deltaFeed vs Distill Web Monitor
deltaFeed
bitreading.com
Distill Web Monitor
distill.ioSide by side
| Figure | deltaFeed | Distill Web Monitor |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | €6.25/mo | $15/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 3 | 9 |
| Spec score · Website Monitoring Software | 8.1 (#26) | 9.3 (#1) |
| Content selection | Users can supply a CSS selector to monitor part of a webpage instead of the whole page. | Users can visually select all or part of a webpage and refine selections with XPath, CSS, regular expressions, and JavaScript. |
| Filtering | deltaFeed can try to ignore ads and social media elements and can exclude purely numerical changes or changes below a character threshold. | Conditions can filter alerts using individual or combined rules such as text matches, numeric ranges, or regular expressions. |
| Purpose | deltaFeed monitors webpages that do not provide their own newsstream and makes the changes available as RSS/ATOM feeds. | Distill monitors websites on a schedule, compares page content, and alerts users when it changes. |
Plans
Distill Web Monitor
- FreeFree
- FreeFree
- Starter$15 a month
- Starter$15 a month
- Professional$35 a month
- Professional$35 a month
- Flexi$80 a month
- Flexi$80 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
In their own words
deltaFeed
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Distill Web Monitor
Distill Web Monitor tracks selected website or document content on a schedule, compares it for changes, and sends alerts. Local monitors run in a browser or on the user's computer; cloud monitors run on Distill's servers without requiring the device to stay on. Users can select a whole page or a portion visually, then refine the selection with XPath, CSS, regular expressions, or JavaScript. Monitor types include webpages, PDFs, JSON, Word, XML, feeds, uptime, and sitemaps. Alert rules can use text matches, numeric ranges, and regular expressions. Notifications include email, SMS, phone push, Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, and webhooks. Macros can fill forms and click, and API access is available on request. Local checks can run at intervals as short as five seconds; Free cloud checks start at six-hour intervals. The free plan costs nothing and includes 25 monitors, five cloud monitors, 1,000 cloud checks per month, two devices, and 30 email alerts per month. Starter begins at $15 a month. Unused resources expire at the billing period's end, and cloud checks count in ten-second units.