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The Almanac · Monthly issue

October 2020

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

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

Activity record

106

15 vs prev

Apps launched

2,768

Cumulative apps

4,261

305 vs prev

Reviews posted

4.66

out of 5

Mean rating of reviews

7%

of reviews

1-2 star share

Month-over-month changes: launches +15, reviews +305.

Top categories by launches

  1. 1Shipping10 launched
  2. 2Upsell and cross-sell9 launched
  3. 3Inventory sync7 launched
  4. 4Third-party logistics (3PL)7 launched
  5. 5Dropshipping6 launched
  6. 6Delivery and pickup6 launched
  7. 7Returns and exchanges5 launched
  8. 8Invoices and receipts5 launched

Top categories by reviews

  1. 1Upsell and cross-sell484 reviews
  2. 2Product reviews378 reviews
  3. 3Loyalty and rewards318 reviews
  4. 4Marketplaces285 reviews
  5. 5Ads263 reviews
  6. 6Discounts248 reviews
  7. 7SEO207 reviews
  8. 8Page builder194 reviews
Older: September 2020All issuesNewer: November 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.