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We monitor 175 App Store storefronts to answer one question —

Is Great Philosophers : Audible censored by Apple?

Gone.

Great Philosophers : Audible is gone from every App Store storefront we test. It was last seen available on Oct 18, 2021.

236 tests on record·last checked 32 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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Great Philosophers : Audible

Developer: SKYBERSPACE TEKNOLOJI YAZILIM ARGE DANISMANLIK LIMITED SIRKETI · Category: Education · Released: Nov 6, 2020 · Rating: 2.5★

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0stores where available
39stores where blocked
2.51Bpeople behind the block
39of 175 stores tested
236tests on record

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Life of this app

  1. Nov 6, 2020Released on the App Store
  2. Oct 15, 2021First tested by AppleCensorship
  3. Oct 18, 2021Last seen available anywhere
  4. Feb 18, 2024Gone from 39 storefronts
  5. Aug 17, 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.

2021-102026-08

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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AlbaniaALUnavailableJul 1, 20236 months ago
AlgeriaDZUnavailableJul 1, 202332 days ago
ArgentinaARUnavailableFeb 11, 202514 months ago
AzerbaijanAZUnavailableJul 1, 20237 months ago
BelarusBYUnavailableOct 4, 20242 years ago
Bosnia & HerzegovinaBAUnavailableMay 12, 202516 months ago
BruneiBNUnavailableMar 16, 20266 months ago
China (Mainland)CNUnavailableJul 1, 20234 months ago
Côte d’IvoireCIUnavailableFeb 20, 20243 years ago
CroatiaHRUnavailableJul 12, 20233 years ago
CyprusCYUnavailableApr 2, 20242 years ago
CzechiaCZUnavailableJul 1, 20233 years ago
DominicaDMUnavailableAug 28, 20232 years ago
EswatiniSZUnavailableMar 5, 20243 years ago
GermanyDEUnavailableJul 14, 202532 days ago
IrelandIEUnavailableOct 9, 20232 years ago
LaosLAUnavailableMar 19, 20266 months ago
LibyaLYUnavailableMar 23, 20266 months ago
LithuaniaLTUnavailableNov 18, 20242 years ago
MauritaniaMRUnavailableJul 1, 20233 years ago
MauritiusMUUnavailableJul 1, 20233 years ago
MontserratMSUnavailableNov 5, 20233 years ago
NamibiaNAUnavailableFeb 18, 20243 years ago
NauruNRUnavailableJun 27, 202432 days ago
NepalNPUnavailableJul 1, 20232 years ago
New ZealandNZUnavailableJun 27, 20242 years ago
PhilippinesPHUnavailableMar 24, 202514 months ago
RussiaRUUnavailableJul 1, 20232 years ago
St. Kitts & NevisKNUnavailableOct 17, 20233 years ago
SwitzerlandCHUnavailableJul 17, 202514 months ago
TaiwanTWUnavailableOct 9, 20242 years ago
TajikistanTJUnavailableJul 9, 20233 years ago
TongaTOUnavailableFeb 21, 20267 months ago
TunisiaTNUnavailableFeb 18, 20267 months ago
Turks & Caicos IslandsTCUnavailableSep 18, 202512 months ago
UkraineUAUnavailableJul 1, 202314 months ago
United Arab EmiratesAEUnavailableJul 1, 202332 days ago
United StatesUSUnavailableJul 1, 202332 days ago
VietnamVNUnavailableJan 11, 20243 years ago
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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.