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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

-9 vs prev

Apps launched

1,395

Cumulative apps

1,889

-400 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 -9, reviews -400.

Top categories by launches

  1. 1Animation and effects2 launched
  2. 2SEO2 launched
  3. 3Pop-ups2 launched
  4. 4Affiliate programs1 launched
  5. 5Anti theft1 launched
  6. 6Ads1 launched
  7. 7Abandoned cart1 launched
  8. 8Bulk editor1 launched

Top categories by reviews

  1. 1Discounts183 reviews
  2. 2Upsell and cross-sell161 reviews
  3. 3Banners135 reviews
  4. 4Pop-ups127 reviews
  5. 5Email marketing117 reviews
  6. 6Loyalty and rewards103 reviews
  7. 7SEO98 reviews
  8. 8Product variants90 reviews
Older: November 2018All issuesNewer: January 2019

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.

Data sources · Methodology · Freshness

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How these numbers are computed: methodology.