The Almanac · Monthly issue
April 2026
A look at what happened in the Shopify App Store in April 2026.
Aggregate and category-level throughout. No individual app data on this page.
Activity record
782
Apps launched
18,154
Cumulative apps
30,497
Reviews posted
4.81
Mean rating of reviews
4%
1-2 star share
Month-over-month changes: launches +126, reviews -2,044.
Top categories by launches
- 1Analytics53 launched
- 2Upsell and cross-sell37 launched
- 3SEO35 launched
- 4Discounts32 launched
- 5Chat30 launched
- 6Product display - Other21 launched
- 7Product variants20 launched
- 8Bulk editor18 launched
Top categories by reviews
- 1Upsell and cross-sell3,618 reviews
- 2SEO3,154 reviews
- 3Product bundles2,744 reviews
- 4Product reviews2,577 reviews
- 5Discounts1,774 reviews
- 6Email marketing1,759 reviews
- 7Marketplaces1,669 reviews
- 8Loyalty and rewards1,553 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.