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January 2016

A look at what happened in the Shopify App Store in January 2016.

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

Activity record

26

9 vs prev

Apps launched

405

Cumulative apps

340

57 vs prev

Reviews posted

4.78

out of 5

Mean rating of reviews

4%

of reviews

1-2 star share

Month-over-month changes: launches +9, reviews +57.

Top categories by launches

  1. 1Upsell and cross-sell5 launched
  2. 2Pop-ups3 launched
  3. 3Chat2 launched
  4. 4Pay later2 launched
  5. 5Inventory optimization2 launched
  6. 6Inventory sync2 launched
  7. 7ERP1 launched
  8. 8Currency and translation1 launched

Top categories by reviews

  1. 1Loyalty and rewards52 reviews
  2. 2Pop-ups30 reviews
  3. 3Upsell and cross-sell22 reviews
  4. 4Product bundles22 reviews
  5. 5Discounts21 reviews
  6. 6Shipping20 reviews
  7. 7Email marketing19 reviews
  8. 8Product reviews18 reviews
Older: December 2015All issuesNewer: February 2016

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.