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Lightning Cable

Pass

Lightning Cable scores 68 out of 100, a Pass. Shoppers spend an estimated $8.1M a year here, demand is soft, at -8.7% this quarter, and an estimated 1.2% of orders come back.

Flapen Score
68
68 / 100
Top 1% of 8,347 Electronics niches · +25 vs the category median of 43
Market size
$8.1M/yr6.8M searches / yr
90-day growth
-8.7%search demand this quarter
Competition
30%top-5 click share · 42 brands · 113 sellers

Flapen Score

Lightning Cable against its category

The dotted line is the Electronics average. Past it, Lightning Cable is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

68Pass
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Lightning Cable market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Lightning Cable 6.8M times last year and spent an estimated $8.1M. The top 5 brands take 41% of clicks. Flapen scores it 68 out of 100, a Pass.

01 · Demand

An estimated 10.8% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 6.8M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 10.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -8.7% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $8.1M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
6.8M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-8.7%
Conversion, latest week
10.8%
Market size, estimated
$8.1Ma year
Peak month
December1.5× the quietest month
Top search term
lightning cable1.5M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $11.05.

Listings sell for $11.05 on average, from $5.06 to $24.10. Amazon reports units sold in ranges, and this niche reaches the top one: 800K units or more a year. The average listing sells 20,000 to 25,000 of them. At $11.05 that is $221K to $276K a year per listing.

Average price
$11.05under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$5.06–$24.10
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
800K or moreAmazon's top range
Units per listing a year
20,000–25,000
Revenue per listing a year
$221K–$276K
Returns
1.2%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

77% 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 #44 within Lightning Cables. It carries 27,808 reviews at 4.51 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
77%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#44in Lightning Cables
Average rating
4.51 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
27,808per listing
Listings tracked
62

04 · Newcomers

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

1 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 40 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
1
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
40 months

Products

Top Lightning Cable 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 only 30% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

42 rising

Sellers

113

Top-5 brand share

41%

Top 20: 82%

Top-5 click share

30%

Top 20: 68%

Open market

54%

  • Brand 111%
  • Brand 28%
  • Brand 38%
  • Brand 47%
  • Brand 56%
  • Brand 66%

Demand

Lightning Cable search demand

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

300K200KSpike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.5×

Search terms

Top Lightning Cable search terms shoppers use

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

  • lightning cable1.5M/yr
  • iphone charger cord1.0M/yr
  • charging cords546K/yr
  • charging cable453K/yr
  • usb to lightning cable485K/yr
  • iphone charging cord362K/yr
  • apple lightning cable337K/yr
  • iphone charging cable288K/yr
  • apple charger cord252K/yr
  • iphone cord232K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Lightning Cable

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

29%of positive reviews mention “Charging”
34%of negative reviews mention “Charging”
1.2%of orders come back
“Takes hours to charge”
A buyer, on “Charging”34% 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.

15 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Lightning Cable questions

Answered from the same tracked data.