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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

-53 vs prev

Apps launched

1,352

Cumulative apps

2,154

564 vs prev

Reviews posted

4.58

out of 5

Mean rating of reviews

8%

of reviews

1-2 star share

Month-over-month changes: launches -53, reviews +564.

Top categories by launches

  1. 1Dropshipping4 launched
  2. 2Discounts3 launched
  3. 3Marketplaces3 launched
  4. 4Product variants3 launched
  5. 5Shipping3 launched
  6. 6Product bundles3 launched
  7. 7Loyalty and rewards2 launched
  8. 8Design elements - Other2 launched

Top categories by reviews

  1. 1Upsell and cross-sell251 reviews
  2. 2Discounts159 reviews
  3. 3Pop-ups151 reviews
  4. 4Email marketing144 reviews
  5. 5Product bundles126 reviews
  6. 6Loyalty and rewards120 reviews
  7. 7Banners111 reviews
  8. 8Product variants107 reviews
Older: September 2018All issuesNewer: November 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.