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March 2016

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

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

Activity record

22

7 vs prev

Apps launched

442

Cumulative apps

528

131 vs prev

Reviews posted

4.85

out of 5

Mean rating of reviews

2%

of reviews

1-2 star share

Month-over-month changes: launches +7, reviews +131.

Top categories by launches

  1. 1Abandoned cart2 launched
  2. 2Badges and icons2 launched
  3. 3Banners2 launched
  4. 4Cart customization2 launched
  5. 5Currency and translation2 launched
  6. 6Dropshipping2 launched
  7. 7Invoices and receipts2 launched
  8. 8Shipping rates2 launched

Top categories by reviews

  1. 1Pop-ups44 reviews
  2. 2Loyalty and rewards42 reviews
  3. 3Upsell and cross-sell41 reviews
  4. 4Discounts38 reviews
  5. 5Marketing - Other35 reviews
  6. 6Affiliate programs32 reviews
  7. 7SEO30 reviews
  8. 8Product reviews28 reviews
Older: February 2016All issuesNewer: April 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.