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The Almanac · Monthly issue

March 2021

A look at what happened in the Shopify App Store in March 2021.

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

Activity record

92

-4 vs prev

Apps launched

3,268

Cumulative apps

5,067

381 vs prev

Reviews posted

4.72

out of 5

Mean rating of reviews

5%

of reviews

1-2 star share

Month-over-month changes: launches -4, reviews +381.

Top categories by launches

  1. 1Analytics9 launched
  2. 2Dropshipping8 launched
  3. 3Print on demand (POD)8 launched
  4. 4Shipping6 launched
  5. 5Upsell and cross-sell6 launched
  6. 6Ads5 launched
  7. 7Product variants4 launched
  8. 8Chat4 launched

Top categories by reviews

  1. 1Upsell and cross-sell509 reviews
  2. 2Product reviews407 reviews
  3. 3Marketplaces313 reviews
  4. 4Loyalty and rewards283 reviews
  5. 5Ads261 reviews
  6. 6Discounts250 reviews
  7. 7Product variants234 reviews
  8. 8SMS marketing233 reviews
Older: February 2021All issuesNewer: April 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.