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Apple Pencil

Fail

Demand is soft, at -28.7% this quarter, so Apple Pencil is a Fail.

Flapen Score
47
47 / 100
Top 25% of 1,375 Computer & Zubehör niches · +6 vs the category median of 41
Market size
€6.2M/yr2.8M searches / yr
90-day growth
-28.7%search demand this quarter
Competition
86%top-5 click share · 8 brands · 33 sellers

Flapen Score

Apple Pencil against its category

The dotted line is the Computer & Zubehör average. Past it, Apple Pencil is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

47Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Apple Pencil market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon Germany searched for Apple Pencil 2.8M times last year and spent an estimated €6.2M. The top 5 brands take 92% of clicks. Flapen scores it 47 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 6.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 2.8M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon Germany for this niche's terms. An estimated 6.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -28.7% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated €6.2M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
2.8M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-28.7%
Conversion, latest week
6.3%
Market size, estimated
€6.2Ma year
Top search term
apple pencil1.8M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth €34.83.

Listings sell for €34.83 on average, from €6.45 to €99.35. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 150K to 200K a year. The average listing sells 15,000 to 20,000 of them. At €34.83 that is €522K to €697K a year per listing.

Average price
€34.83inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
€6.45–€99.35
Amazon Germany median price
€18.99across 29,809 niches
Units sold a year
150K–200K
Units per listing a year
15,000–20,000
Revenue per listing a year
€522K–€697K
Returns
3.1%of orders · Amazon Germany median 1.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

90% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 90% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #25 within Tablet-Zubehör. It carries 9,891 reviews at 4.46 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
90%
Prime listings
90%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#25in Tablet-Zubehör
Average rating
4.46 starsAmazon Germany average 4.37 stars
Average reviews
9,891per listing
Listings tracked
10

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are young.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 33 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
0
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
33 months

Products

Top Apple Pencil products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

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Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 86% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

8 falling

Sellers

33

Top-5 brand share

92%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

86%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

5%

  • Brand 159%
  • Brand 211%
  • Brand 310%
  • Brand 48%
  • Brand 54%
  • Brand 63%
  • Open — no brand owns it (2 brands, 5%)

Demand

Apple Pencil search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

50K30KSpike '26JanFebMarAprMayJun

Peak months: Jan · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.8× · 6 of 12 months tracked

Search terms

Top Apple Pencil search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • apple pencil1.8M/yr
  • apple pencil 2. generation285K/yr
  • apple pencil usb c156K/yr
  • apple pen143K/yr
  • appel pencil72K/yr
  • ipad stift apple pencil73K/yr
  • ipad a16 stift35K/yr
  • apple pencil 236K/yr
  • apple stift29K/yr
  • apple stift für ipad15K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Apple Pencil

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

21%of positive reviews mention “Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis”
17%of negative reviews mention “Haltbarkeit”
3.1%of orders come back
“Defekt nach 14 Monaten”
A buyer, on “Haltbarkeit”17% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

16 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Apple Pencil questions

Answered from the same tracked data.