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Apple Pencil

Fail

The top 5 products take 90% of clicks, so Apple Pencil is a Fail.

Flapen Score
46
46 / 100
Ranks 1,095 of 2,221 Cell Phones & Accessories niches · on the category median
Market size
$19.9M/yr9.5M searches / yr
90-day growth
-32.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
90%top-5 click share · 7 brands · 25 sellers

Flapen Score

Apple Pencil against its category

The dotted line is the Cell Phones & Accessories average. Past it, Apple Pencil is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

46Fail
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 States searched for Apple Pencil 9.5M times last year and spent an estimated $19.9M. The top 5 brands take 95% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jul–Dec. Flapen scores it 46 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 7.1% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 9.5M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 7.1% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -32.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $19.9M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
9.5M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-32.2%
Conversion, latest week
7.1%
Market size, estimated
$19.9Ma year
Peak month
December2.7× the quietest month
Top search term
apple pencil8.6M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $29.50.

Listings sell for $29.50 on average, from $10.10 to $94.61. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 600K to 800K a year. The average listing sells 80,000 to 100,000 of them. At $29.50 that is $2.4M to $3.0M a year per listing.

Average price
$29.50inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$10.10–$94.61
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
600K–800K
Units per listing a year
80,000–100,000
Revenue per listing a year
$2.4M–$3.0M
Returns
2.4%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

100% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #6 within Stylus Pens. It carries 24,497 reviews at 4.56 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
100%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#6in Stylus Pens
Average rating
4.56 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
24,497per listing
Listings tracked
8

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are young.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 34 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
0
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
34 months

Products

Top Apple Pencil products & what they sell for

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

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Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 90% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

7 flat

Sellers

25

Top-5 brand share

95%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

90%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

2%

  • Brand 161%
  • Brand 213%
  • Brand 312%
  • Brand 45%
  • Brand 55%
  • Brand 62%
  • Open — no brand owns it (1 brand, 2%)

Demand

Apple Pencil search demand

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

500K300KPrime Day '24Spike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Black Friday '25Holiday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jul, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.7×

Search terms

Top Apple Pencil search terms shoppers use

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

  • apple pencil8.6M/yr
  • apple pencil usb c530K/yr
  • apple pencil (usb-c)30K/yr
  • apple pencil usbc41K/yr
  • apple - pencil39K/yr
  • apple pencil usb-c39K/yr
  • apple-pencil31K/yr
  • applepencil13K/yr
  • apple pencil refurbished20K/yr
  • usb c apple pencil20K/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.

17%of positive reviews mention “Value For Money”
16%of negative reviews mention “Charging”
2.4%of orders come back
“Battery wont charge”
A buyer, on “Charging”16% 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.

17 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Apple Pencil questions

Answered from the same tracked data.