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The Almanac · Monthly issue

April 2017

A look at what happened in the Shopify App Store in April 2017.

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

Activity record

20

-12 vs prev

Apps launched

746

Cumulative apps

1,115

-154 vs prev

Reviews posted

4.71

out of 5

Mean rating of reviews

4%

of reviews

1-2 star share

Month-over-month changes: launches -12, reviews -154.

Top categories by launches

  1. 1Analytics2 launched
  2. 2Cart customization2 launched
  3. 3Upsell and cross-sell2 launched
  4. 4Blogs1 launched
  5. 5Currency and translation1 launched
  6. 6Discounts1 launched
  7. 7Accounts and login1 launched
  8. 8Image editor1 launched

Top categories by reviews

  1. 1Email marketing181 reviews
  2. 2SMS marketing127 reviews
  3. 3Upsell and cross-sell98 reviews
  4. 4Pop-ups90 reviews
  5. 5Discounts85 reviews
  6. 6Banners78 reviews
  7. 7Loyalty and rewards67 reviews
  8. 8SEO65 reviews
Older: March 2017All issuesNewer: May 2017

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.