Questions about Zikit

Zikit is a website change monitoring tool that watches any public webpage 24/7 and sends you AI-summarized alerts the moment something meaningful changes. It's the cloud-native alternative to Visualping, Distill.io, ChangeTower, and Hexowatch.

Paste a URL into Zikit. We fetch the page on your chosen schedule, compare against the previous snapshot through a 7-stage detection pipeline (including a semantic similarity gate), and only alert you when something meaningful actually changed. An AI summary tells you exactly what's different and rates its importance 1-10.

Yes. The free plan includes 3 sites with unlimited pages each, daily checks, email alerts, AI summaries, and 7-day history. No credit card required. Paid plans start at $19/mo for hourly checks and Slack/Telegram/Discord alerts.

No. Free plan never asks for a card. Paid plans are billed via Paddle (our merchant of record) — you only enter card details when you choose to upgrade.

Any public HTML webpage: pricing pages, changelogs, terms-of-service, blog posts, careers pages, government regulations, news articles, product detail pages, docs, and more. JSON APIs, RSS feeds, and sitemaps also work.

We don't monitor login-gated content, TikTok/Instagram/Facebook/X feeds (they block bots and require auth), Google search results (personalized per user), Netflix/Spotify/streaming (DRM), or Amazon seller pages. We warn you upfront in the monitor creation flow when a URL won't work reliably.

Not today. Zikit only fetches publicly accessible URLs. If you need this for a specific use case, email support@zikit.ai — we're considering authenticated monitoring for enterprise customers.

Our fetch pipeline has 3 tiers: direct HTTP, Scrape.do residential proxy, and headless Playwright browser. If tier 1 is blocked, we automatically escalate. ~95% of real-world URLs work through this cascade.

Depending on your plan: daily (free), hourly (Pro), or every 15 minutes (Business). You pick the frequency per monitor when you create it.

Email (all plans), plus Slack, Discord, Telegram, and custom webhooks on Pro and Business. You can route different monitors to different channels.

Four layers: (1) hash compare — skip if nothing changed at all, (2) 40+ noise patterns that strip timestamps and session tokens, (3) semantic embedding gate — if the before and after are >95% semantically similar, skip the LLM, (4) importance scoring 1-10 by GPT. You set a threshold; anything below is muted.

Instead of a raw diff, you get a plain-English sentence. Example: 'Pro plan price increased from $29/mo to $39/mo. Enterprise tier removed custom SSO language.' Plus 2-4 specific bullet points with old → new values, an importance score, and a suggested action item if relevant.

Yes. Install from the Chrome Web Store and add any page to Zikit with one click. Includes a visual CSS selector picker so you can monitor only a specific section of a page.

Yes, on the Business plan. Generate API keys in Settings. Endpoints cover: monitors, changes, alert configs, CSV export. Full documentation at zikit.ai/docs.

iOS app is in TestFlight beta. Android is planned for Q3 2026. The web dashboard is also fully responsive — works great on mobile browsers today.

Free: 3 sites, unlimited pages per site, 100 checks/month, daily + weekly checks, email alerts. Pro $19/mo: 20 sites, 2,000 checks/month, hourly checks, Slack/Discord/Telegram. Business $49/mo: 100 sites, 10,000 checks/month, 15-minute checks, REST API, webhooks.

Yes. Cancel in Settings → Billing. Your plan remains active through the end of the billing period you already paid for. 30-day money-back guarantee on all paid plans.

Zikit stops checking new monitors until the next billing cycle or you upgrade. Existing alerts on already-completed checks still send. We warn you when you hit 70% and 90% of your quota.

Yes. We only store URL + change data you explicitly ask us to monitor. Full privacy policy at zikit.ai/privacy. Data-subject requests handled within 30 days. Billing is processed by Paddle as the merchant of record.

Shorter version: unlimited pages per site (Visualping charges per page), native Slack/Discord/Telegram (Visualping ships email + Slack + webhooks), AI-powered importance scoring, and better multilingual AI (Hebrew/Arabic/RTL are first-class). Full comparison at zikit.ai/vs/visualping.

Distill is primarily a browser extension — free tier runs locally, paid tier moves to cloud. Zikit is cloud-first on every tier, has AI summaries instead of raw diffs, and ships Slack/Telegram/Discord natively. Full comparison at zikit.ai/vs/distill.

Hexowatch gives you 13 separate 'monitor types' to configure (visual, keyword, API, sitemap, etc). Zikit replaces that with one AI-powered pipeline — you paste the URL, we pick the strategy. Simpler setup, stronger summaries. Full comparison at zikit.ai/vs/hexowatch.

The UI and AI summaries work in English, Hebrew, Arabic, and all Latin-alphabet languages. Hebrew and RTL are first-class — the layout flips correctly, AI summaries are produced in the source language, and the Camo chat assistant responds in whatever language you write to it.

We follow WCAG 2.1 AA targets. Keyboard navigation, focus indicators, aria-labels on all interactive elements. Report accessibility issues to support@zikit.ai.