Etsy niche research

An Etsy niche finder that shows what's actually selling

Stop guessing what to sell on Etsy. See which listings shoppers favourite in a niche, whether the same idea sells on three other marketplaces, how crowded it is, and whether anyone has registered the phrase at the USPTO, before you open a single listing.

Cancel anytime · From $19.99/month after the 3-day trial

All four marketplaces: TeePublic · Amazon Merch · Redbubble · Etsy

Best Niches Today on Etsy: niches with their Rising counts
All 4
marketplaces, one search
USPTO
live trademark check
Rising
new designs already selling
40 sec
instead of hours by hand

All four marketplaces: TeePublic · Amazon Merch · Redbubble · Etsy

“At first, I didn’t really understand the difference between the different rankings, especially Rising. But after using Trendlytic more and filling my store with designs based on Rising niches, I started seeing a really noticeable increase in sales. Another feature I love is Generate Listing. Whenever I find a niche or design I like, I can create something unique and original from it. This helped me avoid the copyright issues I used to face before. I highly recommend Trendlytic.”
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Mark Miller · POD seller

Features

What you get

Most Etsy sellers pick a niche on a hunch, list a few products, and stall at zero sales. Trendlytic flips that: one search shows what's genuinely selling in a niche across Etsy (and Redbubble, TeePublic, and Amazon Merch), so you build into proven demand instead of a crowded dead end.

Etsy interest, read for what it is

Etsy hides listing sales, so we show what it does reveal: the favourites on each listing and a Rising badge on new listings shoppers are drawn to. The sales signals for the same idea come from TeePublic, Redbubble and Amazon US.

Spot saturation before you list

Know whether an Etsy niche is wide open or wall-to-wall competition before you spend a week on designs and SEO.

Etsy plus three more marketplaces

One search covers Etsy alongside Redbubble, TeePublic, and Amazon Merch, so you catch a niche that's hot on Etsy but still empty elsewhere, or the reverse.

Check the phrase against the register

Pick a phrase, run the check, and read the live marks registered on it before a protected term costs you a listing or the shop.

Thirteen tags, twenty characters, no guessing

Etsy's tag field has hard limits most sellers learn by trial and error. Once a niche checks out, you get a listing built to them: multi-word tags that actually fit, a title that reads like a sentence rather than a keyword dump, and a description written for a buyer. The design stays yours, because what you get is a prompt, not a picture.

Inside the app

See it working

One Trendlytic search with Etsy listings beside Redbubble, Amazon US and TeePublic designs, the new ones marked Rising or Gaining
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See what's trending on Etsy right now

Search any niche and Trendlytic scans Etsy alongside Redbubble, TeePublic, and Amazon Merch — with a live Trending Now feed, so you spot what's heating up on Etsy before it's saturated.

Trendlytic's Etsy tab for a pomeranian search, with four amber Rising badges and one orange Rising fast badge beside each listing's favorite count and listing date.
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Catch listings that are climbing now

Older best-sellers tell you a niche once worked. An amber Rising badge marks a recent Etsy listing that buyers have quickly started to want, and an orange Rising fast marks the freshest of those, catching on fastest. Favorites are interest rather than sales, so read the badges as buyers leaning in, with the listing date printed on the card.

Trendlytic Best Niches Today filtered to Etsy: 153 niches, among them Emoji Group Halloween, Monster Math, Fall Prevention Nurse, Night Shift Nurses, Golden Retriever Iced Coffee and Life Happens Chai, each with its Rising listings and a New tag
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Today's Etsy niches, one card each

Not every search has to start from a blank box. Best Niches Today lists the niches behind the Rising Etsy listings of the last three days, each in the words of a listing's own title: monster math, golden retriever iced coffee, life happens chai. Copy one, save it, or open it in Discover to see the competition before you list.

Trendlytic Keyword Research pulling the real tags and phrases top Etsy listings use
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Get the tags top listings rank on

Pull the real, multi-word phrases top Etsy listings use, each scored for demand, competition and 12-month Google Trends interest, so you fill all 13 tags and a keyword-led title with terms that are searched, still winnable, and not fading, not guesses.

Trendlytic Best Design Instant showing the proven top-selling designs in a niche
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Study the proven best-sellers

Store-first research surfaces the designs actually selling in a niche — with Etsy's favorite-count demand signals — so you study real winners and the angles that work, not a random page of search results.

Trendlytic generating an Etsy listing from a validated niche, with tags inside Etsy's character limit
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From a validated niche to a listing Etsy will accept

Etsy's position on AI is specific: you may use AI tools with your own prompts, you have to disclose AI use in the listing, and the work has to come from your original design rather than a template or someone else's. That is exactly how this is built. It takes a winning listing's niche and keywords, then writes you a new slogan and an image prompt that is yours to run, plus a title, a description, and thirteen tags inside Etsy's twenty-character limit.

Trendlytic Mockup Generator with one design on six t-shirt photos, flat lays and hangers, beside the 2000 px download panel
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Fill Etsy's photo slots with your own mockups

Etsy gives a listing up to 20 photos, wants the first one square or landscape, and recommends 2000 px on each side. Upload your design once and it lands on 500+ t-shirt photos: on women, men, teens and kids, laid flat or on a hanger. Each downloads as a square 2000 px JPG or PNG with no watermark, so your listing shows the shirt several ways and does not look like every shop using the same provider template.

Built-in trademark check

Check any phrase against the live USPTO register before you design

Type a phrase and Trendlytic looks it up in the live USPTO register and shows who owns it, its status and its filing date. Included in every plan.

TM©

And the designs that were never yours to print are marked

When a result leans on a known brand, a character or a famous person, it arrives with a TM or copyright badge on the card. You see it while you are choosing, not after a takedown. A first filter, not legal advice.

How it works

  1. 1

    Type an Etsy niche

    Enter any niche or keyword and Trendlytic scans Etsy and three more marketplaces at once.

  2. 2

    Read the demand signals

    See the top-selling listings and demand versus saturation, and send the phrase to the USPTO register when you want it checked.

  3. 3

    Open a shop into proven demand

    Pick a validated Etsy niche with no live marks on its phrase and list it, instead of guessing and hoping.

Pricing

Simple pricing

3-day free trial on any plan. Then from $19.99/month for 100 searches, which read up to 6,000 designs on the marketplaces with a verdict on every niche, plus the 1,000 top designs in Best Design Instant, re-ranked every hour. The USPTO check is built in. Cancel anytime.

Starter

$19.99/mo

Perfect to get started

  • 100 searches / month (= up to 6,000 designs read)
  • Best Niches Today (first 12 a day)
  • 50 trademark checks / month
  • AI Listing Generator (2 credits each = up to 50 listings/mo)
Start your 3-day free trial
Recommended

Pro

$49.99/mo

For serious POD sellers

  • 500 searches / month (= up to 30,000 designs read)
  • Best Niches Today (every niche, hourly)
  • 300 trademark checks / month
  • AI Listing Generator (2 credits each = up to 250 listings/mo)
Start your 3-day free trial

Business

$99.99/mo

For teams & agencies

  • 2,000 searches / month
  • Best Niches Today (every niche, hourly)
  • Unlimited trademark checks
  • AI Listing Generator (2 credits each = up to 1,000 listings/mo)
Start your 3-day free trial

Included in every plan

  • All 4 marketplaces
  • Rising & Rising fast badges (new designs already selling)
  • AI Niche Finder: niches for your interest, checked on 4 marketplaces
  • Keyword Research
  • Trending Now (updated hourly)
  • Best Design Instant — top winning designs
  • AI Studio: Slogan, Quote & Description generators
  • POD Calendar with upload reminders
  • Mockup Generator: 500+ t-shirt photos
  • Save & organize winning niches
  • Full search history
  • 20+ free POD tools included

Who's behind this

Trendlytic is built and supported by one person, Karim. Write to support@trendlytic.io and he is the one who answers.

About the founder
A Pro customer, on support
“I'm very satisfied with the way you handled the issue and with your prompt support. Thank you so much.”

Jassmin, Pro plan

Frequently asked questions

How does the 3-day free trial work?

Every plan starts with 3 days free. Starting it charges $1 to check the card is real, and that $1 is not refunded. The plan price itself is only billed when the trial ends, and cancelling before then from Manage Plan means it is never charged.

I haven't sold anything yet. Is Trendlytic for me?

Yes. A search needs no shop and no sales history: type an idea and you see what already sells for it on Etsy, Redbubble, TeePublic and Amazon US, how crowded each one is, and a plain verdict. Start with the marketplace you plan to sell on. If you are not ready for a trial, the free tools at /tools need no account.

What is an Etsy niche finder?

It's a tool that helps you find a profitable Etsy niche before you list — by showing what's already selling, whether demand outweighs competition, and whether the phrase is trademarked. Done well, it's the difference between a shop that sells and one that sits at zero.

How do I find a profitable Etsy niche?

Don't guess. Look at what buyers are choosing in the niche (on Etsy, favourites on recent listings; elsewhere, designs that keep selling), check it isn't wall-to-wall competition, and make sure the phrase isn't trademarked. Trendlytic covers the first two in one search across four marketplaces, and the phrase check is one click from the result.

How is this different from a keyword tool like eRank?

Keyword tools give you search terms. Trendlytic is store-first: it shows the designs actually selling in a niche plus demand-vs-competition and a trademark check — so you validate the opportunity, not just the words. For Etsy tags specifically, our free Etsy tag generator pairs with it.

Does it actually cover Etsy?

Yes. Etsy is one of the four marketplaces Trendlytic searches in a single query, alongside Redbubble, TeePublic, and Amazon Merch, with Etsy favorite-count demand signals and a Rising badge on the recent listings that buyers are flocking to.

Why does the trademark check matter on Etsy?

A trademarked phrase can get your listing removed and your shop suspended. Click the phrase in Trendlytic and we search the live USPTO register for it, so you see whether anyone holds a registration before you list. It is a first check, not legal advice.

How much does it cost?

There's a 3-day free trial. Paid plans start at $19.99/month for 100 searches, which read up to 6,000 designs on the marketplaces with a verdict on every niche, plus the 1,000 top designs in Best Design Instant, re-ranked every hour, with the trademark check included in every plan.

Can you still sell AI art on Etsy?

Yes, under conditions worth reading carefully. Etsy allows work created with AI tools when the prompts are your own, and it requires you to disclose AI use in the listing description. Its Creativity Standards also expect items to be based on the seller's own original design rather than a template or pattern. What it is cracking down on is shops reselling designs they had no hand in. So the deciding question is whether the idea started with you. Trendlytic works that way deliberately: it uses a winning design to prove the niche has buyers, then hands you a prompt for a design of your own rather than the design itself.

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