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Butter Knife

Fail

Prices span $2.30–$9.10, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Butter Knife is a Fail.

Flapen Score
45
45 / 100
Ranks 4,022 of 5,777 Home & Garden niches · −6 vs the category median of 51
Market size
£104K/yr352K searches / yr
90-day growth
-28.8%search demand this quarter
Competition
56%top-5 click share · 13 brands · 30 sellers

Flapen Score

Butter Knife against its category

The dotted line is the Home & Garden average. Past it, Butter Knife is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

45Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Butter Knife market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Butter Knife 352K times last year and spent an estimated £104K. The top 5 brands take 80% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Dec. Flapen scores it 45 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 5.4% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 352K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 5.4% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -28.8% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £104K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
352K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-28.8%
Conversion, latest week
5.4%
Market size, estimated
£104Ka year
Peak month
December2.1× the quietest month
Top search term
butter knife237K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £5.47.

Listings sell for £5.47 on average, from £2.30 to £9.10. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 15K to 20K a year. The average listing sells 500 to 750 of them. At £5.47 that is £3K to £4K a year per listing.

Average price
£5.47under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.30–£9.10
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
15K–20K
Units per listing a year
500–750
Revenue per listing a year
£3K–£4K
Returns
0.7%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

79% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 8.8% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #15 within Cutlery. It carries 580 reviews at 4.25 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
79%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
8.8%
Average rank
#15in Cutlery
Average rating
4.25 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
580per listing
Listings tracked
19

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 8 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

8 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 38 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
8
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
38 months

Products

Top Butter Knife 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 27, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 56% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£10K£21K£31K£42K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

13 falling

Sellers

30

Est. top-5 brand share

80%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

56%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

16%

  • Tala27%
  • LacusMare22%
  • Zyliss15%
  • HOMQUEN12%
  • MasterClass4%
  • ShiJiuYou4%
  • Open — no brand owns it (7 brands, 16%)

Demand

Butter Knife search demand

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

10K6KHoliday '24Spike '25Black Friday '25Holiday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.1×

Search terms

Top Butter Knife search terms shoppers use

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

  • butter knife237K/yr
  • butter knives46K/yr
  • butter knife spreader25K/yr
  • butter spreader16K/yr
  • butter knife easy spread old style7K/yr
  • spreading knife7K/yr
  • butter knives set of 65K/yr
  • bone handle knife5K/yr
  • sandwich knife4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Butter Knife

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

23%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
37%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
0.7%of orders come back
“Bit small”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”37% 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 Butter Knife 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