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We monitor 175 App Store storefronts to answer one question —

Is 小奶猫-KITTEN censored by Apple?

Gone.

小奶猫-KITTEN is gone from every App Store storefront we test. It was last seen available on Aug 23, 2020.

178 tests on record·last checked 34 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

  • 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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小奶猫-KITTEN

Developer: Aishang Wuhan Marriage Introduction Service Co., Ltd · Category: Social Networking · Released: Mar 11, 2020 · Rating: 4.9★

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0stores where available
41stores where blocked
2.48Bpeople behind the block
41of 175 stores tested
178tests on record

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Life of this app

  1. Mar 11, 2020Released on the App Store
  2. Aug 23, 2020First tested by AppleCensorship
  3. Aug 23, 2020Last seen available anywhere
  4. Oct 14, 2022Gone from 41 storefronts
  5. Aug 15, 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.

2020-082026-08

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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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AlgeriaDZUnavailableDec 9, 20233 years ago
BarbadosBBUnavailableDec 3, 20213 years ago
BoliviaBOUnavailableJan 10, 20234 years ago
BruneiBNUnavailableNov 9, 20213 years ago
Burkina FasoBFUnavailableJan 8, 20222 years ago
CambodiaKHUnavailableSep 26, 20242 years ago
Cape VerdeCVUnavailableDec 24, 20233 years ago
Cayman IslandsKYUnavailableMay 24, 20222 years ago
ChadTDUnavailableOct 2, 20233 years ago
ChileCLUnavailableJan 16, 20234 years ago
China (Mainland)CNUnavailableOct 16, 202134 days ago
Côte d’IvoireCIUnavailableJun 8, 20263 months ago
Dominican RepublicDOUnavailableAug 15, 202634 days ago
DR CongoCDUnavailableJul 29, 20224 years ago
GreeceGRUnavailableSep 4, 20233 years ago
GuyanaGYUnavailableNov 17, 20213 years ago
Hong KongHKUnavailableOct 16, 20212 years ago
IcelandISUnavailableAug 21, 20233 years ago
IsraelILUnavailableJul 5, 20233 years ago
KuwaitKWUnavailableNov 9, 20213 years ago
MalawiMWUnavailableMay 4, 20265 months ago
MaltaMTUnavailableMay 11, 20222 years ago
MongoliaMNUnavailableMay 11, 20222 years ago
NauruNRUnavailableAug 31, 202434 days ago
NepalNPUnavailableJan 10, 20232 years ago
NicaraguaNIUnavailableJan 8, 20224 years ago
OmanOMUnavailableMay 11, 202516 months ago
Papua New GuineaPGUnavailableDec 3, 20213 years ago
RussiaRUUnavailableMay 11, 20222 years ago
RwandaRWUnavailableAug 13, 20222 years ago
Saudi ArabiaSAUnavailableOct 14, 20224 years ago
SerbiaRSUnavailableJan 2, 20252 years ago
Sierra LeoneSLUnavailableAug 31, 20242 years ago
SingaporeSGUnavailableAug 13, 20224 years ago
South KoreaKRUnavailableDec 31, 20233 years ago
SurinameSRUnavailableFeb 14, 20243 years ago
TanzaniaTZUnavailableNov 17, 20213 years ago
Turks & Caicos IslandsTCUnavailableOct 16, 20213 years ago
UkraineUAUnavailableMay 11, 20222 years ago
United Arab EmiratesAEUnavailableJan 10, 202334 days ago
United StatesUSUnavailableAug 23, 202034 days ago
AfghanistanAFNot tested——0
AlbaniaALNot tested——0
AngolaAONot tested——0
AnguillaAINot tested——0
Antigua & BarbudaAGNot tested——0
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RomaniaRONot tested——0
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SenegalSNNot tested——0
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St. LuciaLCNot tested——0
St. Vincent & GrenadinesVCNot tested——0
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SwitzerlandCHNot tested——0
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United KingdomGBNot tested——0
UruguayUYNot tested——0
UzbekistanUZNot tested——0
VanuatuVUNot tested——0
VenezuelaVENot tested——0
VietnamVNNot tested——0
YemenYENot 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.