About Distill Web Monitor
Distill Web Monitor is not a shopping tool as such, and that is the point. You pick the price on the page and Distill tells you when it changes. It takes more setup than Keepa, but it works on any shop and has no affiliate model to worry about.
Select the price on a product page and save. You get alerts by email, browser notification, phone push, Slack, Discord or webhook, and you can use XPath or CSS selectors if the simple picker fails. Local monitors check from your browser, so they only run while it is open. Cloud monitors run on Distill's servers around the clock. The free plan has 25 monitors, 5 of them in the cloud, with a six-hour minimum interval for cloud checks.
Distill earns from subscription plans, not affiliate commission, and its Chrome manifest does not request the cookies or webRequest permissions that Honey, Coupert and Rakuten request. It does ask for access to all websites, and its Chrome listing says it handles personal and authentication information. Cloud-watched pages pass through Distill's servers. Its privacy policy says it does not rent or sell personal data, and names Google Analytics and Hotjar among its tools. Choose it for shops Keepa skips.
Pros and cons
- Works on any website, not only Amazon
- Select exactly the part of the page to watch, such as the price
- Local monitors run in your browser, and the free plan includes cloud monitors too
- Alerts by email, push notification, Slack, Discord or webhook
- Setup takes a few clicks per page, and late-loading prices can need tuning
- Local monitors only run while the browser is open
- Closed source, and the free plan caps cloud checks and alerts
Permissions
It can read all websites so you can watch any page, and it uses tabs, notifications, alarms and storage. It does not ask for the cookies or webRequest permissions.
