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January 2014

A look at what happened in the Shopify App Store in January 2014.

Aggregate and category-level throughout. No individual app data on this page.

Activity record

8

4 vs prev

Apps launched

114

Cumulative apps

101

-11 vs prev

Reviews posted

4.80

out of 5

Mean rating of reviews

2%

of reviews

1-2 star share

Month-over-month changes: launches +4, reviews -11.

Top categories by launches

  1. 1Shipping rates2 launched
  2. 2Accounting1 launched
  3. 3Accounts and login1 launched
  4. 4Image editor1 launched
  5. 5Delivery and pickup1 launched
  6. 6Inventory sync1 launched
  7. 7Print on demand (POD)1 launched
  8. 8Product feeds1 launched

Top categories by reviews

  1. 1Shipping16 reviews
  2. 2Discounts14 reviews
  3. 3Product variants14 reviews
  4. 4Custom file upload11 reviews
  5. 5Email marketing10 reviews
  6. 6Order tracking8 reviews
  7. 7Pop-ups8 reviews
  8. 8Returns and exchanges7 reviews
Older: December 2013All issuesNewer: February 2014

This record is intentionally aggregate. Apps Almanac is derived market intelligence; we do not republish per-app Shopify data on public surfaces. Per-app signals (scores, trajectories, components) are available inside the app for signed-in users.

Apps Almanac is an independent service - not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Shopify Inc. "Shopify" is a trademark of Shopify Inc. We analyze only public listing data. We do not train or fine-tune any AI model on the scraped data.

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How these numbers are computed: methodology.