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Altimeter

Maybe

The products selling today average only 3.8★. But prices span $5.75–$986.39, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Altimeter is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
50
50 / 100
Top 39% of 8,101 Sports & Outdoors niches · +3 vs the category median of 47
Market size
$76K/yr68K searches / yr
90-day growth
+12.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
40%top-5 click share · 27 brands · 62 sellers

Flapen Score

Altimeter against its category

The dotted line is the Sports & Outdoors average. Past it, Altimeter is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

50Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Altimeter market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Altimeter 68K times last year and spent an estimated $76K. The top 5 brands take 62% of clicks. Flapen scores it 50 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 1.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 68K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 1.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +12.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $76K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
68K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+12.1%
Conversion, latest week
1.3%
Market size, estimated
$76Ka year
Peak month
December1.3× the quietest month
Top search term
altimeter50K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $88.00.

Listings sell for $88.00 on average, from $5.75 to $986.39. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 1K to 1K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At $88.00 that is $0 to $9K a year per listing.

Average price
$88.00inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$5.75–$986.39
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
1K–1K
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
$0–$9K
Returns
5.3%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

74% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 87% ship with Prime. On an average day, 1.2% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #911 within Electronics & Gadgets. It carries 130 reviews at 3.81 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
74%
Prime listings
87%
Out of stock, average day
1.2%
Average rank
#911in Electronics & Gadgets
Average rating
3.81 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
130per listing
Listings tracked
38

04 · Newcomers

2 of last year's 8 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

8 products launched here in the last 12 months. 2 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 54 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
8
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
54 months

Products

Top Altimeter 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 40% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

27 rising

Sellers

62

Top-5 brand share

62%

Top 20: 95%

Top-5 click share

40%

Top 20: 86%

Open market

32%

  • Brand 121%
  • Brand 213%
  • Brand 310%
  • Brand 410%
  • Brand 58%
  • Brand 66%

Demand

Altimeter search demand

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

2K1KHoliday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.3×

Search terms

Top Altimeter search terms shoppers use

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

  • altimeter50K/yr
  • altimeter for hiking5K/yr
  • altimeter skydiving3K/yr
  • digital altimeter3K/yr
  • altimeters3K/yr
  • altitude meter3K/yr
  • altometer2K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Altimeter

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

16%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
16%of negative reviews mention “Charging”
5.3%of orders come back
“Will not turn on or 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.

20 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Altimeter questions

Answered from the same tracked data.