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The Almanac · Monthly issue

January 2018

A look at what happened in the Shopify App Store in January 2018.

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

Activity record

28

8 vs prev

Apps launched

1,067

Cumulative apps

1,418

275 vs prev

Reviews posted

4.68

out of 5

Mean rating of reviews

6%

of reviews

1-2 star share

Month-over-month changes: launches +8, reviews +275.

Top categories by launches

  1. 1Analytics2 launched
  2. 2Cookie consent2 launched
  3. 3Design elements - Other2 launched
  4. 4Email marketing2 launched
  5. 5Inventory sync2 launched
  6. 6Site optimization - Other2 launched
  7. 7SEO2 launched
  8. 8Animation and effects1 launched

Top categories by reviews

  1. 1Upsell and cross-sell121 reviews
  2. 2Pop-ups102 reviews
  3. 3SEO92 reviews
  4. 4Email marketing91 reviews
  5. 5Loyalty and rewards75 reviews
  6. 6Product variants73 reviews
  7. 7Product reviews73 reviews
  8. 8Discounts68 reviews
Older: December 2017All issuesNewer: February 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.