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The Almanac · Monthly issue

August 2020

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

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

Activity record

87

7 vs prev

Apps launched

2,571

Cumulative apps

3,918

-242 vs prev

Reviews posted

4.66

out of 5

Mean rating of reviews

6%

of reviews

1-2 star share

Month-over-month changes: launches +7, reviews -242.

Top categories by launches

  1. 1Delivery and pickup7 launched
  2. 2Dropshipping7 launched
  3. 3Inventory sync6 launched
  4. 4Analytics6 launched
  5. 5Discounts5 launched
  6. 6Pop-ups5 launched
  7. 7SEO4 launched
  8. 8Shipping rates4 launched

Top categories by reviews

  1. 1Upsell and cross-sell367 reviews
  2. 2Product reviews273 reviews
  3. 3SEO228 reviews
  4. 4Abandoned cart219 reviews
  5. 5Loyalty and rewards208 reviews
  6. 6Discounts203 reviews
  7. 7Analytics185 reviews
  8. 8Page builder181 reviews
Older: July 2020All issuesNewer: September 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.