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The Almanac · Monthly issue

December 2020

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

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

Activity record

100

17 vs prev

Apps launched

2,951

Cumulative apps

3,913

-674 vs prev

Reviews posted

4.67

out of 5

Mean rating of reviews

6%

of reviews

1-2 star share

Month-over-month changes: launches +17, reviews -674.

Top categories by launches

  1. 1Shipping12 launched
  2. 2Analytics9 launched
  3. 3Order tracking7 launched
  4. 4Accounting6 launched
  5. 5Inventory sync5 launched
  6. 6Inventory optimization5 launched
  7. 7Product variants5 launched
  8. 8Dropshipping4 launched

Top categories by reviews

  1. 1Upsell and cross-sell369 reviews
  2. 2Marketplaces256 reviews
  3. 3Product reviews243 reviews
  4. 4Discounts229 reviews
  5. 5Loyalty and rewards225 reviews
  6. 6Ads215 reviews
  7. 7Pop-ups194 reviews
  8. 8Page builder184 reviews
Older: November 2020All issuesNewer: January 2021

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.