Skip to content

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

5.4% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 352K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 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

Amazon counts 1 of last year's 8 launches as successful.

8 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 1 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. 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

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

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 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

Top-5 brand share

80%

Top 20: 100%

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 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

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

Complain

Size-Overall37%−0.32

Bit small

knife too small

Bit on the short side

Strength5%−0.06

flimsy

Flimsy

Tiny and flimsy

Quality-Overall5%+0.99

Look cheap and feel cheap

Rubbish cheap crap

Poor quality

Handle Quality3%−0.06

handle length means its is a no for me

the handle on one of them has split after a couple of washes

Handle too short

Rusts/Corrodes3%−0.06

Rusts quickly in a dishwasher

It is showing rust marks after two dishwasher washes

Went rusty 6 weeks later

Love

Quality-Overall23%+0.99

From the listing it seems they are decent quality knives

The general quality is good with a solid

Beautiful quality

Size-Overall9%−0.32

very useful size as per desription

good size

Great size to use for spreading by kids and adults

Value For Money9%+0.59

Value for money

Value for Money

Good price

Advertised Vs Actual Product6%+1.00

they do the job

Do the job

Just what I wanted

Ease Of Use6%+0.85

It is so handy

Easy to use

feel easy to control

Return

0.7% Return rate 77% Fixable by listing

Size-Overall73%▇██▇▆█

Bit small

knife too small

Bit on the short side

Quality-Overall9%▄▅▂█▆▃

Look cheap and feel cheap

Rubbish cheap crap

Poor quality

Strength4%▄▄▆▇█▅

flimsy

Flimsy

Tiny and flimsy

Handle Quality2%▇▁▁█▅▄

handle length means its is a no for me

the handle on one of them has split after a couple of washes

Handle too short

Scratch Resistance2%▁▁▁▁█▁

FAQ

Common Butter Knife questions

Answered from the same tracked data.