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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

29 vs prev

Apps launched

3,080

Cumulative apps

4,384

471 vs prev

Reviews posted

4.70

out of 5

Mean rating of reviews

5%

of reviews

1-2 star share

Month-over-month changes: launches +29, reviews +471.

Top categories by launches

  1. 1Shipping13 launched
  2. 2Analytics11 launched
  3. 3Product variants8 launched
  4. 4Ads7 launched
  5. 5Discounts7 launched
  6. 6Shipping rates7 launched
  7. 7Order tracking7 launched
  8. 8Inventory sync6 launched

Top categories by reviews

  1. 1Upsell and cross-sell414 reviews
  2. 2Product reviews342 reviews
  3. 3Marketplaces285 reviews
  4. 4Loyalty and rewards238 reviews
  5. 5SEO232 reviews
  6. 6Ads229 reviews
  7. 7SMS marketing226 reviews
  8. 8Social proof222 reviews
Older: December 2020All issuesNewer: February 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.