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MyKavo vs Distill (distill.io) - Website Monitoring Compared
Distill watches pages or parts of pages, either locally in your browser or on its cloud, and tells you when the selected content changes. MyKavo monitors whole websites you are responsible for against an approved baseline, scores each change by severity, and explains what broke rather than only that something moved.
Last updated: September 20, 2026
What Distill is
Distill (distill.io) is a webpage monitoring service used by over 500,000 people. Its browser extension for Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Edge lets you monitor a full page or just a selected region, and checks run either locally in the browser - unlimited - or in its cloud, where checks are metered. It handles web pages, PDFs, XML, feeds, sitemaps and uptime, with alerts by email, SMS, webhook and push, plus iOS and Android apps. Published plans start at a free tier with 25 monitors and 1,000 checks a month, then Starter at $15/month, Professional at $35/month and Flexi from $80/month.
Distill vs MyKavo, capability by capability
Anything listed for MyKavo is in the shipped product today, not a roadmap item. Everything listed for Distill was taken from their own published material on September 20, 2026; sources are at the foot of this page.
| Capability | Distill | MyKavo |
|---|---|---|
| Setup model | Pick a page or region in the browser extension; monitor it immediately. | Add a website; MyKavo discovers pages from the sitemap and internal links, you choose which to monitor, then approve a baseline. |
| Where checks run | Locally in the browser (unlimited) or in Distill's cloud (metered). | Always server-side on MyKavo's infrastructure, so nothing depends on your machine being on. |
| Region-level selection | Yes - a core strength; select exactly the part of the page to watch. | Page-level with ignored selectors and screenshot masks to exclude volatile regions, rather than selecting one region to include. |
| Change severity | You are told the selected content changed. | Each change is scored INFO to CRITICAL by centralised rules, so a 200 becoming a 404 is treated differently from a reworded heading. |
| Baseline approval | Compares against the last check. | Compares against a baseline you approved; approving an expected change makes it the new known-good state. |
| SEO element monitoring | Not a dedicated feature - you would select the tag region yourself. | Title, meta description, canonical, robots meta, H1s, structured data and indexability tracked as first-class checks with their own severity rules. |
| Broken links and scripts | Not a dedicated feature. | Internal links checked each scan and grouped into one alert; third-party scripts tracked so a vanished analytics or payment script is flagged. |
| Technical SEO audit | Not offered. | Full-site crawl scored against 89 checks across 22 categories. |
| Mobile apps | Yes - iOS and Android. | Yes - an Android app with push alerts, usage and Search Console analytics. |
| Free tier | Yes - 25 monitors and 1,000 cloud checks per month. | Yes - 1 website, 5 monitored pages, weekly scans, 30-day history, no card. |
Where Distill is the better choice
There are real cases where Distill wins, and pretending otherwise would waste your time and cost you a refund. Choose it over MyKavo when:
- You want to monitor a specific region of a page - one price, one table row, one paragraph - and ignore everything else. Distill's region selection is more precise than excluding volatile areas from a whole-page comparison.
- You want a lot of monitors cheaply. A free tier of 25 monitors, and unlimited local checks in the browser extension, is more generous per-monitor than MyKavo's page limits.
- You want to watch pages on sites you do not own, including ones behind a login in your own browser session.
- You need SMS alerts, or monitoring of PDFs and feeds rather than HTML pages.
Who should choose MyKavo?
Pick MyKavo if you manage websites and need to know whether a deploy, a plugin update or a client edit broke something - with the previous and current value, a screenshot diff, a severity, and an approval workflow so expected changes stop nagging. Pick Distill if you want a fast, precise watcher for particular pieces of particular pages, anywhere on the web.
- Free plan: 1 website, 5 monitored pages, weekly scans, 30-day history, no card
- Pro at $20/month: 8 websites, 15 monitored pages each, daily scans, 1-year history, 5 seats
- Site audit on every plan: 89 checks across 22 categories, with CSV export
- Every alert carries the previous and current value, and a screenshot diff for visual change
Frequently asked questions
Is MyKavo a Distill alternative?
For monitoring websites you manage, yes. MyKavo covers visual and content change like Distill, then adds SEO element monitoring, broken-link and script tracking, performance regressions, conversion-element checks, severity scoring and an approved-baseline workflow. For watching one region of an arbitrary page, Distill remains the more direct tool.
Do MyKavo's checks run in my browser?
No. Every scan runs on MyKavo's servers with a real browser, so monitoring continues whether or not your machine is on. Distill can run checks locally in its extension, which is why its local checks are unlimited.
Can MyKavo monitor part of a page only?
It works the other way around: you monitor the page and exclude what you do not want compared, using ignored selectors and screenshot masks for volatile areas like carousels, timestamps and ad slots. For conversion elements you can also name a specific CSS selector and have its existence, visibility, text and destination checked individually.
How current is this comparison?
Every Distill fact here was checked on September 20, 2026 against distill.io and major software directories, with sources listed at the foot of this page. Plans change - check their pricing page before deciding.
Sources and last check
Every Distill claim on this page was checked on September 20, 2026 against the sources below. Software pricing and features change often - if you are making a decision, confirm the current details on their own site. If anything here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.