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Egg Timer

Maybe

An estimated 0.6% of orders come back. But prices span $2.21–$10.09, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Egg Timer is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
52
52 / 100
Top 44% of 5,777 Home & Garden niches · +1 vs the category median of 51
Market size
£161K/yr229K searches / yr
90-day growth
-13.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
60%top-5 click share · 20 brands · 57 sellers

Flapen Score

Egg Timer against its category

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

52Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Egg Timer market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Egg Timer 229K times last year and spent an estimated £161K. The top 5 brands take 63% of clicks. Flapen scores it 52 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 13.6% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 229K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 13.6% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -13.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £161K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
229K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-13.5%
Conversion, latest week
13.6%
Market size, estimated
£161Ka year
Peak month
January1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
egg timer141K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £5.16.

Listings sell for £5.16 on average, from £2.21 to £10.09. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 25K to 30K a year. The average listing sells 500 to 750 of them. At £5.16 that is £3K to £4K a year per listing.

Average price
£5.16under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.21–£10.09
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
25K–30K
Units per listing a year
500–750
Revenue per listing a year
£3K–£4K
Returns
0.6%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

61% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 96% ship with Prime. On an average day, 10.8% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #141 within Kitchen Timers. It carries 1,104 reviews at 4.21 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
61%
Prime listings
96%
Out of stock, average day
10.8%
Average rank
#141in Kitchen Timers
Average rating
4.21 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
1,104per listing
Listings tracked
23

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 5 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

5 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
5
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
36 months

Products

Top Egg Timer 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 60% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£16K£32K£48K£64K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)1 product missing review or click data not plotted

Brands

20 rising

Sellers

57

Est. top-5 brand share

63%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

60%

Top 20: 96%

Open market

33%

  • Armo Home24%
  • Kare & Kind13%
  • Joie11%
  • Tala8%
  • Chef Aid6%
  • Generic4%

Demand

Egg Timer search demand

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

5K3KHoliday '24Spike '25Holiday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Search terms

Top Egg Timer search terms shoppers use

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

  • egg timer141K/yr
  • egg timers for boiling eggs46K/yr
  • boiled egg timer12K/yr
  • egg timers14K/yr
  • egg timer colour changing4K/yr
  • egg boiler timer5K/yr
  • egg timer for cooking6K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Egg Timer

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

29%of positive reviews mention “Alarm/Timer Accuracy”
35%of negative reviews mention “Durability”
0.6%of orders come back
“Broke within 2 months”
A buyer, on “Durability”35% 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.

18 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Egg Timer 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