The Almanac · Monthly issue
December 2018
A look at what happened in the Shopify App Store in December 2018.
Aggregate and category-level throughout. No individual app data on this page.
Activity record
17
Apps launched
1,395
Cumulative apps
1,889
Reviews posted
4.58
Mean rating of reviews
8%
1-2 star share
Month-over-month changes: launches -9, reviews -400.
Top categories by launches
- 1Animation and effects2 launched
- 2SEO2 launched
- 3Pop-ups2 launched
- 4Affiliate programs1 launched
- 5Anti theft1 launched
- 6Ads1 launched
- 7Abandoned cart1 launched
- 8Bulk editor1 launched
Top categories by reviews
- 1Discounts183 reviews
- 2Upsell and cross-sell161 reviews
- 3Banners135 reviews
- 4Pop-ups127 reviews
- 5Email marketing117 reviews
- 6Loyalty and rewards103 reviews
- 7SEO98 reviews
- 8Product variants90 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.