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December 2016

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

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

Activity record

20

Apps launched

631

Cumulative apps

710

-319 vs prev

Reviews posted

4.72

out of 5

Mean rating of reviews

5%

of reviews

1-2 star share

Month-over-month changes: launches 0, reviews -319.

Top categories by launches

  1. 1Analytics4 launched
  2. 2Accounting2 launched
  3. 3Banners2 launched
  4. 4Shipping2 launched
  5. 5Shipping rates2 launched
  6. 6Images and media - Other2 launched
  7. 7Currency and translation1 launched
  8. 8Image gallery1 launched

Top categories by reviews

  1. 1Discounts89 reviews
  2. 2Email marketing88 reviews
  3. 3Banners85 reviews
  4. 4SMS marketing70 reviews
  5. 5Upsell and cross-sell56 reviews
  6. 6SEO52 reviews
  7. 7Pop-ups39 reviews
  8. 8Loyalty and rewards32 reviews
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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.