The Almanac · Monthly issue
May 2021
A look at what happened in the Shopify App Store in May 2021.
Aggregate and category-level throughout. No individual app data on this page.
Activity record
67
Apps launched
3,425
Cumulative apps
4,620
Reviews posted
4.74
Mean rating of reviews
5%
1-2 star share
Month-over-month changes: launches -23, reviews -104.
Top categories by launches
- 1Analytics10 launched
- 2Dropshipping4 launched
- 3Abandoned cart3 launched
- 4Chat3 launched
- 5Discounts3 launched
- 6Bulk editor3 launched
- 7Email marketing3 launched
- 8Upsell and cross-sell3 launched
Top categories by reviews
- 1Product reviews445 reviews
- 2Upsell and cross-sell425 reviews
- 3SMS marketing327 reviews
- 4Email marketing325 reviews
- 5Loyalty and rewards261 reviews
- 6SEO254 reviews
- 7Marketplaces235 reviews
- 8Product bundles224 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.