Where PageCrawl is stronger
- More pages for the money. PageCrawl's plans include far more pages and faster checks per pound than ChangeGist's.
- A free plan with a handful of pages and some AI summaries each month.
- Lots of connections for technical users, including Zapier, n8n, Home Assistant and an API, and the option to use your own AI key for more summaries.
Where ChangeGist is different
- Built around what the change means for you. Alerts lead with a one-line “What happened” and only arrive when a change matches your rule, written in your own words.
- Never miss a date. When a page announces a deadline, a closing date or the day a price or fee takes effect, it goes into your calendar automatically, with reminders 3 days and 1 day before.
- Price check for sellers. Enter your own price and the competitor pages that sell the same product, and we tell you the moment someone is cheaper, and again when you're back on top.
- Starter packs for common jobs, like tracking a rival shop, job hunting, tenders and grants or savings rates, with names and rules already filled in.
- Run from the UK by one person who reads every message, with a plain privacy promise: we never sell or share your data or use it to train AI.
Who each one suits
PageCrawl suits people who want lots of pages and fast checks for a low price, and who like to wire alerts into other tools. ChangeGist suits people who watch a smaller set of pages that matter, and want each alert to say what changed, whether it matches what they asked for, and when anything is due.
Moving pages across
- Export or list the pages you watch in PageCrawl.
- Start a free ChangeGist trial and paste in the addresses, up to 5 during the trial.
- Turn any filters you used into a plain-English rule on each page.
- Compare the alerts from both for a few days before you change anything.
Try it side by side
Watch the same few pages in both and see which alerts you actually act on. ChangeGist is free for 3 days, no card needed.