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We monitor 175 App Store storefronts to answer one question —

Is Flying Poo - Flippy's Fun Adventures censored by Apple?

Gone.

Flying Poo - Flippy's Fun Adventures is gone from every App Store storefront we test. It was last seen available on Feb 12, 2022.

140 tests on record·last checked 2 months 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

    • 58% of Games apps are unavailable in mainland China — 14,622 of 25,049 — against 28% of everything we test there.
    • Apple reports 1,213 government-ordered removals in Russia for 2025, naming none of them.
  • 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

    • 58% of Games apps are unavailable in mainland China — 14,622 of 25,049 — against 28% 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.

    • 58% of Games apps are unavailable in mainland China — 14,622 of 25,049 — against 28% 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.

    • 58% of Games apps are unavailable in mainland China — 14,622 of 25,049 — against 28% of everything we test there.
    • Gone for 2 years.
  • 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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Flying Poo - Flippy's Fun Adventures

Developer: Matthew Leonard · Category: Games · Released: Mar 5, 2014 · Rating: 0.7★

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0stores where available
30stores where blocked
2.58Bpeople behind the block
30of 175 stores tested
140tests on record

Life of this app

  1. Mar 5, 2014Released on the App Store
  2. May 3, 2020First tested by AppleCensorship
  3. Feb 12, 2022Last seen available anywhere
  4. Aug 10, 2024Gone from 30 storefronts
  5. Sep 7, 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.

2020-052026-09

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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AustraliaAUUnavailableAug 30, 20242 years ago
BahrainBHUnavailableJun 17, 20242 years ago
BermudaBMUnavailableAug 10, 20242 years ago
BoliviaBOUnavailableJun 18, 20242 years ago
China (Mainland)CNUnavailableMar 11, 202415 months ago
CroatiaHRUnavailableMar 11, 20245 months ago
GabonGAUnavailableNov 5, 20242 years ago
Guinea-BissauGWUnavailableMar 11, 20244 months ago
JapanJPUnavailableFeb 2, 20252 years ago
KazakhstanKZUnavailableJul 1, 20264 months ago
KenyaKEUnavailableMar 20, 20252 years ago
LiberiaLRUnavailableMar 11, 202414 months ago
MontenegroMEUnavailableApr 17, 20243 years ago
NauruNRUnavailableAug 10, 20242 months ago
NepalNPUnavailableMar 11, 20242 years ago
New ZealandNZUnavailableOct 24, 20242 years ago
NicaraguaNIUnavailableSep 4, 20242 years ago
NigerNEUnavailableDec 11, 20242 years ago
PhilippinesPHUnavailableApr 13, 20254 months ago
RussiaRUUnavailableMar 11, 20242 years ago
TaiwanTWUnavailableMay 4, 20242 months ago
TajikistanTJUnavailableSep 4, 202514 months ago
ThailandTHUnavailableMar 11, 20245 months ago
TunisiaTNUnavailableJan 22, 20269 months ago
TürkiyeTRUnavailableNov 13, 202410 months ago
Turks & Caicos IslandsTCUnavailableApr 21, 20266 months ago
UkraineUAUnavailableMar 11, 20242 years ago
United Arab EmiratesAEUnavailableMar 11, 20242 months ago
United StatesUSUnavailableMar 11, 20242 months ago
ZimbabweZWUnavailableMar 11, 20242 months ago
AfghanistanAFNot tested——0
AlbaniaALNot tested——0
AlgeriaDZNot tested——0
AngolaAONot tested——0
AnguillaAINot tested——0
Antigua & BarbudaAGNot tested——0
ArgentinaARNot tested——0
ArmeniaAMNot tested——0
AustriaATNot tested——0
AzerbaijanAZNot tested——0
BahamasBSNot tested——0
BarbadosBBNot tested——0
BelarusBYNot tested——0
BelgiumBENot tested——0
BelizeBZNot tested——0
BeninBJNot tested——0
BhutanBTNot tested——0
Bosnia & HerzegovinaBANot tested——0
BotswanaBWNot tested——0
BrazilBRNot tested——0
British Virgin IslandsVGNot tested——0
BruneiBNNot tested——0
BulgariaBGNot tested——0
Burkina FasoBFNot tested——0
CambodiaKHNot tested——0
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CanadaCANot tested——0
Cape VerdeCVNot tested——0
Cayman IslandsKYNot tested——0
ChadTDNot tested——0
ChileCLNot tested——0
ColombiaCONot tested——0
Costa RicaCRNot tested——0
Côte d’IvoireCINot tested——0
CyprusCYNot tested——0
CzechiaCZNot tested——0
DenmarkDKNot tested——0
DominicaDMNot tested——0
Dominican RepublicDONot tested——0
DR CongoCDNot tested——0
EcuadorECNot tested——0
EgyptEGNot tested——0
El SalvadorSVNot tested——0
EstoniaEENot tested——0
EswatiniSZNot tested——0
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FinlandFINot tested——0
FranceFRNot tested——0
GambiaGMNot tested——0
GeorgiaGENot tested——0
GermanyDENot tested——0
GhanaGHNot tested——0
GreeceGRNot tested——0
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HungaryHUNot tested——0
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IndiaINNot tested——0
IndonesiaIDNot tested——0
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IsraelILNot tested——0
ItalyITNot tested——0
JamaicaJMNot tested——0
JordanJONot tested——0
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KuwaitKWNot tested——0
KyrgyzstanKGNot tested——0
LaosLANot tested——0
LatviaLVNot tested——0
LebanonLBNot tested——0
LibyaLYNot tested——0
LithuaniaLTNot tested——0
LuxembourgLUNot tested——0
MacaoMONot tested——0
MadagascarMGNot tested——0
MalawiMWNot tested——0
MalaysiaMYNot tested——0
MaldivesMVNot tested——0
MaliMLNot tested——0
MaltaMTNot tested——0
MauritaniaMRNot tested——0
MauritiusMUNot tested——0
MexicoMXNot tested——0
MicronesiaFMNot tested——0
MoldovaMDNot tested——0
MongoliaMNNot tested——0
MontserratMSNot tested——0
MoroccoMANot tested——0
MozambiqueMZNot tested——0
Myanmar (Burma)MMNot tested——0
NamibiaNANot tested——0
NetherlandsNLNot tested——0
NigeriaNGNot tested——0
North MacedoniaMKNot tested——0
NorwayNONot tested——0
OmanOMNot tested——0
PakistanPKNot tested——0
PalauPWNot tested——0
PanamaPANot tested——0
Papua New GuineaPGNot tested——0
ParaguayPYNot tested——0
PeruPENot tested——0
PolandPLNot tested——0
PortugalPTNot tested——0
QatarQANot tested——0
Republic of the CongoCGNot tested——0
RomaniaRONot tested——0
RwandaRWNot tested——0
São Tomé & PríncipeSTNot tested——0
Saudi ArabiaSANot tested——0
SenegalSNNot tested——0
SerbiaRSNot tested——0
SeychellesSCNot tested——0
Sierra LeoneSLNot tested——0
SingaporeSGNot tested——0
SlovakiaSKNot tested——0
SloveniaSINot tested——0
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
St. Vincent & GrenadinesVCNot tested——0
SurinameSRNot tested——0
SwedenSENot tested——0
SwitzerlandCHNot tested——0
TanzaniaTZNot tested——0
TongaTONot tested——0
Trinidad & TobagoTTNot tested——0
TurkmenistanTMNot 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

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.