The 10 Best Free Shopify Themes for Your Online Store
Here is the list of the top 10 best free themes for Shopify that are widely popular among online shop owners.
1. Narrative
Narrative is a boutique theme designed for visual storytelling. What makes Narrative unique is its focus on imagery to tell a story. By default, the home page has a full-width slideshow, an image with text, and a video. This layout has a strong visual impact and lets you tell your brand story without a lot of text.
Theme features
- Built for small catalogs: Ideal for stores with a single product, or a small number of products.
- Hero video: Tell your story by featuring autoplay, fullscreen video at the top of your home page.
- Designed for visual storytelling: Showcase the finer details of your product with customizable image blocks, quote slides, and more.
- Fixed navigation: Create a better browsing experience by surfacing your menu, logo, and cart when customers begin to scroll up the page.
- Vertical slideshow: Display products, information, images, or blog posts in a sleek, vertical slideshow on your home page.
- Wide layout: Make the most of large, high-resolution imagery with a full-width layout.
2. Debut
Debut is a flexible theme that is suitable for all stores, regardless of inventory size. With Debut you can quickly set up a store and start selling; Debut looks polished without any theme customizations.
Theme features
- Slideshow: Showcase multiple products or brand images on your home page.
- Single featured product: Promote a single product by featuring it front and center on your home page.
- Product filtering: Allow customers to filter products by type, and sort by best sellers and price on the collection page.
- Customer testimonials: Promote your products by sharing your customers’ comments and quotes.
- Promotional banner: Promote your latest sale, promotion, or discount at the top of your store’s home page.
- Built for small catalogs: Ideal for stores with a small number of products.
- Home page video: Tell your story by featuring a YouTube or Vimeo video.
- Multi-level menu: Feature a multi-level drop-down menu to help customers easily navigate your store.
- Product recommendations: Showcase recommended products on product pages to increase discoverability.
3. Jumpstart
Jumpstart is made specifically for crowdfunding graduates but is also perfect for selling one to ten products. Its home page showcases a video and a features section.
Theme features
- Built for small catalogs: Ideal for stores with a small number of products.
- Slideshow: Showcase multiple products or brand images on your home page.
- Goal-tracking tool: Track and display the progress of your crowdfunding campaign.
- ‘As seen on’ section: Promote your products and latest media coverage.
- Home page video: Tell your story by featuring a YouTube or Vimeo video front and center.
- Custom modules: Share promotions, FAQS, or blog posts on your home page.
4. Venture
Venture is a bold yet minimal theme designed for high-volume stores with large inventories. Features include an edge-to-edge slideshow, multi-column drop-down menus, and a promotional bar.
Theme features
- Built for large catalogs: Ideal for stores with a large number of products.
- Multi-column menu: Feature product details and images in a large, multi-column drop-down menu.
- Slideshow: Showcase multiple products or brand images on your home page.
- Promotional banner: Promote your latest sale, promotion, or discount at the top of your store’s home page.
- Product filtering: Allow customers to filter products by type, and sort by best sellers and price on the collection page.
- Single featured product: Promote a single product by featuring it front and center on your home page.
5. Boundless
Boundless is a photography-first theme with a minimal UI that features edge-to-edge photography. Boundless is mobile-first and suited for stores with medium to large inventories.
Theme features
- Optimized for large images: Showcase high-resolution product imagery throughout your store.
- Slideshow with fading effect: Feature multiple products or brand images in a fade-effect slideshow on your home page.
- Sticky navigation: Keep menus fixed to the top of your page as you scroll down.
- Single product gallery: Feature large, high-resolution images in a dedicated product gallery.
- Full-width collection images: Collection images are presented in a full-width grid layout, great for showcasing product imagery.
- Home page video: Tell your story by featuring a YouTube or Vimeo video front and center.
6. Simple
Simple is a clean and minimal theme, perfect for showcasing products. Features include a mobile-first responsive design, sidebar navigation, image animations, and product image zoom.
Theme features
- Sidebar menu: Feature an accordion-style menu in your sidebar to easily display your products and collections.
- Product image zoom: Give customers a closer look and extra product details when they hover over an image.
- Related products: Display products from the same collection on your product pages so customers can continue shopping.
- Image animations: Product and brand images animate into the page to create a sleek, transition effect.
7. Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a theme tailored for the modern apparel store. Its features include an edge-to-edge home page slideshow, a dynamic product grid, and product pages with at-a-glance availability for each size.
Theme features
- Designed for modern apparel stores: Tailored to contemporary apparel stores with a focus on brand imagery.
- Header slideshow: Showcase multiple product or brand images at the top of your home page.
- Dynamic product grid: The layout of your products changes automatically based on how many are displayed.
- Slide-out cart: Customers can easily add to their cart without leaving their current page.
- Home page video: Tell your story by featuring a YouTube or Vimeo video front and center.
8. Pop
A minimalist theme, designed to keep your content accessible. Pop is ideal for stores with small- to medium-sized inventories, Pop is designed around large sidebar navigation that keeps your content readily accessible.
Theme features
- Sidebar menu: Feature a sidebar menu for easy navigation and access to pages and information.
- Slide-out cart: Customers can easily add to their cart without leaving their current page.
- Home page slideshow: Showcase multiple product or brand images at the top of your home page.
- Product image zoom: Give customers a closer look and extra product details when they hover over an image.
9. Supply
Supply is a clean, easy-to-navigate theme perfect for merchants with large inventories and several collections. Features include prominent navigation, multiple home page collections, sidebar filtering, and easy integration with the Product Reviews app.
Theme features
- Built for large catalogs: Ideal for stores with a large number of products.
- Collection filtering in the sidebar: Allow customers to filter collection pages by brand, price, and other customizable options.
- Slideshow: Showcase multiple products or brand images on your home page.
- Featured collections on the home page: Display multiple featured collections on your home page.
10. Minimal
Minimal is a wide-layout responsive theme that looks great on any device. Loaded with features designed to give you complete flexibility, you can customize your store with additional layout options, product views, collection views, navigation styles, and typography choices.
Theme features
- Slideshow: Showcase multiple products or brand images on your home page.
- Product image zoom: Give customers a closer look and extra product details when they hover over an image.
- Related products: Display products from the same collection on your product pages so customers can continue shopping.
- Home page video: Tell your story by featuring a YouTube or Vimeo video.
- Product filtering: Allow customers to filter products by type, and sort by best sellers and price on the collection page.
