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March 2018

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

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

Activity record

33

9 vs prev

Apps launched

1,124

Cumulative apps

1,565

208 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 +9, reviews +208.

Top categories by launches

  1. 1Cart customization3 launched
  2. 2Print on demand (POD)3 launched
  3. 3Accounts and login2 launched
  4. 4Image gallery2 launched
  5. 5Inventory sync2 launched
  6. 6Image editor2 launched
  7. 7Product reviews2 launched
  8. 8Site optimization - Other2 launched

Top categories by reviews

  1. 1Email marketing159 reviews
  2. 2SMS marketing140 reviews
  3. 3Upsell and cross-sell132 reviews
  4. 4Discounts99 reviews
  5. 5Loyalty and rewards84 reviews
  6. 6Pop-ups82 reviews
  7. 7Abandoned cart77 reviews
  8. 8Shipping69 reviews
Older: February 2018All issuesNewer: April 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.