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The Whistling Kettle

Green, pu-erh, purple and herbal teas, scones and a monthly tea club. Albany, New York. Founded 2004.

The Whistling Kettle is a Albany, New York brand, founded in 2004, selling green, pu-erh, purple and herbal teas, scones and a monthly tea club on Shopify. Its store lists 300 products, mostly tea, sampler and scone, priced from $3 to $62. It sells direct and through retail and wholesale and sells on Amazon. It employs 51 to 200 people and runs 15 apps from the Shopify App Store across 8 categories. It spends about $75K to $80K a month on those apps and added 2 in the last year.

The store

Products listed
300
Counted on the storefront
Typical price
$3 to $62
Most products fall in this range
Tea201Sampler11Scone6Drink2

Product types as The Whistling Kettle files them in its own catalogue.

What The Whistling Kettle runs on Shopify

15 apps from the Shopify App Store, across 8 categories.

Other5Search, upsell & discovery4Shipping, returns & order tracking1Helpdesk1Product reviews1Email & SMS marketing1Loyalty, store credit & gift cards1Subscriptions1

Estimated app spend: about $75K to $80K a month. 2 apps added in the last year.

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Counted from the Shopify App Store. A name shows only for an app our own visit to the storefront saw running, or to signed-in members. how we count.

Where The Whistling Kettle sells

Direct, thewhistlingkettle.comRetailAmazonWholesale

Competitors

  1. Golden Moon Tea

    both loose leaf tea, samplers, teaware

  2. both loose leaf tea and teaware

  3. both loose leaf tea, teaware, gifts

  4. both loose leaf tea, teaware

  5. both loose leaf tea, samplers

  6. both loose leaf tea, teaware

  7. MarketSpice

    both tea, teapots, mugs, gifts

  8. Queen Mary Tea

    both loose leaf tea, teapots, gifts

  9. The Tea Makers of London

    both loose leaf tea, teaware

  10. McNulty's Tea & Coffee Co., Inc

    both tea and gifts

how we pick competitors

What apps does The Whistling Kettle use on Shopify?

The Whistling Kettle runs 15 apps from the Shopify App Store across 8 categories: Search, upsell & discovery, Shipping, returns & order tracking, Other, Helpdesk, Product reviews, Email & SMS marketing, Loyalty, store credit & gift cards, Subscriptions.

Who are The Whistling Kettle's competitors?

The Shopify brands closest to The Whistling Kettle are Golden Moon Tea, The Tea Spot, ArtfulTea, Art of Tea and DAVIDsTEA.

Updated 2026-10-22. Method notes and every source: how we count →