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.
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.
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.
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.
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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Per the MRC, “'Fraud' is not intended to represent fraud as defined in various laws, statutes and ordinances or as conventionally used in U.S. Court or other legal proceedings, but rather a custom definition strictly for advertising measurement purposes. Also per the MRC, “‘Invalid Traffic’ is defined generally as traffic that does not meet certain ad serving quality or completeness criteria, or otherwise does not represent legitimate ad traffic that should be included in measurement counts. Among the reasons why ad traffic may be deemed invalid is it is a result of non-human traffic (spiders, bots, etc.), or activity designed to produce fraudulent traffic.”