Distill Alternative
A Distill alternative for when monitoring stops being a personal project.
Distill.io is a capable tool for one person watching pages from their own browser. ChangeTower is built for the moment that turns into hundreds of URLs, several people and a record you have to stand behind.
Personal tool versus team platform.
Distill and ChangeTower both detect changes. They differ in where the checks run, how many people can work on them and what you have to show for it afterwards.
Distill details reflect publicly available product information at the time of writing and may change. Always check the vendor's current plans before deciding.
Built for professional and enterprise monitoring.
The features Distill users ask about first when their watchlist becomes a team responsibility.
Team-scale accounts
Workspaces, team members, role-based access and folders keep hundreds of monitors organised and owned by the right people.
Bulk setup
Paste a list of URLs, set the criteria once, and ChangeTower creates every monitor with the same check type, frequency and alerts.
A dated archive of every check
Every snapshot is stored as served, with side-by-side diffs, ready to export when a client, auditor or regulator asks.
Alerts that mean something
Keyword, element and AI-monitoring rules per monitor, delivered to email on every plan and to Slack, Microsoft Teams or a webhook on Business and Enterprise.
Logged-in and dynamic pages
Monitor portals and dashboards, and let custom user interactions click, log in or dismiss things before the check runs.
Human support
Set-up help for awkward pages and a real person when an alert does not look right. Enterprise plans include dedicated support and onboarding.
Moving from Distill takes an afternoon, not a project.
Nothing to install and no browser extension to keep alive. Bring your list of URLs and ChangeTower does the rest.
Export your Distill list
Copy the URLs you watch today and paste the list into Bulk Setup. ChangeTower creates a monitor for each one, server-side.
Set the rules once
Choose the check type, the interval and the alert conditions. Use selective monitoring to point each monitor at the elements that matter.
Invite the team
Put monitors into folders and workspaces, add colleagues with the right roles and connect Slack, Teams or a webhook.
Free plan for 3 pages, and a 5-day free trial on every paid plan.
Compare plans →Who moves from Distill to ChangeTower.
Teams whose monitoring has to keep running when nobody is at their desk.
Compliance in regulated industries
Finance, healthcare, government and insurance teams that have to show what a page said on a given date, months later.
Agencies and consultancies
One folder per client, alerts routed to the account owner, and an exportable change history for the quarterly review.
Competitive intelligence
Pricing, feature lists and changelogs across dozens of competitors, with keyword alerts for the changes worth reading.
SEO, IT and domain owners
Title tags, canonicals and robots directives after every deploy, plus whole-domain scanning for pages nobody remembers publishing.
Before you switch from Distill
Can I bring my existing monitors over from Distill?
Yes. Copy your URL list, paste it into Bulk Setup and ChangeTower creates a monitor for each one with the same check type, interval and alerts.
Do I need to install anything?
No. Checks run on ChangeTower's servers. There is an optional browser extension for starting a monitor from the page you are on, but the monitoring itself never depends on your browser being open.
Can several people manage the same monitors?
Yes. Workspaces and team members with role-based access let the whole team share monitors, with alerts routed to whoever owns each folder.
Is there a free trial?
The Free plan monitors 3 pages checked daily, and every paid plan starts with a 5-day free trial. See the pricing page for what each plan includes.
Monitoring that runs whether or not your browser does.
Set up your first monitor in under 5 minutes. No sales call needed.