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October 2017

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

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

Activity record

29

-16 vs prev

Apps launched

985

Cumulative apps

1,482

165 vs prev

Reviews posted

4.64

out of 5

Mean rating of reviews

7%

of reviews

1-2 star share

Month-over-month changes: launches -16, reviews +165.

Top categories by launches

  1. 1Social proof4 launched
  2. 2Forms3 launched
  3. 3Shipping rates3 launched
  4. 4Abandoned cart1 launched
  5. 5Banners1 launched
  6. 6Animation and effects1 launched
  7. 7Ads1 launched
  8. 8Cart customization1 launched

Top categories by reviews

  1. 1Email marketing130 reviews
  2. 2Upsell and cross-sell125 reviews
  3. 3SMS marketing115 reviews
  4. 4Pop-ups114 reviews
  5. 5Discounts108 reviews
  6. 6SEO93 reviews
  7. 7Abandoned cart81 reviews
  8. 8Product bundles68 reviews
Older: September 2017All issuesNewer: November 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.