Hey everyone, I hope you're doing well.

A lot has happened recently in the Shopify app ecosystem, so today I want to talk about a few of those updates.

In today's email we're going to talk about:

• App Store Pulse is live

• Mantle is shutting down

• Shopify's offline token deadline

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Track your MRR on App Store Pulse

You probably already know that I released https://appstorepulse.com in the last few weeks.

And I’ve been working on it a lot.

I don’t remember exactly what we had when I sent my last email so here is a quick preview of what we have now:

Email Notifications

• Keyword tracking (get notified by email every day of your movements)

• Competitors tracking (get notified by email every day of their changes)

• Competitors entering the market (get notified by email every day when a competitor appears for your keywords)

• Reviews analysis of your category to get feature opportunities, top complaints, and apps getting fake reviews

Listing Analytics

• Keywords bringing installs

• Installation Rate

• Top sources of traffic

• Top countries and languages

Listing Optimizer

• Analyze your listing with AI to get a score

• Optimization suggestions

Revenue & Churn (NEW)

• Track your MRR

• Track your Churn

• Track your Installation Rate

• See historical data

• Net revenue

Reviews Intelligence

• See every week the feature opportunities from your competitors’ reviews

• Get the language breakdown of the reviews

• Discover the days were merchants leave the most reviews

• And more…

Niche Explorer

• Get the health of each category

• See the growth of each category

• See the feature opportunities

• And more…

App Store Insights

• You can see on a given date range how many apps were launched

• % of them having a free plan

• Developers launching the most apps

• Top categories

• And more…

App Gallery

• Search the Shopify App Store more easily with filters (BFS, language, reviews, etc)

• See the main images of all the apps for benchmarking

• Search for apps having a specific keyword in their listing

Try our platform on appstorepulse.com 

Mantle is shutting down

Something important happened in the Shopify app ecosystem.

Mantle announced that they are winding down their product. From what they shared publicly, this is a full shutdown of Mantle properties over the coming months, with services ending on August 14, 2026 for accounts not using Mantle Billing, and September 30, 2026 for customers using Mantle Billing.

I want to be careful here because I do not know all the internal reasons. I only know what was announced publicly, and I know many Shopify app founders were using Mantle or watching what they were building.

From what I understand, the event they had planned after Dot Dev Edition is also no longer happening. I do not want to overstate it, but it feels like part of the same transition.

When a tool like this disappears, it creates work for founders who depended on it. If you used Mantle for analytics, reporting, billing workflows, customer data, email, or automations, you now need to think about what comes next.

But it also shows something bigger.

Shopify app founders still need better ways to understand their business. They need to track revenue, churn, number of users, customer movement, plan changes, and the signals that show if the business is healthy.

App Store Pulse already focuses on App Store visibility and market intelligence: listings, keywords, competitors, categories, launches, reviews, and market signals.

But I have now added a layer for business metrics like revenue, churn, number of users, and customer movement.

Mantle leaving makes that need more obvious.

Founders need to know not only how people discover their app. They also need to know what happens after the install.

That connection is important. A keyword that brings installs is interesting. A keyword that brings good users is even more interesting.

I do not have a big conclusion yet. Some founders will migrate away from Mantle, some will use Shopify's native tools, and some will build internal dashboards.

But I think the need is clear: Shopify app founders need better visibility into both acquisition and business health.

Shopify's offline token deadline

There is also a technical Shopify update that public app developers should take seriously.

On May 20, 2026, Shopify published a changelog saying that starting January 1, 2027, all public Shopify apps must use expiring offline access tokens when calling the Admin API.

If a public app still uses non-expiring offline tokens after that date, Shopify says it will receive authentication errors.

This extends the change that started on April 1, 2026 for newly created public apps. The January 1, 2027 deadline applies to all public apps, including apps created before April 1, 2026.

So if you have an older public app using non-expiring offline access tokens for Admin API requests, you are affected.

Custom apps are not affected. Apps created by merchants in the Dev Dashboard or in the admin are not affected either.

The reason is security.

Old non-expiring offline tokens could remain valid indefinitely. If one leaked, the exposure window was very large. With expiring offline tokens, the access token expires and the app uses a refresh token to get a new one.

This means your app needs to store token expiration data, store refresh tokens, refresh tokens before Admin API calls when needed, and update stored tokens after refresh.

It is not the most exciting work, but it touches important parts of the app: auth storage, background jobs, webhooks, syncs, and any Admin API call made without a merchant actively using the app.

For existing public apps, Shopify says the migration can be done through token exchange, so merchants do not need to reinstall the app. But the migration still needs to be handled carefully.

Shopify's docs say the exchange from a non-expiring token to an expiring token is one-time and irreversible per shop. After a successful exchange, the original non-expiring token is revoked.

So I would not leave this until December.

You have until January 1, 2027, so this is not something to panic about. But it is something to put in your backlog now.

Audit whether your app is affected, update your token storage, make sure refresh works for background Admin API calls, and plan the exchange carefully.

Because once the deadline arrives, this stops being a future requirement and becomes an authentication problem.

And auth problems are never fun to discover in production.

Thanks for reading!

I’ll see you in the next email, in 14 days. Until then, take care!

Mat.