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April 2016

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

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

Activity record

16

-6 vs prev

Apps launched

458

Cumulative apps

564

36 vs prev

Reviews posted

4.80

out of 5

Mean rating of reviews

3%

of reviews

1-2 star share

Month-over-month changes: launches -6, reviews +36.

Top categories by launches

  1. 1Inventory optimization2 launched
  2. 2Product reviews2 launched
  3. 3Animation and effects1 launched
  4. 4Custom file upload1 launched
  5. 5Chat1 launched
  6. 6Delivery and pickup1 launched
  7. 7ERP1 launched
  8. 8Helpdesk1 launched

Top categories by reviews

  1. 1Loyalty and rewards70 reviews
  2. 2Pop-ups65 reviews
  3. 3Discounts61 reviews
  4. 4Email marketing38 reviews
  5. 5Banners37 reviews
  6. 6Upsell and cross-sell37 reviews
  7. 7Product bundles26 reviews
  8. 8Currency and translation25 reviews
Older: March 2016All issuesNewer: May 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.