Sydney Shopify theme – Sydney preset
Sydney
Highly active Well rated jewelry and accessories

Sydney Shopify theme

Sydney preset

Created by Apparent Collective

Sydney is an elegant, visually driven Shopify theme built for jewelry and accessories stores, with video banners, dark mode, and before-and-after sliders supporting a storytelling-style presentation. It also includes image hotspots and rollover effects, lookbooks, a mega menu, and swatch-based filtering for browsing collections.
Source Shopify Theme Store Official
★★★★★
★★★★★
4.0 · 14 reviews · 79% positive
PRICE
$ 380,00 USD
PRESETS
5 styles
View on Theme Store
PRESETS INCLUDED Total 5
Sydney Profile Magazine Vineyard Affinity
Theme support
ashstonestudios.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/32061722600082-Get-Support
Documentation
apparentcollective.com/help-center/documentation/sydney

Independently reviewed by the eDIY editorial team

How fast is Sydney?

Google PageSpeed Insights scores for the home page, out of 100

The official Sydney demo scored 72/100 on mobile and 93/100 on desktop in our October 2026 test. Mobile LCP was 6.2s, CLS was 0.07, and Total Blocking Time was 7ms.

Theme demo store

Official Sydney demo, home page
72 /100
Mobile
Needs improvement
93 /100
Desktop
Good

Tested Oct 2026 · Google PageSpeed Insights lab data

MetricMobileDesktop
Largest Contentful Paint 6.2s 1.2s
Cumulative Layout Shift 0.07 0.05
Total Blocking Time 7ms 3ms
Speed Index 4.5s 2.0s

Across 8 live stores we tested, the average PageSpeed score was 49/100 on mobile and 71/100 on desktop. Average mobile LCP was 14.7s and CLS was 0.02. These results reflect complete production stores, not the theme alone.

Live stores average

Mean across 8 stores running Sydney
49 /100
Mobile
Poor
71 /100
Desktop
Needs improvement

Tested Oct 2026 · Results include each store's apps, images, tracking scripts and customizations

MetricMobileDesktop
Largest Contentful Paint 14.7s 1.8s
Cumulative Layout Shift 0.02 0.12
Total Blocking Time 812ms 398ms
Speed Index 9.5s 2.0s

Per-store results

8 live stores · tested Oct 2026
GERMANIKURE
germanikure.com
Mobile 56
Desktop 60
Giardino di Ninfa
giardinodininfa.eu
Mobile 52
Desktop 80
ulo
ulo.co
Mobile 28
Desktop 64
Men's Big Face Watches, Sunglasses, and Apparel by Rockwell Watches
rockwelltime.com
Mobile 71
Desktop 98
Bee&You Natural
beeandyou.com
Mobile 57
Desktop 43
Corvive
corvive.com
Mobile 30
Desktop 55
Tosca Blu
toscablu.com
Mobile 32
Desktop 81
The DNA Company
thednacompany.com
Mobile 65
Desktop 90

Features

Built-in features listed on the Theme Store.

Cart and checkout

  • In-store pickups
  • Slide-out cart

Customer accounts and sign-in

  • Account menu

Marketing and conversion

  • Age verifier
  • Blogs
  • Countdown timer
  • Cross-selling
  • Customizable contact form
  • EU translations (EN, FR, IT, DE, ES)
  • FAQ page
  • In-menu promos
  • Press coverage
  • Product badges
  • Promo banners
  • Promo popups
  • Quick view
  • Recently viewed
  • Recommended products
  • Right-to-left
  • Stock counter
  • Trust badges

Merchandising

  • Animation
  • Before/after image slider
  • Color swatches
  • High-resolution images
  • Image galleries
  • Image hotspot
  • Image rollover
  • Image zoom
  • Lookbooks
  • Product options
  • Product videos
  • Shipping/delivery information
  • Size chart
  • Slideshow
  • Usage information
  • Combined listing (Shopify Plus)

Product discovery

  • Back-to-top button
  • Breadcrumbs
  • Collection page navigation
  • Enhanced search
  • Infinite scroll
  • Mega menu
  • Product filtering and sorting
  • Recently viewed
  • Recommended products
  • Sticky header
  • Swatch filters
46 features

Sydney ranking and satisfaction

Position among all Shopify themes
#764 of 1349
Position among Shopify themes for "jewelry and accessories"
#70 of 125
Overall satisfaction based on all reviews
79% positive

Release history

LATEST VERSION
v1.4.6
Released September 21, 2026
Highly active

Sydney is actively maintained, with 8 releases in the last 12 months.

Releases in 12 mo 8
Total releases 24
First release July 17, 2023
v1.4.6 FIX

Sydney 1.4.6 introduces several fixes and new features

Added

  • Added a mobile-only alignment option (Left, Center, Right) for the Slideshow pagination bullets

Other Fixes and improvements

  • Fixed the first thumbnail in the product page thumbnail slider sometimes showing a broken-image icon instead of the product image
  • Fixed the product gallery reverting to the default cover image after scrolling on mobile
  • Fixed rendering artifacts that could appear in the gallery while scrolling on iPad / Safari
  • Fixed tapping a colour swatch on a product card sending mobile customers to a 404 page
  • Fixed product card colour swatches being unresponsive to taps on iPad
  • Fixed the Image Card title shifting out of alignment when hovering over a card
  • Fixed a duplicate bottom border appearing under the product page description when hovering over the expanded section
  • Replaced the Secrets preset with Affinity.
v1.4.5 FIX

Sydney 1.4.5 introduces several fixes and new features

Added

  • Added Quick order list section for product pages
  • Slideshow headings now support inline rich text, so you can add bold, italic, and links directly within a slide's heading
  • Added separate mobile aspect ratio options for Slideshow, including Full Height.

Other Fixes and improvements

  • Replaced the Silhouette preset with Profile.
v1.4.4 FIX

Sydney 1.4.4 introduces several fixes and new features

Added

  • Contact form: toggle Name, Phone, Message fields, optional Privacy Policy consent, and custom field blocks
  • Added discount code field in cart drawer and cart page
  • Added LinkedIn social media icon option
  • B2B customers now see volume pricing tables and quantity rules (minimum, maximum, increments) directly on the product page, with a live "at $X/each" price next to the quantity selector that updates as they change quantity
  • Quantity selector now appears next to Add to cart for every product, including single-variant products that previously had no way to set a quantity
v1.4.3 FIX

Sydney 1.4.3 introduces several fixes and new features

Added

  • Added high-variant product support
  • Added combined listings support for Shopify Plus
  • Added linked product options in the Product Information section

Other Fixes and improvements

  • Updated country selector flags in Header and Footer to use Shopify's native country image rendering
v1.4.2 FIX

Sydney 1.4.2 introduces several fixes and new features

Fixes and improvements

  • Fixed integration with the new Shopify-account web component

Full changelog

24 releases
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What merchants say about Sydney Shopify theme

We know about 14 reviews · showing 6

Merchant sentiment summary

AI

11 of 14 reviews are positive. Merchants most often praise the support team's fast, helpful responses and the theme's attractive, easy-to-customise design. The most common criticism is slow or unhelpful support in a few reviews, and some merchants also cite bugs, limited sections and confusing settings.

Generated from all 14 Theme Store reviews ·

Positive 11 · 79%
Neutral 0 · 0%
Negative 3 · 21%
Well rated

Sydney has received 3 reviews in the last 12 months.

Reviews in 12 mo 3
Total reviews 14
First review

Colour variable settings conflict with each other throughout the themes different sections and the setting schema is confusing to say the least. Very few sections to choose from with little customizability. The theme is expensive for what it is with very little improvements over the years aside the small bug fix and minor snippet additions. No standard newsletter sec? Only a forced countdown ver?

P
Pana Galios
Oct 19, 2026

The theme is great! Very user-friendly. Support has been a great help when I needed some adjustments.

R
RareCoins.com
Mar 17, 2026

I like this theme, and the support was helpful.

C
Corrective Culture
Nov 10, 2025

Very bad theme. A lot of mistake with the theme. The support very very slow and not effective.... weeks. And sometimes we don't get a help. We lost customers because with the theme continuously a lot of problem. We are very sorry that bought this Sydney theme. We are very very disappointed.

B
BRANDERA WHOLESALE
Jun 29, 2025

Un thème splendide, bien conçu,complet et facile à personnaliser, avec une excellente documentation! Nous sommes ravis du résultat https://www.quintessens-elixirs-precieux.com

Q
Quintessens
May 14, 2025

The theme is very versatile, easy to work with and pretty clean. We love all the elements on the shop, very innovative. Mann from the support team is a real star, helped us a lot and always with a smile.

T
Temple Coins
Oct 14, 2024

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