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August 2018

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

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

Activity record

10

-3 vs prev

Apps launched

1,211

Cumulative apps

1,518

46 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 -3, reviews +46.

Top categories by launches

  1. 1Order tracking2 launched
  2. 2Shipping2 launched
  3. 3Bulk editor1 launched
  4. 4Dropshipping1 launched
  5. 5Email marketing1 launched
  6. 6Delivery and pickup1 launched
  7. 7Design elements - Other1 launched
  8. 8Marketplaces1 launched

Top categories by reviews

  1. 1Upsell and cross-sell132 reviews
  2. 2Pop-ups117 reviews
  3. 3Email marketing101 reviews
  4. 4Discounts100 reviews
  5. 5Banners93 reviews
  6. 6SMS marketing87 reviews
  7. 7SEO79 reviews
  8. 8Page builder78 reviews
Older: July 2018All issuesNewer: September 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.