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Phone Case

Fail

Buyers convert on only 0.3% of searches, so Phone Case is a Fail.

Flapen Score
44
44 / 100
Ranks 708 of 1,488 Electronics & Photo niches · on the category median
Market size
£81K/yr3.3M searches / yr
90-day growth
-5.7%search demand this quarter
Competition
41%top-5 click share · 26 brands · 36 sellers

Flapen Score

Phone Case against its category

The dotted line is the Electronics & Photo average. Past it, Phone Case is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

44Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Phone Case market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Phone Case 3.3M times last year and spent an estimated £81K. The top 5 brands take 63% of clicks. Flapen scores it 44 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

0.3% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 3.3M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 0.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -5.7% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £81K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
3.3M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-5.7%
Conversion, latest week
0.3%
Market size, estimated
£81Ka year
Top search term
phone case2.0M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £8.40.

Listings sell for £8.40 on average, from £3.15 to £33.18. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 6K to 8K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At £8.40 that is £840 to £2K a year per listing.

Average price
£8.40under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£3.15–£33.18
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
6K–8K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
£840–£2K
Returns
1.2%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

95% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 1.6% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #229 within Cases & Covers. It carries 15,496 reviews at 4.45 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
95%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
1.6%
Average rank
#229in Cases & Covers
Average rating
4.45 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
15,496per listing
Listings tracked
44

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 8 of last year's 15 launches as successful.

15 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 8 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 32 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
15
Successful launches
8Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
32 months

Products

Top Phone Case products & what they sell for

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

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 41% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£2K£5K£7K£10K101001K10K100K1.0M Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

26 falling

Sellers

36

Top-5 brand share

63%

Top 20: 96%

Top-5 click share

41%

Top 20: 80%

Open market

33%

  • Reownest17%
  • ORNARTO17%
  • TOCOL14%
  • oakxco8%
  • NITITOP7%
  • JETech4%

Demand

Phone Case search demand

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

90K70KHoliday '25Prime Day '26SepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJul

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4× · 11 of 12 months tracked

Search terms

Top Phone Case search terms shoppers use

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

  • phone case2.0M/yr
  • phone cases353K/yr
  • iphone case352K/yr
  • magsafe phone case89K/yr
  • pink phone case74K/yr
  • cute phone case76K/yr
  • iphone cases63K/yr
  • magnetic phone case51K/yr
  • phone cover40K/yr
  • apple phone cases37K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Phone Case

What buyers praise, what they complain about and why they send it back, from the reviews.

Complain

Durability15%−0.18

Broke easily

Broken after a couple of days

started to break within a month or so

Quality-Overall12%+1.36

Its a poor quality case

Bad quality

Not exactly what we looked forward to in terms of quality

Size-Overall7%+0.85

the case is *slightly* too small

Doesnt fit

small

Advertised Vs Actual Product5%+0.15

Product misleading to look like apple product and is overpriced

quite unlike the photo in the listing

Misleading

Adhesion/Stickiness5%−0.07

the adhesive doesnt last long

Does not stick

Not sticky enough

Love

Quality-Overall25%+1.36

Great price for quality

Amazing quality

Good strong quality

Size-Overall16%+0.85

Fits the phone perfectly

Fit perfect

Easy to fit

Value For Money13%+1.27

Excellent value for money

Good value for money

Good Value

Advertised Vs Actual Product7%+0.15

As advertised

As described

Just what I needed

Color6%+0.09

And the colour is super cute

Lovely colour

true to colour & size

Return

1.2% Return rate 74% Fixable by listing

Size-Overall53%▇▇▇▇██

the case is *slightly* too small

Doesnt fit

small

Compatibility-Overall7%▆█▆▆▇█
Color7%██▇██▅

Not fully black phone case

Its terrible, its yellow right as it comes out the pack

the same colour being unavailable

Quality-Overall5%█▇▆▇▆▅

Its a poor quality case

Bad quality

Not exactly what we looked forward to in terms of quality

Advertised Vs Actual Product3%▆▇▆█▃▆

Product misleading to look like apple product and is overpriced

quite unlike the photo in the listing

Misleading

FAQ

Common Phone Case questions

Answered from the same tracked data.