About: ## How does Distill work?
Distill checks webpages in cloud using servers or
locally on your computer using browser extensions. Whenever there is a change,
Distill will notify you of the change.
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What is Distill Web Monitor?
Distill is an app that checks webpages for changes either in the cloud using servers or locally on your computer using browser extensions. The app notifies you of any changes and allows you to view them in detail through the Watchlist and history view. Distill does not check webpages on your phone, so it does not affect your phone's battery. The app is a client to view and manage your Watchlist and get push notifications.
- Checks webpages for changes in the cloud using servers or locally on your computer using browser extensions
- Notifies you of any changes and allows you to view them in detail through the Watchlist and history view
- Does not check webpages on your phone, so it does not affect your phone's battery
- Supports a minimum check interval of 5 seconds for all plans for local monitors
- Supports 10 minutes check interval in Starter plan, 5 minutes in the Professional plan and 2 minutes in the Flexi plan for cloud monitors
- Allows you to get alerts through push notifications on phones, email, SMS, Discord, Slack, and Webhook
- Allows you to use conditions to receive alerts only on important changes matching the conditions
- Requires a paid subscription with a 1 month Starter plan ($14.99) and 1 month Professional plan ($34.99)
- Offers a 7-day free trial for the Starter plan
- Charges your subscription to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase and will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period
- Allows you to manage your subscription and/or turn off auto-renewal by visiting your iTunes Account Settings after purchase
- Provides customer support through email at [email protected]
- Has terms of service and privacy policy available at https://distill.io/terms-of-service/ and https://distill.io/privacy-policy/ respectively.
Pros
- Works as advertised
- Offers a 7 day demo
- Notifications, sound, and text alerts when changes are noticed
By Mr no dolla
Works as advertised
By viciousCalm
Really really really buggy for something that wants $35 a month. There’s a sign-IN with Apple ID button, but if you want to sign UP first it doesn’t give you that option, its email only. Then, when you try to sign up by email it tells you that the email has already been used (it hasn’t). THEN, when you try to reset your password on that email (in case it was already used), it asks if you want to sign up with that email. If you click yes/submit nothing actually happens. Fantastic.
Finally was able to sign up/log in with my apple id on my phone, but still can't sign in with that on the browser. Lovely.
By loyalty4life
For those that are complaining about not being able to try it out first, it’s primarily a chrome extension. Go download it there and see if you like it for free. DistillWebMonitor is just a handy tool do you have with you.
By 3ecure
They offered 7 days demo but once put my card information immediately they charged me.
By Testerteam
I upgraded to the premium service. It was a waste of money. It did NOT alert me in the proper amount of time.
By Frozenwafle
Why was I charged $6.48 for cancelling the the 7 day free trial when I was only two days into it?
By Friend John
Learn python instead of paying this trash app for notifications.
By Mr Turrible
In today’s world, as difficult as it is to buy certain items, having an app like this is very helpful. However, I find that this version is a serious miss on the developer’s part.
First of all it is buggy. In the advanced area, push notification are not working.
More importantly, the cost is absolutely ridiculous for the return on investment. For most, a small amount would make this a subscription we could all live with. At 15 or even 35, once we’ve purchased the item we want, we will no longer use the product and cancel.
Secondly, at those prices you would think DistillWebMonitor would offer serviceable intervals of checking. Do you really think that I can pick up a hard to find item with a five minute interval ??? And this is after paying $35/month for it?
$15/month gives you a minimum 10 minute interval? Talk about trying to load up your money right away. DistillWebMonitor is written by someone who is worried about money now, not keeping customers for a long time. And, I find it a shame because the chrome extension was amazing.
By kelsey12355321555
I have the google chrome extension and that works well. I use it to let me know when new products become available for sale. I paid $15 for a month of using DistillWebMonitor and it never worked for me... it wouldn’t run off the cloud server or give me any alerts. It only worked if I had distill running on my MacBook as well. I really wanted something that would be able to run in the background and send push notifications to my phone. Waste of money.
By Alienblaster
Got a sound, notification, and text right when it noticed a change. Functions perfectly as far as I can tell.
By bartlanz
You need to use the chrome extension first, but this is a great app to track what it’s doing and reports
By Indiecent
I got this to try and help me procure a PS5. I only got it to work on a few sites and it never told me once when something was in stock when I know for a fact that it was. Maybe it as bc the stock moved to fast for their checks. It ended up just bogging down my emails with OOS messages. Waste of money and the UI was not very smooth. Waste of money.
By drive352
This is a great app to track changes. Support is fantastic
By A Louque
DistillWebMonitor is completely unusable. Continuous error messages and coincidentally (or perhaps not) my internet was DDoS’d twice in the ~30 minutes that I had DistillWebMonitor open and running. This is the only time I’ve had internet issues in the 16 months I’ve lived at my current location.
By Hfish1212
Lowest interval on phone is 10 minutes which is worthless compared to free desktop/laptop browser plugin which is 30 seconds.
By Gattling7
Doesn’t Work Couldn’t Get a Single Page To Load Correctly And Out $15 Now.... 🙄
By Sam13703
I wouldn’t buy this even if it did offer a free trial. DistillWebMonitor is seriously overpriced.
$15 / month? Seriously... this has to be far above the costs of your infrastructure.
By voip-ninja
I’m not paying for a subscription before even finding out how your app works.
By WarsDarksider
You guys should really offer a free trial. I'm not going to pay $15 to even see if it works.
By MrBreakfastGuy
Sign In using Apple doesn’t even function...but they want money from me....
By ThatBreakfastGuy
Sign In using Apple doesn’t even function...but they want money from me....
Jack Suttie 3 years ago
Fantastic app using Chrome, really helps with monitoring products.
Yes. Distill Web Monitor is quiet safe to use but use with caution. This is based on our NLP (Natural language processing) analysis of over 156 User Reviews sourced from the Appstore and the appstore cumulative rating of 4.3/5 . Justuseapp Safety Score for Distill Web Monitor Is 35.7/100.
Yes. Distill Web Monitor is legit, but not 100% legit to us. This conclusion was arrived at by running over 156 Distill Web Monitor User Reviews through our NLP machine learning process to determine if users believe the app is legitimate or not. Based on this, Justuseapp Legitimacy Score for Distill Web Monitor Is 89.3/100..
Distill Web Monitor works most of the time. If it is not working for you, we recommend you excersise some patience and retry later or Contact Support.
**Pricing data is based on average subscription prices reported by Justuseapp.com users..
- The app requires a paid subscription.
- There are two subscription plans available: Starter and Professional.
- The Starter plan costs $14.99 per month and offers a 7-day free trial.
- The Professional plan costs $34.99 per month.
- The subscription is auto-renewing and will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase.
- You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal by visiting your iTunes Account Settings after purchase.
- The current subscription cannot be cancelled during the active subscription period.
- The app offers push notifications, email, SMS, Discord, Slack, and Webhook alerts.
- The app supports conditions to receive alerts only on important changes matching the conditions.
- The app checks webpages in the cloud using servers or locally on your computer using browser extensions.
- The app doesn't check webpages on your phone, so it doesn't affect your phone's battery.
- The app offers a Watchlist and history view to view changes with great detail.
- The app offers a 5-second minimum check interval for local monitors and 10 minutes check interval in Starter plan, 5 minutes in the Professional plan, and 2 minutes in the Flexi plan for cloud monitors.
- For any questions or feedback, you can email [email protected].
- The app's terms of service and privacy policy can be found at https://distill.io/terms-of-service/ and https://distill.io/privacy-policy/, respectively.
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