Monitor websites without
CSS selectors or XPath

For full Distill functionality — like monitoring a specific price field without triggering on other page changes — yes. You need to write a CSS selector or XPath expression targeting the element. SiteShift eliminates this entirely by monitoring the whole page and using AI to determine what actually matters.

With Distill, you need to manually update every broken selector. With SiteShift, there are no selectors to break. It reads the full page text and AI figures out what changed — design changes are invisible to our monitoring because we track content, not structure.

Actually free — 2 cloud monitors with daily checks, AI summaries, and email alerts. Forever. No credit card, no trial period, no "free trial" that expires. Distill's free tier runs in your browser only, meaning your computer must stay on for monitoring to work. SiteShift's cloud runs 24/7.

For most use cases, yes — and it's dramatically faster to set up. If you need precise element targeting (e.g., monitor only the price field on an Amazon listing while ignoring everything else), Distill has more granular control. For typical competitive monitoring, price tracking, and content change detection, SiteShift handles it without the overhead.

When SiteShift detects a change, it sends the before and after page content to an AI model which generates a plain-English summary of what changed and why it might matter. You get alerts like "Pro plan increased from $29 to $39" instead of a raw text diff with added/removed lines highlighted. No interpretation needed.