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The Almanac · Monthly issue

September 2021

A look at what happened in the Shopify App Store in September 2021.

Aggregate and category-level throughout. No individual app data on this page.

Activity record

116

-24 vs prev

Apps launched

3,900

Cumulative apps

4,858

108 vs prev

Reviews posted

4.75

out of 5

Mean rating of reviews

5%

of reviews

1-2 star share

Month-over-month changes: launches -24, reviews +108.

Top categories by launches

  1. 1Shipping10 launched
  2. 2Shipping solutions - Other9 launched
  3. 3Analytics9 launched
  4. 4Inventory sync8 launched
  5. 5Delivery and pickup7 launched
  6. 6Upsell and cross-sell6 launched
  7. 7Dropshipping6 launched
  8. 8Third-party logistics (3PL)5 launched

Top categories by reviews

  1. 1Upsell and cross-sell507 reviews
  2. 2Product reviews349 reviews
  3. 3Product bundles267 reviews
  4. 4SMS marketing262 reviews
  5. 5Loyalty and rewards260 reviews
  6. 6Email marketing254 reviews
  7. 7Discounts242 reviews
  8. 8Shipping230 reviews
Older: August 2021All issuesNewer: October 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.