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The Almanac · Monthly issue

October 2019

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

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

Activity record

60

13 vs prev

Apps launched

1,823

Cumulative apps

2,579

212 vs prev

Reviews posted

4.64

out of 5

Mean rating of reviews

7%

of reviews

1-2 star share

Month-over-month changes: launches +13, reviews +212.

Top categories by launches

  1. 1Discounts6 launched
  2. 2Analytics5 launched
  3. 3Upsell and cross-sell4 launched
  4. 4Pop-ups4 launched
  5. 5Product reviews4 launched
  6. 6SEO4 launched
  7. 7Chat3 launched
  8. 8Ads3 launched

Top categories by reviews

  1. 1SEO240 reviews
  2. 2Upsell and cross-sell210 reviews
  3. 3Pop-ups203 reviews
  4. 4Email marketing190 reviews
  5. 5Social proof162 reviews
  6. 6Discounts150 reviews
  7. 7Product reviews147 reviews
  8. 8Analytics142 reviews
Older: September 2019All issuesNewer: November 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.