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Is 中国語と日本語の相互学習アプリ―ASIAQ 発音練習も！ censored by Apple?
中国語と日本語の相互学習アプリ―ASIAQ 発音練習も！ is gone from every App Store storefront we test. It was last seen available on Aug 20, 2020.
793 tests on record·last checked 31 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 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
- Education apps in the United States are unavailable at 4%, near the 5% for everything there, which cuts neither way.
- 8 other apps left Russia the same day, Mar 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
- Education apps in the United States are unavailable at 4%, near the 5% for everything there, which cuts neither way.
- 8 other apps left Russia the same day, Mar 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.
- 8 other apps left Russia the same day, Mar 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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中国語と日本語の相互学習アプリ―ASIAQ 発音練習も！
Developer: ASIAQ, K.K. · Category: Education · Released: Jun 12, 2015 · Rating: 2.0★
Other Education apps missing from mainland China
Life of this app
- Jun 12, 2015Released on the App Store
- Dec 3, 2019First tested by AppleCensorship
- Aug 20, 2020Last seen available anywhere
- Jun 4, 2022Gone from 110 storefronts
- Aug 18, 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AlgeriaDZ | Unavailable | Jun 4, 2022 | 2 years ago | ||
| Antigua & BarbudaAG | Unavailable | Jul 26, 2022 | 4 years ago | ||
| BahrainBH | Unavailable | Oct 14, 2021 | 4 years ago | ||
| BelarusBY | Unavailable | Jan 15, 2022 | 3 years ago | ||
| BelizeBZ | Unavailable | May 30, 2022 | 2 years ago | ||
| BeninBJ | Unavailable | Oct 30, 2021 | 3 years ago | ||
| BermudaBM | Unavailable | Jun 21, 2024 | 2 years ago | ||
| Bosnia & HerzegovinaBA | Unavailable | Jul 30, 2024 | 2 years ago | ||
| BrazilBR | Unavailable | Oct 8, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| British Virgin IslandsVG | Unavailable | Oct 11, 2021 | 3 months ago | ||
| BruneiBN | Unavailable | Jan 15, 2022 | 3 years ago | ||
| BulgariaBG | Unavailable | Aug 21, 2022 | 4 years ago | ||
| Burkina FasoBF | Unavailable | Dec 16, 2021 | 11 months ago | ||
| CambodiaKH | Unavailable | Aug 14, 2022 | 4 years ago | ||
| CanadaCA | Unavailable | Nov 20, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| Cape VerdeCV | Unavailable | Oct 9, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| Cayman IslandsKY | Unavailable | Aug 15, 2024 | 2 years ago | ||
| China (Mainland)CN | Unavailable | Oct 11, 2021 | 2 months ago | ||
| ColombiaCO | Unavailable | Jan 8, 2024 | 3 years ago | ||
| Costa RicaCR | Unavailable | Aug 27, 2022 | 4 years ago | ||
| Côte d’IvoireCI | Unavailable | Oct 28, 2022 | 7 months ago | ||
| CroatiaHR | Unavailable | Mar 1, 2024 | 3 years ago | ||
| CyprusCY | Unavailable | Oct 11, 2021 | 9 months ago | ||
| CzechiaCZ | Unavailable | Aug 4, 2022 | 2 years ago | ||
| DR CongoCD | Unavailable | Aug 21, 2022 | 3 years ago | ||
| EcuadorEC | Unavailable | Aug 5, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| El SalvadorSV | Unavailable | Jan 29, 2022 | 3 years ago | ||
| EstoniaEE | Unavailable | Oct 8, 2024 | 2 years ago | ||
| FijiFJ | Unavailable | Oct 12, 2021 | 3 years ago | ||
| FinlandFI | Unavailable | Dec 17, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| FranceFR | Unavailable | Apr 21, 2024 | 1 year ago | ||
| GabonGA | Unavailable | Jul 10, 2022 | 13 months ago | ||
| GermanyDE | Unavailable | May 23, 2022 | 2 years ago | ||
| GhanaGH | Unavailable | Feb 17, 2022 | 2 years ago | ||
| GreeceGR | Unavailable | Sep 23, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| GrenadaGD | Unavailable | Oct 14, 2021 | 9 months ago | ||
| GuatemalaGT | Unavailable | May 30, 2022 | 9 months ago | ||
| Guinea-BissauGW | Unavailable | May 16, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| GuyanaGY | Unavailable | Dec 25, 2022 | 3 years ago | ||
| HondurasHN | Unavailable | Jan 26, 2022 | 3 years ago | ||
| Hong KongHK | Unavailable | Jan 1, 2022 | 3 years ago | ||
| HungaryHU | Unavailable | Sep 14, 2022 | 4 years ago | ||
| IcelandIS | Unavailable | Nov 26, 2025 | 10 months ago | ||
| IsraelIL | Unavailable | Oct 11, 2021 | 7 months ago | ||
| ItalyIT | Unavailable | Jun 20, 2022 | 3 years ago | ||
| JordanJO | Unavailable | Jun 4, 2022 | 2 years ago | ||
| KenyaKE | Unavailable | Jun 21, 2023 | 15 months ago | ||
| LatviaLV | Unavailable | Oct 30, 2021 | 3 years ago | ||
| LebanonLB | Unavailable | Mar 21, 2024 | 2 years ago | ||
| LiberiaLR | Unavailable | Nov 26, 2021 | 3 years ago | ||
| LuxembourgLU | Unavailable | Oct 14, 2021 | 3 years ago | ||
| MacaoMO | Unavailable | Jul 4, 2026 | 2 months ago | ||
| MadagascarMG | Unavailable | Jan 4, 2026 | 8 months ago | ||
| MaliML | Unavailable | Mar 15, 2022 | 2 years ago | ||
| MaltaMT | Unavailable | May 14, 2022 | 2 years ago | ||
| MauritaniaMR | Unavailable | Jan 26, 2022 | 4 years ago | ||
| MexicoMX | Unavailable | Apr 23, 2022 | 3 years ago | ||
| MoldovaMD | Unavailable | Nov 8, 2025 | 10 months ago | ||
| MongoliaMN | Unavailable | Mar 5, 2024 | 3 years ago | ||
| MontenegroME | Unavailable | Jul 24, 2024 | 2 years ago | ||
| MontserratMS | Unavailable | Nov 21, 2021 | 2 years ago | ||
| MoroccoMA | Unavailable | Jun 25, 2022 | 3 years ago | ||
| MozambiqueMZ | Unavailable | Apr 20, 2022 | 2 years ago | ||
| NamibiaNA | Unavailable | Oct 26, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| NauruNR | Unavailable | Dec 30, 2023 | 31 days ago | ||
| NepalNP | Unavailable | Dec 25, 2022 | 2 years ago | ||
| New ZealandNZ | Unavailable | Oct 17, 2022 | 1 year ago | ||
| NicaraguaNI | Unavailable | Nov 21, 2021 | 2 years ago | ||
| NigerNE | Unavailable | Dec 26, 2021 | 2 years ago | ||
| NigeriaNG | Unavailable | Nov 30, 2021 | 31 days ago | ||
| North MacedoniaMK | Unavailable | Jan 8, 2022 | 4 years ago | ||
| NorwayNO | Unavailable | Jan 31, 2022 | 3 years ago | ||
| OmanOM | Unavailable | Aug 30, 2024 | 2 years ago | ||
| PakistanPK | Unavailable | Mar 24, 2024 | 2 years ago | ||
| PanamaPA | Unavailable | May 13, 2024 | 2 years ago | ||
| Papua New GuineaPG | Unavailable | Feb 9, 2022 | 3 years ago | ||
| PeruPE | Unavailable | May 14, 2022 | 3 years ago | ||
| PhilippinesPH | Unavailable | Sep 27, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| PolandPL | Unavailable | Dec 16, 2021 | 1 year ago | ||
| PortugalPT | Unavailable | Jul 19, 2022 | 4 years ago | ||
| QatarQA | Unavailable | Oct 6, 2022 | 4 years ago | ||
| Republic of the CongoCG | Unavailable | Jun 29, 2023 | 2 years ago | ||
| RussiaRU | Unavailable | Mar 15, 2022 | 2 years ago | ||
| RwandaRW | Unavailable | Jul 19, 2022 | 4 years ago | ||
| São Tomé & PríncipeST | Unavailable | Oct 14, 2021 | 2 years ago | ||
| Saudi ArabiaSA | Unavailable | Dec 26, 2021 | 4 years ago | ||
| SerbiaRS | Unavailable | Nov 10, 2022 | 4 years ago | ||
| SeychellesSC | Unavailable | Jul 10, 2022 | 4 years ago | ||
| Sierra LeoneSL | Unavailable | Jan 6, 2022 | 2 years ago | ||
| SingaporeSG | Unavailable | Oct 11, 2021 | 31 days ago | ||
| SlovakiaSK | Unavailable | Oct 12, 2021 | 3 years ago | ||
| Solomon IslandsSB | Unavailable | Dec 31, 2023 | 3 years ago | ||
| Sri LankaLK | Unavailable | Oct 11, 2021 | 4 years ago | ||
| St. Vincent & GrenadinesVC | Unavailable | Feb 18, 2022 | 2 years ago | ||
| SurinameSR | Unavailable | Apr 20, 2022 | 2 years ago | ||
| SwitzerlandCH | Unavailable | Apr 3, 2022 | 2 months ago | ||
| TajikistanTJ | Unavailable | Sep 1, 2023 | 7 months ago | ||
| TanzaniaTZ | Unavailable | Jan 28, 2022 | 3 years ago | ||
| TongaTO | Unavailable | Jul 26, 2022 | 4 years ago | ||
| Trinidad & TobagoTT | Unavailable | Oct 11, 2021 | 15 months ago | ||
| TunisiaTN | Unavailable | Mar 15, 2022 | 3 years ago | ||
| TürkiyeTR | Unavailable | Feb 8, 2024 | 3 years ago | ||
| TurkmenistanTM | Unavailable | Nov 19, 2021 | 3 years ago | ||
| Turks & Caicos IslandsTC | Unavailable | Jul 2, 2026 | 3 months ago | ||
| UkraineUA | Unavailable | Mar 15, 2022 | 2 years ago | ||
| United Arab EmiratesAE | Unavailable | Nov 26, 2021 | 31 days ago | ||
| United KingdomGB | Unavailable | Nov 30, 2021 | 2 years ago | ||
| United StatesUS | Unavailable | Oct 11, 2021 | 31 days ago | ||
| UzbekistanUZ | Unavailable | Jul 11, 2022 | 2 years ago | ||
| VenezuelaVE | Unavailable | Jan 6, 2022 | 3 years ago | ||
| AfghanistanAF | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| AlbaniaAL | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| AngolaAO | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| AnguillaAI | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| ArgentinaAR | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| ArmeniaAM | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| AustraliaAU | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| AustriaAT | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| AzerbaijanAZ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| BahamasBS | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| BarbadosBB | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| BelgiumBE | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| BhutanBT | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| BoliviaBO | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| BotswanaBW | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| CameroonCM | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| ChadTD | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| ChileCL | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| DenmarkDK | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| DominicaDM | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| Dominican RepublicDO | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| EgyptEG | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| EswatiniSZ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| GambiaGM | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| GeorgiaGE | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| IndiaIN | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| IndonesiaID | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| IraqIQ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| IrelandIE | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| JamaicaJM | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| JapanJP | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| KazakhstanKZ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| KosovoXK | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| KuwaitKW | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| KyrgyzstanKG | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| LaosLA | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| LibyaLY | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| LithuaniaLT | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| MalawiMW | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| MalaysiaMY | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| MaldivesMV | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| MauritiusMU | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| MicronesiaFM | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| Myanmar (Burma)MM | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| NetherlandsNL | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| PalauPW | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| ParaguayPY | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| RomaniaRO | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| SenegalSN | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| SloveniaSI | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| South AfricaZA | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| South KoreaKR | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| SpainES | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| St. Kitts & NevisKN | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| St. LuciaLC | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| SwedenSE | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| TaiwanTW | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| ThailandTH | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| UgandaUG | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| UruguayUY | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| VanuatuVU | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| VietnamVN | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| YemenYE | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| ZambiaZM | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| ZimbabweZW | 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.