We monitor 175 App Store storefronts to answer one question —

Is English Azerbaijani Translator censored by Apple?

Gone.

English Azerbaijani Translator is gone from every App Store storefront we test. It was last seen available on May 31, 2024.

475 tests on record·last checked 5 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

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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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English Azerbaijani Translator

Developer: Luong Thi Hoai Thu · Category: Education · Released: Feb 17, 2020 · Rating: 0.3★

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0stores where available
73stores where blocked
3.17Bpeople behind the block
73of 175 stores tested
475tests on record

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Life of this app

  1. Feb 17, 2020Released on the App Store
  2. Jul 20, 2021First tested by AppleCensorship
  3. May 31, 2024Last seen available anywhere
  4. Apr 1, 2025Gone from 73 storefronts
  5. Sep 13, 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.

2021-072026-09

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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AfghanistanAFUnavailableNov 24, 20259 months ago
AnguillaAIUnavailableDec 22, 20242 years ago
Antigua & BarbudaAGUnavailableDec 22, 20245 months ago
AustriaATUnavailableApr 26, 20233 years ago
AzerbaijanAZUnavailableDec 18, 20245 months ago
BahrainBHUnavailableSep 5, 202512 months ago
BelgiumBEUnavailableSep 18, 202514 days ago
BermudaBMUnavailableJun 7, 20253 months ago
BoliviaBOUnavailableNov 25, 202510 months ago
BotswanaBWUnavailableDec 18, 20241 year ago
BruneiBNUnavailableAug 4, 20261 month ago
CanadaCAUnavailableJan 24, 20234 years ago
Cayman IslandsKYUnavailableDec 28, 20259 months ago
China (Mainland)CNUnavailableDec 18, 20247 months ago
Côte d’IvoireCIUnavailableNov 7, 202510 months ago
CzechiaCZUnavailableDec 18, 202412 months ago
DR CongoCDUnavailableApr 1, 202511 months ago
EgyptEGUnavailableJan 7, 20252 years ago
EstoniaEEUnavailableAug 28, 202513 months ago
FinlandFIUnavailableFeb 27, 20267 months ago
GambiaGMUnavailableFeb 16, 20234 years ago
GeorgiaGEUnavailableSep 13, 20265 days ago
GhanaGHUnavailableMar 5, 20255 months ago
GrenadaGDUnavailableDec 17, 20259 months ago
Hong KongHKUnavailableNov 11, 202510 months ago
HungaryHUUnavailableDec 18, 202432 days ago
IsraelILUnavailableFeb 16, 202514 months ago
KazakhstanKZUnavailableAug 17, 202632 days ago
KyrgyzstanKGUnavailableJun 10, 202515 months ago
LiberiaLRUnavailableSep 12, 202512 months ago
LuxembourgLUUnavailableMay 19, 202516 months ago
MacaoMOUnavailableDec 27, 20242 years ago
MalawiMWUnavailableJun 8, 202515 months ago
MalaysiaMYUnavailableDec 18, 20242 years ago
MaldivesMVUnavailableMar 4, 20267 months ago
MaltaMTUnavailableJun 5, 202515 months ago
MauritaniaMRUnavailableMar 24, 202537 days ago
MauritiusMUUnavailableMar 11, 20252 years ago
MicronesiaFMUnavailableJul 2, 20254 months ago
MontserratMSUnavailableDec 10, 20259 months ago
MozambiqueMZUnavailableDec 26, 20242 years ago
NauruNRUnavailableDec 18, 20245 days ago
NepalNPUnavailableDec 18, 202437 days ago
NigerNEUnavailableDec 18, 20243 months ago
North MacedoniaMKUnavailableApr 19, 20251 year ago
NorwayNOUnavailableJul 28, 20262 months ago
PakistanPKUnavailableApr 22, 20251 year ago
Papua New GuineaPGUnavailableAug 28, 202513 months ago
ParaguayPYUnavailableDec 18, 202412 months ago
PeruPEUnavailableDec 18, 20244 months ago
PhilippinesPHUnavailableOct 13, 202511 months ago
RomaniaROUnavailableDec 18, 20248 months ago
RussiaRUUnavailableDec 18, 20242 months ago
RwandaRWUnavailableDec 26, 20242 years ago
São Tomé & PríncipeSTUnavailableApr 14, 20265 months ago
SerbiaRSUnavailableOct 26, 202511 months ago
SeychellesSCUnavailableJan 9, 20251 year ago
SingaporeSGUnavailableApr 13, 20265 months ago
SlovakiaSKUnavailableMar 9, 20266 months ago
SloveniaSIUnavailableDec 18, 202414 days ago
Solomon IslandsSBUnavailableApr 26, 20265 months ago
St. Kitts & NevisKNUnavailableMay 14, 20264 months ago
TanzaniaTZUnavailableMay 28, 20264 months ago
TunisiaTNUnavailableApr 2, 202513 months ago
TürkiyeTRUnavailableDec 18, 20245 days ago
TurkmenistanTMUnavailableDec 30, 20242 years ago
Turks & Caicos IslandsTCUnavailableDec 22, 20248 months ago
UgandaUGUnavailableDec 18, 20241 month ago
UkraineUAUnavailableDec 18, 20241 year ago
United Arab EmiratesAEUnavailableDec 18, 20245 days ago
United StatesUSUnavailableDec 18, 20245 days ago
UzbekistanUZUnavailableJun 24, 20263 months ago
VanuatuVUUnavailableJan 24, 20234 years ago
AlbaniaALNot tested0
AlgeriaDZNot tested0
AngolaAONot tested0
ArgentinaARNot tested0
ArmeniaAMNot tested0
AustraliaAUNot tested0
BahamasBSNot tested0
BarbadosBBNot tested0
BelarusBYNot tested0
BelizeBZNot tested0
BeninBJNot tested0
BhutanBTNot tested0
Bosnia & HerzegovinaBANot tested0
BrazilBRNot tested0
British Virgin IslandsVGNot tested0
BulgariaBGNot tested0
Burkina FasoBFNot tested0
CambodiaKHNot tested0
CameroonCMNot tested0
Cape VerdeCVNot tested0
ChadTDNot tested0
ChileCLNot tested0
ColombiaCONot tested0
Costa RicaCRNot tested0
CroatiaHRNot tested0
CyprusCYNot tested0
DenmarkDKNot tested0
DominicaDMNot tested0
Dominican RepublicDONot tested0
EcuadorECNot tested0
El SalvadorSVNot tested0
EswatiniSZNot tested0
FijiFJNot tested0
FranceFRNot tested0
GabonGANot tested0
GermanyDENot tested0
GreeceGRNot tested0
GuatemalaGTNot tested0
Guinea-BissauGWNot tested0
GuyanaGYNot tested0
HondurasHNNot tested0
IcelandISNot tested0
IndiaINNot tested0
IndonesiaIDNot tested0
IraqIQNot tested0
IrelandIENot tested0
ItalyITNot tested0
JamaicaJMNot tested0
JapanJPNot tested0
JordanJONot tested0
KenyaKENot tested0
KosovoXKNot tested0
KuwaitKWNot tested0
LaosLANot tested0
LatviaLVNot tested0
LebanonLBNot tested0
LibyaLYNot tested0
LithuaniaLTNot tested0
MadagascarMGNot tested0
MaliMLNot tested0
MexicoMXNot tested0
MoldovaMDNot tested0
MongoliaMNNot tested0
MontenegroMENot tested0
MoroccoMANot tested0
Myanmar (Burma)MMNot tested0
NamibiaNANot tested0
NetherlandsNLNot tested0
New ZealandNZNot tested0
NicaraguaNINot tested0
NigeriaNGNot tested0
OmanOMNot tested0
PalauPWNot tested0
PanamaPANot tested0
PolandPLNot tested0
PortugalPTNot tested0
QatarQANot tested0
Republic of the CongoCGNot tested0
Saudi ArabiaSANot tested0
SenegalSNNot tested0
Sierra LeoneSLNot tested0
South AfricaZANot tested0
South KoreaKRNot tested0
SpainESNot tested0
Sri LankaLKNot tested0
St. LuciaLCNot tested0
St. Vincent & GrenadinesVCNot tested0
SurinameSRNot tested0
SwedenSENot tested0
SwitzerlandCHNot tested0
TaiwanTWNot tested0
TajikistanTJNot tested0
ThailandTHNot tested0
TongaTONot tested0
Trinidad & TobagoTTNot tested0
United KingdomGBNot tested0
UruguayUYNot 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.