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The Almanac · Monthly issue

January 2019

A look at what happened in the Shopify App Store in January 2019.

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

Activity record

18

1 vs prev

Apps launched

1,413

Cumulative apps

1,998

109 vs prev

Reviews posted

4.59

out of 5

Mean rating of reviews

7%

of reviews

1-2 star share

Month-over-month changes: launches +1, reviews +109.

Top categories by launches

  1. 1Inventory sync3 launched
  2. 2Order tracking3 launched
  3. 3Shipping3 launched
  4. 4Social proof2 launched
  5. 5Upsell and cross-sell2 launched
  6. 6Inventory optimization2 launched
  7. 7Accounting1 launched
  8. 8Cart customization1 launched

Top categories by reviews

  1. 1Email marketing148 reviews
  2. 2Discounts148 reviews
  3. 3Pop-ups143 reviews
  4. 4Upsell and cross-sell136 reviews
  5. 5SEO125 reviews
  6. 6Banners124 reviews
  7. 7Product variants121 reviews
  8. 8Loyalty and rewards97 reviews
Older: December 2018All issuesNewer: February 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.

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How these numbers are computed: methodology.