Pick the page you care about, say what on it you want watched, and choose where the alert should reach you. That is the whole job. With StockWatch it takes about a minute: paste the link, point at the price or the stock line, and pick your phone, email or Discord. Five pages are free and no card is needed.
The short answer
Pick the page, say what on it you want watched, and choose where the alert should reach you. With StockWatch that takes about a minute: paste the link, point at the price or the stock line, and pick your phone, email or Discord.
The rest of this page is what separates a tool that tells you in time from one that quietly stops working.
Match the tool to what it costs you to find out late.
| Option | How quickly you hear | The catch | Suits |
|---|---|---|---|
| A browser extension | Only while your browser is open | Stops the moment you close the tab or shut the laptop | Keeping half an eye on one page while you work |
| Other change-detection tools | Minutes, sometimes hours | Usually miss anything that loads after the page does, and give up on the busier retail sites | Watching an ordinary page where an hour late is fine |
| Writing your own script | Whatever you set up | It is yours to fix every time a site changes, which is often | People who enjoy that sort of thing |
| StockWatch | Down to 5 seconds | Five pages free, then a paid plan if you want more or faster | Anything where being late means missing it |
If you have tried watching a page before and it did not work out, it was probably one of these four.
Most tools compare the whole page, so an advert rotating or a "14 people are viewing this" counter ticking over reads as a change. After a day of that you stop trusting the alerts. StockWatch watches the things that actually matter, like whether an item is in stock and what it costs, so an alert means something happened.
Plenty of shops load their prices and stock after the page itself appears. A simple checker looks at the page, sees the same thing every time and stays quiet while the item comes and goes. StockWatch reads what the shop reads, so a restock registers as a restock.
The busiest retailers put protection in front of their pages, and that is where most tools quietly stop working. Those are usually the sites worth watching, so StockWatch is built to keep working on them.
A check every hour is fine for a price that moves once a week. It is useless for something that clears in ninety seconds. StockWatch checks every 60 seconds on the free tier and as often as every five seconds on Power User, and the alert goes to your phone rather than an inbox you will read tonight.
The right interval is set by how fast the thing you are watching moves. A weekly price does not need a check every minute. A drop that clears in ninety seconds does.
Free
60 seconds
5 pages, no card needed
Standard
15 seconds
50 pages, £4 a month
Power User
5 seconds
Unlimited pages, £20 a month
Choose the page you care about, say what on it you want watched, and pick where the alert should reach you. With StockWatch that is three steps and no setup: paste the link, pick the part of the page, choose phone, email or Discord. You can watch five pages free.
A browser extension is fine if you only need one page and your machine stays on. Beyond that, the free StockWatch tier watches five pages every 60 seconds and keeps running when your laptop is shut, with no card needed.
As often as the thing you are watching actually changes. A price that moves weekly does not need checking every minute. A limited drop that sells out in under a minute does. StockWatch checks every 60 seconds on the free tier, every 15 seconds on Standard and every 5 seconds on Power User.
Because most tools compare the entire page, so adverts, timers and view counters all count as changes. StockWatch watches the specific things that matter, such as stock and price, which is why its alerts are worth opening.
Yes. The check runs inside your own browser through the StockWatch extension, so your session stays on your machine. We never ask for your password to another site.
Price drops, new products appearing, job listings, ticket releases, course places, a competitor changing their pricing page, anything where the answer lives on a page and you want to know the moment it changes.
Paste the link, pick what you want watched, and choose where the alert lands. Five pages free, checked every 60 seconds, no card needed.
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