Distill Web Monitor

Name: Distill Web Monitor
Rating: 4.3 (23 reviews)
Author: Neemb Web Services Pvt. Ltd.

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

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Distill Web Monitor is a powerful browser extension designed to keep you updated by monitoring webpages or feeds for changes. Easily select specific content or entire pages to watch and receive instant alerts via SMS, email, sound, pop-ups, push notifications, or webhooks when changes are detected.

The extension features highlighted change detection, a watchlist inbox for managing multiple monitors, and allows advanced content selection using XPath, CSS, JavaScript, and regular expressions. Seamlessly sync your watchlist across devices with the premium plan. Getting started is simple: select the parts of the page you want to monitor and let Distill handle the rest, ensuring you never miss an important update again.

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By:

Neemb Web Services Pvt. Ltd.

Users:

60,873+ 1.15K

Rating:

4.30

(23)

Version:

3.10.39 Last updated: 2025-03-21

Creation date:

2020-03-26

Risk:

Permissions:

contextMenus
notifications
tabs
unlimitedStorage
offscreen
scripting
storage
alarms

Host permissions:

*://*/*

Size:

5.01M

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Edge Add-on Store

Updated:

14 hours ago

Ranking

# 575 ▲ 2

Other rankings

#186 in Productivity ▼ 7

#8 in monitor keyword 44

#65 in inbox keyword 25 ▼ 1

#75 in web3 keyword 48

#153 in selection keyword 25 ▲ 1

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300,000+ 4.52

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14,177+ 4.30

(236)

User reviews

Pros

Great for monitoring specific HTML tags for changes
Effective for getting browser notifications from favorite sites
Useful for checking updates on sites without RSS feeds
Works well to keep users updated about changes on websites
Allows users to specify parts of a page to check for updates

Cons

No thumbnails or favicons in notifications
Slow startup as it checks everything on browser launch
Crashes frequently with more than 5 items in the watchlist
Inconsistent notifications with alerts for unchanged pages
Limited functionality on Edge compared to Firefox

Recent reviews

Great! I use it to monitor specific html tags for changes on blogs of crypto currencies. ❤️💲

by Patrick, 2025-03-03

Firefox版では読み込めるのにEdge版では読み込めないサイトが多い (2024/04/09追記)Advanced設定「バックグラウンドで読み込む」を変えたら正常になりました

by t, 2024-04-09

Top Addon um zb. Preisänderungen auf geizhals zu überwachen. Einfacher geht's nicht.

by Thomas, 2024-02-03

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Distill Web Monitor requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
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Distill Web Monitor has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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