Choosing a print provider without learning it the expensive way
Base cost is the only one of the six variables you can see from the outside, which is exactly why so many sellers choose on it and regret it.
Read the guideOpportunity, competition and seasonality on over a million Etsy search terms — measured daily from what shoppers actually bought, viewed and favourited.
| Related term | Score | Opportunity | Competition | Sales · 30d |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cat mom shirt | 72 | 64 | Medium | 4,812 |
| funny cat shirt | 58 | 41 | High | 11,230 |
| black cat mama tee | 77 | 71 | Low | 1,096 |
| cat lover gift | 44 | 22 | High | 38,905 |
Example result. Field names match the live tool; the figures are illustrative.
What Podezzy does

Score any Etsy search term out of 100. You get the opportunity, competition and seller fit behind the score, plus sales, views, favourites and revenue for a 7, 14 or 30-day window — then the listings and shops actually winning it.

Check a title and its thirteen tags against the limits, the front-loading rule and the slots you are wasting. Thirteen slots, twenty characters each — and most sellers quietly waste four of them on tags a longer one already covered.

No photoshoot, no props, no studio hire. Upload your product, describe the scene, and it lands in it at 1024 px — free, and your file is never stored. Each studio tool has its own small daily allowance, shown on the tool.
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The listings and shops moving the most units on Etsy this fortnight, with the tags that got them there. The top boards are cached, so reading them is free as often as you like and never uses a lookup.
Reading a keyword score
Every lookup gives you one overall score and the parts behind it. This is what each part is telling you — and why the busiest term is so often the worst one to target.
The overall verdict, out of 100: demand weighed against how hard the term is to win.
Use it to: shortlist. Then read the three parts below before you build anything.
The share of demand the established sellers do not already hold.
Read it as: above 50 there is room; below 30 the top shops have it locked up.
How many shops and listings are fighting over the same term.
Use it to: judge effort. High competition with high opportunity can still be worth it; high competition with low opportunity rarely is.
Whether a small shop can realistically place for the term at all.
Use it to: be honest about your shop. A great term that only suits a shop with years of reviews is not a great term for you.
Fourteen research tools, four listing SEO checkers and four money and print tools. Live lookups are free and reset daily; the boards and calculators are free to use as often as you like.
Score any search term out of 100 — opportunity, competition, seller fit and who is winning it.
ResearchFind niches with real buyer demand and competition you can realistically beat.
ResearchAnalyse any shop: top listings, pricing, tags and what actually drives its sales.
ResearchSee which Etsy searches are climbing right now, and list before competitors catch up.
ResearchThe listings moving the most units this fortnight, with the tags that got them there.
ResearchThe top selling Etsy shops ranked, and what they list, price and tag.
ResearchSee whether this year’s demand for a term is arriving earlier or later than usual.
ResearchEnter one keyword and get dozens of related searches buyers actually use.
ResearchSee which listings win a term, and what they convert at.
ResearchFind the shops taking most of the traffic for a keyword, then study how they do it.
ResearchPut two or more keywords side by side before you commit to one.
ResearchLook up any Etsy shop by name and see its listings, pricing and tags in one view.
ResearchEvery selling event of the year with its prep window, peak dates, shipping cut-off and keywords.
ResearchPick the category and attributes that match your product so buyers can filter to it.
ResearchCheck length, front-loading and repetition before you publish the listing.
Listing SEOCheck all 13 tags for length, duplicates and wasted slots before you list.
Listing SEOCombine your keywords into dozens of long-tail tags under 20 characters, ready to paste.
Listing SEOGenerate shop name ideas that fit Etsy’s rules and are still available.
Listing SEOListing, transaction, processing and offsite ads fees, plus your real profit per sale.
MoneyCompare print-on-demand costs and see your true margin before you set a price.
MoneyCheck resolution, DPI and size before you send a design to print. Nothing is uploaded.
Print prepWork out the right print dimensions and DPI for shirts, mugs, posters and more.
Print prepWhere to start
Twenty-two tools is a lot to land on. Find the card that sounds like you and run those three, in that order.
Margins are thin and the design has to be right first time, so the money and print maths matter as much as the keyword.
The risk is picking a niche that looks busy but is already owned by shops with years of reviews behind them.
Usually the listings are fine and the terms are wrong — or several of the 13 tag slots are doing nothing at all.
Seasonal windows
Most calendars stop at the holiday. The Seasonal Calendar gives each selling event its prep window, peak dates and shipping cut-off side by side — the pairing a print-on-demand seller actually needs.
List four to six weeks before the peak window opens. A new listing needs about a fortnight of traffic before Etsy has enough conversion data to rank it.
Open the Seasonal CalendarReading the calendar is free and unmetered — it never touches your daily lookup count.
Each event also lists the keywords that carry it — take them to Keyword Research for their opportunity scores before you build.
How it stays free
No account and no paid plan inside Podezzy. Live lookups and the studio have daily free allowances, and we are upfront about how the site is paid for.
Each tool shows how many free lookups you have left before you spend one. They reset at midnight UTC and are counted per network address, so a shared office or VPN draws on one allowance.
The top boards are cached and free to read as often as you like. The calculators run in your browser and never upload a file.
Each studio tool has a small daily allowance, shown on the tool. Background Studio never stores the file you upload.
We may earn a commission from some of the tools we link to. It never changes what we recommend, and it never changes what the data says. Read the disclosure.
Unlimited research, saved keyword lists, rank tracking and bulk listing across Etsy, Amazon, TikTok Shop and Shopify.
FAQ
Free, and no account. Live marketplace lookups have a daily free allowance that resets at midnight UTC; the top boards and the calculators are free to use as often as you like. If you need more than the daily allowance, the tools link to a paid partner.
Daily snapshots of Etsy marketplace activity — sales, views, favourites and revenue per search term. It is not an estimate derived from a search box, and the refresh date is shown on every result.
The tool page shows how many you have left today before you spend one. They reset at midnight UTC and are counted per network address rather than per browser, so a shared office or a VPN draws on the same allowance.
No. A term with 900,000 sales and an opportunity score of 22 is worse for a new shop than one with 40,000 sales and an opportunity of 60. Opportunity is the share of demand the established sellers do not already hold — above 50 there is room, below 30 the top shops have it locked up.
Four to six weeks before the peak window opens. New listings need a fortnight of traffic before Etsy has enough conversion data to rank them.
Thirteen per listing, twenty characters each. Most sellers quietly waste some of them on tags that a longer tag already covers — the Tag Checker shows you which.
The calculators, Print File Checker, Title Checker and Tag Checker run in your browser, so nothing leaves your device. Background Studio never stores the file you upload.
Yes. The shop tools show information Etsy already displays publicly to any shopper. Studying what works is normal research. Copying someone’s designs or listing copy is not, and can get your shop suspended.
No. Podezzy is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Etsy, Inc. “Etsy” is a trademark of Etsy, Inc., used here only to describe what the tools are for.
From the desk
Plain-English guides for people who already know the basics.
Base cost is the only one of the six variables you can see from the outside, which is exactly why so many sellers choose on it and regret it.
Read the guide
Thirteen slots, twenty characters each, and most sellers quietly waste four of them on tags that were already covered by a longer one.
Read the guide
Base cost, shipping, fees and returns, worked end to end on three real price points.
Read the guideThe Monday brief
Every Monday: the terms that climbed, the ones that cooled, one seasonal window closing soon, and a guide worth your time. Written from the same data the tools run on.
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