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We monitor 175 App Store storefronts to answer one question —

Is LINE：ドラえもんパーク censored by Apple?

Gone.

LINE：ドラえもんパーク is gone from every App Store storefront we test. It was last seen available on Nov 1, 2021.

165 tests on record·⚠ last verified 4 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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LINE：ドラえもんパーク

Developer: LINE Corporation · Category: Games · Released: Sep 1, 2019 · Rating: 4.6★

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0stores where available
37stores where blocked
2.91Bpeople behind the block
37of 175 stores tested
165tests on record

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Life of this app

  1. Sep 1, 2019Released on the App Store
  2. Oct 3, 2019First tested by AppleCensorship
  3. Nov 1, 2021Last seen available anywhere
  4. Sep 4, 2022Gone from 37 storefronts
  5. May 29, 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.

2019-102026-05

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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AlgeriaDZUnavailableMar 26, 20203 years ago
AngolaAOUnavailableNov 10, 202511 months ago
ArgentinaARUnavailableOct 11, 20193 years ago
ArmeniaAMUnavailableMay 29, 20264 months ago
AustriaATUnavailableJan 6, 20223 years ago
BoliviaBOUnavailableOct 11, 20193 years ago
China (Mainland)CNUnavailableOct 11, 20194 years ago
Côte d’IvoireCIUnavailableDec 20, 20224 years ago
EcuadorECUnavailableApr 10, 20222 years ago
GabonGAUnavailableSep 4, 20224 years ago
Hong KongHKUnavailableJan 3, 20223 years ago
JapanJPUnavailableJan 6, 20224 months ago
KazakhstanKZUnavailableNov 19, 20242 years ago
KyrgyzstanKGUnavailableAug 7, 20233 years ago
MexicoMXUnavailableMar 26, 20203 years ago
NauruNRUnavailableJul 6, 20244 months ago
NepalNPUnavailableDec 20, 20223 years ago
North MacedoniaMKUnavailableNov 1, 20213 years ago
NorwayNOUnavailableSep 12, 202513 months ago
PakistanPKUnavailableSep 4, 20224 years ago
PalauPWUnavailableSep 2, 20203 years ago
PanamaPAUnavailableApr 10, 20222 years ago
QatarQAUnavailableSep 2, 20203 years ago
RussiaRUUnavailableApr 10, 20223 years ago
SenegalSNUnavailableFeb 17, 20232 years ago
South AfricaZAUnavailableDec 7, 20233 years ago
SpainESUnavailableMar 25, 20252 years ago
St. LuciaLCUnavailableJan 6, 20223 years ago
SurinameSRUnavailableDec 19, 20233 years ago
ThailandTHUnavailableNov 19, 20233 years ago
Trinidad & TobagoTTUnavailableNov 18, 202511 months ago
TurkmenistanTMUnavailableJan 31, 20243 years ago
Turks & Caicos IslandsTCUnavailableJul 6, 20242 years ago
UkraineUAUnavailableApr 10, 20223 years ago
United Arab EmiratesAEUnavailableDec 20, 20224 months ago
United StatesUSUnavailableOct 11, 20194 months ago
YemenYEUnavailableDec 7, 20193 years ago
AfghanistanAFNot tested——0
AlbaniaALNot tested——0
AnguillaAINot tested——0
Antigua & BarbudaAGNot tested——0
AustraliaAUNot 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
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
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
CroatiaHRNot tested——0
CyprusCYNot tested——0
CzechiaCZNot tested——0
DenmarkDKNot tested——0
DominicaDMNot tested——0
Dominican RepublicDONot tested——0
DR CongoCDNot tested——0
EgyptEGNot tested——0
El SalvadorSVNot tested——0
EstoniaEENot tested——0
EswatiniSZNot tested——0
FijiFJNot tested——0
FinlandFINot tested——0
FranceFRNot tested——0
GambiaGMNot tested——0
GeorgiaGENot tested——0
GermanyDENot tested——0
GhanaGHNot tested——0
GreeceGRNot tested——0
GrenadaGDNot tested——0
GuatemalaGTNot tested——0
Guinea-BissauGWNot tested——0
GuyanaGYNot tested——0
HondurasHNNot tested——0
HungaryHUNot tested——0
IcelandISNot tested——0
IndiaINNot tested——0
IndonesiaIDNot tested——0
IraqIQNot tested——0
IrelandIENot tested——0
IsraelILNot tested——0
ItalyITNot tested——0
JamaicaJMNot tested——0
JordanJONot tested——0
KenyaKENot tested——0
KosovoXKNot tested——0
KuwaitKWNot tested——0
LaosLANot tested——0
LatviaLVNot tested——0
LebanonLBNot tested——0
LiberiaLRNot tested——0
LibyaLYNot tested——0
LithuaniaLTNot tested——0
LuxembourgLUNot tested——0
MacaoMONot tested——0
MadagascarMGNot tested——0
MalawiMWNot tested——0
MalaysiaMYNot tested——0
MaldivesMVNot tested——0
MaliMLNot tested——0
MaltaMTNot tested——0
MauritaniaMRNot tested——0
MauritiusMUNot tested——0
MicronesiaFMNot tested——0
MoldovaMDNot tested——0
MongoliaMNNot tested——0
MontenegroMENot tested——0
MontserratMSNot 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
NigeriaNGNot tested——0
OmanOMNot tested——0
Papua New GuineaPGNot tested——0
ParaguayPYNot tested——0
PeruPENot tested——0
PhilippinesPHNot tested——0
PolandPLNot tested——0
PortugalPTNot tested——0
Republic of the CongoCGNot tested——0
RomaniaRONot tested——0
RwandaRWNot tested——0
São Tomé & PríncipeSTNot tested——0
Saudi ArabiaSANot 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 KoreaKRNot tested——0
Sri LankaLKNot tested——0
St. Kitts & NevisKNNot tested——0
St. Vincent & GrenadinesVCNot tested——0
SwedenSENot tested——0
SwitzerlandCHNot tested——0
TaiwanTWNot tested——0
TajikistanTJNot tested——0
TanzaniaTZNot tested——0
TongaTONot tested——0
TunisiaTNNot tested——0
TürkiyeTRNot tested——0
UgandaUGNot tested——0
United KingdomGBNot tested——0
UruguayUYNot tested——0
UzbekistanUZNot tested——0
VanuatuVUNot tested——0
VenezuelaVENot tested——0
VietnamVNNot tested——0
ZambiaZMNot tested——0
ZimbabweZWNot 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.