Pagescreen Reviews

This one is a lemon as they do not support their product. I really liked the idea of the service, so much that I bought it full stack. I sent emails in March & April 2023. It is now May 2023, and no reply to any. I even sent a message using their contact form, nothing no reply. I wish I had more positive things to say but my account is not working at all, I can't even get to my screenshots. Their website tutorial lack greatly as they are not informative, and they have little to no self-help support. I don't mind looking things up & trying on my own but a company needs to have a KB, fully documented articles, or something in-depth.

Hopefully, someone like Wilfried Durand, the CEO sees this. But if not at least I want to warn Appsumo customers if this ever returns I would say beware.

Here is a screenshot of my chat message from over a month ago asking for help & no reply at all, see how it says 5 weeks on the image. That's Wilfrieds (CEO) icon there.
https://i.imgur.com/4GQyGM0.jpeg

Bought the smallest Tier1 (5000 Screenshots/m) months ago and have been running it as intended for general pricing pages and customer account home pages ever since. In a nutshell, it does what it's supposed to.

What I like is the email on page changes with three links to images (old, new, estimated change) directly in it, so logging into the tool itself is rarely necessary.

What would be great as an improvement would be the option to exclude a CSS element from the screenshot (screenshot entire page, but without the slider element).

I've been using PageScreen for 3 months now. I have over 300 pages/sites being monitored and over 7,000 screenshots per month.

I've seen some of the negative feedback and I disagree with all of it. Pagescreen had an enjoyable and usable experience the day I joined. They've added updates over the few months I've been using it and it's great to see!
I wouldn't be on AppSumo if I expected 100% commercially ready software every time, but I bought the most expensive Pagescreen tier because it is already checking all my boxes and I can see it getting better as I use it. Sometimes I wonder about the single taco reviews, if I felt that strongly that it isn't a good deal I'd probably just get the refund and get on with my life.

The good far outweigh anything lacking. The "How does this capture look?" feature seems to get the attention of the developer, because I've had broken monitoring get fixed after rating them poorly a few times.

I haven't needed to speak with support AT ALL. I've never had one issue with Pagescreen working as expected and I've only ever reached out to them with feature requests.

The good:
- The user interface is good and fast.
- Easy to add new monitoring, captures, and view the history.
- Change detection notification is simple to set for each monitor
- Beautiful visualization of the changes/differences between pages
- Tagging of interesting screenshots for later review
- Storing a HUGE number of screenshots for 12 months
- Native integration with Slack!
- Webhooks, REST API, the Screenshot API

The not so good:
- Selecting the comparison screenshot is tricky if two templates are being used to screenshot two different browser sizes on the same page monitor.
- Some sites/pages actively resist pagescreen and captures are ruined by pop-ups or other elements. This is not Pagescreen's fault and using the "CSS selector" tracking element get's around it.
- Bulk downloading of screenshots doesn't seem possible through the web UI

Tips for others using PageScreen:
- Rate your captures! Bad capture ratings get noticed, I've seen it.
- Use "CSS selector" to track the specific DIV or area
- Using the "CSS selector" mitigates many issues with pages that have dynamic elements triggering "change notifications."
- Use the location settings to retrieve the local version
- Bulk import URLs to monitor with CSV or paste

Overall, Pagescreen gets 5 tacos because it's already paid for itself in the 3 months I've had it. Snap it up if it ever comes back on AppSumo.

My account seems delete since 1 month randomly. I wrote couple of e-mails and tried to contact the support. Never get an answer and still cant login. Really frustrating.

Unfortunately this app does not work for me, and i was surprised because there's no many positive reviews stating that the app is working great and being used everyday.

Most of the websites i'm monitoring have motion (slide banners, videos, etc). The issue is that when taking a screenshot and comparing with yesterday, it will show like 30% to 80% change on the website because it's taking a capture on the wrong micro-second portion of the banner for example, that leads to hundreds of "false alerts" on site changes, going to my email because I've set an alert to receive 30%+ changes to be notified, and it's always wrong, no changes, only the "motion bug" again and again.

Note that I haven't tested it lightly, I've tested with almost 500 different websites for 3 days, and could not identify a if a single website had "real changes" because of the "fake alerts".

Also believe that with an app being around for a couple years now, it's very basic. We can't organize monitorings on folders or tag them, we can't sort by date, change % or any other, can't increase the short number of rows to view per page, so for me there's like 20 pages of pagination per day to go through, and a few other things.

As a final thought, IMO this app has everything to be a game changer, but i think the dev team is not fully committed to it, so it's under-developed, or being done at a very slow pace and i'm afraid it won't change.