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Apple Pencil

Fail

The top 5 brands take 98% of clicks, so Apple Pencil is a Fail.

Flapen Score
47
47 / 100
Top 28% of 1,028 Computers & Accessories niches · +5 vs the category median of 42
Market size
£3.5M/yr1.8M searches / yr
90-day growth
-31.4%search demand this quarter
Competition
84%top-5 click share · 6 brands · 33 sellers

Flapen Score

Apple Pencil against its category

The dotted line is the Computers & Accessories 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 United Kingdom searched for Apple Pencil 1.8M times last year and spent an estimated £3.5M. The top 5 brands take 98% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Oct–Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 47 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 6.0% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 1.8M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 6.0% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -31.4% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £3.5M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
1.8M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-31.4%
Conversion, latest week
6.0%
Market size, estimated
£3.5Ma year
Peak month
December3.7× the quietest month
Top search term
apple pencil1.1M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £32.06.

Listings sell for £32.06 on average, from £5.49 to £86.24. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 100K to 125K a year. The average listing sells 10,000 to 12,500 of them. At £32.06 that is £321K to £401K a year per listing.

Average price
£32.06inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£5.49–£86.24
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
100K–125K
Units per listing a year
10,000–12,500
Revenue per listing a year
£321K–£401K
Returns
2.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

82% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 82% ship with Prime. On an average day, 11.9% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #29 within Keyboards, Mice & Input Devices. It carries 14,444 reviews at 4.47 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
82%
Prime listings
82%
Out of stock, average day
11.9%
Average rank
#29in Keyboards, Mice & Input Devices
Average rating
4.47 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
14,444per listing
Listings tracked
11

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 1 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

1 products launched here in the last 12 months. 1 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 36 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
1
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
36 months

Products

Top Apple Pencil products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 21, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 84% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

£0£352K£703K£1.1M£1.4M101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

6 falling

Sellers

33

Est. top-5 brand share

98%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

84%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Apple46%
  • MYSTILUCK24%
  • metapen20%
  • varkda4%
  • Hastraith4%
  • KingOne2%
  • Open — no brand owns it (0%)

Demand

Apple Pencil search demand

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

100K60KSpike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Black Friday '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan, Oct, Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 3.7×

Search terms

Top Apple Pencil search terms shoppers use

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

  • apple pencil1.1M/yr
  • apple pen335K/yr
  • apple pencil pro178K/yr
  • apple pencil 2nd generation56K/yr
  • apple pencil usb c54K/yr
  • apple pencil 210K/yr
  • apple. pencil6K/yr
  • apple pencil usb-c6K/yr
  • apple pro pencil5K/yr
  • apple pen pro6K/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.

25%of positive reviews mention “Value For Money”
19%of negative reviews mention “Durability”
2.1%of orders come back
“Broke within days”
A buyer, on “Durability”19% 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.

14 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Apple Pencil questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data