The Almanac · Monthly issue
January 2021
A look at what happened in the Shopify App Store in January 2021.
Aggregate and category-level throughout. No individual app data on this page.
Activity record
129
Apps launched
3,080
Cumulative apps
4,384
Reviews posted
4.70
Mean rating of reviews
5%
1-2 star share
Month-over-month changes: launches +29, reviews +471.
Top categories by launches
- 1Shipping13 launched
- 2Analytics11 launched
- 3Product variants8 launched
- 4Ads7 launched
- 5Discounts7 launched
- 6Shipping rates7 launched
- 7Order tracking7 launched
- 8Inventory sync6 launched
Top categories by reviews
- 1Upsell and cross-sell414 reviews
- 2Product reviews342 reviews
- 3Marketplaces285 reviews
- 4Loyalty and rewards238 reviews
- 5SEO232 reviews
- 6Ads229 reviews
- 7SMS marketing226 reviews
- 8Social proof222 reviews
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.