(Updated September 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 | 95.79% 8.00 | 2,605 125 | |
2 2 | 1.98% 1.39 | 144 12 | |
3 2 | 0.00% | 5 0 | |
4 2 | 1.40% 0.93 | 397 5 | |
5 3 | 0.00% | 0 0 | |
6 3 | 0.01% 0.01 | 6 1 | |
7 2 | 0.60% 0.45 | 208 55 | |
8 1 | 0.10% 0.05 | 592 8 | |
9 1 | 0.02% 0.01 | 44 2 | |
10 6 | 0.03% 0.02 | 48 2 |
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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 | Apr 2026 | May 2026 | Jun 2026 | Jul 2026 | Aug 2026 | Sep 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | #2 | #11 | #21 | #11 | #1 | |
| — | #8 | #71 | #52 | #32 | #21 | |
| — | #3 | #3 | #41 | #4 | #31 | |
| — | #5 | #61 | #6 | #51 | #41 | |
| — | #6 | #51 | #72 | #7 | #52 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|
31.6% | 1.89 | |
10.8% | 0.53 | |
8.8% | 0.40 | |
5.0% | 0.01 | |
4.7% | 0.16 |
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Race-style view of how the top 4 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 | 2,428 | |
Not yet reached | 352 | |
Not yet reached | 124 | |
Not yet reached | 3 |
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SEOLab: All in #1 SEO — AI SEO's 95.8% lead has held stably this month, with the top 3 apps capturing 97.8% of all robots.txt installs. IndexGPT: AI SEO for ChatGPT (2.0%) is the natural alternative when store fit or pricing rules out SEOLab: All in #1 SEO — AI SEO.
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, 4 improved their ranking while 0 declined — the category is moving upward overall. SEOLab: All in #1 SEO — AI SEO's share expanded +7.7pp from 88.1% (May 2026) to 95.8% (Sep 2026) — a sustained widening of the gap against other robots.txt apps over this window.
Stable rankings across the top 5 plotted robots.txt apps mean merchants have largely settled on their preferences — challengers below the top 5 face an uphill path to break in.
SEOLab: All in #1 SEO — AI SEO is the only app in this set to have crossed 1,000 reviews, reaching the milestone in 15 months since launch. The remaining 3 robots.txt apps tracked here are still building toward 1,000 — current cumulative review counts give the clearest picture of where each one stands today.
3 apps on this chart haven't yet crossed 1,000 reviews: Avada AEO SEO Optimizer LLMs at 352, IndexGPT: AI SEO for ChatGPT at 124, Robots.txt at 3 cumulative reviews. Avada AEO SEO Optimizer LLMs is closest to the milestone — its current count puts it roughly 35% of the way to 1,000.
SEOLab: All in #1 SEO — AI SEO is the only app in this set to have crossed 1,000 reviews so far — a useful signal for merchants that one app has already proved sustained adoption while the others remain in the "promising but unproven" tier of the robots.txt category.
SEOLab: All in #1 SEO — AI SEO is the leading robots.txt app on Shopify, holding 95.8% of category market share with 2,605 reviews — a clear default for most merchants.
SEOLab: All in #1 SEO — AI SEO holds the highest market share among robots.txt apps at 95.8% (+8.00pp 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.
Kedra AI Index: AEO Visibility has shown the strongest ranking momentum, climbing 6 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 31.6%, followed by United Kingdom at 10.8%. 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.
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