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We monitor 175 App Store storefronts to answer one question —

Is Elektro-Memory censored by Apple?

Gone.

Elektro-Memory is gone from every App Store storefront we test. It was last seen available on Sep 22, 2020.

124 tests on record·last checked 36 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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Elektro-Memory

Developer: SampleZone GmbH · Category: Business · Released: Oct 5, 2011 · Rating: 3.6★

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0stores where available
31stores where blocked
2.16Bpeople behind the block
31of 175 stores tested
124tests on record

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Life of this app

  1. Oct 5, 2011Released on the App Store
  2. Mar 21, 2019First tested by AppleCensorship
  3. Sep 22, 2020Last seen available anywhere
  4. Mar 17, 2022Gone from 31 storefronts
  5. Sep 4, 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.

2019-032026-09

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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AnguillaAIUnavailableDec 16, 20193 years ago
AustriaATUnavailableOct 5, 20233 years ago
BarbadosBBUnavailableDec 22, 20224 years ago
BhutanBTUnavailableFeb 8, 20234 years ago
British Virgin IslandsVGUnavailableMar 17, 20222 years ago
CanadaCAUnavailableApr 10, 20203 years ago
Cayman IslandsKYUnavailableSep 22, 20203 years ago
ChileCLUnavailableDec 16, 20193 years ago
China (Mainland)CNUnavailableOct 14, 20194 years ago
Costa RicaCRUnavailableOct 14, 20193 years ago
CroatiaHRUnavailableSep 4, 202636 days ago
CyprusCYUnavailableMay 15, 20242 years ago
DominicaDMUnavailableOct 14, 20193 years ago
Hong KongHKUnavailableDec 31, 20213 years ago
KazakhstanKZUnavailableMar 17, 20222 years ago
LiberiaLRUnavailableDec 4, 20213 years ago
NauruNRUnavailableSep 4, 202636 days ago
NepalNPUnavailableOct 1, 20222 years ago
PanamaPAUnavailableDec 4, 20214 years ago
PeruPEUnavailableSep 15, 20224 years ago
QatarQAUnavailableSep 22, 20203 years ago
RussiaRUUnavailableMar 17, 20222 years ago
RwandaRWUnavailableSep 15, 20224 years ago
SenegalSNUnavailableNov 24, 20233 years ago
SloveniaSIUnavailableApr 10, 20203 years ago
St. Vincent & GrenadinesVCUnavailableOct 1, 20224 years ago
SwitzerlandCHUnavailableDec 4, 202136 days ago
TongaTOUnavailableAug 4, 20224 years ago
UkraineUAUnavailableMar 17, 20222 years ago
United Arab EmiratesAEUnavailableDec 22, 202236 days ago
United StatesUSUnavailableOct 14, 201936 days ago
AfghanistanAFNot tested——0
AlbaniaALNot tested——0
AlgeriaDZNot tested——0
AngolaAONot tested——0
Antigua & BarbudaAGNot tested——0
ArgentinaARNot tested——0
ArmeniaAMNot tested——0
AustraliaAUNot tested——0
AzerbaijanAZNot tested——0
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BelarusBYNot tested——0
BelgiumBENot tested——0
BelizeBZNot tested——0
BeninBJNot tested——0
BermudaBMNot tested——0
BoliviaBONot tested——0
Bosnia & HerzegovinaBANot tested——0
BotswanaBWNot tested——0
BrazilBRNot tested——0
BruneiBNNot tested——0
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ChadTDNot tested——0
ColombiaCONot tested——0
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CzechiaCZNot tested——0
DenmarkDKNot tested——0
Dominican RepublicDONot tested——0
DR CongoCDNot tested——0
EcuadorECNot tested——0
EgyptEGNot tested——0
El SalvadorSVNot tested——0
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FinlandFINot tested——0
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RomaniaRONot tested——0
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SerbiaRSNot tested——0
SeychellesSCNot tested——0
Sierra LeoneSLNot tested——0
SingaporeSGNot tested——0
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Solomon IslandsSBNot tested——0
South AfricaZANot tested——0
South KoreaKRNot tested——0
SpainESNot tested——0
Sri LankaLKNot tested——0
St. Kitts & NevisKNNot tested——0
St. LuciaLCNot tested——0
SurinameSRNot tested——0
SwedenSENot tested——0
TaiwanTWNot tested——0
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TanzaniaTZNot tested——0
ThailandTHNot tested——0
Trinidad & TobagoTTNot tested——0
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TürkiyeTRNot tested——0
TurkmenistanTMNot tested——0
Turks & Caicos IslandsTCNot tested——0
UgandaUGNot tested——0
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.