The Almanac · Monthly issue
January 2026
A look at what happened in the Shopify App Store in January 2026.
Aggregate and category-level throughout. No individual app data on this page.
Activity record
617
Apps launched
16,165
Cumulative apps
29,339
Reviews posted
4.81
Mean rating of reviews
4%
1-2 star share
Month-over-month changes: launches +21, reviews +3,571.
Top categories by launches
- 1Analytics39 launched
- 2Chat36 launched
- 3SEO31 launched
- 4Discounts29 launched
- 5Upsell and cross-sell23 launched
- 6Shipping17 launched
- 7Workflow automation15 launched
- 8Bulk editor15 launched
Top categories by reviews
- 1Upsell and cross-sell3,294 reviews
- 2Product bundles2,666 reviews
- 3SEO2,503 reviews
- 4Product reviews1,997 reviews
- 5Email marketing1,963 reviews
- 6Marketplaces1,954 reviews
- 7Product variants1,532 reviews
- 8Dropshipping1,465 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.