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September 2016

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

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

Activity record

17

-20 vs prev

Apps launched

574

Cumulative apps

1,213

371 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 -20, reviews +371.

Top categories by launches

  1. 1Currency and translation2 launched
  2. 2SEO2 launched
  3. 3Social proof2 launched
  4. 4Order tracking2 launched
  5. 5Geolocation2 launched
  6. 6Email marketing1 launched
  7. 7Dropshipping1 launched
  8. 8Analytics1 launched

Top categories by reviews

  1. 1Discounts179 reviews
  2. 2Email marketing169 reviews
  3. 3Banners146 reviews
  4. 4Pop-ups124 reviews
  5. 5SEO115 reviews
  6. 6Upsell and cross-sell99 reviews
  7. 7Loyalty and rewards94 reviews
  8. 8SMS marketing86 reviews
Older: August 2016All issuesNewer: October 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.