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The Almanac · Monthly issue

December 2025

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

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

Activity record

596

227 vs prev

Apps launched

15,548

Cumulative apps

25,768

-3,811 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 +227, reviews -3,811.

Top categories by launches

  1. 1Chat36 launched
  2. 2SEO32 launched
  3. 3Analytics26 launched
  4. 4Image editor22 launched
  5. 5Discounts22 launched
  6. 6Workflow automation19 launched
  7. 7Upsell and cross-sell19 launched
  8. 8Images and media - Other16 launched

Top categories by reviews

  1. 1Upsell and cross-sell2,982 reviews
  2. 2Product bundles2,216 reviews
  3. 3SEO1,876 reviews
  4. 4Email marketing1,777 reviews
  5. 5Marketplaces1,701 reviews
  6. 6Product reviews1,446 reviews
  7. 7Discounts1,336 reviews
  8. 8Loyalty and rewards1,321 reviews
Older: November 2025All issuesNewer: January 2026

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.