Theme Updater App Reviews

APP CATEGORY
SCORE
2.7
TOTAL RATINGS
205

Theme Updater App Description & Overview

About Theme Updater

Theme Updater streamlines and automates many of the steps required to upgrade your premium theme to the latest version whenever the developer releases an update.

A new version is available, so it’s time to update your theme. Bug fixes, new features, better performance—this new theme version sounds great, but how do I preserve my customizations, secure my settings, and transfer my content to the latest version?

That’s where Theme Updater comes in. Theme Updater does the heavy lifting for updating themes to the latest version, providing speedy upgrades and simplified theme maintenance. Leave tiresome updates behind and let the app take care of moving your content, customizations, and settings to the latest version.

Registration

Register your Out of the Sandbox, Pixel Union, or Archetype theme with Theme Updater. This connects your store with ongoing access to the latest version and update information.

Notifications

Get notified when a new version becomes available. Sign up for email notifications to hear first about the latest version.

Keep your customizations

Rest easy knowing your customizations are kept in place with Theme Updater’s preserve customizations and compare file merge conflicts features.

How it works
  • Install Theme Updater in your Shopify store
  • Open the dashboard to check for theme updates and sign up for notifications
  • Register your supported theme to confirm your purchase and secure ongoing access to the latest version of the theme
  • When a new version is available, initiate the update
  • Adjust the title for your new theme version (e.g. summer update)
  • Preserve customizations from the previous theme or start fresh with the default settings
  • With these settings prepared, start the update
  • The app installs an unpublished copy of the latest version of your theme and leaves your current theme as a backup
  • Preview and test your updated theme
  • View the gathered theme file modifications identified by the app

Theme Updater is limited to current Out of the Sandbox, Pixel Union, and Archetype themes only. Other Shopify themes are not compatible with Theme Updater.

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App Name Theme Updater
App Category Store Management
Published
App Price Free plan available
Support E-Mail support@outofthesandbox.com
App Website

Theme Updater Features

Keep your premium theme up to date.

Keep your theme up to date

Upgrade to the latest version of your Out of the Sandbox, Pixel Union, or Archetype theme to take advantage of new features & bug fixes.

Preserve theme settings

Transfer content to the latest version of your theme with the Pro Plan and keep your customizations, configurations, and more.

Register your theme

Secure ongoing access to the your themes and support services with theme authentication features.

Theme Updater Comments & User Reviews 2024

(United States)

Wonderful app. Made upgrading so much easier. Support was great in answering my questions.

(United States)

Useless Turbo Theme The updater cannot update the most expensive theme on the market and I had to start all over again building my website, They want to you pay extra every month to update your website. Completely waste of money and time. If you want to pay every month and start all over again building your website after every theme updates-- buy it.

(United Kingdom)

Just awful, no clear instructions on how to apply changes. There is a reason that this app has such low reviews. Only gave it a look as the theme developers suggested it. No idea what they were thinking.

(Hungary)

Can't preview turbo theme, could have better way to update better than nothing tho

(United Kingdom)

Very pleased with the level of support provided by Out of the Sandbox, including the provision of this app.

(Australia)

This is a life-changing app that enables easy updating of a highly customised theme. If you've put in the work to update your theme version to an OS 2.0 version, this will make ongoing updates a breeze. Our experience has been incredible - we did not think it would work for us. There are a heap of negative reviews from store owners who would probably find value in utilising a third party to manage the development and ongoing maintenance of their store. But if you have a bit of a clue and keep your store and theme in good shape, this is probably a great solution for updating to the latest versions. Deserving of 5 stars.

(United States)

An absolute MUST HAVE. I have been using the theme updater for several years now and it is the best way for me to upgrade themes. Be careful if you made custom changes to your shop or added other apps...Now that we are using Shopify 2.0 coding, most apps get attached to the new theme automatically, but some apps, that are not Shopify 2.0 upgraded, might have to be added manually. Otherwise, I really LOVE the app and the features it offers.

(United Kingdom)

App recommended by theme developers. Very easy to use and does what it's designed to do. I had an issue at first shot of this (which I ended up solving myself) BUT the support team replied quickly given it was during the free trial, kept me updated about the progress of my ticket, and offered support in a friendly and jargon free way. My theme has updated and copied over brilliantly with only one little bit of code missing which is beyond the capability of this app (a niche widget!) But at least it shows you what the issue is and you can sort yourself/get developer to sort. I think many of the poor reviews on here are from people misunderstanding that this app is not designed to update from legacy to shopify online 2.0. For what it's designed for, it works very well (so far!!)

(United States)

We paid $89 to use this app to update a theme that was registered and compatible. It did not carry over any of the work we had put into customizing the theme through the Shopify sections and theme editor. We're not even speaking about development work - just settings through the theme. The quotes we have gotten from developers to carry over the settings have been extremely expensive and all over the place. It's as if developers know you're in a tough spot s they see how much they can charge you. Do not make the same mistake we did - they do not issue refunds and there are tons of bad reviews here for a reason.

(United States)

Great customer service and theme. I have been using them for several years without any issues. Would recommend.

(United Kingdom)

Very useful app for updating themes. It makes life easier than having to make changes manually each time the theme is updated. I had a few teething problems to begin with (app said my theme was unregistered - despite being registered) - but this was quickly resolved by Byanca.

(United States)

The app updater has been a great help for me. It does most of the work, and then I only have to fill in the special little changes that I've made to the code on my own. I had a technical question, and support got back to me quickly and clearly explained what I needed to do. Very helpful - excellent support!

(United States)

Excellent theme updater. It works in the background and takes the frustration out of manually reinstalling the website theme. Great company and even better support! Keep doing big things Out Of The Sandbox!

(United Kingdom)

Company downloaded without consent - this has been paid for several months without us knowing! AVOID

(United States)

A much needed app but it does not carry over all of the previous theme's customizations.

(Italy)

TERRIBLE ! Complete waste of time alongside the TURBO app! Dose not work, theme developer takes too long to get back.

(Canada)

This app claims it'll update not only your theme but also update custom code + customizations within your theme. NOPE! The arrogant and unhelpful response from their support team has been a nightmare to navigate and update my theme. The app will "update" your theme and then list every single code file that wasn't able to update, after back and forth with support who then told me this was "never" a feature of the app, we started the process of manually going through each code file listed and updating the new code ourselves. Well we can't even do that now as after 2 hours the page with the list of files and their edits that can't be updated refreshes and you LOSE that directory/reference. The support response when I pointed this out (after being gaslit by them that this wasn't an issue for days) was "We'll have a look at fixing this... sorry." This app in USELESS beyond updating your base theme. You have to completely re-do your theme and any edits you have to it if you decide to use it. We've deiceded that if this is how long term support is going to act to their customers we are explore different themes with different developers and will re-launch that way (see as it will be the same amount of work if we decided to stay with our current theme or not). Not only do I NOT recommend this app I don't recommend ANY theme by Out of the Sandbox

(United Kingdom)

Useless Theme and zero interest from them about your issues. The updater cannot update the most expensive theme on the market and you have to start all over again building your website. Furthermore, you have to pay extra to update your website. Ahh... wait... Actually you can not update it but you paid for it. Complete waste of money and time. The so called "Customer Support" are rude and arrogant. If you want to pay for all that - Go for it!

(Australia)

WOW! Great thinking Out of the Sandbox Team. I was preparing for the daunting task of rebuilding my website after an theme upgrade and then discovered you had developed this. Thanks so much!

(United States)

Support is pretty non-existant. Tickets are not answered in a timely fashion. Always feel a lack of support. Theme got updated a few weeks back, and it has not been working correctly after the update. Still no response to ticket after 5 days.

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