The Almanac · Monthly issue
April 2021
A look at what happened in the Shopify App Store in April 2021.
Aggregate and category-level throughout. No individual app data on this page.
Activity record
90
Apps launched
3,358
Cumulative apps
4,724
Reviews posted
4.73
Mean rating of reviews
5%
1-2 star share
Month-over-month changes: launches -2, reviews -343.
Top categories by launches
- 1Shipping7 launched
- 2Discounts7 launched
- 3Product bundles5 launched
- 4Shipping rates5 launched
- 5Dropshipping5 launched
- 6Analytics5 launched
- 7Product variants5 launched
- 8Subscriptions5 launched
Top categories by reviews
- 1Upsell and cross-sell460 reviews
- 2Product reviews440 reviews
- 3Loyalty and rewards290 reviews
- 4Discounts275 reviews
- 5SMS marketing257 reviews
- 6Email marketing246 reviews
- 7Marketplaces245 reviews
- 8Product variants230 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.