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The Almanac · Monthly issue

December 2021

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

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

Activity record

90

-20 vs prev

Apps launched

4,183

Cumulative apps

4,749

-789 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 -20, reviews -789.

Top categories by launches

  1. 1Analytics8 launched
  2. 2Discounts6 launched
  3. 3Product variants5 launched
  4. 4Shipping solutions - Other5 launched
  5. 5Cart customization5 launched
  6. 6Loyalty and rewards4 launched
  7. 7Upsell and cross-sell4 launched
  8. 8Shipping rates4 launched

Top categories by reviews

  1. 1Upsell and cross-sell423 reviews
  2. 2Product reviews354 reviews
  3. 3SEO294 reviews
  4. 4Loyalty and rewards294 reviews
  5. 5Discounts273 reviews
  6. 6Marketplaces247 reviews
  7. 7Email marketing243 reviews
  8. 8Product bundles234 reviews
Older: November 2021All issuesNewer: January 2022

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.