Top 10 Digital Product Selling Websites With Source Code (2027)

Key takeaways

• CodeCanyon now charges every author a flat 50 percent fee, the highest commission on this list by a wide margin.
• Marketplaces bring buyers but take 30 to 50 percent. Storefront tools take 0 to 10 percent but bring nobody.
• Lemon Squeezy acts as merchant of record, which means it handles global VAT and sales tax for you.
• Four platforms that other lists still recommend, including PieceX and Chupamobile, no longer exist.
• Headline commission is not the real cost. Subscription plans, payout thresholds and buyer fees all change the maths.

What changed in 2027

If you are reading an article about sites to sell source code that was written before July 2026, its central comparison is out of date.

Envato, which runs CodeCanyon and ThemeForest, scrapped its tiered author fee and its exclusivity programme. Envato's own author documentation now states plainly that "Authors pay Envato a 50% author fee on their item price when it sells." Previously, exclusive authors who had sold a lot could pay as little as 12.5 percent. Those sellers have seen their effective commission multiply.

There is a second deduction people miss. Envato charges buyers a separate buyer fee on top of the item price, and the author fee is calculated after that is removed. In Envato's own worked example, a $49 purchase with a $12 buyer fee leaves an author item price of $37, and the 50 percent author fee leaves the author $18.50. The seller keeps roughly 38 percent of what the buyer actually paid.

That single change is why the rest of this list matters more than it did a year ago.

Comparison at a glance

The 10 platforms in detail

1. Sell My Code

Sell My Code runs two models at once. It buys working apps and source code outright after a demo and evaluation, and it also lets you list your own product for buyers to contact you directly. Listed products run from about $3,000 to $22,000 across apps, SaaS platforms, CRM and ERP systems, marketplaces, WordPress products and APIs.

Strengths

• A $9 one time listing fee with 0 percent commission, the cheapest structure on this list by a distance.
• Outright acquisition is an option, so you can exit a project completely instead of licensing it repeatedly.
• Stated evaluation turnaround is roughly 48 hours after the demo, with offers inside a week.
• Broad payout options including bank transfer, Wise, PayPal, UPI and crypto.

Limitations

• No legal entity name or postal address is published on the site, which is worth asking about before signing.
• Licence terms are not documented publicly, and the site's wording on whether source code transfers is inconsistent between the listing and exclusive paths.
• The homepage activity counters currently display zero, so the platform's track record cannot be verified from the site itself.

2. Make An App Like

This is our own platform, so treat the placement accordingly. Make An App Like is primarily a buy side catalogue: white label and ready made app source code across roughly 20 clone industries, sold to founders who want to launch without building from scratch. For vendors, it offers product directory listings with permanent placement rather than a checkout and payout marketplace.

Strengths

• The audience arrives with buying intent for app source code specifically, not general digital goods.
• Directory listings are permanent rather than rented monthly, with placement plans starting at $65.
• Editorial review is fast, with a stated 30 minute turnaround during US business hours.

Limitations

• It does not process your sales or handle payouts, so it is a distribution channel rather than a transactional marketplace.
• The catalogue is curated and narrow, which is good for relevance and bad if your product sits outside app and SaaS categories.
• We publish this ranking, which is an obvious conflict of interest.

3. CodeCanyon (Envato Market)

CodeCanyon is still the largest marketplace for scripts, plugins and app templates, and it still sends more buyer traffic than anything else here. The economics changed sharply in July 2026.

Strengths

• By far the largest built in buyer audience for code, which no storefront tool can match.
• Exclusivity is gone, so you can now sell the same item on CodeCanyon and elsewhere simultaneously.
• Established licensing tiers that buyers already understand and trust.

Limitations

• A flat 50 percent author fee, the highest on this list, with no volume discount to work toward.
• The buyer fee is deducted before your 50 percent is calculated, so your real share is closer to 38 percent.
• Authors who built lifetime sales to reach the old 12.5 percent tier lost that advantage entirely.

4. Gumroad

Gumroad is the default for creators selling digital products to an audience they already have. It charges 10 percent plus $0.50 on direct sales, and 30 percent when a new customer finds you through its Discover marketplace. There is no monthly fee.

Strengths

• No monthly cost, so it is free to keep a dormant product listed.
• Fast to set up, with a checkout you can embed or link to from anywhere.
• The 10 percent direct rate is a fifth of CodeCanyon's cut.

Limitations

• The 30 percent Discover rate applies when the platform finds the buyer, which is triple the direct rate.
• Not built for code specifically, so there is no licensing framework for software.
• You supply all the traffic on direct sales, which is the entire job.

5. Codester

Codester is the closest functional equivalent to CodeCanyon for PHP scripts, app templates and admin panels. Its seller documentation states authors receive 70 percent of eligible sales, and exclusivity is not required.

Strengths

• 70 percent to the seller, which is 20 points better than CodeCanyon on the same product type.
• No exclusivity requirement, so it stacks with other marketplaces.
• Built for code, with categories and licence tiers that fit software rather than generic downloads.

Limitations

• Far smaller buyer audience than CodeCanyon, so 70 percent of less can still be less.
• A payout threshold applies, and balances below it can be held until well after your first sale.
• Some older comparisons claim an exclusivity ladder that drops the platform cut to zero. Codester's own page describes a flat rate, so verify before planning around it.

6. Payhip

Payhip sells digital downloads, courses and memberships from your own storefront. Its pricing is the clearest trade off on this list: Free Forever at 5 percent, Plus at $29 a month and 2 percent, and Pro at $99 a month with no transaction fee.

Strengths

• A genuinely usable free tier at 5 percent with no monthly commitment.
• You can move up tiers as volume grows, so the fee structure scales with you.
• Handles EU VAT on digital goods, which removes a real administrative burden.

Limitations

• No marketplace or discovery at all, so every buyer must come from your own marketing.
• Stripe and PayPal processing fees apply on top of all three tiers.
• Pro only makes sense above roughly $5,000 a month in sales, below which you are paying for nothing.

7. Lemon Squeezy

Lemon Squeezy charges 5 percent plus 50 cents and acts as merchant of record, meaning it calculates, collects and remits sales tax and VAT on your behalf. Its footer now reads "Sold through Link, LLC f/k/a Lemon Squeezy LLC", reflecting its acquisition by Stripe. Payouts run twice a month to over 200 countries.

Strengths

• Merchant of record status removes global tax registration and filing, which is worth more than the fee difference for most sellers.
• 5 percent plus 50 cents is the lowest percentage of any full service option here.
• No monthly cost on the ecommerce plan, and payouts twice monthly.

Limitations

• No buyer discovery, so it is infrastructure rather than a sales channel.
• Additional charges can apply on non US transactions, detailed in a separate fees document.
• The Stripe transition means product direction is worth watching before you build your whole business on it.

8. Sellfy

Sellfy charges no commission at all and bills a monthly plan instead: Starter at $22 a month up to $10,000 in annual sales, Business at $59 up to $50,000, and Premium at $119 up to $200,000. Exceed your cap without upgrading and a 2 percent overage fee may apply.

Strengths

• Zero commission, so your margin is fixed and predictable regardless of order value.
• Includes a storefront, email marketing and print on demand in the same subscription.
• The maths beats percentage platforms clearly once you are selling consistently.

Limitations

• Annual sales caps per tier, with an overage fee if you exceed them, which is unusual among storefront tools.
• You pay the monthly fee in slow months whether you sell anything or not.
• Payment processing is separate at roughly 2.9 percent plus 30 cents.

9. Flippa

Flippa is different in kind from everything above. You are not licensing copies, you are selling the entire app, site or business once, including its revenue and users. That suits a finished product you no longer want to maintain.

Strengths

• A single exit rather than ongoing support obligations, which is often what a developer actually wants.
• Buyers arrive expecting to pay for a business, so valuations reflect revenue rather than a template price.
• Established escrow and transfer processes for handing over code and accounts.

Limitations

• Published fee tiers are inconsistent across sources and the success fee page has been reported as broken, so get your exact rate in writing first.
• You pay a listing package up front whether or not the asset sells.
• Only works for products with demonstrable traction, not for an unlaunched codebase.

10. SellMyApp

SellMyApp focuses specifically on mobile app source code for iOS, Android and Unity, with licence tiers aimed at the reskinning market. It is the narrowest fit on this list and the least transparent.

Strengths

• Purpose built for mobile app source code, so buyers arrive looking for exactly that.
• Licence tiers designed around reskinning, which is how most buyers of app templates actually operate.

Limitations

• Commission terms are not published publicly, so you negotiate without a reference point. Get them in writing.
• Commonly quoted figures for its commission trace back to older listicles rather than to the platform.
• Narrow category focus means no reach beyond mobile templates.

Platforms other lists still recommend that no longer exist

We checked every marketplace commonly named in competing guides on 29 October 2026. Four are gone, and several widely shared listicles still rank them.

If a comparison you are reading recommends any of these as a live option, it has not been checked recently, and its fee figures for the surviving platforms are probably equally stale. Our wider roundup of CodeCanyon alternatives covers more of these platforms, and our guide to the most popular online marketplaces in the United States covers the general category.

How to actually choose

The decision reduces to one question: do you need an audience, or do you only need a checkout?

• You have no audience. Use a marketplace and accept the commission. CodeCanyon for maximum reach at 50 percent, Codester for better economics at 70 percent to you, Sell My Code if you would rather sell the asset outright.
• You have an audience. Use a storefront. Lemon Squeezy at 5 percent plus 50 cents if you sell internationally and want the tax handled, Gumroad at 10 percent plus $0.50 for speed, Payhip free tier to start at 5 percent.
• You sell consistently. Move to a flat monthly plan. Sellfy or Payhip Pro beat percentage fees once volume is steady, and the crossover is easy to calculate.
• You want out entirely. Flippa, or an outright sale through Sell My Code.

List in more than one place. Envato ending exclusivity in July 2026 removed the main reason sellers ever restricted themselves to a single marketplace.

What sells, and what does not

Across these platforms the pattern is consistent. Complete, deployable products with documentation outsell clever libraries. Anything a buyer can run and rebrand in an afternoon outsells anything requiring a developer to integrate. Admin panels, booking systems, delivery apps, marketplaces and SaaS starters move. Isolated components and snippets largely do not, because buyers can now generate those.

Documentation is the difference between a product and a zip file, and it is the most common reason a technically good submission gets rejected or refunded. If you are weighing whether to build something to sell rather than sell what you have, our breakdown of real MVP build costs and the guide to building a marketplace app are the relevant starting points.

Conclusion

For most developers selling source code in 2027, the honest answer is a marketplace for discovery plus a storefront for margin, running at the same time. CodeCanyon still has the buyers, but at a flat 50 percent author fee calculated after the buyer fee, it is now an acquisition channel rather than a business model. Codester at 70 percent and Sell My Code at a $9 flat listing fee do far better by the seller. Lemon Squeezy at 5 percent plus 50 cents, with merchant of record tax handling, is the strongest storefront for anyone selling internationally.

Exclusivity is over. The sellers who do best from here will be the ones who list everywhere, keep their own checkout for repeat buyers, and treat any single platform's commission as a cost of customer acquisition rather than a fact of life.