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The Almanac · Monthly issue

March 2020

A look at what happened in the Shopify App Store in March 2020.

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

Activity record

77

28 vs prev

Apps launched

2,170

Cumulative apps

2,979

365 vs prev

Reviews posted

4.70

out of 5

Mean rating of reviews

6%

of reviews

1-2 star share

Month-over-month changes: launches +28, reviews +365.

Top categories by launches

  1. 1Analytics7 launched
  2. 2Product feeds5 launched
  3. 3Inventory sync4 launched
  4. 4Abandoned cart4 launched
  5. 5Cart customization4 launched
  6. 6Ads4 launched
  7. 7Currency and translation4 launched
  8. 8Shipping rates3 launched

Top categories by reviews

  1. 1Upsell and cross-sell271 reviews
  2. 2Email marketing239 reviews
  3. 3Discounts205 reviews
  4. 4Product reviews191 reviews
  5. 5SMS marketing190 reviews
  6. 6Loyalty and rewards179 reviews
  7. 7Pop-ups177 reviews
  8. 8SEO167 reviews
Older: February 2020All issuesNewer: April 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.