Boost Shopify Theme - Usage Statistics
Boost runs on 0.2% of the 3,500,000+ Shopify stores across our full detection dataset. For how its share is moving right now, see theme trends.
Boost is a Shopify theme used by 0.2% of the Shopify stores in our dataset. The figure reflects live storefront detection of the active theme, not Theme Store download counts.
Theme store ID: 863 - the number Boost stamps into every store that installs it.
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Boost adoption trend
Boost has held steady at about 0.1% of the stores scanned each month in recent months. See all Shopify trends →
Boost speed & Core Web Vitals
Across 162 real Boost stores, 77.4% pass Google’s Core Web Vitals (median LCP 1.9s). Filtered to stores running only a few apps, that rises to 80.9%, isolating the theme’s own speed from the apps merchants pile on.
Boost is a paid Shopify theme in the first-party Theme Store, built around a tight set of 4 ready-made presets, each a distinct aesthetic rather than a color variant of the same underlying layout. Its pitch is speed to market for merchants who want a designed store live in an afternoon without a season of theme customization. Pick the preset that matches the brand voice, drop in real photography and copy, and the shop reads as intentional from day one.
Because Boost sits in the Shopify Theme Store, it comes with Shopify's own update cadence and support surface, plus lifetime access to future versions without a re-license charge. The panels below show what actually happens on Boost stores in our dataset: the app stack they build around it, the categories they sell most, and how the theme performs on real-world Core Web Vitals across the shops that run it.
Where it fits: A merchant who wants a designed, conversion-ready storefront up on the same day and does not need to bend the layout to fit a bespoke brief. Boost ships with 4 considered presets covering distinct visual tones, so a small-to-mid brand picking one of them can get most of the way to a finished storefront without wiring together sections or hiring a designer. Because it lives in the first-party Theme Store, it also comes with Shopify's own updates and support, so a merchant does not have to plan for a broken re-license every couple of years.
The trade-off: The preset library is smaller than the ThemeForest catalogs that lead with sheer volume, so a store that wants dozens of visual starting points will not find them here. The theme is also premium-priced, so the value only really lands for a store that will use the design polish and the conversion features it ships with. A discount-driven or heavy-catalog store paying the same money for a features-first theme like Impulse or Xtra may get more raw conversion machinery for the budget.
Ideal store: A launching or growing brand that wants a designed storefront on a short timeline and a first-party support ecosystem. Boost's 4 preset directions are broad enough to cover apparel, wellness, beauty, and home-and-lifestyle stores without heavy modification, and its Theme Store status carries Shopify's own updates and OS 2.0 reliability. It gives back less to a broad multi-vendor catalog, to a discount-heavy or promotion-first store, to a merchant planning a bespoke checkout, or to anyone who wants a dozens-wide demo library to browse from before committing.
Before you commit: Preview all 4 presets with your own brand photography imported, not with the demo imagery, because a preset that reads clean on stock stills can look flat against real product shots. Then test the product page and cart flow on mobile with your actual variant count, because premium themes handle variant-heavy product pages very differently. And run the preview through the app stack you plan to keep, since feature-added apps read very differently on a design-led theme than they do on a features-first one.
Top apps used on Boost stores
| # | App | % of stores | Usage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 Judge.me Product Reviews App
Product reviews |
45.5% | |
| 2 |
 Klaviyo
Email Marketing |
43.8% | |
| 3 |
 Loox ‑ Product Reviews App
Product reviews |
27.0% | |
| 4 |
 Recharge
Subscriptions |
24.9% | |
| 5 |
 PageFly ✦ AI Page Builder
Page builder |
13.7% | |
| 6 |
 Rebuy Personalization Engine
Checkout - Other |
13.3% | |
| 7 |
 Gorgias
Support - Other |
10.7% | |
| 8 |
 Yotpo
Product reviews |
10.3% | |
| 9 |
 Shopify Inbox
Support - Other |
9.9% | |
| 10 |
 Triplewhale
Analytics |
9.4% |
Store types using Boost
By business model
- Subscription 27.2%
- Multichannel & Marketplaces 9.1%
- Wholesale / B2B 5.6%
- Dropshipping 3.4%
- Print on Demand 3.4%
By what they sell
- Apparel & Accessories 36.2%
- Toys & Games 28.8%
- Home & Garden 17.0%
- Food, Beverages & Tobacco 17.0%
- Baby & Toddler 14.8%
- Health & Beauty 14.0%
Examples of stores running Boost
- unze.com.pk
- thebombaystore.com
- jockey.com.pk
- hydrouk.co
- griffedamour.com
- swissarabian.com
Store owners can request removal of their domain from example listings.
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How this data works
This figure comes from live detection: we scan Shopify storefronts and read the active theme each one runs, then express it as a share of the 3,500,000+ stores in our dataset. It is a share of every store in our dataset, not just recently scanned stores, so it moves more slowly than the month-over-month figures on our trends page. We report what is currently detected, not historical installs or Theme Store / App Store counts.
Independent by design: rankings are determined solely by live detection data. Affiliate relationships never affect what ranks or how stores are counted. Read the full methodology →
Citing this data
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ShopThemeDetector, "Boost Shopify theme usage statistics", 2026. https://shopthemedetector.com/shopify-themes/boost
