We monitor 175 App Store storefronts to answer one question —
Is Photo Censor Free censored by Apple?
Photo Censor Free is gone from every App Store storefront we test. It was last seen available on Dec 16, 2020.
1,082 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 it
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
- Photo and video apps in the United States are unavailable at 3%, near the 5% for everything there, which cuts neither way.
- 4 other apps left mainland China the same day, Feb 15, 2022.
- Apple reports 1,213 government-ordered removals in Russia for 2025, naming none of them.
Apple applied a rule, unasked
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
- Photo and video apps in the United States are unavailable at 3%, near the 5% for everything there, which cuts neither way.
- 4 other apps left mainland China the same day, Feb 15, 2022.
The developer withheld it
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 broke
a rejected update, a lapsed certificate, a payment or licensing problem, a mistake nobody has got round to noticing.
- 4 other apps left mainland China the same day, Feb 15, 2022.
- Gone for 4 years.
A local rule about paying for it
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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Photo Censor Free
Developer: Endloop System Inc. · Category: Photo & Video · Released: Nov 18, 2009 · Rating: 1.1★
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Life of this app
- Nov 18, 2009Released on the App Store
- Feb 25, 2019First tested by AppleCensorship
- Dec 16, 2020Last seen available anywhere
- Nov 19, 2022Gone from 123 storefronts
- May 22, 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.
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.
| Test now | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AfghanistanAF | Unavailable | Oct 14, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| AlbaniaAL | Unavailable | Oct 31, 2025 | 11 months ago | ||
| AnguillaAI | Unavailable | Feb 15, 2022 | 4 months ago | ||
| Antigua & BarbudaAG | Unavailable | Jan 22, 2024 | 3 years ago | ||
| AustraliaAU | Unavailable | Sep 22, 2022 | 1 year ago | ||
| AustriaAT | Unavailable | Feb 23, 2025 | 2 years ago | ||
| AzerbaijanAZ | Unavailable | Aug 24, 2023 | 2 years ago | ||
| BahamasBS | Unavailable | Feb 22, 2026 | 7 months ago | ||
| BahrainBH | Unavailable | May 22, 2026 | 4 months ago | ||
| BelarusBY | Unavailable | Feb 15, 2022 | 5 months ago | ||
| BelizeBZ | Unavailable | Aug 5, 2022 | 3 years ago | ||
| BeninBJ | Unavailable | Sep 13, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| BermudaBM | Unavailable | May 13, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| BrazilBR | Unavailable | Jul 7, 2022 | 4 years ago | ||
| Burkina FasoBF | Unavailable | Jul 9, 2023 | 2 years ago | ||
| CambodiaKH | Unavailable | Jul 12, 2023 | 2 years ago | ||
| CameroonCM | Unavailable | Oct 16, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| CanadaCA | Unavailable | May 3, 2022 | 2 years ago | ||
| Cape VerdeCV | Unavailable | Sep 15, 2023 | 9 months ago | ||
| ChadTD | Unavailable | May 10, 2024 | 2 years ago | ||
| China (Mainland)CN | Unavailable | Feb 15, 2022 | 5 months ago | ||
| ColombiaCO | Unavailable | Apr 11, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| CroatiaHR | Unavailable | Mar 18, 2024 | 2 years ago | ||
| CyprusCY | Unavailable | Mar 17, 2024 | 2 years ago | ||
| DominicaDM | Unavailable | Nov 30, 2022 | 4 years ago | ||
| Dominican RepublicDO | Unavailable | Feb 15, 2022 | 6 months ago | ||
| DR CongoCD | Unavailable | Jul 17, 2022 | 1 year ago | ||
| EcuadorEC | Unavailable | Mar 1, 2026 | 7 months ago | ||
| EgyptEG | Unavailable | Feb 15, 2022 | 1 year ago | ||
| El SalvadorSV | Unavailable | May 3, 2022 | 2 years ago | ||
| FijiFJ | Unavailable | Mar 7, 2022 | 2 years ago | ||
| FinlandFI | Unavailable | Feb 15, 2023 | 2 years ago | ||
| GabonGA | Unavailable | Sep 14, 2022 | 12 months ago | ||
| GambiaGM | Unavailable | Mar 7, 2022 | 4 years ago | ||
| GhanaGH | Unavailable | Apr 20, 2022 | 7 months ago | ||
| GreeceGR | Unavailable | May 22, 2022 | 2 years ago | ||
| GrenadaGD | Unavailable | Nov 3, 2023 | 9 months ago | ||
| GuatemalaGT | Unavailable | Apr 10, 2022 | 3 years ago | ||
| Guinea-BissauGW | Unavailable | Apr 9, 2022 | 4 years ago | ||
| GuyanaGY | Unavailable | Mar 17, 2022 | 2 years ago | ||
| HondurasHN | Unavailable | Sep 20, 2023 | 2 years ago | ||
| Hong KongHK | Unavailable | Jun 21, 2024 | 2 years ago | ||
| HungaryHU | Unavailable | Oct 9, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| IndiaIN | Unavailable | Apr 12, 2026 | 5 months ago | ||
| IndonesiaID | Unavailable | Feb 11, 2023 | 4 years ago | ||
| IrelandIE | Unavailable | Feb 15, 2022 | 3 years ago | ||
| ItalyIT | Unavailable | Apr 20, 2022 | 2 years ago | ||
| JapanJP | Unavailable | Jul 1, 2024 | 2 years ago | ||
| JordanJO | Unavailable | Sep 14, 2022 | 4 years ago | ||
| KazakhstanKZ | Unavailable | Mar 18, 2023 | 4 years ago | ||
| KenyaKE | Unavailable | Feb 15, 2022 | 2 years ago | ||
| KuwaitKW | Unavailable | Mar 20, 2022 | 3 years ago | ||
| LaosLA | Unavailable | Jun 19, 2022 | 3 years ago | ||
| LatviaLV | Unavailable | Mar 20, 2022 | 2 years ago | ||
| LebanonLB | Unavailable | Feb 15, 2022 | 8 months ago | ||
| LiberiaLR | Unavailable | Jul 17, 2022 | 3 years ago | ||
| LibyaLY | Unavailable | Nov 19, 2022 | 2 years ago | ||
| LuxembourgLU | Unavailable | Aug 5, 2022 | 5 months ago | ||
| MacaoMO | Unavailable | Jul 3, 2024 | 14 months ago | ||
| MadagascarMG | Unavailable | Nov 14, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| MalawiMW | Unavailable | Apr 7, 2024 | 2 years ago | ||
| MalaysiaMY | Unavailable | May 21, 2025 | 16 months ago | ||
| MaldivesMV | Unavailable | Nov 27, 2022 | 3 years ago | ||
| MaliML | Unavailable | Mar 17, 2022 | 3 years ago | ||
| MauritaniaMR | Unavailable | Feb 15, 2022 | 2 years ago | ||
| MauritiusMU | Unavailable | Apr 26, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| MexicoMX | Unavailable | Feb 15, 2022 | 9 months ago | ||
| MoldovaMD | Unavailable | Mar 17, 2022 | 3 years ago | ||
| MongoliaMN | Unavailable | Feb 15, 2022 | 4 years ago | ||
| MontserratMS | Unavailable | Apr 4, 2022 | 2 years ago | ||
| MoroccoMA | Unavailable | Jun 25, 2022 | 4 years ago | ||
| MozambiqueMZ | Unavailable | Feb 26, 2022 | 2 years ago | ||
| Myanmar (Burma)MM | Unavailable | Jul 8, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| NauruNR | Unavailable | Jun 21, 2024 | 4 months ago | ||
| NepalNP | Unavailable | Dec 6, 2022 | 2 years ago | ||
| New ZealandNZ | Unavailable | Feb 15, 2022 | 5 months ago | ||
| NicaraguaNI | Unavailable | May 22, 2022 | 2 years ago | ||
| NigerNE | Unavailable | Dec 20, 2022 | 4 years ago | ||
| NorwayNO | Unavailable | Jul 26, 2022 | 1 year ago | ||
| PalauPW | Unavailable | May 16, 2024 | 5 months ago | ||
| PanamaPA | Unavailable | May 13, 2024 | 2 years ago | ||
| ParaguayPY | Unavailable | Mar 26, 2022 | 8 months ago | ||
| PeruPE | Unavailable | May 26, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| PhilippinesPH | Unavailable | May 25, 2024 | 13 months ago | ||
| PolandPL | Unavailable | May 16, 2024 | 11 months ago | ||
| PortugalPT | Unavailable | Feb 1, 2026 | 8 months ago | ||
| Republic of the CongoCG | Unavailable | Jul 24, 2022 | 4 years ago | ||
| RomaniaRO | Unavailable | Feb 15, 2022 | 9 months ago | ||
| RussiaRU | Unavailable | Mar 7, 2022 | 2 years ago | ||
| RwandaRW | Unavailable | Jun 26, 2022 | 4 years ago | ||
| São Tomé & PríncipeST | Unavailable | Dec 6, 2022 | 3 years ago | ||
| SerbiaRS | Unavailable | Aug 24, 2024 | 2 years ago | ||
| SeychellesSC | Unavailable | Nov 22, 2022 | 11 months ago | ||
| Sierra LeoneSL | Unavailable | Feb 15, 2022 | 3 years ago | ||
| SlovakiaSK | Unavailable | Feb 15, 2022 | 7 months ago | ||
| SloveniaSI | Unavailable | Feb 26, 2022 | 6 months ago | ||
| Solomon IslandsSB | Unavailable | Jul 14, 2022 | 4 years ago | ||
| South AfricaZA | Unavailable | Feb 15, 2022 | 3 years ago | ||
| SpainES | Unavailable | Mar 21, 2026 | 6 months ago | ||
| Sri LankaLK | Unavailable | Jan 4, 2024 | 3 years ago | ||
| St. Kitts & NevisKN | Unavailable | Apr 16, 2026 | 5 months ago | ||
| St. LuciaLC | Unavailable | Mar 17, 2022 | 2 years ago | ||
| St. Vincent & GrenadinesVC | Unavailable | May 21, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| SurinameSR | Unavailable | Apr 9, 2022 | 3 years ago | ||
| TanzaniaTZ | Unavailable | Jun 26, 2022 | 3 years ago | ||
| ThailandTH | Unavailable | Apr 21, 2025 | 1 year ago | ||
| TongaTO | Unavailable | Jul 2, 2022 | 4 years ago | ||
| TunisiaTN | Unavailable | Feb 27, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| TürkiyeTR | Unavailable | Aug 1, 2022 | 2 years ago | ||
| TurkmenistanTM | Unavailable | Mar 26, 2022 | 4 years ago | ||
| Turks & Caicos IslandsTC | Unavailable | May 24, 2022 | 3 years ago | ||
| UgandaUG | Unavailable | Apr 28, 2024 | 2 years ago | ||
| UkraineUA | Unavailable | Mar 7, 2022 | 2 years ago | ||
| United Arab EmiratesAE | Unavailable | Dec 6, 2022 | 4 months ago | ||
| United KingdomGB | Unavailable | Sep 18, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| United StatesUS | Unavailable | Feb 15, 2022 | 4 months ago | ||
| UruguayUY | Unavailable | Oct 29, 2024 | 2 years ago | ||
| UzbekistanUZ | Unavailable | Aug 22, 2023 | 10 months ago | ||
| VanuatuVU | Unavailable | Nov 22, 2022 | 4 years ago | ||
| VenezuelaVE | Unavailable | Feb 15, 2022 | 5 months ago | ||
| VietnamVN | Unavailable | Jun 13, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| ZambiaZM | Unavailable | Nov 30, 2022 | 2 years ago | ||
| ZimbabweZW | Unavailable | Apr 10, 2022 | 2 years ago | ||
| AlgeriaDZ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| AngolaAO | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| ArgentinaAR | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| ArmeniaAM | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| BarbadosBB | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| BelgiumBE | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| BhutanBT | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| BoliviaBO | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| Bosnia & HerzegovinaBA | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| BotswanaBW | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| British Virgin IslandsVG | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| BruneiBN | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| BulgariaBG | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| Cayman IslandsKY | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| ChileCL | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| Costa RicaCR | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| Côte d’IvoireCI | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| CzechiaCZ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| DenmarkDK | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| EstoniaEE | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| EswatiniSZ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| FranceFR | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| GeorgiaGE | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| GermanyDE | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| IcelandIS | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| IraqIQ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| IsraelIL | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| JamaicaJM | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| KosovoXK | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| KyrgyzstanKG | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| LithuaniaLT | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| MaltaMT | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| MicronesiaFM | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| MontenegroME | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| NamibiaNA | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| NetherlandsNL | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| NigeriaNG | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| North MacedoniaMK | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| OmanOM | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| PakistanPK | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| Papua New GuineaPG | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| QatarQA | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| Saudi ArabiaSA | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| SenegalSN | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| SingaporeSG | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| South KoreaKR | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| SwedenSE | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| SwitzerlandCH | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| TaiwanTW | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| TajikistanTJ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| Trinidad & TobagoTT | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| YemenYE | Not 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.