A Visualping alternative that logs values to Google Sheets
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Choose BrowseWiz for the combination: a scheduled agent that clicks through pages you sign into and keeps a row per item current in your Google Sheet, with a monitor watching between runs. Stay with Visualping for round-the-clock cloud checks, visual diffs, SMS and Slack alerts, and scale.
Add to Chrome – it's freeBrowseWiz vs Visualping and rtrvr.ai
Visualping is a mature cloud monitor. rtrvr.ai is a browser agent that also runs scheduled tasks in your signed-in Chrome Source 1. BrowseWiz is an agent in your browser that also watches pages.
| Feature | BrowseWiz | Visualping | rtrvr.ai |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where checks run Source 1, Source 2 | In your own Chrome, only while it's open | Cloud monitors on Visualping's servers, even with your computer off, or local monitors in your browser | Your signed-in Chrome while it's open (a missed run starts when Chrome reopens), or rtrvr's cloud browsers with Chrome closed |
| Free plan Source 3, Source 4, Source 5 | $0: 10M credits a month, 1 scheduled task up to once a day, 1 page monitor | $0: 150 checks a month across 5 pages, at most hourly, plus unlimited local monitors | $0 Free Mode for tasks you start yourself, with a daily fair-use allowance and sponsored cards. Schedules and triggers need a paid plan |
| Paid plans from Source 3, Source 5 | Pro, $35/month, billed monthly only: 250M credits a month, 10 tasks up to once a day, 30 monitors | Personal 1K, $14/month or $120/year: 1,000 checks a month across 10 pages, every 15 minutes at most | Starter, $9.99/month for 1,000 credits; Pro, $29.99/month for 3,000 credits |
| Fastest check Source 1, Source 2, Source 3 | About every 5 minutes | Every 2 minutes from Personal 10K ($70/month or $600/year, 10,000 checks a month); local monitors every minute | Cloud schedules every 5 minutes at the shortest; Chrome schedules are set hourly, daily, weekly or by cron |
| Alerts on a change you describe in words Source 6, Source 7 | Yes, “Notify me when…” | Yes, “Alert me when”, on every plan including Free | Not listed on rtrvr's docs as of October 2026. Its browser triggers run a task when a site's own notification matches a title or body filter |
| Google Sheets Source 1, Source 3, Source 8, Source 9 | A scheduled run writes the columns you name into a sheet it created, on every plan | A row per change that triggers an alert, with 26 set columns: built in on Business, from $140/month or $1,200/year for 20,000 checks; on any plan through a webhook and Zapier | Appends new rows to the same sheet on each run, or writes a new tab per run, on a paid plan |
| Clicking before reading Source 1, Source 3 | A scheduled run searches, clicks and pages through results | Recorded actions before each check: log in, click, type or run a script | A schedule replays a run in which the agent already clicked through the page |
| Pages you sign into Source 1, Source 3, Source 5 | Uses the sessions already in your Chrome; if a site signs you out, runs and monitors see only its sign-in page | Login steps replayed before each check, on every plan; local monitors use your browser's own session, for two-factor or SSO | Chrome schedules use your logged-in sessions; cloud runs need Cookie Sync, a paid feature, to upload your sessions |
| Visual diffs Source 3, Source 7 | No, monitors compare the text of the items they track | Yes: visual, text and element changes | Not listed on rtrvr's docs as of October 2026 |
| Alert channels Source 1, Source 3, Source 10 | Side panel notice, page pill or system notification, and email if you turn it on | Email, webhooks, Telegram and n8n on every plan; SMS from Personal 5K; Slack, Teams and Discord on Business | Email, Slack, Discord, WhatsApp or a webhook when a scheduled run finishes, plus a Chrome notification |
In Google Sheets, Visualping logs the alert. BrowseWiz logs the values.
Visualping's built-in Google Sheets integration, on Business plans, adds a row each time a change triggers an alert. Its 26 set columns include the page URL, screenshot links, the added and removed text and an AI summary Source 8. Columns of your own, from custom data extraction, come with its Solutions plan Source 6, sold by quote Source 3.
A scheduled run writes the columns you name instead, such as bill, status and last action. It runs the search and works through every results page, so each row is one item, not one changed page.
The trade-off is timing. Visualping's cloud monitors log a change at their next check, even with your computer off. BrowseWiz logs only at scheduled runs, at most once a day, and only while Chrome is open.
Log every bill's status, across every results page
Type one message in the side panel and approve the plan:
Open the Westbrook Legislature's bill search, search for “short-term rental” and go through every results page. Add a row per bill to a new “Short-term rental bills” sheet: today's date, bill number, status, last action and link.
You grant tab access and sign in to Google once, then the sheet fills as it works.
The log after three runs
After Monday's chat run, each weekday's run adds a dated row per bill, keeping every status change. In this excerpt, SB 214 passes the Senate on Wednesday, and a new bill, HB 1130, turns up on results page 2.
| Date | Bill | Status | Last action | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5 | SB 214 | Passed committee | Committee vote 7–2 | westbrook.example/sb214 |
| Oct 5 | HB 1092 | In committee | Referred to Housing | westbrook.example/hb1092 |
| Oct 6 | SB 214 | On floor calendar | Second reading | westbrook.example/sb214 |
| Oct 6 | HB 1092 | In committee | Referred to Housing | westbrook.example/hb1092 |
| Oct 7 | SB 214 | Passed Senate | Floor vote 31–17 | westbrook.example/sb214 |
| Oct 7 | HB 1092 | Hearing set | Hearing on Oct 14 | westbrook.example/hb1092 |
| Oct 7 | HB 1130 | Introduced | Filed Oct 6 | westbrook.example/hb1130 |
How it works
Run it once in chat
Approve the plan, then grant tab access and sign in to Google once when asked. The run works in the BrowseWiz Tabs group of your signed-in Chrome and fills a Google Sheet it created.
Schedule the log
Click Update this sheet daily above the chat box. When it asks, say when and that each run adds new rows, such as “weekdays at 8:00, add new rows”, then approve the new plan. The scheduled task adds rows to the same sheet, up to once a day, while Chrome is open.
Add a monitor for the urgent change
For a change you can't wait on, ask in the chat: “Notify me when SB 214 is scheduled for a House vote.” It checks the bill's page about every 5 minutes while Chrome is open, and the first check only saves a starting point. A match alerts you in Chrome; click the alert to open its summary in History. See how monitors work.
Which one fits your job
Choose Visualping if…
- Pages must be checked while your computer is off.
- You want screenshots and visual diffs, not just text.
- Alerts must reach SMS, Slack or Teams.
- You watch hundreds of pages or need 2-minute checks.
Choose rtrvr.ai if…
Choose BrowseWiz if…
- You want a scheduled agent that clicks through pages you sign into and keeps a row per item current in your Google Sheet, with a monitor watching between runs.
- You want the values themselves in a Google Sheet, not a change summary.
- The data sits behind a search, a login or several results pages.
- You want to start on a free plan that includes one daily scheduled task and one page monitor.
Where BrowseWiz falls short
- Chrome has to be open. Scheduled runs and monitors stop while it's closed or your computer is off.
- Signed out means no data. If a site signs you out, runs and monitors see only its sign-in page until you sign in again in Chrome.
- About every 5 minutes, no faster. You can't set a monitor's interval.
- Layout changes. When a site changes its layout, the monitor alerts you that it can't find a tracked item, and you ask BrowseWiz to set it up again.
- No SMS, Slack or visual diffs. Alerts show in Chrome and on your desktop, and by email only if you turn it on, and monitors compare the text of the items they track, not screenshots.
- One monitor on Free. Visualping's free plan covers 5 cloud pages Source 3 and unlimited local monitors Source 4.
- Monitors don't write to Sheets. A log needs a scheduled task, and it writes only to sheets BrowseWiz created.
- Runs can differ slightly. If you need identical output every run, a selector-based tool is safer.
Other Visualping alternatives
If you mostly need alerts, these are fair picks too.
- Distill Web Monitor: a Chrome extension with 400,000 users Source 11. Local monitors can check every 5 seconds Source 12 and keep your login session Source 13.
- changedetection.io: open source and free to self-host, with Browser Steps that log in or click before a check Source 14. Hosted, it costs $8.99/month for 5,000 watches Source 15.
- PageCrawl: a cloud monitor whose free plan tracks 6 pages with 220 checks a month, at most hourly Source 16.
What it costs
BrowseWiz counts credits, not checks. A monitor check with no change makes no AI call; one with a change makes one call on the text of every item the monitor tracks. A scheduled run pays for the text it reads, and each step re-sends the chat. Reading a 30,000-character page and writing a short reply is about 7,500 × 5 + 500 × 30 ≈ 52,500 credits.
Free
$0 / month
- 1 scheduled task, up to once a day
- 1 page monitor
- 10M credits a month
Pro
$35 / month
- Up to 10 scheduled tasks, up to once a day
- Up to 30 page monitors
- 250M credits a month
Max
$95 / month
- Up to 10 scheduled tasks, up to once a day
- Up to 30 page monitors
- 1B credits a month
In Visualping's unit, if the bill search spans 3 results pages, checking them once a day takes at most 3 × 31 = 93 checks a month, inside Free's 150. Hourly, it's up to 3 × 24 × 31 = 2,232 checks: Personal 5K, $35/month or $300/year for 5,000 checks Source 3. Built-in Sheets rows start on Business, from $140/month; other plans need a webhook and Zapier Source 9. Either way, each row is one alert, not one bill. Prices include VAT. See how credits are counted.
Questions
Yes. Distill's free plan has 25 monitors, 5 of them in the cloud with 6-hour checks Source 12. changedetection.io is free to self-host Source 14. BrowseWiz Free includes one page monitor and one daily task that logs values to Google Sheets, while Chrome is open. Visualping's own free plan covers 5 pages and 150 checks a month Source 3.
No. Monitors inside your browser run only while it's open. That includes BrowseWiz and the local monitors in Visualping Source 2 and Distill Source 13. In return, they see pages as you do, signed in. On Windows and Linux, BrowseWiz can keep Chrome running in the system tray after you close its windows, so its monitors keep checking. For checks while your computer is off, use a cloud monitor: Visualping, Distill's cloud monitors or hosted changedetection.io.
Use a page monitor: give it the URL and say what matters, such as “the bill is scheduled for a vote”. In BrowseWiz, ask in the chat, or click New monitor in the scheduled tasks drawer to start that chat. It checks about every 5 minutes while Chrome is open and alerts you in Chrome or with a system notification, and by email if you turn on Notify via email for it. For alerts by SMS, Slack or webhook, use Visualping Source 10.
Yes. Visualping's built-in Google Sheets integration, on Business plans from $140/month, adds a row for every change that triggers an alert, with the changed text and an AI summary Source 8. Other plans can route alerts to a sheet through a webhook and Zapier Source 9. In BrowseWiz, a scheduled task adds dated rows with the values you named to a sheet it created, while Chrome is open.
Yes, on every plan including Free. Visualping replays login steps you add or record in its extension before each check. For two-factor or SSO, its local monitors check the page in your own browser, with the session you're already signed in to Source 3. BrowseWiz also works in your Chrome, where you're already signed in. See how BrowseWiz reads pages behind a login.
Keep the values, not just the alert
Add BrowseWiz to Chrome and describe the values you want tracked. The free plan includes one daily scheduled task and one page monitor.
Add to Chrome – it's freeSources
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