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The Almanac · Monthly issue

August 2017

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

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

Activity record

43

-8 vs prev

Apps launched

911

Cumulative apps

1,226

138 vs prev

Reviews posted

4.75

out of 5

Mean rating of reviews

4%

of reviews

1-2 star share

Month-over-month changes: launches -8, reviews +138.

Top categories by launches

  1. 1Delivery and pickup5 launched
  2. 2Analytics3 launched
  3. 3Surveys3 launched
  4. 4Shipping rates3 launched
  5. 5Product feeds3 launched
  6. 6Shipping3 launched
  7. 7Custom file upload2 launched
  8. 8Discounts2 launched

Top categories by reviews

  1. 1Pop-ups126 reviews
  2. 2Email marketing116 reviews
  3. 3SMS marketing105 reviews
  4. 4Upsell and cross-sell86 reviews
  5. 5SEO85 reviews
  6. 6Discounts84 reviews
  7. 7Loyalty and rewards70 reviews
  8. 8Promotions - Other56 reviews
Older: July 2017All issuesNewer: September 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.