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The Almanac · Monthly issue

September 2018

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

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

Activity record

97

87 vs prev

Apps launched

1,308

Cumulative apps

1,590

72 vs prev

Reviews posted

4.64

out of 5

Mean rating of reviews

7%

of reviews

1-2 star share

Month-over-month changes: launches +87, reviews +72.

Top categories by launches

  1. 1Delivery and pickup7 launched
  2. 2Upsell and cross-sell6 launched
  3. 3Shipping6 launched
  4. 4Shipping rates5 launched
  5. 5Wholesale5 launched
  6. 6Social proof5 launched
  7. 7Ads4 launched
  8. 8Analytics4 launched

Top categories by reviews

  1. 1Upsell and cross-sell144 reviews
  2. 2Banners97 reviews
  3. 3SEO96 reviews
  4. 4Email marketing95 reviews
  5. 5Discounts95 reviews
  6. 6Analytics82 reviews
  7. 7Pop-ups82 reviews
  8. 8Loyalty and rewards80 reviews
Older: August 2018All issuesNewer: October 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.