Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Themeforest

The 20 closest website theme marketplace alternatives to Themeforest, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 8 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Themeforest? The closest matches are aThemes, Colorlib and elegantthemes.com. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.

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01 · Entity

About Themeforest

Themeforest themeforest.net

WordPress Themes & Website Templates from ThemeForest

Discover 1000s of premium WordPress themes & website templates, including multipurpose and responsive Bootstrap templates, email templates & HTML templates.

Wikidata: Digital web themes and templates

Top 10K · #1,152 English 8 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit Themeforest

Summary by Claude

Marketplace where independent developers sell website themes and templates, including WordPress, Shopify, WooCommerce, HTML, email and CMS templates, purchased individually per license.

Who it’s for
Web designers, developers, agencies and small businesses
Business model
Commission on marketplace sales

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Themeforest’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

TemuWooCommerceBig CartelTeachers Pay TeachersZazzleHtml5 upetsy.comelegantthemes.comColorlibaThemes

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Themeforest

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Themeforest, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    aThemes athemes.com Top 10K English

    aThemes - Premium WordPress Themes and Plugins

    Lightweight, fast WordPress themes and plugins trusted by 100,000+ websites. Sydney, Botiga, and Merchant — built by the Awesome Motive team behind…

  2. 02
    Colorlib colorlib.com Top 10K English

    WordPress Themes & Website Templates - Colorlib

    Colorlib creates beautiful, high-performance WordPress themes and website templates. Trusted by millions of creators since 2013.

  3. 03
    elegantthemes.com Top 10K English

    The Best WordPress Themes In The World

    WordPress Themes with Visual Drag & Drop Technology that empower a community of 974,872 customers. Home of Divi, the ultimate Visual Page Builder and Theme.

  4. 04
    etsy.com Top 1K English

    etsy.com

    American e-commerce company

  5. 05
    Html5 up html5up.net Top 10K

    HTML5 UP! Responsive HTML5 and CSS3 Site Templates

    Responsive HTML5 and CSS3 site templates designed by @ajlkn.

  6. 06
    Zazzle zazzle.com Top 10K English

    Uh-oh! Something doesn't look right.

    platform for building online shops

  7. 07
    Teachers Pay Teachers teacherspayteachers.com Top 10K English

    Teaching Resources & Lesson Plans | TPT

    World’s most popular online marketplace for original educational resources with more than four million resources available for use today.

  8. 08
    Big Cartel bigcartel.com Top 10K English

    Free, Easy Online Stores for Artists & Small Businesses

    Start your free online store & scale as you grow. Easily manage your e-commerce business. Join a community of artists & small businesses.

  9. 09
    WooCommerce woocommerce.com Top 10K English

    WooCommerce

    WooCommerce is the open-source ecommerce platform that helps merchants and developers build successful businesses for the long term.

  10. 10
    Temu temu.com Top 1K

    Chinese online marketplace owned by PDD Holdings

  11. 11
    Upwork upwork.com Top 10K English

    American freelancing platform

  12. 12
    Redbubble redbubble.com Top 10K English

    online print-on-demand marketplace that was founded in 2006 that allow users to sell art on their platform

  13. 13
    Farfetch farfetch.com Top 10K

    online luxury fashion marketplace

  14. 14
    TeePublic teepublic.com Top 10K English

    e-commerce crowdsourcing site where artists can upload and sell their designs

  15. 15
    WordPress wordpress.org Top 100 English

    Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS | WordPress.org

    Open source software which you can use to easily create a beautiful website, blog, or app.

  16. 16
    Wish wish.com English

    Wish | Shop and Save

    Discover affordable items for your home and life needs. Enjoy our money back guarantee, frequent discounts, flat rate shipping (select markets), and more.

  17. 17
    Themeisle themeisle.com Top 10K English

    Themeisle - Built to Last WordPress Themes & Plugins

    Reliable WordPress themes and plugins with exceptional support. Behind Neve, Optimole & WP Full Pay powering over 2M+ active installations.

  18. 18
    Pixels pixels.com Top 10K English

    Pixels | Art You'll Love from Independent Artists

    Pixels is the place for affordable wall art, t-shirts, art prints, phone cases, and more from independent artists and global brands. All Pixels orders include a 30 day money-back guarantee and help support living artists all over the world.

  19. 19
    Fiverr fiverr.com Top 1K English

    It needs a human touch

    Complete the task and we'll get you right back into Fiverr.

  20. 20
    Turbify turbify.com Top 10K English

    Find the best Hosting, Domains, Ecommerce, Bizmail, and more | Turbify

    The only platform with all you need to grow an online presence. Find your perfect domain, get bizmail, create a gorgeous website, or launch an online store. Our speed will impress you, our security will keep you online. - Turbify

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to themeforest.net’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Themeforest uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What Themeforest is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

Tag managers
Cookie consent
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CDN
Languages & backends
  • Ruby on Rails page source: <meta name="csrf-param" content="authenticity_token"
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)

Stack changes

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Themeforest adds or drops shows up here.

SimilarSiteSearch

Competitors by meaning, stacks from the source. Data from public homepages and DNS.

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