The Almanac · Monthly issue
May 2018
A look at what happened in the Shopify App Store in May 2018.
Aggregate and category-level throughout. No individual app data on this page.
Activity record
21
Apps launched
1,169
Cumulative apps
1,761
Reviews posted
4.66
Mean rating of reviews
6%
1-2 star share
Month-over-month changes: launches -3, reviews +220.
Top categories by launches
- 1Cart customization2 launched
- 2Site optimization - Other2 launched
- 3Pop-ups2 launched
- 4Event booking2 launched
- 5SEO2 launched
- 6Upsell and cross-sell2 launched
- 7Workflow automation2 launched
- 8Bulk editor1 launched
Top categories by reviews
- 1Banners172 reviews
- 2Upsell and cross-sell160 reviews
- 3Discounts143 reviews
- 4Email marketing119 reviews
- 5SMS marketing105 reviews
- 6Pop-ups103 reviews
- 7Legal96 reviews
- 8SEO91 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.