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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

-23 vs prev

Apps launched

3,425

Cumulative apps

4,620

-104 vs prev

Reviews posted

4.74

out of 5

Mean rating of reviews

5%

of reviews

1-2 star share

Month-over-month changes: launches -23, reviews -104.

Top categories by launches

  1. 1Analytics10 launched
  2. 2Dropshipping4 launched
  3. 3Abandoned cart3 launched
  4. 4Chat3 launched
  5. 5Discounts3 launched
  6. 6Bulk editor3 launched
  7. 7Email marketing3 launched
  8. 8Upsell and cross-sell3 launched

Top categories by reviews

  1. 1Product reviews445 reviews
  2. 2Upsell and cross-sell425 reviews
  3. 3SMS marketing327 reviews
  4. 4Email marketing325 reviews
  5. 5Loyalty and rewards261 reviews
  6. 6SEO254 reviews
  7. 7Marketplaces235 reviews
  8. 8Product bundles224 reviews
Older: April 2021All issuesNewer: June 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.