Ride runs on 0.3% of the 3,500,000+ Shopify stores across our full detection dataset. For how its share is moving right now, see theme trends.
Ride is a Shopify theme used by 0.3% 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: 1500 — the number Ride stamps into every store that installs it.
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Ride has held steady at about 0.2% of the stores scanned each month in recent months. See all Shopify trends →
Across 71 real Ride stores, 83.6% pass Google’s Core Web Vitals (median LCP 1.4s). Filtered to stores running only a few apps, that rises to 85.7%, isolating the theme’s own speed from the apps merchants pile on.
Ride is a free Shopify theme with the energy of the sports aisle. Dark backgrounds, bold type, and punchy accent colors give it a fast, athletic feel out of the box. It also ships with dedicated layouts for individual products and for teams, which sets it apart from general-purpose free themes. That makes it a natural home for a sports brand rather than a catch-all shop.
The practical tools back up the styling. Color swatches, image zoom, and video let shoppers inspect gear closely. Search, mega menus, and filtering help them find the right size, model, or category in a deep catalog. Blogs, product recommendations, and promotional banners give you room to push seasonal drops and team merch.
The draw: a bold, high-energy, dark-styled store for a sports or athletic brand. The dedicated product and team layouts are the distinctive part, and getting them in a free theme is unusual.
The downside: reviews are mixed on a fairly small sample. The criticism tends to land in two places. Some owners hit technical rough edges, and others want more flexibility in how product listings are organized.
Best fit: sporting goods, activewear, and sports-lifestyle stores with a moderate catalog and confident, action-led photography. The team layouts are a bonus for clubs, leagues, and merch stores.
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| # | App | % of stores | Usage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Judge.me Product Reviews App
Product reviews |
32.7% | |
| 2 |
Loox ‑ Product Reviews App
Product reviews |
18.5% | |
| 3 |
Klaviyo
Email Marketing |
17.3% | |
| 4 |
Recharge
Subscriptions |
11.9% | |
| 5 |
Countdown Timer
Countdown timer |
11.5% | |
| 6 |
Shopify Inbox
Support - Other |
9.2% | |
| 7 |
PageFly ✦ Landing Page Builder
Page builder |
8.1% | |
| 8 |
Printful: Print on Demand
Print on demand (POD) |
6.2% | |
| 9 |
Omnisend Email Marketing & SMS
Email Marketing |
5% | |
| 10 |
Reconvert
Upsell and cross-sell |
4.2% |
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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 →