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Quick Look

Distill Web Monitor allows you to track specific changes on webpages and receive instant alerts via various notification methods.

AI Overview

Who is this for?

Individuals and professionals who need to stay updated on content changes on websites.

Key Features

  • Webpage change monitoring
  • Customizable alerts (email, SMS, Slack, etc.)
  • Highlighted changes and history
  • Flexible content selection (XPath, CSS, JS)
  • Cross-device synchronization of watchlists

Reviews Analysis

Overall Sentiment

Mostly Positive

Users find Distill Web Monitor to be a powerful tool for tracking webpage changes, appreciating its customization and alert features, although some wish for improved performance or specific functionalities.

Note: AI analysis focuses on the substance and recency of reviews, which may differ from the overall store rating.


What Users Love

  • Effective at detecting and alerting about website changes.
  • Offers a wide range of notification options and customization.
  • Easy to set up and manage monitored content.

Points to Consider

  • × Occasional performance issues or high resource usage.
  • × Some users desire more advanced filtering or conditional logic.
  • × The free tier has limitations.

Official Description

From the Developer


Monitor webpage or feed for changes. Get SMS and email alerts on change detection.

Distill runs in your browser to check monitored pages for changes. Get instant alerts as soon as a change is detected.

Featured highlights:

  • An inbox style Watchlist to manage monitors.
  • Easy content selection from any webpage.
  • Highlighted changes.
  • Change history.
  • Supported actions:
  • Email
  • SMS
  • Sound
  • Pop-up
  • Push notification on phones
  • Slack and Discord Webhooks
  • Raw Webhooks
  • Condition for smart actions.
  • Powerful expression for content selection. Use Xpath, CSS or JavaScript to select content. Use regular expression to extract matches from the web page.
  • Sync Watchlist across devices in all plans

Getting started:

  • Open a webpage to be monitored.
  • Click Distill's drop icon in browser toolbar.
  • "Select parts of page" or "Monitor whole page" as needed for your case. In case of select parts, hover around the area on webpage that you want to watch and "click" to select the parts.
  • Save selections and done!

Go to Watchlist by clicking the Distill icon to see list of watched webpages.

You can also check out our help article for a quick start: https://distill.io/docs/web-monitor/distill-chrome-extension/

If you need any help, reach out to us at https://forums.distill.io/ or send an email to support@distill.io.

Your extension? Let us know if we can update or correct anything!

Key Info

  • Rating:
    4.5/5.0

    (1.4K ratings)

  • Users:300,000
  • Version:3.12.6
  • Updated:Oct 18, 2025
  • Developer:Visit Website →

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