Bootstrap has an offical themes Shop, where theme designers and creators have the possibility to sell their own themes. All themes listed in this shop are built by the creators of Bootstrap themselves or if they are built by other theme designers, the Bootstrap team reviews them before listing them in the shop. This way you can be sure that only high quality bootstrap themes are offered here.
There are no free themes available in the shop. Prices for the themes are ranging from 39 to 79 Dollar per theme. These prices are valid for the standard license option, which allows you to use this theme on only one end website and only for your personal use or client use. Read more about their licensing options here. Overall there are three licensing options available (standard, multisite and extended).
If you purchase a theme in the shop you get 6 months of technical support.
From our point of view the quality of themes and templates in the offical bootstrap shop is on the very high end, as the CSS framework is correctly used and the designs are very detailed regarding things like colors, animations, icons and hover (mouseover) effects.
Of course all of these themes are highly responsive and optimized for different resolutions on all possible user devices and screens - as this is one big reason the framework itself was created for.
Who uses Bootstrap Themes - Should You?
Short answer: Yes.
Bootstrap is used all around the world in the web industry as it is totally accepted as one of the best CSS frameworks out there. Everyone who is working with web technologies knows Bootstrap. This is especially true for web designers and web developers.
So if you are considering using Bootstrap for your web project this is actually a good reason to use it - you will always find someone who can easily help you because he or she already knows Bootstrap.
If you are a person who wants to learn Bootstrap - go for it. No matter what you already know about web development in general and what you know about HTML and CSS, learning Bootstrap will help you design, customize and optimize website themes and your own web project by yourself.
Pros and Cons for using Bootstrap Themes
Some pros and cons for using Bootstrap themes listed down below.
Pros
- Responsive and mobile friendly
- Every web designer & developer knows Bootstrap
- Battle-tested framework
- High adoption in the industry
- Good layout options and grid system
- Easy to learn and use
- Saves a lot of time
Cons
- Not that lightweight (in comparison to newer frameworks)
- Uses JQuery (but will be removed in version 5)
- Can lead to doing many style overrides and fiddling around with different css files
