How get know the country of the AppStore/Playstore the app was downloaded

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To adhere to local laws (mostly EU/USA for now) I need to know which country store my app has been downloaded. How can I find this?

I only see implementations that use the local time zone, but that is not sufficient by Apple. Eg if someone is on holiday inside the EU, I should not be able to show that people are able to buy a subscription from the website.

Thank you!

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You can’t directly get the country where your app was downloaded from via the Play Store or App Store through the Ionic/Capacitor runtime.

  1. Use Device Locale or Region Info: You can use the @capacitor/device plugin to retrieve the device’s locale and region. This gives you the user’s device settings, which usually correlate with their store location, but not always

  2. IP-Based Location: If you want more accurate geolocation at install or login, implement a simple IP-based lookup via your backend (like using IPinfo, GeoIP, MaxMind)

  3. Analytics Tools:

Services like:

  • Firebase Analytics
  • Google Play Console => Statistics => User acquisition
  • App Store Connect => Metrics => Acquisition
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For legal compliance, you probably want to get the country code from Apple’s API itself; with any other method, you are guessing, and Apple may object to that.

You can get the countryCode from StoreKit; there may be an existing Capacitor plugin that does this, or you may have to write the code on your own.