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The Almanac · Monthly issue

December 2019

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

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

Activity record

69

-7 vs prev

Apps launched

1,968

Cumulative apps

2,170

-508 vs prev

Reviews posted

4.62

out of 5

Mean rating of reviews

7%

of reviews

1-2 star share

Month-over-month changes: launches -7, reviews -508.

Top categories by launches

  1. 1Cart customization6 launched
  2. 2Pop-ups5 launched
  3. 3Upsell and cross-sell5 launched
  4. 4Analytics4 launched
  5. 5Image gallery4 launched
  6. 6Product variants4 launched
  7. 7Shipping4 launched
  8. 8Banners3 launched

Top categories by reviews

  1. 1Pop-ups216 reviews
  2. 2Upsell and cross-sell185 reviews
  3. 3Discounts167 reviews
  4. 4SEO151 reviews
  5. 5Product reviews140 reviews
  6. 6Social proof133 reviews
  7. 7Email marketing127 reviews
  8. 8Loyalty and rewards118 reviews
Older: November 2019All issuesNewer: January 2020

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.