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Fingerprint Scanner

Maybe

The products selling today average only 3.7★. But demand is soft, at -9.1% this quarter, so Fingerprint Scanner is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
55
55 / 100
Top 9% of 8,347 Electronics niches · +12 vs the category median of 43
Market size
$240K/yr241K searches / yr
90-day growth
-9.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
44%top-5 click share · 16 brands · 78 sellers

Flapen Score

Fingerprint Scanner against its category

The dotted line is the Electronics average. Past it, Fingerprint Scanner is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

55Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Fingerprint Scanner market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Fingerprint Scanner 241K times last year and spent an estimated $240K. The top 5 brands take 70% of clicks. Flapen scores it 55 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 2.5% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 241K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 2.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -9.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $240K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
241K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-9.1%
Conversion, latest week
2.5%
Market size, estimated
$240Ka year
Peak month
August1.3× the quietest month
Top search term
windows hello fingerprint reader48K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $40.63.

Listings sell for $40.63 on average, from $19.57 to $85.91. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 6K to 8K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At $40.63 that is $10K to $20K a year per listing.

Average price
$40.63inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$19.57–$85.91
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
6K–8K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
$10K–$20K
Returns
5.3%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads.

92% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 7.3% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #266 within Security & Surveillance. It carries 362 reviews at 3.73 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
92%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
7.3%
Average rank
#266in Security & Surveillance
Average rating
3.73 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
362per listing
Listings tracked
26

04 · Newcomers

4 of last year's 13 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

13 products launched here in the last 12 months. 4 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 39 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
13
Successful launches
4Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
39 months

Products

Top Fingerprint Scanner 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 44% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

16 rising

Sellers

78

Top-5 brand share

70%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

44%

Top 20: 91%

Open market

22%

  • Brand 127%
  • Brand 215%
  • Brand 311%
  • Brand 49%
  • Brand 58%
  • Brand 67%

Demand

Fingerprint Scanner search demand

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

7K5KSpike '25Prime Day '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.3×

Search terms

Top Fingerprint Scanner search terms shoppers use

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

  • windows hello fingerprint reader48K/yr
  • fingerprint reader33K/yr
  • usb fingerprint reader32K/yr
  • fingerprint scanner25K/yr
  • fingerprint reader for pc13K/yr
  • fingerprint reader for windows 1111K/yr
  • security & surveillance biometrics16K/yr
  • fingerprint scanner for pc10K/yr
  • usb fingerprint reader windows 119K/yr
  • pc fingerprint reader4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Fingerprint Scanner

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

14%of positive reviews mention “Assembly/Installation”
19%of negative reviews mention “Functionality-Overall”
5.3%of orders come back
“doesn't work very reliably”
A buyer, on “Functionality-Overall”19% 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 Fingerprint Scanner questions

Answered from the same tracked data.