Apple Pencil
FailThe top 5 products take 90% of clicks, so Apple Pencil is a Fail.
- Flapen Score
- 46 / 100Ranks 1,095 of 2,221 Cell Phones & Accessories niches · on the category median46
- 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.
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.
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.
“Battery wont charge”
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
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FAQ
Common Apple Pencil questions
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