The State of Shopify Apps 2026

What 7,610 live apps, 734,152 reviews and 41 days of daily rank snapshots say about who wins on the App Store — and what it now costs to get there.

• 39.5% of live apps have never been reviewed — 3,003 of them
• The top 100 apps hold 49.5% of every review ever written
• A 4.7 rating puts you in the bottom third; the median is 4.90
• The median cheapest paid tier is $9.99, and 64.5% offer a free plan
• In the median category the top three apps hold 51% of the reviews
• What it costs, in reviews, to hold every rank band in the store

Every figure comes from our own crawl of the App Store. Nothing is surveyed, modelled or estimated — and where a number rests on partial coverage, the report says so and gives the sample size.