# Distill Web Monitor — user reviews > 86 indexed App Store user reviews of Distill Web Monitor by Neemb LLC, rated 4.30/5 from 184 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/distill-web-monitor/id1118660791/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/distill-web-monitor/id1118660791.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 141 · 4★ 8 · 3★ 7 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 25 ## What do users think of Distill Web Monitor? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 👍 Works great for monitoring - 🚀 Excellent for finding items - 💡 Game changer for purchases - ✅ Brilliant for tracking changes - 💯 Support team excellent - ✨ Developers fix bugs quickly - 👍 Works perfectly as described - 💯 Awesome app for tracking - 🌟 Chrome extension amazing **Cons** - 💸 Too expensive pricing - ❌ Free features removed - 🐛 App crashes frequently - 🚫 Login issues persist - 📉 Free plan limitations - ⚠️ Misleading marketing - 👎 Poor service - 🗑️ Useless without subscription - 💰 Overpriced for features **Commonly reported bugs** - App spins after push notification - App crashes on startup - Login screen frozen - Cannot create account - Cannot log in with Apple/Google - Push notifications not working (iOS 16) - Select all button not working - SMS notifications not working (+7 Russia) - App doesn't open on macOS Sonoma - App crashes on opening (3.8.8) - Cannot cancel subscription - Error creating login - Cannot type '@' in login field - Login button inactive - Cannot edit monitors in app - In-app browser doesn't work - Cannot click links in notifications - Sign in with Apple ID not functioning - Free plan not supported on device - Cannot use features without paying - App only works with MacBook running - Push notifications not working (iPhone 12 mini) - Web page loading issues - Internet DDoS attacks reported - In-app browsing doesn't load pages - App does nothing - Login doesn't work - Cannot test app without paying - Buggy push notifications - New update is awful **Most requested features** - Apple Watch app for previews - Visual preview in text notifications - Visual preview in webhook interfaces - Dark mode option - Allow login to websites - Add widget for iOS 14 - Adaptation for Apple Watch ## Newest reviews (12 of 86) ### 1/5 — CAN'T USE *2025-06-16* At the time of signing up, a server error appears and you can't do it even if you try to start over after a while): ### 1/5 — Pricing model is excessive for what it is. *2025-04-16, version 3.10.40* It’s a DOM monitor on a scheduler with a UI. $20/month is absolutely excessive. ### 1/5 — 작동되지 않아서 계정을 삭제하고 싶은데 *2025-04-02* 작동이 안되서 계정을 삭제하고 싶은데 아무것도 되지 않네요 오류가 계속된다는 메일만 쌓이고 있고 앱에서는 아무것도 설정을 바꿀 수가 없습니다. 이 오류를 어디에 물어보고 해결을 해야하는지도 알 수가 없네요. ### 1/5 — ⚠️ Nur 100 kostenlose Push-Nachrichten/ Monat, kein Darkmode *2025-03-30* Ziemlich miese Masche, besser anderen Service verwenden ### 1/5 — Free trial prevents you from cancelling *2024-11-29* Won’t let me cancel my subscription. I tried clicking the cancel subscription button, takes me to the App Store but shows no pop up. I also tried deactivating the account and it sends me to a web browser and it says “Cannot get settings / account”. ### 1/5 — Rubbish *2024-10-10, version 3.10.28* Just sends constant updates about a site that is not changing really plinky plonky ui waste of time ### 3/5 — Super App, funktioniert einwandfrei *2024-07-08* Leider viel zu teuer. Ich finde es schade, dass es kein Preismodell gibt, das für Endkunden ausgerichtet ist. Ich würde gerne für den Service bezahlen, aber über 16 € ist mir definitiv zu viel im Monat dafür. ### 1/5 — Used to be great but now crashes upon App-Start *2024-07-02* The App used to be great, had the opportunity to buy lots of football tickets because of it. But now, whenever I open the app, all i see is a frozen login-screen with no possibility to continue. Deleting and reinstalling the app didn't make it work again either. So my 17 bucks a month are wasted... ### 1/5 — Unavailable app *2024-06-16* After installing, I can't create an account and can't log in to my Apple or Google account. ### 1/5 — New update is awful *2024-05-26* Change it back, this is horrible! ### 2/5 — Cookieに非対応？ *2024-01-31* ログイン状態を保持できないのが残念でした。 ### 1/5 — Greedy cash grab *2024-01-05, version 3.8.11* Asking for a subscription, minimum 6 hours check, utterly useless, I’ll just set it up on my PC and get an email notification. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — New GUI is a downgrade — plus loading and notification issues *2026-08-20* The recent GUI update made the app harder to use — honestly, the simpler layout of the web version is much easier to read. On top of that, pages often fail to load, and I've been getting duplicate notifications for the same change (this one predates the update). Feature request: please add a way to delete unwanted diff entries — for example, false diffs logged when the site was temporarily unreachable. Cleaning up the history manually is currently impossible. Hoping these get addressed, as the core monitoring feature itself is useful. ### 1/5 — Overcharges customers *2026-07-11, version 4.1.2* The monthly subscription is prohibitively expensive and there is no option to purchase one off or limited access/tokens. I have been charged for an additional months access that I do not need or want and they refuse to refund. Shameful business practice. ### 1/5 — Just bad *2026-03-16, version 4.0.4* Firstly there is a hard cap on the number of searches you have a month that is not communicated with the user when subscribing. Secondly my account didn’t receive full service for the month I was subscribed for. I somehow have 6000/1000 searches used for month. App is complete garbage ### 1/5 — Zu Gierig *2026-01-25* 5-10€ pro Monat wäre angemessen. Aber so ist absolut überteuert. Ich suche etwas anderes. ### 1/5 — Free features removed *2026-01-03* I used Distill successfully a few months ago to set monitors on my laptop and receive mobile notifications. I went back to set up a monitor and found this is now a paid feature with the lowest membership tier costing $15 a MONTH. Removing previously free features and charging for them feels dishonest. ### 1/5 — Did Not Function *2025-12-23* I downloaded the app and started a subscription with a 10 min refresh time on a website that does random merchandise drops. Unfortunately the app did not pick up up when the drop happened, I caught it first by monitoring the web page for about 2 hours and manually refreshing every 5 minutes myself. Afterwards, it unfortunately never sent a ping or detected the new merchandise, so it just did not pick up activity that occurred. ### 1/5 — Aktuell nicht nutzbar *2025-10-29* Sobald man über die Push Benachrichtigung bekommt und drauf klickt, spinnt die App. Seit dem Update springt ständig der Bildschirm in der App vor und zurück. ### 1/5 — The sign up scam *2025-10-23, version 3.11.10* Recognizing that that app manufacturers are colluding in this stunt to advertise “free trial” but to do so they demand your personal credit card information needs to stop. These guys perpetrate this misleading marketing stunt. ### 1/5 — Impossibile loggarsi *2025-08-24, version 3.11.10* Lascia perdere ### 1/5 — Don’t work *2025-07-12* Don’t work ios ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Surprised *2026-07-18* Honestly, I was surprised. I had set up a couple alerts in the app and then kind of forgot about it. Like a month later I get a notification and sure enough it had caught the price drop I was looking for. The app itself isn’t the most polished or intuitive to use. But it does work! ### 5/5 — Takes the time and worry out of monitoring a site *2026-06-18* I absolutely love this App! I used it to monitor stock on a hard to get Canyon E bike. I set up one monitor to for the back in stock notification and another for the availability. It is easy and intuitive to set up the notifications. You can choose precise items of a webpage to monitor and how often you want them checked. Before using the app I was relying on me remembering to check the site every few hours throughout the day. Once I had the monitors in place, though, I could stop worrying and the notifications came straight to my phone and watch. I absolutely recommend this 100%! ### 5/5 — Works great, if you take the time to understand and test the various elements and settings *2026-05-05* While this may present as a simple solution, it works best when you spend time tweaking and testing your site monitoring. I’ve been able to set things up right in order to avoid missing things as well as false alarms. If you use this for business or for finding valuable items in a competitive market then it’s well worth the price. My only wishes right now is for there to be an Apple Watch app that I could use to at least see previews of monitor alerts without having to necessarily open my phone to check. Or for the visual preview seen in the email notifications to also be shown in the text notifications and through the webhook interfaces. The visual part is important to me so that would be huge. ### 5/5 — Good *2026-02-18* It is very usefull and beneficial for me as a call center agent so that i will be aware of new chats that comes and alert me ### 5/5 — Brilliant!!! Game changer *2025-09-13, version 3.11.10* I was given the run around by Eurostar snow-train. They told me tickets would be coming up for the Sunday. I bought return tickets for my friends on the Saturday, us wanting to stay extra day, awaiting the Sunday ones to appear, which Eurostar staff assured me would! In the end no Sunday trains at all so only one way snow-train as all Saturday sold out. Until DISTILL! I set it up running for weeks to see if any returns. This week Distill sent me an update: tickets available! Downside Eurostar baff doubled the price but at least I now bought tickets home. Without Distill I would have missed this and had to do multiple train changes with all ski gear. Thank you DISTILL! ### 5/5 — Support Team Excellent *2025-05-20, version 3.10.44* I had a payment issue, partially because Im an idiot and allowed apple to auto-generate me an email, and the team successfully navigated my irate-ness (and some bad words) and helped me not only cancel but issue a refund. Extremely grateful. Ty! ### 5/5 — The BEST there is… *2025-02-11* I don’t usually write app reviews but try to give props to indie devs when I can. This is by far the best way to track websites for changes - not only for products. The upgraded version is totally worth every penny. I have monitoring running on my Mac in Chrome with NordVPN running as an extension. This way my entire machine isn’t on a VPN, only Chrome during monitoring so I don’t get locked out of retailers like Newegg or Asus that love to IP ban. If any button goes from “out of stock” or “auto-notify” to “add to cart” I get a push notification via the app, an email and a text. It’s just another tool to try and beat the bots! Love this developer and love this app! Wish I had known about it years ago…. Will continue to support them via the paid version! Dev- THANK YOU! Don’t ever stop! ### 5/5 — Excellent support *2024-07-24* They deserve 5 stars. I had a bug with the visual viewer on the app and they fixed it within 24 hours! Great developers! ### 5/5 — Danke für mein neues Fahrrad *2023-10-10* Habe dank Distill nach kürzester Zeit mein neues Rad in favorisiertr Farbe und Größe kaufen können. Danke euch <3 ### 5/5 — Works great *2022-04-13* Works as advertised **Developer response:** Thanks for sharing the feedback and great to know that it is working well for you. :) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-10.*