Responsive Pro

Responsive Pro costs $99 once for 3 sites. The annual plan costs $59 a year, so the lifetime license pays for itself after 21 months. Over five years you save $196 compared with renewing every year.

Yes, if you build business sites, blogs or small shops with the Responsive theme and want the premium starter templates, the mega menu and the extra sticky header and WooCommerce options without paying again every year. The lifetime license costs $99 once for 3 sites instead of $199. Updates: For life. Support: Not stated. Compared with the yearly plan at $59, the one-time payment pays off after about 21 months.

Freelancers and agencies should compare the tiers first: 3 sites for $99, 10 sites for $199, 1000 sites for $299. The white label setting matters most for client work, because it hides the theme name in the dashboard. The money-back guarantee covers 30 days, so install the free Responsive theme from wordpress.org, which has 10,000+ active installs and a rating of 4.7, and check whether the free customizer and starter templates already cover your design before you buy.

The free Responsive theme is lightweight, works with the block editor and Elementor, supports WooCommerce and comes with customizer settings for header, footer, typography, colours and layout plus a library of free starter templates. For one simple site that is often enough.

Responsive Pro is a plugin that adds the premium options on top. You get the premium starter templates and an AI content writer, a mega menu for full width dropdowns, sticky header options with separate settings for each header row, a background blur and a retina logo, blog layouts with a posts filter, a reveal effect, equal grids and pagination styles, extra WooCommerce options for the shop, product pages, cart and checkout and a white label setting that renames the theme in the dashboard.

Most premium WordPress themes renew every year, and the renewal price often climbs after an introductory first year. CyberChimps sells Responsive Pro on its own pricing page as a lifetime license next to the yearly plans, paid once. Updates: For life. Support: Not stated. The tiers: 3 sites for $99, 10 sites for $199, 1000 sites for $299.

Keep in mind that even the smallest lifetime tier already covers several sites, while the vendor shows the lifetime prices as a discount on the list price. If you only ever run one site, the yearly plan can be cheaper for the first years, so do the maths with your own number of sites before you choose the lifetime license.

After the purchase you keep the free Responsive theme active, install the Pro plugin from your CyberChimps account and activate the license; your existing customizer settings stay in place. The starter templates come through the Responsive Starter Templates plugin, which imports pages, menus and demo content in one go. Then open the customizer, set up the sticky header and the mega menu, choose a blog layout and check the WooCommerce pages if you run a shop. Test the result on a phone before you go live. The price was checked on Oct 26, 2026 for the vendor pricing page.

Sites

3 sites

Updates

For life

Support

Not stated

Money back guarantee

30 days

Taken from the vendor’s pricing page, like the price above.

Active installs

10,000+ free version on wordpress.org

Rating

4.7 out of 5 on wordpress.org

Current version

6.4.9

Last update

Oct 22, 2026

Figures from the public plugin directory, checked on Oct 26, 2026. wordpress.org listing(opens in a new tab)