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The Almanac · Monthly issue

September 2017

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

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

Activity record

45

2 vs prev

Apps launched

956

Cumulative apps

1,317

91 vs prev

Reviews posted

4.73

out of 5

Mean rating of reviews

5%

of reviews

1-2 star share

Month-over-month changes: launches +2, reviews +91.

Top categories by launches

  1. 1Shipping7 launched
  2. 2Page builder4 launched
  3. 3Gifts - Other3 launched
  4. 4Pricing optimization3 launched
  5. 5Shipping rates3 launched
  6. 6Social proof3 launched
  7. 7Discounts2 launched
  8. 8Pop-ups2 launched

Top categories by reviews

  1. 1Email marketing156 reviews
  2. 2SMS marketing109 reviews
  3. 3Upsell and cross-sell105 reviews
  4. 4Pop-ups96 reviews
  5. 5Discounts89 reviews
  6. 6Loyalty and rewards81 reviews
  7. 7Analytics77 reviews
  8. 8SEO72 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.