# Envato Market review (2026): is it worth it? > Marketplace for website themes, templates, code and creative files Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Envato Market, which includes ThemeForest, is a marketplace where independent authors sell WordPress themes and plugins, HTML and Shopify templates, UI kits, code, video, audio, graphics, photos and 3D files. Buyers pay per item under a Regular or Extended license. Authors apply to sell, and Envato runs a separate subscription product, Envato Elements, for unlimited stock assets. - **Category:** Selling Digital Products - **Made by:** Envato Pty Ltd - **Website:** https://themeforest.net - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Watch out: a Regular License allows one end product, and a product users pay for needs the Extended License. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing Envato Market's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Key features - **Wide item catalog:** Browse themes and templates for WordPress, HTML, Shopify, Webflow, Figma and more, plus code, video, audio, graphics, photos and 3D files. - **Per-item pricing:** Each item has its own price, shown in US dollars and excluding tax and handling fees. Individual authors set the prices. - **Regular and Extended licenses:** A Regular License covers one end product that is free to its users; an Extended License is needed when end users must pay to use the product. - **Author rankings and collections:** Buyers can follow authors, see top authors and top new files, and save items to public collections. - **Market API:** Envato publishes a Market API for working with the marketplace programmatically. - **Affiliate program:** The site links to an affiliate program for people who recommend items to others. ## Good for - Web designers and agencies buying ready-made themes and templates - Developers who want to sell themes, plugins or code to a large buyer base - Small businesses launching a site from a pre-built template ## Worth knowing - Author fees, commission rates and payout terms could not be read: Envato's author help pages block automated reading, so none are listed here. - A Regular License allows one end product, and a product that end users pay for needs the more expensive Extended License. - Standard licenses do not allow an item to be reused inside stock items or templates sold on to others. - The unlimited-download subscription is a separate product, Envato Elements, and is not part of this marketplace's pricing. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Envato Market is a store for website themes, templates, code and creative files, priced item by item. The item pages are where the catch sits: a Regular License covers one end product, and anything your own customers pay for needs the dearer Extended License. - **Value for money: C.** Per-item prices with no price on record that we could compare. Whether a theme is a bargain depends on the license, since a product end users pay for needs the dearer Extended License. - **Free plan and trial: F.** Nothing on record is free: buying a theme or template costs money, and there is no trial. The unlimited-download subscription is a separate product, Envato Elements. - **Features: C.** A wide catalogue, Regular and Extended licenses, author rankings and collections, and a Market API. It is a store, so the job stops at the sale, and author fees and payout terms could not be read. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Browsing and buying is plain, but picking the right license and fitting a theme to your own site is on you. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only. Items are made for WordPress, Shopify, WooCommerce, Elementor, Webflow and Figma, which is compatibility rather than a connection, and there is a Market API. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Envato Market's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among tools for selling digital products - Envato Market's GPA of 1.6 is higher than 0 of the 28 other tools for selling digital products we grade. - It stands best on value for money (C, above 3 of 28) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/digital-products ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Envato Market you would be making checkout, card payments and sales tax handled for you. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 28 of the 28 other tools for selling digital products grade higher. - You could make: Digital downloads and templates: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Checkout, card payments and sales tax handled for you. - You could not: It plugs into other products, WordPress, Shopify and WooCommerce among them. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with WordPress, Shopify, WooCommerce, Elementor, Webflow, Figma **Tags:** Digital downloads, Online store, Templates ## Alternatives - [Easy Digital Downloads](https://toolgpa.com/tools/easy-digital-downloads): WordPress plugin for selling digital downloads from your own site. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/easy-digital-downloads-vs-envato-market) - [Gumroad](https://toolgpa.com/tools/gumroad): Sell downloads, memberships and courses for a cut of each sale. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/envato-market-vs-gumroad) - [Payhip](https://toolgpa.com/tools/payhip): Store for downloads, courses and memberships, with a free plan. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/envato-market-vs-payhip) - [Lemon Squeezy](https://toolgpa.com/tools/lemon-squeezy): Merchant of record checkout for software, subscriptions and downloads. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/envato-market-vs-lemon-squeezy) - [Sellfy](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sellfy): Store builder for selling downloads, subscriptions and print-on-demand. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/envato-market-vs-sellfy) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://themeforest.net/ - https://themeforest.net/licenses/standard Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/envato-market Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).