The Almanac · Monthly issue
April 2018
A look at what happened in the Shopify App Store in April 2018.
Aggregate and category-level throughout. No individual app data on this page.
Activity record
24
Apps launched
1,148
Cumulative apps
1,541
Reviews posted
4.62
Mean rating of reviews
8%
1-2 star share
Month-over-month changes: launches -9, reviews -24.
Top categories by launches
- 1Abandoned cart2 launched
- 2Dropshipping2 launched
- 3Email marketing2 launched
- 4Upsell and cross-sell2 launched
- 5Product reviews2 launched
- 6Print on demand (POD)2 launched
- 7Countdown timer1 launched
- 8Chat1 launched
Top categories by reviews
- 1Upsell and cross-sell128 reviews
- 2Email marketing119 reviews
- 3Discounts114 reviews
- 4Pop-ups108 reviews
- 5Banners98 reviews
- 6SMS marketing93 reviews
- 7Loyalty and rewards76 reviews
- 8SEO72 reviews
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.