A Visualping alternative that logs values to Google Sheets
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Choose BrowseWiz when you want the changing values in a Google Sheet, not just an alert. A scheduled run clicks through pages, even ones you sign into, and logs each value. A monitor alerts you when a change matches your words. Stay with Visualping for round-the-clock cloud checks, visual diffs, email and Slack alerts, and scale.
Add to Chrome – it's freeBrowseWiz vs Visualping
Visualping is a mature cloud monitor. BrowseWiz is an agent in your browser that also watches pages.
| Feature | BrowseWiz | Visualping |
|---|---|---|
| Where checks run Source 1 | 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 |
| Free plan Source 2, Source 3 | $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 |
| Paid plans from Source 2 | Pro, $29/month, billed monthly only: 250M credits a month, 10 tasks up to hourly, 30 monitors | Personal 1K, $14/month or $120/year: 1,000 checks a month across 10 pages, every 15 minutes at most |
| Fastest check Source 1, Source 2 | About every 5 minutes | Every 2 minutes from Personal 10K ($70/month or $600/year, 10,000 checks a month); local monitors every minute |
| Alerts on a change you describe in words Source 4 | Yes, “Notify me when…” | Yes, “Alert me when”, on every plan including Free |
| Google Sheets Source 2, Source 5, Source 6 | 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 |
| Clicking before reading Source 2 | A scheduled run searches, clicks and pages through results | Recorded actions before each check: log in, click, type or run a script |
| Pages you sign into Source 2 | 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 |
| Visual diffs Source 2 | No, monitors compare the page's text | Yes: visual, text and element changes |
| Alert channels Source 2, Source 7 | Side panel notice, page pill or system notification. No email. | Email, webhooks, Telegram and n8n on every plan; SMS from Personal 5K; Slack, Teams and Discord on Business |
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 5. Columns of your own, from custom data extraction, come with its Solutions plan Source 4, sold by quote Source 2.
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 hourly, 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, daily on Free or up to hourly on Pro and Max, 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 email, SMS, Slack or Teams.
- You watch hundreds of pages or need 2-minute checks.
Choose BrowseWiz if…
- 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 a row per item and a plain-English alert in one tool, both on the free plan.
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.
- No email, SMS, Slack or visual diffs. Alerts stay in Chrome and on your desktop, and monitors compare text, not screenshots.
- One monitor on Free. Visualping's free plan covers 5 cloud pages Source 2 and unlimited local monitors Source 3.
- 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 8. Local monitors can check every 5 seconds Source 9 and keep your login session Source 10.
- changedetection.io: open source and free to self-host, with Browser Steps that log in or click before a check Source 11. Hosted, it costs $8.99/month for 5,000 watches Source 12.
- PageCrawl: a cloud monitor whose free plan tracks 6 pages with 220 checks a month, at most hourly Source 13.
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 changed text. 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
$29 / month
- Up to 10 scheduled tasks, as often as hourly
- Up to 30 page monitors
- 250M credits a month
Max
$79 / month
- Up to 10 scheduled tasks, as often as hourly
- 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 2. Built-in Sheets rows start on Business, from $140/month; other plans need a webhook and Zapier Source 6. Either way, each row is one alert, not one bill. Prices exclude 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 9. changedetection.io is free to self-host Source 11. 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 2.
No. Monitors inside your browser run only while it's open. That includes BrowseWiz and the local monitors in Visualping Source 1 and Distill Source 10. In return, they see pages as you do, signed in. 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. It checks about every 5 minutes while Chrome is open and alerts you in Chrome or with a system notification. For email alerts, use Visualping Source 7 or Distill Source 9.
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 5. Other plans can route alerts to a sheet through a webhook and Zapier Source 6. 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 2. 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
- Visualping: Chrome extension, local and cloud monitoring (opens in a new tab)visualping.io, checked
- Visualping: Pricing (opens in a new tab)visualping.io, checked
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- Visualping blog: Introducing the Google Sheets integration (opens in a new tab)visualping.io, checked
- Visualping Help: Notification methods by plan (opens in a new tab)help.visualping.io, checked
- Chrome Web Store: Distill Web Monitor (opens in a new tab)chromewebstore.google.com, checked
- Distill: Pricing (opens in a new tab)distill.io, checked
- Distill docs: Local monitoring (opens in a new tab)distill.io, checked
- changedetection.io on GitHub (Apache-2.0 license) (opens in a new tab)github.com, checked
- changedetection.io: Hosted plan (opens in a new tab)changedetection.io, checked
- PageCrawl: Pricing (opens in a new tab)pagecrawl.io, checked