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Flashlights

Maybe

Shoppers spend $30.4M a year here. But the average product has 12,650 reviews to catch up to, so Flashlights is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
63
63 / 100
Top 4% of 9,536 Tools & Home Improvement niches · +15 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$30.4M/yr19.2M searches / yr
90-day growth
-0.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
49%top-5 click share · 27 brands · 48 sellers

Flapen Score

Flashlights against its category

The dotted line is the Tools & Home Improvement average. Past it, Flashlights is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

63Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Flashlights market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Flashlights 19.2M times last year and spent an estimated $30.4M. The top 5 brands take 55% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Oct–Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 63 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

5.9% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 19.2M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 5.9% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -0.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $30.4M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
19.2M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-0.2%
Conversion, latest week
5.9%
Market size, estimated
$30.4Ma year
Peak month
December2.2× the quietest month
Top search term
flashlight7.8M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $26.90.

Listings sell for $26.90 on average, from $7.31 to $131.99. Amazon reports units sold in ranges, and this niche reaches the top one: 1,000,000 units or more a year. The average listing sells 20,000 to 25,000 of them. At $26.90 that is $538K to $673K a year per listing.

Average price
$26.90inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$7.31–$131.99
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
1,000,000 or moreAmazon's top range
Units per listing a year
20,000–25,000
Revenue per listing a year
$538K–$673K
Returns
1.7%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

97% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 1.1% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #38 within Flashlights. It carries 12,650 reviews at 4.56 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
97%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
1.1%
Average rank
#38in Flashlights
Average rating
4.56 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
12,650per listing
Listings tracked
35

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 7 of last year's 7 launches as successful.

7 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 7 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 47 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
7
Successful launches
7Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
47 months

Products

Top Flashlights products & what they sell for

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

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 49% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

$0$1.2M$2.4M$3.7M$4.9M1001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

27 falling

Sellers

48

Top-5 brand share

55%

Top 20: 91%

Top-5 click share

49%

Top 20: 83%

Open market

42%

  • Lighting EVER18%
  • Victoper14%
  • TrixHub12%
  • EverBrite6%
  • OLIGHT5%
  • Esgreen4%

Demand

Flashlights search demand

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

1.5M1.0MSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan, Oct, Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.2×

Search terms

Top Flashlights search terms shoppers use

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

  • flashlight7.8M/yr
  • flashlight rechargeable1.6M/yr
  • rechargeable flashlights1.5M/yr
  • flashlights1.2M/yr
  • tactical flashlight869K/yr
  • flash light810K/yr
  • flashlights high lumens841K/yr
  • mini flashlight552K/yr
  • flashlights for home637K/yr
  • rechargeable flashlight519K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Flashlights

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

44%of positive reviews mention “Brightness/Shine/Glow”
10%of negative reviews mention “Brightness/Shine/Glow”
1.7%of orders come back
“Barely glow”
A buyer, on “Brightness/Shine/Glow”10% 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 Flashlights questions

Answered from the same tracked data.