How to check which countries an app is available in
By Andrew · Published · Last updated
Paste the app's App Store or Google Play link into the checker, pick the countries, and the report says for each one whether that country's store lists the app, read live. Without a tool, a store shows only the country your account is set to, so you switch countries one at a time, or ask the developer, who sees every country's status in App Store Connect or Play Console.
What a store means by available in a country
On the App Store, a person sees the storefront of the country set on their Apple Account, and the developer chooses which of the 175 countries or regions list the app. Someone whose account is set to Japan sees the Japanese App Store wherever they are.
Source: App Store Connect Help: Manage availability for your app on the App Store
Apple publishes the list of countries and regions where the App Store is available, with the other media services offered in each.
On Google Play, your Play country decides what the store shows you, and the apps, games and other content can vary by country or region.
Source: Google Play Help: How to change your Google Play country
Google Play targets a release by the country the user's account is registered in, not by where they are standing. When a developer selects a country as available, current and future production releases include it.
Source: Play Console Help: Distribute app releases to specific countries
An app can also be unavailable in a country or region for legal or regulatory reasons, which the developer sees as a status on that country in App Store Connect.
Source: App Store Connect Help: Manage availability for your app on the App Store
Check one country at a time, the store's own way
Both stores let you look at another country's listing, within limits, and both make changing your own country a real move rather than a switch.
Observed on 29 September 2026, not an Apple rule: the App Store's web address for an app carries its storefront, as in apps.apple.com/us/app/…, and changing those two letters opens that country's page. For one app checked that day, the United States address answered with the listing and the Japanese address, where the app is not listed, with a page-not-found error.
On the web, Google Play lets a signed-out visitor browse another country's store from the country selector in the page footer, but only for other EEA countries, and content can only be bought or downloaded from the store of your own country.
Source: Google Play Help: How to change your Google Play country
Changing the country of an Apple Account means first spending its balance, cancelling any subscription that blocks the change, waiting for pending pre-orders and rentals to clear, and entering a payment method valid in the new country. Some content may not be available after the move.
Source: Apple Support: Change your Apple Account country or region
Changing a Google Play country requires being in the new country with a payment method from it, at least 90 days must pass between changes, and members of a Google Family group cannot change it at all. Your Play balance stays linked to the old country.
Source: Google Play Help: How to change your Google Play country
The developer's view
The one place that shows every country at once, with the reason for each, is the developer's own console. If the app is yours, start there.
App Store Connect lists a status for each of the 175 storefronts under Pricing and Availability: Available, Available on App Release, Processing, Not Available, or a reason such as a missing age rating or a missing filing for China mainland.
Play Console keeps an app's availability on the production track's Countries/regions tab, where countries are added or removed, and testing tracks follow it unless they are unsynced.
Source: Play Console Help: Distribute app releases to specific countries
Check every country at once
For an app that is not yours, or for the outside view of one that is, a checker reads each country's public listing and puts the answers in one report. This one reads Apple's public App Store data and Google Play's public store pages live, at the moment you run it; nothing is estimated and no third-party data provider sits in between.
Open the checker on the app
Paste the app's App Store or Google Play link, or search its name. The store is read from the link, so an Android package name or a numeric App Store id works too.
Pick the countries
Choose the storefronts you care about, a whole region, or all 175 App Store countries or 176 Google Play locations. Up to 5 countries per report is free and needs no account.
Run the check
The checker reads each storefront's public listing at that moment and reports, country by country, whether the app is listed, with its rating, price and chart position where the store publishes one.
Keep the report
Export it as CSV or JSON, or open it in your mail app. With a free account every report is saved, so the same check on two dates can be compared side by side.
A worked example: one app, all 175 App Store countries
A check run on 29 September 2026 for Spotify (App Store id 324684580) across all 175 storefronts, from the demo page, where the nine demo apps are always free to check. It took about four minutes with ratings and reviews on.
| Region | Storefronts | Listed | Not listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| The United States and Canada | 2 | 2 | |
| Europe | 42 | 41 | Russia |
| Africa, Middle East, and India | 57 | 55 | Afghanistan, Yemen |
| Latin America and the Caribbean | 37 | 37 | |
| Asia Pacific | 37 | 34 | China mainland, Myanmar, Turkmenistan |
| All | 175 | 169 | 6 |
Each of the six was confirmed the same day against Apple's iTunes lookup API, which returns no result for the app in those storefronts. The report does not say why they are missing, and no outside tool can: the reason is in the developer's status column. What it does give is the whole picture in one pass, which the store's own website can only give one country at a time.
Why an app is missing from a country
The developer's choice, on either store: the App Store lists the app in the countries ticked in App Store Connect, and Google Play in the countries selected as available for the production track.
Source: Play Console Help: Distribute app releases to specific countries
The law: Apple says an app may be unavailable for download or use in some countries or regions because of legal or regulatory requirements, and shows the developer the reason as that country's status.
Source: App Store Connect Help: Manage availability for your app on the App Store
Time: a change to an App Store listing's countries applies at once but can take up to 24 hours to be visible to all users.
Source: App Store Connect Help: Manage availability for your app on the App Store
Time, on Google Play: after a developer publishes a change to an app's distribution settings, it can take a few hours before it shows on Google Play.
The reader's own account: on both stores the country on the account, not the place the person is standing, decides which store they see.
Source: Play Console Help: Distribute app releases to specific countries
Common questions
Can I see which countries an app is available in without changing my account's country?
Yes. On the web, the App Store's address for an app carries its storefront, and a country that does not list the app answers with a not-found page. Google Play lets a signed-out visitor browse other EEA countries' stores from the footer. A checker reads every storefront's public listing at once, so you get the whole list in one report instead of switching countries by hand.
Why is an app available in one country but not in another?
Because the developer chose the countries. On the App Store the developer ticks storefronts in App Store Connect, and on Google Play a release goes to the countries and regions selected as available in Play Console. A country can also be closed to an app for legal or regulatory reasons, which the developer sees as a status on that country. Most gaps are a release choice.
Does not available mean the app is banned in that country?
Rarely. On both stores, not available almost always means the developer did not release there, and Apple's status column names a legal or regulatory reason to the developer when one applies. Nothing outside the developer's console shows which it is, so a report tells you where the app is listed today, not why it is missing elsewhere.
How do I check if an Android app is available in my country?
Open the app's Google Play page from your own Play account: the store shows your Play country's listing, and an app not released there does not appear. To see other countries, sign out on the web and use the footer's country selector for EEA countries, or run a check across all 176 Google Play locations. Play publishes one worldwide rating count, so per-country ratings are not part of the answer.
How up to date is a country availability check?
A check reads the store at the moment it runs, so it reflects that day's listing. After a developer changes countries, Apple says the change applies at once but can take up to 24 hours to reach every user, and Google says distribution changes can take a few hours to show on Google Play. A report from last week can be out of date; run it again before relying on it.
Sources
Every rule above was read against the store's own documentation on . The wording is ours; the facts are theirs.
- App Store Connect Help: Manage availability for your app on the App Store
- App Store Connect Help: App and submission statuses
- Apple Support: Availability of Apple Media Services
- Apple Support: Change your Apple Account country or region
- Google Play Help: How to change your Google Play country
- Play Console Help: Distribute app releases to specific countries
- Play Console Help: Set up your app's prices
See it for the app you have in mind
Paste an App Store or Google Play link and pick the countries. The report shows where the app is listed right now, with its rating, price and chart position there. Up to 5 countries per report is free and needs no account.
Check an app in every countryMore guides
- This app is not available in your country or region: what it means
- How to set your app's country availability in App Store Connect
- How to set your app's country availability in Google Play Console
- Why your app does not show in a country after release
- App Store ratings and rankings differ by country: how to see them
- App Store countries: the list of all 175 storefronts
- Google Play countries: the list of all 176 locations
- App Store name, subtitle and keyword limits, and Google Play's title and short description