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Distill Web Monitor

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

As of June 2026, Distill Web Monitor has 400,000 users and a 4.50/5 rating from 1,453 reviews in the Workflow & Planning category.

Workflow & Planning★ Featured
Chrome Web Store ↗.crx
Usersup 33.3 percent+33.3%
400.0K
400,000
Ratingdown 0.2 percent−0.2%
4.50
1.5K reviews
Reviewsup 0.7 percent+0.7%
1.5K
Version
4.1.0
Manifest V3
90-day change · In the last 90 days this extension gained 100.0K users, 1 version update.

History

11 snapshots

Tracking since Apr 5, 2026.

408.0K350.0K292.0KApr 5, 2026Jun 15, 2026
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DateUsersRatingReviewsVersion
Apr 5, 2026300.0K4.511.4K4.0.4
Apr 17, 2026300.0K4.501.4K4.0.4
Apr 27, 2026400.0K4.501.4K4.0.4
May 7, 2026400.0K4.511.4K4.0.4
May 11, 2026400.0K4.511.4K4.1.0
May 18, 2026400.0K4.511.4K4.1.0
May 24, 2026400.0K4.511.4K4.1.0
May 26, 2026400.0K4.511.4K4.1.0
May 29, 2026400.0K4.501.4K4.1.0
Jun 8, 2026400.0K4.501.5K4.1.0
Jun 15, 2026400.0K4.501.5K4.1.0
Now400.0K4.501.5K4.1.0

Permissions & access

Permissions
contextMenusnotificationstabsunlimitedStorageoffscreenscriptingstoragealarms
Host access
*://*/*

Screenshots

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About

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 [email protected].

Technical

Version
4.1.0
Manifest
V3
Size
5.79MiB
Min Chrome
116.0.0.0
Languages
11
Featured
Yes

Metadata

ID
inlikjemeeknofckkjolnjbpehgadgge
Developer ID
ud97911778e18e523511cd056c5c66110
Developer Email
[email protected]
Created
Jan 13, 2014
Last Updated (Store)
May 4, 2026
Last Scraped
Jun 15, 2026

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Data sourced from the Chrome Web Store · last verified Jun 15, 2026.