--- title: Pixalate’s Global January 2025 Delisted Mobile Apps Reports Find 82K Apps Delisted from Google Play Store & 24K from Apple App Store description: Pixalate's Monthly Delisted Mobile Apps Report analyzes apps delisted from the Google Play Store and Apple App Store during January 2025. image: https://www.pixalate.com/hubfs/Blog%20Media/Blog%20photos/Delisted%20Mobile%20Apps%20Report%20-%20January%202025%20email%20cover.png --- [![pixalate-full-logo](https://www.pixalate.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Pixalate_Logos/pixalate-full-logo.jpg?width=150&height=60&name=pixalate-full-logo.jpg "pixalate-full-logo")](https://www.pixalate.com) Search **Menu** ** ** ![](https://www.pixalate.com/hubfs/Blog_Media/Blog%20photos/pixalate-blog-bg.png) [Mobile Apps](https://www.pixalate.com/blog/topic/mobile-apps) | [Privacy](https://www.pixalate.com/blog/topic/privacy) | [Delisted Apps](https://www.pixalate.com/blog/topic/delisted-apps) | 3 min read # Pixalate’s Global January 2025 Delisted Mobile Apps Reports Find 82K Apps Delisted from Google Play Store & 24K from Apple App Store Written by [Pixalate](https://www.pixalate.com/blog/author/pixalate) Feb 20, 2025 7:30:01 AM *Pixalate research finds 19.6k (24%) apps delisted from the Google Play Store and 1.9k (8%) from the Apple App Store had open programmatic advertising enabled (e.g. an app-ads.txt file)*  **LONDON, February 19, 2024** -- [Pixalate](https://www.pixalate.com/), a leading global platform for ad fraud protection, privacy, and compliance analytics, today released the January 2025 Delisted Mobile Apps Report for the [Apple App Store](https://www.pixalate.com/monthly-delisted-mobile-apps-report-apple-app-store) and [Google Play Store](https://www.pixalate.com/monthly-delisted-mobile-apps-report-google-play-store), analyzing apps that were found to be delisted from these stores in January. The report identifies applications that are no longer available for download from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, according to Pixalate’s data. Delisted apps do not reflect the initiator of the delisting action, i.e., Apple or Google, or the app developer. While some apps are delisted for benign reasons, others are removed as a result of more nefarious behaviors, including ad fraud, and non-compliance with privacy regulations or app store policies, which may cause advertisers to be exposed to potential financial or legal risk as well. Because apps can be delisted for a variety of reasons, Pixalate is neither asserting nor assigning a reason for any delisting action. Additionally, the initiator of the delisting is not generally publicly-available information, so it is often not possible to know whether the removal was triggered by the app store or the developer. Pixalate’s research focuses on app profile information and provides various insights observed in the programmatic advertising bid stream, such as the developer’s country of registry, the level of app abandonment, and the number of delisted apps with advertising (an app-ads.txt file). ## **Key Findings:** ## **Google Play Store** - **Delisted apps**: 82k apps delisted in January 2025, up 22% from December 2024 - 20k apps delisted had open programmatic advertising (i.e., an app-ads.txt file) enabled in January 2025, 24% of all apps delisted - **Country of origin:** United States-registered apps had the highest number of delistings (3,107) in the Google Play Store, followed by India (1,895) in January 2025 - 81% of apps delisted from the Google Play Store in January 2025 had no listed country of registration - Of apps that did have a country of registration, 6,403 were registered in Asia-Pacific (APAC), which is the highest among global regions, 5,344 in EMEA, 3,337 in North America, and 698 in LATAM, according to Pixalate ## **Google Play Store: Top 5 Delisted Apps in January 2025 (by downloads)** | **Rank** | **App ID** | **App Title** | **Estimated Downloads** | **Developer Name** | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | **1** | [com.racergame.cityracing3d](https://ratings.pixalate.com/insight/apps/com.racergame.cityracing3d/GLOBAL/android/GLOBAL) | City Racing 3D | 50M | 3DGames | | **2** | [com.music.ops.retroappdownload2](https://ratings.pixalate.com/insight/apps/com.music.ops.retroappdownload2/GLOBAL/android/GLOBAL) | Download Music Mp3 | 50M | Bayzid Hossain Shaded | | **3** | [com.racergame.cityracinglite.free](https://ratings.pixalate.com/insight/apps/com.racergame.cityracinglite.free/GLOBAL/android/GLOBAL) | City Racing Lite | 10M | 3DGames | | **4** | [com.banaa.videoimagesmo](https://ratings.pixalate.com/insight/apps/com.banaa.videoimagesmo/GLOBAL/android/GLOBAL) | File Recovery: Photo Restore | 10M | devfatii | | **5** | [com.captha.didymoi](https://ratings.pixalate.com/insight/apps/com.captha.didymoi/GLOBAL/android/GLOBAL) | HiTV - HD Drama, Film, TV Show | 10M | Super drama world |   ## **Apple App Store:** - **Delisted apps**: 24k apps delisted in January 2025, down 93% from December 2024 - 1.9k apps delisted had open programmatic advertising (i.e., an app-ads.txt file) enabled in January 2025, 8% of all apps delisted - 2,7115 apps with app-ads.txt were removed in December 2024 - **Country of origin:** United States-registered apps had the highest number of delistings (788) in the Google Play Store, followed by India (242) and Republic of Korea (232) in January 2025 - 89% of apps delisted from the Google Play Store in January 2025 had no listed country of registration - Of apps that did have a country of registration, 895 were registered in APAC, which is the highest among global regions, 849 in North America, 765 in North America, and 81 in LATAM, according to Pixalate ## **Apple App Store: Top 5 Delisted Apps in January 2025 (by downloads)** | **Rank** | **App ID** | **App Title** | **Estimated Downloads** | **Developer Name** | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | **1** | [502808508](https://ratings.pixalate.com/insight/apps/502808508/GLOBAL/ios/GLOBAL) | АЗС «Газпромнефть» | 221K | Gazpromneft - Tsentr OOO | | **2** | [1524938546](https://ratings.pixalate.com/insight/apps/1524938546/GLOBAL/ios/GLOBAL) | Anime High School Girl Life 3D | 88K | Muhammad Ifran | | **3** | [1546690167](https://ratings.pixalate.com/insight/apps/1546690167/GLOBAL/ios/GLOBAL) | VPN Bucks - Best VPN Master | 88K | GAO TECH LIMITED | | **4** | [6470341665](https://ratings.pixalate.com/insight/apps/6470341665/GLOBAL/ios/GLOBAL) | HlTV - video & drama | 56K | 国华 张 | | **5** | [1396718502](https://ratings.pixalate.com/insight/apps/1396718502/GLOBAL/ios/GLOBAL) | Shadow Ninja Assassin Game | 44K | Muhammad Ifran | ## **Download the full reports** Download and explore a complimentary copy of the January 2025 Delisted Mobile Apps Reports, which includes a list of the top 100 delisted apps by store with programmatic advertising (based on the presence of an app-ads.txt file). 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