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Monthly Delisted Mobile Apps Report + Top 100 CSV - Apple App Store

 

Discover Pixalate’s monthly analysis of delisted apps from the Apple App Store for June 2025. Each Monthly Delisted Mobile Apps Report includes an overview of monthly trends and an easy-to-ingest CSV file highlighting the top 100 most popular apps removed from app stores during the month.

More delisted apps:

  • ... Google Play Store (Monthly Trends Report)
  • ... Apple App Store (Weekly Top 100) - COMING SOON
  • ... Google Play Store (Weekly Top 100) - COMING SOON

Pixalate's Methodology: Delisted Mobile Apps

Pixalate’s data science and analyst teams examined over 2.1 million apps delisted from the Apple App Store between January 2021 and June 2025. This data is sourced from crawls of the app stores, conducted either by Pixalate or its third-party licensors.

What are delisted mobile apps?

Delisted mobile apps are those that have been removed from official app stores. These removals can occur for several reasons, ranging from violations of app store policies to the developer's voluntary withdrawal.

Pixalate does not claim or assign specific reasons for any app’s delisting in this report. In most cases, the party responsible for the removal—whether the app store or the developer—is not publicly disclosed.

Pixalate is sharing this data not to impugn the standing or reputation of any person, entity, or app, but instead, to report opinions as they pertain to delisted apps.

What risks are associated with delisted mobile apps?

Apps that have been removed from official app stores have the potential to jeopardize consumer privacy and the overall health of the app ecosystem. Even after being delisted, these apps may remain installed on users' devices, continuing to gather personal information. Moreover, the influx of advertising revenue towards these apps can motivate and prolong these privacy concerns.

App stores routinely delist low-quality, non-compliant, or malicious apps. While some apps are delisted for benign reasons, others are removed due to more nefarious behaviors, including ad fraud and non-compliance with privacy regulations.

The removal of these apps from app stores does not necessarily mean they are removed from user devices. According to Pixalate’s data, these apps can still remain on user devices and continue to run, leading to brand safety risks, malware, and ad fraud concerns.

Additional methodology notes:

  • Country of Registration: The country of registration for a given app is determined only if the app has a physical address published on its app store page, or otherwise, from the registrant's physical address, as listed in the publisher domain on the app store page, excluding privately registered ones. If none is available, the physical address associated with an app cannot be determined. Sometimes, the same developer may list different countries of registration for different apps. The country of registration is used to determine the region as North America, EMEA, APAC, or LATAM. 
  • Downloads and User Ratings: The Top 10 and Top 100 lists referred to within this report are determined using the number of downloads (for Google) and user ratings (for Apple); data is derived from crawls of the respective app stores performed by Pixalate or one of Pixalate’s third-party licensors.
  • Apps with ads (app-ads.txt): In this report, an app is considered to have ads if a detectable app-ads.txt file is present. The ads.txt initiative from the IAB Tech Lab was launched with a mission to “Increase transparency in the programmatic advertising ecosystem” by allowing publishers and other traffic rights owners to publicly declare the companies they authorize to sell their digital inventory, with a primary goal of reducing app misrepresentation, or “spoofing.”

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About Pixalate

Pixalate is a global platform for privacy compliance, ad fraud prevention, and data intelligence in the digital ad supply chain. Founded in 2012, Pixalate’s platform is trusted by regulators, data researchers, advertisers, publishers, ad tech platforms, and financial analysts across the Connected TV (CTV), mobile app, and website ecosystems. Pixalate is MRC-accredited for the detection and filtration of Sophisticated Invalid Traffic (SIVT).

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