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The Almanac · Monthly issue

November 2018

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

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

Activity record

26

-18 vs prev

Apps launched

1,378

Cumulative apps

2,289

135 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 -18, reviews +135.

Top categories by launches

  1. 1Cart customization4 launched
  2. 2Ads3 launched
  3. 3Badges and icons2 launched
  4. 4Dropshipping2 launched
  5. 5Discounts2 launched
  6. 6Design elements - Other2 launched
  7. 7Email marketing2 launched
  8. 8Pop-ups2 launched

Top categories by reviews

  1. 1Discounts287 reviews
  2. 2Upsell and cross-sell211 reviews
  3. 3Banners208 reviews
  4. 4Email marketing188 reviews
  5. 5SMS marketing166 reviews
  6. 6Pop-ups157 reviews
  7. 7SEO123 reviews
  8. 8Loyalty and rewards111 reviews
Older: October 2018All issuesNewer: December 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.