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The Almanac · Monthly issue

May 2025

A look at what happened in the Shopify App Store in May 2025.

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

Activity record

349

-8 vs prev

Apps launched

12,136

Cumulative apps

15,681

1,975 vs prev

Reviews posted

4.80

out of 5

Mean rating of reviews

4%

of reviews

1-2 star share

Month-over-month changes: launches -8, reviews +1,975.

Top categories by launches

  1. 1Discounts15 launched
  2. 2Chat14 launched
  3. 3SEO14 launched
  4. 4Badges and icons12 launched
  5. 5Inventory sync10 launched
  6. 6Shipping10 launched
  7. 7Upsell and cross-sell10 launched
  8. 8Dropshipping9 launched

Top categories by reviews

  1. 1Upsell and cross-sell1,534 reviews
  2. 2SEO1,055 reviews
  3. 3Product bundles999 reviews
  4. 4Discounts993 reviews
  5. 5Product variants976 reviews
  6. 6Loyalty and rewards960 reviews
  7. 7Product reviews946 reviews
  8. 8Marketplaces913 reviews
Older: April 2025All issuesNewer: June 2025

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.