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October 2015

A look at what happened in the Shopify App Store in October 2015.

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

Activity record

31

20 vs prev

Apps launched

347

Cumulative apps

268

28 vs prev

Reviews posted

4.71

out of 5

Mean rating of reviews

6%

of reviews

1-2 star share

Month-over-month changes: launches +20, reviews +28.

Top categories by launches

  1. 1Discounts4 launched
  2. 2Pop-ups4 launched
  3. 3Upsell and cross-sell3 launched
  4. 4Analytics3 launched
  5. 5Banners3 launched
  6. 6Abandoned cart2 launched
  7. 7Currency and translation2 launched
  8. 8Countdown timer2 launched

Top categories by reviews

  1. 1Upsell and cross-sell31 reviews
  2. 2Product bundles28 reviews
  3. 3Email marketing20 reviews
  4. 4SEO20 reviews
  5. 5Shipping19 reviews
  6. 6Discounts18 reviews
  7. 7Product variants14 reviews
  8. 8Pop-ups11 reviews
Older: September 2015All issuesNewer: November 2015

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.