The Almanac · Monthly issue
August 2021
A look at what happened in the Shopify App Store in August 2021.
Aggregate and category-level throughout. No individual app data on this page.
Activity record
140
Apps launched
3,784
Cumulative apps
4,750
Reviews posted
4.77
Mean rating of reviews
4%
1-2 star share
Month-over-month changes: launches +18, reviews +202.
Top categories by launches
- 1Inventory sync14 launched
- 2Analytics11 launched
- 3Shipping10 launched
- 4Loyalty and rewards9 launched
- 5Upsell and cross-sell8 launched
- 6Email marketing7 launched
- 7SEO7 launched
- 8Ads5 launched
Top categories by reviews
- 1Product reviews431 reviews
- 2Upsell and cross-sell406 reviews
- 3Loyalty and rewards367 reviews
- 4Email marketing284 reviews
- 5SMS marketing280 reviews
- 6Discounts247 reviews
- 7Product bundles227 reviews
- 8Pop-ups226 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.