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The Almanac · Monthly issue

December 2017

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

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

Activity record

20

-14 vs prev

Apps launched

1,039

Cumulative apps

1,143

-435 vs prev

Reviews posted

4.63

out of 5

Mean rating of reviews

7%

of reviews

1-2 star share

Month-over-month changes: launches -14, reviews -435.

Top categories by launches

  1. 1Animation and effects2 launched
  2. 2Promotions - Other2 launched
  3. 3Pop-ups2 launched
  4. 4Product reviews2 launched
  5. 5Analytics1 launched
  6. 6Bulk editor1 launched
  7. 7Discounts1 launched
  8. 8Donations1 launched

Top categories by reviews

  1. 1Upsell and cross-sell135 reviews
  2. 2Pop-ups112 reviews
  3. 3Email marketing101 reviews
  4. 4SMS marketing90 reviews
  5. 5Discounts82 reviews
  6. 6Promotions - Other73 reviews
  7. 7Page builder67 reviews
  8. 8Banners65 reviews
Older: November 2017All issuesNewer: January 2018

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.