——0
PortugalPTNot tested——0
Republic of the CongoCGNot tested——0
RomaniaRONot tested——0
RwandaRWNot tested——0
São Tomé & PríncipeSTNot tested——0
SenegalSNNot tested——0
SerbiaRSNot tested——0
SeychellesSCNot tested——0
SingaporeSGNot tested——0
SlovakiaSKNot tested——0
Solomon IslandsSBNot tested——0
South AfricaZANot tested——0
SpainESNot tested——0
Sri LankaLKNot tested——0
St. LuciaLCNot tested——0
St. Vincent & GrenadinesVCNot tested——0
TaiwanTWNot tested——0
TajikistanTJNot tested——0
TongaTONot tested——0
Trinidad & TobagoTTNot tested——0
TunisiaTNNot tested——0
TurkmenistanTMNot tested——0
Turks & Caicos IslandsTCNot tested——0
UgandaUGNot tested——0
United KingdomGBNot tested——0
UzbekistanUZNot tested——0
VanuatuVUNot tested——0
VenezuelaVENot tested——0
VietnamVNNot tested——0
YemenYENot 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.