Public · Data sources
Where Apps Almanac's data comes from
Apps Almanac is an independent market-intelligence service for everyone in the Shopify app world: builders, app owners, merchants, researchers, and agencies. We produce opportunity scores, mover signals, and category-level pain themes. This page explains where the underlying information comes from, what we do and don't publish, and how to request that a listing be excluded.
Source
Our signals are built from public Shopify App Store listing information - the same listing pages anyone can read in a browser without signing in. We do not use any Shopify API, and we never access merchant data, customer data, install counts, revenue, or any private surface.
How we collect it
- We read only public listing pages, and we identify ourselves clearly when we do so. If you would like us to stop, the contact below is the place to write and we will comply.
- We respect the access rules that the Shopify App Store publishes for automated readers, and we never request anything behind a login.
- We collect politely and slowly, well within reasonable limits, so we place no meaningful load on the App Store.
- We refresh on a regular cadence and skip pages that have not changed since we last looked.
What we publish
Apps Almanac publishes derived signals: opportunity scores, mover signals, category-level pain themes, aggregates, and short qualitative theme labels. We do not republish bulk listings, full review text, or raw per-app ratings and review counts for named apps. If you want the raw numbers for a specific app, open its page inside the dashboard, where we link out to its Shopify listing.
What we don't do
- Sell, license, or redistribute the underlying listing data.
- Use that data to train or fine-tune any machine-learning or AI system.
- Contact merchants, customers, or app developers using information we organize.
- Republish verbatim review text on any user-visible surface.
Not affiliated with Shopify
Apps Almanac is independent. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or a partner of Shopify Inc. "Shopify" is a trademark of Shopify Inc. and is used here only descriptively. Apps Almanac is operated by Valotrix Studio SRL (Romania).
Exclusion & contact
If you are Shopify Inc., or an app developer who wants a specific listing excluded from our analysis, email hello@appsalmanac.com. We aim to acknowledge within a few business days and process the request within 14 days.