The Almanac · Monthly issue
October 2018
A look at what happened in the Shopify App Store in October 2018.
Aggregate and category-level throughout. No individual app data on this page.
Activity record
44
Apps launched
1,352
Cumulative apps
2,154
Reviews posted
4.58
Mean rating of reviews
8%
1-2 star share
Month-over-month changes: launches -53, reviews +564.
Top categories by launches
- 1Dropshipping4 launched
- 2Discounts3 launched
- 3Marketplaces3 launched
- 4Product variants3 launched
- 5Shipping3 launched
- 6Product bundles3 launched
- 7Loyalty and rewards2 launched
- 8Design elements - Other2 launched
Top categories by reviews
- 1Upsell and cross-sell251 reviews
- 2Discounts159 reviews
- 3Pop-ups151 reviews
- 4Email marketing144 reviews
- 5Product bundles126 reviews
- 6Loyalty and rewards120 reviews
- 7Banners111 reviews
- 8Product variants107 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.