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May 2016

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

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

Activity record

25

9 vs prev

Apps launched

483

Cumulative apps

668

104 vs prev

Reviews posted

4.78

out of 5

Mean rating of reviews

3%

of reviews

1-2 star share

Month-over-month changes: launches +9, reviews +104.

Top categories by launches

  1. 1Customer loyalty - Other2 launched
  2. 2Discounts2 launched
  3. 3Shipping2 launched
  4. 4Pop-ups2 launched
  5. 5Analytics1 launched
  6. 6Abandoned cart1 launched
  7. 7Chat1 launched
  8. 8Cart customization1 launched

Top categories by reviews

  1. 1Loyalty and rewards102 reviews
  2. 2Pop-ups81 reviews
  3. 3Discounts66 reviews
  4. 4Banners60 reviews
  5. 5Upsell and cross-sell49 reviews
  6. 6SEO43 reviews
  7. 7Abandoned cart39 reviews
  8. 8Product reviews38 reviews
Older: April 2016All issuesNewer: June 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.