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We monitor 175 App Store storefronts to answer one question —

Is 快看点 censored by Apple?

Gone.

快看点 is gone from every App Store storefront we test. It was last seen available on Dec 8, 2022.

235 tests on record·⚠ last verified 5 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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快看点

Developer: Beijing Hanyu Internet Technology Co., Ltd. · Category: Entertainment · Released: May 16, 2019 · Rating: 3.7★

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0stores where available
42stores where blocked
2.94Bpeople behind the block
42of 175 stores tested
235tests on record

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Life of this app

  1. May 16, 2019Released on the App Store
  2. Oct 25, 2021First tested by AppleCensorship
  3. Dec 8, 2022Last seen available anywhere
  4. Feb 14, 2024Gone from 42 storefronts
  5. May 21, 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.

2021-102026-05

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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AlbaniaALUnavailableMar 2, 20252 years ago
Antigua & BarbudaAGUnavailableJul 25, 20233 years ago
AustraliaAUUnavailableJul 25, 20235 months ago
BelarusBYUnavailableApr 26, 20265 months ago
BelizeBZUnavailableMay 28, 20242 years ago
BermudaBMUnavailableJul 19, 20242 years ago
Cape VerdeCVUnavailableJan 19, 20243 years ago
ChadTDUnavailableMay 9, 20242 years ago
ChileCLUnavailableSep 19, 20233 years ago
China (Mainland)CNUnavailableJul 25, 202311 months ago
Dominican RepublicDOUnavailableJun 15, 202516 months ago
DR CongoCDUnavailableJun 15, 20242 years ago
FranceFRUnavailableFeb 20, 20268 months ago
GabonGAUnavailableFeb 14, 20243 years ago
GhanaGHUnavailableFeb 2, 20243 years ago
IcelandISUnavailableOct 16, 20233 years ago
IndonesiaIDUnavailableDec 3, 20242 years ago
JordanJOUnavailableNov 1, 202511 months ago
LibyaLYUnavailableAug 27, 20232 years ago
MalaysiaMYUnavailableSep 24, 202512 months ago
MoldovaMDUnavailableOct 16, 20255 months ago
MoroccoMAUnavailableJun 24, 20242 years ago
NauruNRUnavailableJun 24, 20245 months ago
NepalNPUnavailableJul 25, 20232 years ago
North MacedoniaMKUnavailableJul 26, 202314 months ago
PeruPEUnavailableFeb 5, 20243 years ago
RomaniaROUnavailableSep 30, 20233 years ago
RussiaRUUnavailableJul 25, 20232 years ago
Sri LankaLKUnavailableJun 13, 202516 months ago
SurinameSRUnavailableAug 8, 202514 months ago
TaiwanTWUnavailableDec 10, 20233 years ago
Trinidad & TobagoTTUnavailableJul 18, 20242 years ago
TürkiyeTRUnavailableJul 25, 20238 months ago
Turks & Caicos IslandsTCUnavailableDec 22, 20242 years ago
UkraineUAUnavailableJul 25, 20232 years ago
United Arab EmiratesAEUnavailableJul 25, 20235 months ago
United StatesUSUnavailableJul 25, 20235 months ago
UruguayUYUnavailableJul 25, 20233 years ago
UzbekistanUZUnavailableOct 18, 20233 years ago
VanuatuVUUnavailableJan 8, 20243 years ago
VietnamVNUnavailableApr 13, 20266 months ago
ZimbabweZWUnavailableMar 25, 20243 years ago
AfghanistanAFNot tested——0
AlgeriaDZNot tested——0
AngolaAONot tested——0
AnguillaAINot tested——0
ArgentinaARNot tested——0
ArmeniaAMNot tested——0
AustriaATNot tested——0
AzerbaijanAZNot tested——0
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BelgiumBENot tested——0
BeninBJNot 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
BulgariaBGNot tested——0
Burkina FasoBFNot tested——0
CambodiaKHNot tested——0
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CanadaCANot tested——0
Cayman IslandsKYNot tested——0
ColombiaCONot tested——0
Costa RicaCRNot tested——0
Côte d’IvoireCINot tested——0
CroatiaHRNot tested——0
CyprusCYNot tested——0
CzechiaCZNot tested——0
DenmarkDKNot tested——0
DominicaDMNot tested——0
EcuadorECNot tested——0
EgyptEGNot tested——0
El SalvadorSVNot tested——0
EstoniaEENot tested——0
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FinlandFINot tested——0
GambiaGMNot tested——0
GeorgiaGENot tested——0
GermanyDENot tested——0
GreeceGRNot tested——0
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GuatemalaGTNot tested——0
Guinea-BissauGWNot tested——0
GuyanaGYNot tested——0
HondurasHNNot tested——0
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HungaryHUNot tested——0
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IsraelILNot tested——0
ItalyITNot tested——0
JamaicaJMNot tested——0
JapanJPNot tested——0
KazakhstanKZNot tested——0
KenyaKENot tested——0
KosovoXKNot tested——0
KuwaitKWNot tested——0
KyrgyzstanKGNot tested——0
LaosLANot tested——0
LatviaLVNot tested——0
LebanonLBNot tested——0
LiberiaLRNot tested——0
LithuaniaLTNot tested——0
LuxembourgLUNot tested——0
MacaoMONot tested——0
MadagascarMGNot tested——0
MalawiMWNot tested——0
MaldivesMVNot tested——0
MaliMLNot tested——0
MaltaMTNot tested——0
MauritaniaMRNot tested——0
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MexicoMXNot tested——0
MicronesiaFMNot tested——0
MongoliaMNNot tested——0
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Myanmar (Burma)MMNot tested——0
NamibiaNANot tested——0
NetherlandsNLNot tested——0
New ZealandNZNot tested——0
NicaraguaNINot tested——0
NigerNENot tested——0
NigeriaNGNot 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
PhilippinesPHNot tested——0
PolandPLNot tested——0
PortugalPTNot tested——0
QatarQANot tested——0
Republic of the CongoCGNot tested——0
RwandaRWNot tested——0
São Tomé & PríncipeSTNot tested——0
Saudi ArabiaSANot tested——0
SenegalSNNot tested——0
SerbiaRSNot 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
South KoreaKRNot tested——0
SpainESNot tested——0
St. Kitts & NevisKNNot tested——0
St. LuciaLCNot tested——0
St. Vincent & GrenadinesVCNot tested——0
SwedenSENot tested——0
SwitzerlandCHNot tested——0
TajikistanTJNot tested——0
TanzaniaTZNot tested——0
ThailandTHNot tested——0
TongaTONot tested——0
TunisiaTNNot tested——0
TurkmenistanTMNot tested——0
UgandaUGNot tested——0
United KingdomGBNot tested——0
VenezuelaVENot tested——0
YemenYENot tested——0
ZambiaZMNot 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.