Gain Shopify Theme — Usage Statistics
Gain runs on 0.1% of the 3,500,000+ Shopify stores across our full detection dataset. For how its share is moving right now, see theme trends.
Gain is a Shopify theme used by 0.1% 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: 2077 — the number Gain stamps into every store that installs it.
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Gain adoption trend
Gain has held steady at about 0.1% of the stores scanned each month in recent months. See all Shopify trends →
Gain speed & Core Web Vitals
Across 32 real Gain stores, 60.7% pass Google’s Core Web Vitals (median LCP 2.1s). Filtered to stores running only a few apps, that rises to 50%, isolating the theme’s own speed from the apps merchants pile on.
Gain, from UTD BV, is the cheapest premium theme in the Shopify Theme Store that is actively maintained, at a one-time price well below the $280-to-$500 band most Theme Store themes sit in. It ships five preset styles (Gain, Lace, Mio, Sable, Maison) pitched across apparel, jewelry and accessories, and food and drink, and the Theme Store copy leans on words like "fast" and "developer-free" to describe it.
The data below tells a different story on the speed claim. Core Web Vitals on real stores running Gain land below the premium-theme median rather than above it, which is a sharper signal than any Theme Store copy. The install base is small and the average app stack on stores running Gain is noticeably lean, both consistent with a theme bought by cost-sensitive merchants rather than scaled-up brands.
Price is the real headline. At its one-time list, Gain is a fraction of the premium-theme band. For a merchant whose budget rules out a Prestige, Impulse, or Dawn-plus-premium-stack setup, Gain is the floor of Theme Store themes still receiving active support. That is a legitimate reason to install it, and it is also the reason the rest of the data below reads the way it does.
The speed marketing does not match the field data. The Theme Store listing calls the theme fast and supercharged. The real-world CWV pass rate on stores running Gain, shown in the panel below, lands below the median of the themes we track. The gap is not catastrophic, but it is wide enough that readers should treat "fast" as a feature target rather than a measured outcome, and should audit a staging store before buying if Core Web Vitals matter to the business.
The rating is credible-but-average. A 91% positive score on review counts in the mid-double digits is honest, not elite. Reviews cluster around the price being reasonable, the setup being quick, and the five presets covering several brand lanes. The themes with 99%-plus scores at this scale usually ship with a sharper developer brand or a more specific vertical pitch; Gain reads as a broad general-purpose theme at a sharp price.
The install base is small and lean. Below the top 100 of the Theme Store on adoption, and running on stores with a noticeably smaller app stack than the dataset median. That lines up with the budget-first positioning: merchants reaching for Gain tend to be at the start of their build, with fewer third-party integrations layered on top. A store planning to scale onto twenty-plus apps and heavy marketing stacks will outgrow Gain faster than a store that stays lean.
Top apps used on Gain stores
| # | App | % of stores | Usage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 Judge.me Product Reviews App
Product reviews |
30.7% | |
| 2 |
 Klaviyo
Email Marketing |
18.2% | |
| 3 |
 Bucks
Currency and translation |
9.1% | |
| 4 |
 Paypal
Checkout - Other |
9.1% | |
| 5 |
 Reconvert
Upsell and cross-sell |
9.1% | |
| 6 |
 Shopify Inbox
Support - Other |
9.1% | |
| 7 |
 Loox ‑ Product Reviews App
Product reviews |
6.8% | |
| 8 |
 Powerful Form Builder
Forms |
5.7% | |
| 9 |
 Instafeed ‑ Instagram Feed
Marketing - Other |
5.7% | |
| 10 |
 Recharge
Subscriptions |
5.7% |
Store types using Gain
By business model
- Subscription 6.3%
- Multichannel & Marketplaces 4.2%
- Print on Demand 1.1%
- Wholesale / B2B 1.1%
- Dropshipping 1.1%
By what they sell
- Apparel & Accessories 69.9%
- Clothing 20.5%
- Dresses 19.3%
- Home & Garden 14.5%
- T-Shirts 12.0%
- Jewelry 10.8%
Examples of stores running Gain
- hillbergandberk.com
- nuneapparel.com.au
- subhashapparels.com
- laulei.com
- ramasat.com
- wajoodezan.com
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Frequently asked questions
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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, "Gain Shopify theme usage statistics", 2026. https://shopthemedetector.com/shopify-themes/gain
