DECO Product Labels has 1,781 reviews. On 8 Nov it rewrote its App Store tagline to open with "BFCM-ready."
Notify Me!, SearchPie, Heartcoding, OC Quantity Breaks, Timex and Scrolly made the same move in the last 7 days.
Does a BFCM tagline win installs, or just blend in?
Infinite Options (2,600+ reviews) cut its starting price from $12.99 to $9.99.
77 Shopify apps moved their starting price in the last 7 days. 50 cut, 27 raised.
↓ Market Sync $19.99 → $9.99
↓ BR Pick List $19.99 → $9.99
↑ Faslet $199 → $399
BFCM price war, or cleanup?
Only 3 Shopify apps with zero reviews hold Built for Shopify.
Badge share by review count:
0 reviews: 0.02%
1-9: 2.6%
10-99: 31.5%
100-999: 54.6%
1,000+: 58.4%
Is the badge a reward for winning, or a way to win?
Triple Whale's Shopify App Store listing went dark yesterday. 94 reviews, 4.1★, now "not currently available."
It was 1 of 24 apps delisted that day. 21 of the 24 had zero reviews.
Leaving the App Store, or just a pause? What's your guess?
Also in today's store-wide sitemap count (5 Nov): 159 new apps, 41 dropped out, 29,923 listed in total.
PartnerLens tracks every delisting, price, review and badge change on the Shopify App Store, daily: https://t.co/N1yF0cki47
Gorgias just disappeared from the Shopify App Store.
Its listing (709 reviews, 4.3★) now reads: "This app is not currently available."
It was the biggest of 10 apps delisted in the last 24h. The next biggest had 6 reviews.
Gorgias merchants: did you get any notice?
Idea #3 in this interview (website analytics with an AI/LLM angle) is exactly what I've been building.
VisibilityKit Tracker: simple web analytics that shows how much of your traffic comes from ChatGPT, Perplexity & other LLMs.
Starting with the one that stopped me cold:
61.7% of live Shopify apps have never received a single review.
Not "few reviews." Zero. The median app in the store has 0.
The App Store isn't a crowded market. It's a graveyard with a penthouse.
I've spent the last year scraping every app on the Shopify App Store.
25,985 live apps. 16,478 developers. 1,013,299 reviews.
Turns out most of what app devs believe about this market is wrong.
I'm going to post one number a day until I run out.