Muse Is Still US and Canada Only, With One Unexplained Exception
An independent check of Apple's App Store across 156 country storefronts found Meta's Muse app listed in only three: the US, Canada, and Saint Kitts and Nevis.
By Icarus4 min read
Muse Is Still US and Canada Only, With One Unexplained Exception
An independent check of Apple’s App Store across 156 country storefronts found Meta’s Muse app listed in only three: the US, Canada, and, oddly, Saint Kitts and Nevis.
Four weeks after launch, Muse is still unavailable to anyone outside the United States and Canada. Meta’s launch announcement, last updated September 30, still says only this about location: “Muse is rolling out in the US on iOS, Android, and muse.ai, and coming soon to AI glasses.”
The one expansion so far came ten days after launch, when Meta’s X account announced Canada with “Made it to Canada. Where to next?” No country has been added since, and Meta has not named a date for any other market.
That leaves the UK, the EU, and Australia, where Reddit threads keep describing failed workarounds, with no official path in. A detailed independent check, published October 4 by writer Mateo Hidalgo, puts the situation in unusually concrete terms: using Apple’s public iTunes lookup service for the Muse app (listed as “Muse from Meta,” seller Meta Platforms, Inc.) across 156 country storefronts, the app appeared in just three: the US, Canada, and, inexplicably, Saint Kitts and Nevis. Everywhere else came back empty, including the UK, Ireland, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Australia, and New Zealand.
We re-ran two of those queries on October 5 and got the same result: the UK lookup returns no results, while the Saint Kitts and Nevis lookup returns the Muse app. Meta has said nothing about Saint Kitts and Nevis, and the meaning of the listing is unclear.
Why VPNs Mostly Don’t Work
The frustrated threads on Reddit tell a consistent story. The block doesn’t happen when muse.ai loads; the site opens fine from London, Berlin, or Melbourne. It happens at sign-in, which suggests Meta is checking the account, not just the network.
One poster listed everything they had tried: a US VPN, location spoofing, several email addresses through iCloud Hide My Email, a US App Store account, and US-English settings. Their verdict: “somehow I still always end up on the waitlist or get blocked because of my region.” Mixed results are the best case; another reported that muse.ai “just blocked access even with VPN.”
The workaround guides that circulate (third-party app mirrors, a brand-new Meta account, a US ZIP code) amount to building your account on false details, and the accounts behind them hold your email, calendar, logins, and payments. Access granted that way can disappear without notice: one user posted that Muse worked for four days, then stopped, and later started working again with no explanation.
The Meta AI Precedent
The closest guide to timing is what happened with Meta’s earlier assistant. Meta AI, the company’s chatbot, launched in the US in September 2023 and reached the UK in October 2024, about a year later, per a Silicon UK report quoting Zuckerberg. It took until March 2025 to reach the EU, roughly 18 months after its US launch, with Meta saying at the time: “It’s taken longer than we would have liked to get our AI technology into the hands of people in Europe as we continue to navigate its complex regulatory system.”
Muse is a different product, and Meta has said nothing about its UK plans. But Muse handles far more personal data than a chatbot (inboxes, calendars, stored logins, payments), which is exactly the kind of thing regulators scrutinize. If the earlier pattern is any guide, non-US users should think in months, not weeks.
The timing is awkward: Meta’s Connect 2026 recap announced Ray-Ban Display glasses expanding to the UK, Canada, France, Italy, and Germany. Muse got a glasses announcement too, just no new country.
How to Know When It Arrives
There’s no waitlist outside the US and Canada; the app simply shows a screen saying Muse “isn’t available in your country or region yet” and promises a notice when that changes. That screen is tied to your normal Meta account, which is the account that would get access when your country opens, so there’s an argument for leaving it in place.
The faster check is the App Store itself. Apple’s lookup pages are public: open apps.apple.com/us/app/muse-from-meta/id6760173601 and swap the us for your country code (gb for the UK, au for Australia, de for Germany). A “not found” page means it isn’t there yet; when the page loads, the launch has likely started, though sign-in can lag behind because the account check is separate.
Beyond that, the two places to watch are Meta’s newsroom for the big announcements and the Muse X account, which is where Canada appeared first. And if you’re wondering what the fuss is about, start with what Muse can and can’t do yet.
