apps almanac
All issues

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

-2 vs prev

Apps launched

3,358

Cumulative apps

4,724

-343 vs prev

Reviews posted

4.73

out of 5

Mean rating of reviews

5%

of reviews

1-2 star share

Month-over-month changes: launches -2, reviews -343.

Top categories by launches

  1. 1Shipping7 launched
  2. 2Discounts7 launched
  3. 3Product bundles5 launched
  4. 4Shipping rates5 launched
  5. 5Dropshipping5 launched
  6. 6Analytics5 launched
  7. 7Product variants5 launched
  8. 8Subscriptions5 launched

Top categories by reviews

  1. 1Upsell and cross-sell460 reviews
  2. 2Product reviews440 reviews
  3. 3Loyalty and rewards290 reviews
  4. 4Discounts275 reviews
  5. 5SMS marketing257 reviews
  6. 6Email marketing246 reviews
  7. 7Marketplaces245 reviews
  8. 8Product variants230 reviews
Older: March 2021All issuesNewer: May 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.

Data sources · Methodology · Freshness

Track these shifts as they move.

Open a free account to get the full per-app and per-category breakdowns, momentum tracking, and your own watchlist.

Free account · 3 lookups / month · no credit card

How these numbers are computed: methodology.