(Updated October 2026) Track the top robots.txt Shopify apps with live rankings, market share, geography, and review data — updated weekly from the Shopify App Store. This keyword page shows where each app stands today and how its position has shifted over time.
Top 10 robots.txt Shopify apps ranked by current App Store position, with market share and review counts. Updated weekly.
| App | Rank | Market Share | Reviews |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | 88.51% 1.21 | 2,700 140 | |
2 | 8.75% 1.56 | 1,838 5 | |
3 | 1.12% 0.04 | 145 6 | |
4 | 0.00% | 5 0 | |
5 | 1.01% 0.05 | 398 2 | |
6 | 0.01% 0.00 | 6 0 | |
7 | 0.00% | 0 0 | |
8 1 | 0.45% 0.27 | 266 79 | |
9 3 | 0.07% 0.05 | 765 10 | |
10 | 0.01% 0.00 | 46 3 |
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Monthly ranking and market share trends for the top 5 robots.txt Shopify apps over the past year — see how each app's App Store position and market share have shifted month by month.
| App | May 2026 | Jun 2026 | Jul 2026 | Aug 2026 | Sep 2026 | Oct 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
#2 | #11 | #21 | #11 | #1 | — | |
#4 | #4 | #31 | #21 | #2 | — | |
#8 | #71 | #52 | #32 | #3 | — | |
#3 | #3 | #41 | #4 | #4 | — | |
#5 | #61 | #6 | #51 | #5 | — |
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Top 5 countries driving installs for robots.txt Shopify apps, with current market share and 30-day change versus the previous month.
| Country | Market Share | Change |
|---|---|---|
31.9% | 1.59 | |
11.1% | 0.12 | |
8.5% | 0.09 | |
4.9% | 0.20 | |
4.6% | 0.33 |
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Race-style view of how the top 5 robots.txt Shopify apps reached 1,000 reviews — months since launch on the X-axis, cumulative review count on the Y-axis.
| App | Months to Reach 1,000 Reviews | Current Review Count |
|---|---|---|
15 | 2,781 | |
58 | 1,810 | |
Not yet reached | 393 | |
Not yet reached | 144 | |
Not yet reached | 5 |
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SEOLab: All in #1 SEO — AI SEO dominates robots.txt with 88.5% market share — a clear category leader Shopify merchants gravitate to first, 79.8pp ahead of SEOWILL: AI SEO & AI Blog Post (8.7%). IndexGPT: AI SEO for ChatGPT sits at #3 with 1.1% share, rounding out the top tier. Together, the top 3 apps absorb 98.4% of all robots.txt installs — a highly concentrated landscape with limited room for new entrants. REVIEWS.io Product Reviews App is the standout mover this month, climbing 3 positions — a momentum signal worth tracking.
SEOLab: All in #1 SEO — AI SEO's 88.5% share looks dominant, but the rest of the top 5 has reshuffled this month. Robots.Txt apps are settled at the top and contested below — for merchants whose needs aren't a perfect SEOLab: All in #1 SEO — AI SEO fit, the #2–#5 apps often surface better niche options.
SEOLab: All in #1 SEO — AI SEO climbed from #2 (May 2026) to #1 (Sep 2026) — a 1-position gain among robots.txt apps over the charted window. Across the top 5 plotted robots.txt apps, 3 improved their ranking while 1 declined — the category is moving upward overall. SEOLab: All in #1 SEO — AI SEO's share held near 88.5% from May 2026 to Oct 2026 — a stable install base for robots.txt apps rather than active gain or loss.
4 of 5 plotted robots.txt apps moved positions in this window — recent trajectory beats current rank as a signal when a category is reshuffling this actively.
SEOLab: All in #1 SEO — AI SEO reached 1,000 reviews in 15 months since launch — the fastest ramp among the top 5 robots.txt apps tracked here. SEOWILL: AI SEO & AI Blog Post crossed the same milestone in 58 months, 43 months behind.
3 apps on this chart haven't yet crossed 1,000 reviews: Avada AEO SEO Optimizer LLMs at 393, IndexGPT: AI SEO for ChatGPT at 144, Robots.txt at 5 cumulative reviews. Avada AEO SEO Optimizer LLMs is closest to the milestone — its current count puts it roughly 39% of the way to 1,000.
The 43-month gap between SEOLab: All in #1 SEO — AI SEO's and SEOWILL: AI SEO & AI Blog Post's time-to-1,000 highlights how unevenly product-market fit landed across this robots.txt set — the leader found its merchant audience early, while late-rampers took multiple years to reach the same review depth. For merchants comparing these apps today, slower-ramping apps may have closed the functionality gap but still operate on smaller review bases.
SEOLab: All in #1 SEO — AI SEO is the leading robots.txt app on Shopify, holding 88.5% of category market share with 2,700 reviews — a clear default for most merchants.
SEOLab: All in #1 SEO — AI SEO holds the highest market share among robots.txt apps at 88.5% (+1.21pp vs 30 days ago). Market share here is estimated from each app's recent review velocity, with rank-weighted adjustment because positions in keyword search drive most installs.
ShopDigest tracks 96 robots.txt apps on the Shopify App Store. Rankings, market share, geography, and review data refresh weekly.
REVIEWS.io Product Reviews App has shown the strongest ranking momentum, climbing 3 positions over the past 30 days. Use the Rankings tab to see full month-over-month trajectories.
United States has the highest concentration of robots.txt app installs at 31.9%, followed by United Kingdom at 11.1%. The Geography tab shows the full country-by-country breakdown.
For keyword pages, market share is rank-weighted — apps at position #1 carry roughly 40× the weight of apps at position #22, and apps beyond #22 are excluded. This reflects the reality that Shopify keyword search traffic concentrates heavily at the top of results.
SEOLab: All in #1 SEO — AI SEO hit 1,000 reviews in 15 months since launch — the fastest review ramp among tracked robots.txt Shopify apps. See the Review Champions chart above for the full race.
Rankings and trends across every Shopify app, category, and keyword.