We monitor 217 Google Play storefronts to answer one question —

Is متجر الشاهين | Alshaheen Shop censored by Google?

Gone.

متجر الشاهين | Alshaheen Shop is gone from every Google Play storefront we test. It was last seen available on Aug 31, 2024.

485 tests on record·last checked 13 hours ago

Why it is unavailable

Five things can put an app out of one Google Play. 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 Google complied. Google publishes a count of these per country each year and never says which apps they were. Google’s Transparency Report

  • A local rule about paying for itPossible

    gambling licences, financial rules, tax — the kind of law that governs a transaction. Google 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.

  • Google 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 Google’s own removal figures by a wide margin, and it covers distribution permits as well as content — Google kept a free Bible app out of mainland China in 2021 for want of one. Google’s Transparency Report

  • The developer withheld itPossible

    freely, or under legal advice of their own, or because Google’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 Google’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.

    • Gone for 1 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 Google’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: Google naming a Chinese agency tells you what Google 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 Google’s catalogue looking identical — and that nobody has ever measured how they divide across Google Play. The one careful study of the question was done on Google's store, using an error message Google does not emit.

Google publishes no record of which apps are unavailable in which countries. Its Transparency Report counts the removal requests governments send it, across its products together, and names no app in any of them — so even the part it does disclose cannot be matched to a single thing missing from your store. Where a reason reaches the public at all, it is usually because a developer chose to say so. Google’s Transparency Report

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متجر الشاهين | Alshaheen Shop

Developer: ابتكارات | ibtikarat · Released: Aug 31, 2024 · Rating: 4.2★

View in Google Play ↗
0stores where available
120stores where blocked
4.94Bpeople behind the block
120of 217 stores tested
485tests on record

Life of this app

  1. Aug 31, 2024Released on Google Play
  2. Aug 31, 2024Last seen available anywhere
  3. Apr 23, 2025First tested by GooglePlayCensorship
  4. May 12, 2025Gone from 120 storefronts
  5. Sep 28, 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.

2024-082026-09

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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AfghanistanAF↗UnavailableJan 10, 20259 months ago
AndorraAD↗UnavailableApr 23, 202514 months ago
AnguillaAI↗UnavailableOct 4, 202512 months ago
Antigua & BarbudaAG↗UnavailableJun 30, 202515 months ago
ArgentinaAR↗UnavailableDec 6, 202510 months ago
ArubaAW↗UnavailableDec 12, 202415 months ago
AustraliaAU↗UnavailableMar 12, 202515 months ago
BahamasBS↗UnavailableApr 24, 202514 months ago
BahrainBH↗UnavailableJul 18, 202514 months ago
BangladeshBD↗UnavailableMay 7, 20259 months ago
BelarusBY↗UnavailableFeb 23, 202515 months ago
BermudaBM↗UnavailableSep 20, 202512 months ago
BoliviaBO↗UnavailableJan 14, 202511 months ago
BotswanaBW↗UnavailableSep 26, 202512 months ago
British Virgin IslandsVG↗UnavailableApr 27, 20259 months ago
BulgariaBG↗UnavailableJan 11, 202511 months ago
Burkina FasoBF↗UnavailableMar 10, 202516 months ago
CanadaCA↗UnavailableFeb 25, 202515 months ago
Cape VerdeCV↗UnavailableJan 6, 202512 months ago
Cayman IslandsKY↗UnavailableSep 21, 202512 months ago
Central African RepublicCF↗UnavailableMay 16, 202512 months ago
ChileCL↗UnavailableMay 17, 202512 months ago
China (Mainland)CN↗UnavailableDec 12, 202413 hours ago
Christmas IslandCX↗UnavailableJun 24, 202515 months ago
Cocos (Keeling) IslandsCC↗UnavailableJan 19, 202514 months ago
ColombiaCO↗UnavailableJul 30, 202511 months ago
Cook IslandsCK↗UnavailableDec 28, 202414 months ago
Costa RicaCR↗UnavailableSep 28, 202613 hours ago
Côte d’IvoireCI↗UnavailableMay 22, 202517 hours ago
CroatiaHR↗UnavailableMay 12, 202512 months ago
CyprusCY↗UnavailableApr 10, 202515 months ago
DenmarkDK↗UnavailableJan 6, 202512 months ago
DominicaDM↗UnavailableMar 16, 202510 months ago
Dominican RepublicDO↗UnavailableJul 20, 202514 months ago
Equatorial GuineaGQ↗UnavailableJul 18, 202514 months ago
EritreaER↗UnavailableJan 11, 202511 months ago
EstoniaEE↗UnavailableJun 8, 202511 months ago
EswatiniSZ↗UnavailableMar 3, 202512 months ago
FijiFJ↗UnavailableApr 14, 20259 months ago
FranceFR↗UnavailableMar 16, 202512 months ago
GabonGA↗UnavailableSep 20, 202512 months ago
GambiaGM↗UnavailableAug 8, 20259 months ago
GeorgiaGE↗UnavailableMay 5, 202512 months ago
GibraltarGI↗UnavailableMay 2, 202514 months ago
GreeceGR↗UnavailableMar 19, 20259 months ago
GuernseyGG↗UnavailableDec 15, 20259 months ago
GuineaGN↗UnavailableFeb 7, 202515 months ago
HaitiHT↗UnavailableDec 28, 202414 months ago
HungaryHU↗UnavailableJan 19, 20259 months ago
IcelandIS↗UnavailableJul 9, 202515 months ago
IndiaIN↗UnavailableJun 30, 202515 months ago
IraqIQ↗UnavailableMar 1, 202513 months ago
IrelandIE↗UnavailableJan 6, 202512 months ago
Isle of ManIM↗UnavailableJun 24, 202511 months ago
JamaicaJM↗UnavailableDec 22, 202415 months ago
JerseyJE↗UnavailableJan 23, 202510 months ago
JordanJO↗UnavailableJun 20, 202514 months ago
KazakhstanKZ↗UnavailableJul 29, 202514 months ago
KiribatiKI↗UnavailableJul 4, 202515 months ago
KosovoXK↗UnavailableSep 25, 202512 months ago
KyrgyzstanKG↗UnavailableApr 10, 202512 months ago
LesothoLS↗UnavailableMar 16, 202514 months ago
LiechtensteinLI↗UnavailableJun 23, 202514 months ago
MalawiMW↗UnavailableFeb 25, 202515 months ago
MaldivesMV↗UnavailableApr 24, 202511 months ago
MaltaMT↗UnavailableJan 10, 20269 months ago
MauritaniaMR↗UnavailableFeb 13, 202516 months ago
MexicoMX↗UnavailableNov 12, 202511 months ago
MoldovaMD↗UnavailableMar 1, 202512 months ago
MongoliaMN↗UnavailableSep 26, 202512 months ago
MontenegroME↗UnavailableJan 23, 202516 months ago
MontserratMS↗UnavailableFeb 7, 202515 months ago
MoroccoMA↗UnavailableMay 17, 20256 days ago
Myanmar (Burma)MM↗UnavailableJul 9, 20256 days ago
NauruNR↗UnavailableJan 6, 202512 months ago
NepalNP↗UnavailableJul 13, 202515 months ago
NetherlandsNL↗UnavailableApr 14, 202512 months ago
New ZealandNZ↗UnavailableOct 8, 202512 months ago
NicaraguaNI↗UnavailableOct 16, 202511 months ago
NigerNE↗UnavailableDec 10, 202510 months ago
Norfolk IslandNF↗UnavailableJan 9, 20269 months ago
North MacedoniaMK↗UnavailableFeb 7, 202510 months ago
OmanOM↗UnavailableMay 12, 202515 months ago
Palestinian TerritoriesPS↗UnavailableJan 14, 202511 months ago
PanamaPA↗UnavailableMar 10, 202515 months ago
Papua New GuineaPG↗UnavailableDec 19, 20259 months ago
ParaguayPY↗UnavailableJul 22, 202514 months ago
PeruPE↗UnavailableDec 15, 20259 months ago
PolandPL↗UnavailableJul 30, 202514 months ago
PortugalPT↗UnavailableApr 23, 202516 months ago
SamoaWS↗UnavailableSep 20, 202512 months ago
San MarinoSM↗UnavailableSep 19, 202512 months ago
São Tomé & PríncipeST↗UnavailableMay 28, 202516 months ago
Saudi ArabiaSA↗UnavailableMar 16, 202514 months ago
SeychellesSC↗UnavailableMar 23, 202514 months ago
SingaporeSG↗UnavailableMay 5, 20259 months ago
SlovakiaSK↗UnavailableDec 22, 202414 months ago
SloveniaSI↗UnavailableAug 12, 202514 months ago
Solomon IslandsSB↗UnavailableAug 9, 202514 months ago
South AfricaZA↗UnavailableDec 19, 202415 months ago
SpainES↗UnavailableFeb 23, 202512 months ago
Sri LankaLK↗UnavailableJan 10, 20269 months ago
St. HelenaSH↗UnavailableNov 12, 202511 months ago
St. LuciaLC↗UnavailableJan 10, 20269 months ago
St. Vincent & GrenadinesVC↗UnavailableMay 24, 202516 months ago
SwedenSE↗UnavailableApr 10, 202517 hours ago
SwitzerlandCH↗UnavailableJul 4, 202510 months ago
TanzaniaTZ↗UnavailableAug 9, 202514 months ago
TogoTG↗UnavailableMar 19, 202514 months ago
TongaTO↗UnavailableSep 6, 202510 months ago
Trinidad & TobagoTT↗UnavailableDec 19, 20259 months ago
TurkmenistanTM↗UnavailableDec 19, 202414 months ago
UkraineUA↗UnavailableJul 16, 202514 months ago
United Arab EmiratesAE↗UnavailableDec 12, 202413 hours ago
United StatesUS↗UnavailableDec 12, 202413 hours ago
UzbekistanUZ↗UnavailableMay 2, 20256 days ago
VenezuelaVE↗UnavailableJul 2, 202515 months ago
VietnamVN↗UnavailableSep 28, 202617 hours ago
YemenYE↗UnavailableSep 21, 202512 months ago
ZambiaZM↗UnavailableSep 26, 202512 months ago
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ChadTD↗Not tested——0
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CzechiaCZ↗Not tested——0
DjiboutiDJ↗Not tested——0
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PhilippinesPH↗Not tested——0
Pitcairn IslandsPN↗Not tested——0
QatarQA↗Not tested——0
Republic of the CongoCG↗Not tested——0
RomaniaRO↗Not tested——0
RussiaRU↗Not tested——0
RwandaRW↗Not tested——0
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Sierra LeoneSL↗Not tested——0
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South KoreaKR↗Not tested——0
St. Kitts & NevisKN↗Not tested——0
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SurinameSR↗Not tested——0
TaiwanTW↗Not tested——0
TajikistanTJ↗Not tested——0
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UruguayUY↗Not tested——0
VanuatuVU↗Not tested——0
Vatican CityVA↗Not tested——0
Western SaharaEH↗Not tested——0
ZimbabweZW↗Not tested——0

Testing asks Google whether it will sell this app in that storefront, right now, by the same method the crawler has used since 2019. Your browser asks Google directly, so the answer describes what Google serves your connection — and if your browser cannot reach Google at all, we ask on your behalf and say so. The result is a link: open it to see Google’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 Google’s own catalog servers for every storefront, the same way Google Play app asks. "Unavailable" means Google’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.