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August 2016

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

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

Activity record

37

19 vs prev

Apps launched

557

Cumulative apps

842

98 vs prev

Reviews posted

4.80

out of 5

Mean rating of reviews

2%

of reviews

1-2 star share

Month-over-month changes: launches +19, reviews +98.

Top categories by launches

  1. 1Banners3 launched
  2. 2SEO3 launched
  3. 3Analytics2 launched
  4. 4Design elements - Other2 launched
  5. 5Helpdesk2 launched
  6. 6Chat2 launched
  7. 7Ads2 launched
  8. 8Upsell and cross-sell2 launched

Top categories by reviews

  1. 1Discounts140 reviews
  2. 2Banners120 reviews
  3. 3Pop-ups106 reviews
  4. 4Loyalty and rewards105 reviews
  5. 5SEO66 reviews
  6. 6Upsell and cross-sell63 reviews
  7. 7Email marketing39 reviews
  8. 8Product variants38 reviews
Older: July 2016All issuesNewer: September 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.