More than most · 53 of 175 storefronts
What is censored in Albania?
The App Store in Albania looks typical: about as many widely-used apps are missing here as in most others Apple operates. 187 of the 1,216 apps with 10,000+ user ratings worldwide are unavailable here but still available somewhere else — the median storefront is missing 179.
What this number counts, and what it cannot show
Every app in a fixed basket of 3,329 — the apps we have tested in all 175 storefronts — that has at least 10,000 user ratings worldwide and is still available somewhere counts once if you cannot get it here. 1,216 of the basket qualify. Because every storefront is scored on exactly the same apps, this cannot be a report of how hard we have crawled here; and because nothing about how widely an app is distributed enters it, an app available in one other storefront counts exactly as much as one available in all 175.
187 of the 1,216 widely-used basket apps are missing here. · median 179
This correlates 0.44 with how many apps we have tested here, and its correlation with basket coverage is exactly zero, because every storefront is scored on the same apps. Its real weakness is elsewhere: a region-locked app is missing from nearly every storefront, so roughly four-fifths of any count is a floor almost everyone shares. That is why the middle of the ranking is much flatter than its ends, and why a rank in the middle of the table should not be read as a finding.
Measured Sep 18, 2026
Which notable apps are missing, by kind
The 187 apps above, sorted by what kind of app each one is. We watched 22 of them disappear from this storefront; the rest have been absent for as long as we have been testing here.
How these kinds are worked out
187 widely-used apps are missing here, sorted by what they are. Every one is classified from its name and Apple's own category, so nothing is left out and nothing depends on a list being kept up to date: 66 of the 187 fall into a kind we defined — VPNs, news, messaging, privacy tools and so on — and the rest are shown under Apple's own category. Within each kind the most-reviewed apps come first, because the point is which apps people actually use.
Each kind is shown twice over: the apps in it people actually use, and the same apps by when they went. Of the 187, we watched 22 disappear from this storefront, 2 of them in the last year. The rest have been absent for as long as we have been testing here, which is a different thing from having been removed and is shown as such.
Names are matched conservatively, and the misses are the deliberate kind: an app called "IP Location Changer" is a VPN and is caught by name, while a privacy browser is filed under privacy rather than VPN. Apple's category is used wherever it is the better answer — every news app it labels `News` is one, whereas a name rule for "news" also catches a football-scores app and a jobs board. Dates are when we last saw an app available here, and we have been testing this storefront since Feb 19, 2019 — anything that went before then is counted as missing but not as removed.
VPN and proxy8
Social and messaging231 in the last year
News11
Privacy and security1
Most used
Most recently gone
Religion2
Most recently gone
LGBTQ+1
Most used
Most recently gone
Dating18
Gambling and betting2
Most recently gone
Entertainment18
Most used
and 13 more
Most recently gone
Finance12
Most used
and 7 more
Most recently gone
Lifestyle10
Most used
- 交管12123
- My Love - Relationship Counter
- Lemon8 - Lifestyle Community
- Thumbtack: Home Service Pros
- Fam - make new friends live
and 5 more
Most recently gone
Shopping10
Games9
Most recently gone
Utilities9
Most recently gone
Music71 in the last year
Most recently gone
Photo and video7
Most used
and 2 more
Most recently gone
Productivity7
Most recently gone
Food and drink6
Most used
- Starbucks
- Too Good To Go: End Food Waste
- Swiggy: Food Instamart Dineout
- 肯德基KFC(官方版)-宅急送外卖无接触配送
- Yandex Eats: food delivery
and 1 more
Most recently gone
Business5
Most recently gone
Books4
Health and fitness4
Travel4
Medical3
Most recently gone
Education2
Most recently gone
Weather2
Most recently gone
Graphics and design1
Most used
Most recently gone
Reference1
Most used
Most recently gone
How we test
The total at the top of the page is every app we have tested here that we cannot get but that is still available somewhere — 12.26% of the 8,760 apps we have tested in this storefront. How many we have tested differs between storefronts, so that total compares poorly across countries. It is the fixed-basket count beside it that is comparable.
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.