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We monitor 175 App Store storefronts to answer one question —

Is Unmechanical censored by Apple?

Gone.

Unmechanical is gone from every App Store storefront we test. It was last seen available on Sep 14, 2021.

96 tests on record·last checked 17 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

    • 8% of Games apps are unavailable in the United States — 2,044 of 25,524 — against 5% of everything we test there.
    • Apple reports 1,213 government-ordered removals in Russia for 2025, naming none of them.
  • A local rule about paying for itPossible

    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 a paid app, so a rule about selling it could apply.
    • 8% of Games apps are unavailable in the United States — 2,044 of 25,524 — against 5% of everything we test there.
  • 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

    • 8% of Games apps are unavailable in the United States — 2,044 of 25,524 — against 5% of everything we test there.
  • 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.

    • 8% of Games apps are unavailable in the United States — 2,044 of 25,524 — against 5% of everything we test there.
  • Something brokeUnlikely

    a rejected update, a lapsed certificate, a payment or licensing problem, a mistake nobody has got round to noticing.

    • 8% of Games apps are unavailable in the United States — 2,044 of 25,524 — against 5% of everything we test there.
    • Gone for 3 years.
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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Unmechanical

Developer: Teotl Studios Ek. for. · Category: Games · Paid app · Released: Mar 18, 2013 · Rating: 4.4★

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0stores where available
27stores where blocked
884Mpeople behind the block
27of 175 stores tested
96tests on record

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Life of this app

  1. Mar 18, 2013Released on the App Store
  2. Sep 14, 2021First tested by AppleCensorship
  3. Sep 14, 2021Last seen available anywhere
  4. Jul 11, 2024Gone from 27 storefronts
  5. Sep 26, 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.

2021-092026-09

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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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AustriaATUnavailableMay 5, 202310 months ago
ColombiaCOUnavailableSep 28, 20233 years ago
DenmarkDKUnavailableMar 21, 20252 years ago
Dominican RepublicDOUnavailableMay 27, 20242 years ago
DR CongoCDUnavailableMay 8, 20251 year ago
El SalvadorSVUnavailableSep 26, 202617 days ago
GambiaGMUnavailableAug 29, 20242 years ago
GhanaGHUnavailableDec 17, 202510 months ago
KosovoXKUnavailableSep 26, 202617 days ago
LebanonLBUnavailableSep 22, 202513 months ago
MacaoMOUnavailableJul 11, 20242 years ago
MontenegroMEUnavailableSep 26, 202617 days ago
NauruNRUnavailableJul 11, 20246 months ago
NepalNPUnavailableMay 5, 20232 years ago
New ZealandNZUnavailableMay 5, 20233 years ago
NorwayNOUnavailableMay 5, 202317 days ago
PanamaPAUnavailableDec 17, 20242 years ago
PortugalPTUnavailableApr 7, 20266 months ago
RussiaRUUnavailableMay 5, 20232 years ago
SerbiaRSUnavailableOct 22, 202512 months ago
SwedenSEUnavailableDec 1, 202510 months ago
TongaTOUnavailableMay 5, 20233 years ago
Trinidad & TobagoTTUnavailableDec 22, 20242 years ago
UkraineUAUnavailableMay 5, 20232 years ago
United Arab EmiratesAEUnavailableMay 5, 20236 months ago
United KingdomGBUnavailableMay 5, 202310 months ago
United StatesUSUnavailableMay 5, 20236 months ago
AfghanistanAFNot tested——0
AlbaniaALNot tested——0
AlgeriaDZNot tested——0
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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.