Envy is a premium Shopify theme built for apparel brands that sell a core range, fit by fit. Made by Eight Themes and sold on the Shopify Theme Store, it ships with five ready-made designs, Envy, Court, Enamel, Graft and Pedal, each tuned to a different vertical and customised section by section rather than dropped in as a plain product grid. Our detection shows it running on a small but steady set of live Shopify stores, and it holds a 91% positive rating from merchants.

The short version: Envy is a well-rated, mid-priced theme aimed at apparel brands that want an editorial storefront with conversion tools built in. It pairs a photography-led look with countdown timers, flash-sale banners and an offers drawer, so brand feel and campaigns sit together, and its five designs do a lot of the layout work for you. This review leans on data from the stores actually running Envy, not the Theme Store sales page.

Key Takeaways
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Envy is an apparel-first Theme Store theme from Eight Themes, with five designs tuned to different verticals: Envy, Court, Enamel, Graft and Pedal.
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It suits apparel brands that sell a core range and want an editorial storefront with conversion tools built in.
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Conversion features like countdown timers, flash-sale banners, an offers drawer and quick buy ship with the theme, not as add-ons.
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Its stores lean on marketing and reviews apps like Klaviyo, Judge.me and Loox, a crowd built around repeat customers and social proof.
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Real-world Core Web Vitals are solid for a design-rich theme and improve further on lightly-loaded stores.
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It is a one-time Theme Store purchase with a high merchant rating, and less suited to bare-bones catalog stores.

What Is Envy?

Envy is a paid theme sold on the Shopify Theme Store and built by Eight Themes, a UK studio. It runs on Shopify’s Online Store 2.0 framework, so sections and blocks are editable on every page, and it ships in five designs, Envy for apparel, Court for footwear, Enamel for cookware and home, Graft for workwear and tools, and Pedal for cycling and outdoor, so you can start from a look close to your brand instead of a blank page.

Envy pairs that editorial look with real conversion tools. Alongside lookbooks, testimonials and brand-story sections, its designs ship with countdown timers, flash-sale banners, an offers drawer and quick buy, so it brings the campaign features that feature-first themes like Stiletto are known for without losing the brand feel.

The tools it leans on are the ones a brand-led store actually uses:

  • Five vertical-tuned designs with full demo content
  • Drag-and-drop sections for lookbooks and brand pages
  • Countdown timers, flash-sale banners and an offers drawer for campaigns
  • Quick buy, back-in-stock alerts and a stock counter
  • Image hotspots for shoppable looks and editorial product grids

What Apps Do Envy Merchants Install?

The apps a theme’s stores run show who really uses it. Envy’s list reads like a brand-builder’s toolkit, not a discount-driven one.

Klaviyo: 50.0%Klaviyo50.0%Judge.me Product Reviews App: 28.6%Judge.me Product Reviews App28.6%Loox ‑ Product Reviews App: 15.8%Loox ‑ Product Reviews App15.8%PageFly ✦ AI Page Builder: 13.3%PageFly ✦ AI Page Builder13.3%Rebuy Personalization Engine: 12.8%Rebuy Personalization Engine12.8%Recharge: 11.2%Recharge11.2%Shopify Inbox: 10.2%Shopify Inbox10.2%Swym Wishlist: 9.7%Swym Wishlist9.7%Hotjar Install: 8.7%Hotjar Install8.7%Yotpo: 8.2%Yotpo8.2%
RankApp% of storesCategory
1Klaviyo50.0%Email Marketing
2Judge.me Product Reviews App28.6%Product reviews
3Loox ‑ Product Reviews App15.8%Product reviews
4PageFly ✦ AI Page Builder13.3%Page builder
5Rebuy Personalization Engine12.8%Checkout - Other
6Recharge11.2%Subscriptions
7Shopify Inbox10.2%Support - Other
8Swym Wishlist9.7%Wishlists
9Hotjar Install8.7%Analytics
10Yotpo8.2%Product reviews

Klaviyo leads for email, backed by reviews through Judge.me and Loox, personalization from Rebuy and wishlists via Swym. That mix points to stores investing in repeat customers and social proof, which fits a theme built to tell a brand story.

How Popular Is Envy?

Envy runs on 0.2% of the Shopify stores in our detection dataset. That is a focused share rather than a mass-market one, in line with a premium theme, and its stores tend to run a few more apps than average.

0.2%
Share of stores in our dataset
6.9
Avg apps on their stores

17% more apps than average
Stores running Envy average 6.9 apps each, 17% more than the dataset-wide average of 5.91.

You can see the full picture, updated as our data refreshes, on the Envy usage statistics page.

How Fast Is Envy?

Speed is a fair question for a design-rich theme, and Envy holds up better than most. Across real Envy stores, 71.6% pass Google’s Core Web Vitals, and the rate climbs on stores running only a few apps, with quick largest-contentful-paint and no measurable layout shift.

The takeaway is practical. Envy’s own code is quick, so the speed you keep depends on discipline: the image-led designs lean on large imagery, so compress your photos and keep your app list tight to hold those numbers as your catalog grows.

Envy Design and Layout

Envy Shopify theme storefront preview

Envy’s design is editorial and photography-led. The designs lean on full-width imagery, shoppable looks and lookbook layouts, so a store with strong photography reads as a considered brand rather than a catalog. The five designs span different verticals, from apparel and footwear to cookware, workwear and cycling, so the look you start from depends on what you sell.

The trade-off is that the design leans on your content. With weak imagery or thin copy, the story sections feel empty, and the editorial effect falls flat. Themes like Broadcast face the same tension, so plan your photography and brand copy before you build.

Envy Features That Matter

Most of Envy’s value is in how it presents a brand. The features that earn their place:

  • Vertical-tuned designs: five full designs, from apparel and footwear to cookware, workwear and cycling.
  • Built-in conversion tools: countdown timers, flash-sale banners, an offers drawer and promo popups for campaigns.
  • Quick buy and slide-out cart: quick view, cross-sell and recommended products, with gift wrapping and pre-order.
  • Stock signals: back-in-stock alerts and a stock counter for light urgency that reflects reality.
  • Shoppable merchandising: image hotspots, collage grids and color swatches that keep a range easy to browse.

The caveat is really about fit, not features. Envy now carries a full set of conversion tools, so if you sell apparel or a core product range and want campaign features without a separate app stack, it earns its place. A plain catalog store that needs none of this will find it more theme than it requires.

How Much Does Envy Cost?

Envy is a paid Theme Store theme priced at $320 as a one-time purchase, which sits in the mid-range for the Theme Store. Like every Theme Store theme, you can install and build with it for free and only pay once when you publish it to a live store, and it goes through Shopify’s own theme review.

How to judge the price


Envy is a one-time cost, so weigh it against how much an editorial, campaign-ready storefront matters to your store. If lookbooks, shoppable looks and built-in conversion tools matter to you, paying once for the designs can be cheaper than a custom build plus a stack of apps. If you only need a simple catalog, a free theme will stretch further.

Envy Pros and Cons

Pros

  • Five vertical-tuned designs, so you start close to your category
  • Editorial, photography-led design that looks considered out of the box
  • Conversion tools built in: countdown timers, flash-sale banners, offers drawer
  • Solid real-world speed for a design-rich theme
  • High merchant rating and one-time Theme Store pricing

Cons

  • Leans on strong photography, and looks empty without it
  • Built mainly around apparel, so other verticals use one of the four secondary designs
  • Large preset imagery means you have to manage speed as you grow
  • Mid-range price is more than a small catalog store needs

Who Should Use Envy?

Envy fits apparel brands that sell a core range, fit by fit, and want an editorial storefront with conversion tools built in. If you have the photography to fill its lookbooks and shoppable looks, its designs turn that into a polished, campaign-ready storefront quickly. The other four designs extend the same approach to footwear, cookware, workwear and cycling.

It is a weaker fit for the simplest catalog stores that want a free or minimal theme and none of the editorial layout. If that is you, a leaner theme like Prestige may be a better starting point.

Is Envy Worth It?

Our verdict


A strong choice for apparel brands that want an editorial storefront with conversion tools built in and have the photography to fill it. Less compelling for plain catalog stores that need none of the editorial layout.

Envy earns its place for the brands it is built for. The data backs the pitch: its stores are the marketing and reviews-focused crowd, its real-world speed holds up well for a design-rich theme, and merchants rate it highly. Bring the photography, keep your images optimized, and it will carry an apparel brand as it grows.

Want to compare it with the rest of the field first? Our Shopify theme reviews guide lines up every theme we have tested, from free Theme Store options to premium builds like this one.