The Almanac · Monthly issue
May 2026
A look at what happened in the Shopify App Store in May 2026.
Aggregate and category-level throughout. No individual app data on this page.
Activity record
2,972
Apps launched
21,126
Cumulative apps
32,129
Reviews posted
4.81
Mean rating of reviews
4%
1-2 star share
Month-over-month changes: launches +2,190, reviews +1,632.
Top categories by launches
- 1Analytics239 launched
- 2SEO175 launched
- 3Upsell and cross-sell127 launched
- 4Chat126 launched
- 5Product content101 launched
- 6Workflow automation86 launched
- 7Discounts84 launched
- 8Inventory optimization83 launched
Top categories by reviews
- 1Upsell and cross-sell3,777 reviews
- 2Product bundles2,879 reviews
- 3SEO2,762 reviews
- 4Product reviews2,451 reviews
- 5Marketplaces1,940 reviews
- 6Email marketing1,938 reviews
- 7Discounts1,805 reviews
- 8Dropshipping1,713 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.