Trendlytic vs Marmalead
| Marmalead | Trendlytic | |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplace coverage | Etsy and nothing else | Four shelves off one query: Etsy, Amazon Merch, Redbubble, TeePublic |
| Depth on Etsy search | Deeper than ours: Real Search Volume, Real Engagement, seasonality with a three month forecast | Favourites, listing dates and saturation on Etsy, read beside three other marketplaces |
| What the number means | Expected searches and visits for a query | Designs people are buying now, weighed against the sellers already there |
| Listing help | Letter grades and AI authoring on listings you have published | AI Studio drafts the slogan, image prompt and marketplace copy for a design you have not drawn yet |
| Trademark | Not part of the toolset | One click sends a phrase of your choosing to the USPTO register, on any tier |
| Entry price | $19 monthly, $53 quarterly, $190 yearly, or $300 once for lifetime (marmalead.com/pricing, October 2026) | From $19.99 a month once a three day trial with a $1 card check ends |
| Free plan | None listed, and no trial mentioned (marmalead.com/pricing, October 2026) | None either, though 38 tools at /tools need no login |
| Suits | A seller whose whole business lives inside Etsy search | A seller whose artwork has to earn on more than one marketplace |
Said plainly: on Etsy search data Marmalead is deeper than we are, and if Etsy is the only place your work lives, that depth is the better buy. Nothing here is trying to talk you out of it. Trendlytic earns its keep when the artwork has to work on several marketplaces and the hard call is what to draw, not how to word a listing that is already live. Plenty of sellers keep Marmalead for the Etsy side and use Trendlytic to choose the theme. Worth knowing who is talking: I build Trendlytic, which makes me the least neutral person to compare it with anything.
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Features
What you get
Marmalead has spent years going in one direction, straight down into Etsy. Real Search Volume, Real Engagement, seasonality with a three month forecast, keyword comparison, letter grades on your listings. That is a serious amount of signal about one shelf, and this page is not going to pretend otherwise. The trade is that every number describes Etsy. Trendlytic was built for the seller whose artwork ends up on four marketplaces, so it answers a different question. Not how a query behaves inside Etsy this month, but whether anyone anywhere is buying the theme, and whether the phrase clears the trademark register before it becomes a design.
Breadth is the whole point
A single query reaches Etsy, Amazon Merch, Redbubble and TeePublic. Themes that are exhausted on one of them are often untouched on another, and the only way to learn that is to look at the four together.
Shops before search boxes
Evidence starts on the shelves that are selling rather than in a forecast about a query. You see what buyers chose, with a score holding that up against however many rivals got there first.
The register, checked while it is still cheap
Type the wording you had in mind, click once, and Trendlytic reports what the USPTO register holds against it. You decide which phrases to send, every tier includes it, and the whole thing costs you seconds instead of a shop.
Rising and Rising fast on Etsy
Recent Etsy listings that shoppers are suddenly warming to get marked, so you read momentum on a single design rather than on a calendar.
Trending Now, redrawn every hour
A live board of the themes climbing right now, for mornings when you have nothing in mind and need a starting point instead of a keyword to test.
$19.99 a month, and one person behind it
Plans open at $19.99 a month after a three day trial that takes a $1 card check. Karim builds and runs Trendlytic on his own, which is why the roadmap follows what sellers ask for and why a support reply comes back from the person who wrote the code.
Inside the app
See it working
Depth on one shelf, evidence on four
Marmalead can tell you a great deal about how a phrase moves through Etsy search. What it cannot tell you is that the same phrase is quiet on TeePublic and stacked deep on Amazon Merch. Trendlytic puts the theme through all four at once, so you choose where the buyers are rather than where your tool happens to be pointed.
Momentum on the design, not the query
Seasonality shows you when a keyword wakes up over a year. It says nothing about which particular design shoppers are saving today. On Etsy results Trendlytic flags a young listing Rising once shoppers are clearly taking to it, and Rising fast when it is among the newest and quickest-moving of them. The listing date sits beside the flag, so heat this month is easy to separate from an old design coasting on a long history.
One answer, then the next ten
The usual cost of depth is that you study one keyword carefully and then begin again from nothing. Best Niches Today removes the blank page: every hour it lists the niches behind the newest Rising Etsy listings, in the words buyers saw on them, so design number two starts from a list rather than another evening of brainstorming.
Phrases taken off winners, not modelled
Marmalead predicts what shoppers will type. Trendlytic reads back what is already working, the multi word phrases carried by listings that sell, ordered so the thin competition floats up first. Push them into the free Etsy or Redbubble tag generator and your tags are finished in a minute.
Engagement describes a query. Sales describe a design.
Real Engagement estimates the visits a keyword should pull over the next thirty days. That is a good number, and it is still one step short of a purchase. Trendlytic walks into the shops instead and shows you which artwork buyers paid for, with a score that holds that evidence up against the number of rivals sitting on the same idea.
Where the data stops and the product starts
Marmalead finishes with a graded listing and better wording for something you already made. Trendlytic aims at the thing you have not made yet. Take a theme that checked out and one click hands you a slogan of your own, a prompt you can carry into any image generator, and title, description and keyword sets shaped for whichever marketplace is getting the upload.
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.
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
Give it a theme
A word or two is enough. The shops on all four marketplaces get read in the same pass.
- 2
Weigh demand against the crowd
Look at what is selling, how many sellers sit behind it, which recent Etsy designs are climbing, and what the register returns for your phrase.
- 3
Draw for the gap you found
Make your own version for the buyer who is already spending, in the style that is selling, and put it where the shelf is thinnest.
Also in every plan
A mockup generator for the design you make next
When your own design for the niche is ready, drop the file in and see it on 500+ t-shirt photos in one go. Pick the shots that fit your shop, on a person or on its own, and save them at up to 2000 px with no watermark. A mockup takes 1 credit from your plan the first time and nothing after that.
Try the free set, no account neededPricing
Simple pricing
3-day free trial on any plan. Then from $19.99/month for 100 searches across all four marketplaces, with the USPTO check built in. Cancel anytime.
Starter
Perfect to get started
- 100 searches / month (= 10,000+ winning niches)
- Best Niches Today (first 12 a day)
- 50 trademark checks / month
- AI Listing Generator (2 credits each = up to 50 listings/mo)
Pro
For serious POD sellers
- 500 searches / month (= 50,000+ winning niches)
- Best Niches Today (every niche, hourly)
- 300 trademark checks / month
- AI Listing Generator (2 credits each = up to 250 listings/mo)
Business
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)
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“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.
Should I use Marmalead or Trendlytic?
If Etsy is the entire business and your day goes into tuning listings you have already published, Marmalead is the better fit and we would rather say so than sell you something that misses. Choose Trendlytic when the same artwork has to earn on Amazon Merch, Redbubble or TeePublic as well, and the difficult part is picking the theme rather than wording the listing.
Can I run both?
Yes, and a fair number of sellers do. The two answer different questions. Trendlytic settles what to make and whether a registered mark is in the way. Marmalead sharpens how that listing reads once it is live on Etsy. Neither one blocks the other.
Does Trendlytic give Etsy search volume the way Marmalead does?
No, and there is no point claiming otherwise. Nothing here matches Real Search Volume or Real Engagement. What Etsy gives you inside Trendlytic is favourite counts, listing dates, the Rising flags and a saturation read, placed alongside the same view of three other marketplaces.
What does Marmalead cost?
Their own pricing page lists $19 paid monthly, $53 per quarter, $190 for a year, or $300 once for lifetime access (marmalead.com/pricing, October 2026). It shows no free plan and mentions no trial. Trendlytic opens at $19.99 a month after a three day trial with a $1 card check.
Is the trademark check automatic?
No, and that word gets thrown around loosely in this market. You pick a phrase and run the lookup yourself, one click at a time, against the USPTO register. It is part of every plan, and it is a signal to read rather than legal advice.
Can I try anything without paying?
There are 38 tools at /tools that ask for no account and no card, among them tag and title generators, fee and profit calculators, and a trademark lookup. The four marketplace search itself sits behind the three day trial.
Is Marmalead still Etsy only?
Yes. Their site points at Etsy sellers throughout, and there is no Redbubble, TeePublic or Amazon Merch data in it. That is a decision rather than an oversight, and it is the exact line this page is drawn along.
Related
Depth is worth paying for. So is knowing where to point it.
Read what is being bought on Etsy, Amazon Merch, Redbubble and TeePublic in one pass, then run the phrase past the USPTO register before it becomes a design. Three day trial with a $1 card check, then $19.99 a month.
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