PageRefresh review
A focused Chrome extension for refresh timers and webpage change alerts.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
PageRefresh is a Chrome extension for automatically reloading pages and monitoring webpage changes. It is aimed at developers, researchers, power users, dashboard monitors, auction trackers, stock-update watchers, and web application testers who need browser-based alerts rather than a broad automation platform. Refresh intervals can be fixed or randomized, while monitoring supports DOM selectors, whole pages, and keywords. Multi-tab control, auto-scroll alerts, custom sounds, system notifications, and POST webhooks extend its usefulness for recurring browser checks.
Pricing is straightforward. The Free plan includes core auto-refresh timers, basic change alerts and notifications, and locally stored persistent settings. The Pro Lifetime plan costs $14.99 as a one-time payment, according to the vendor's pricing page. It adds extended job history, an advanced selector helper interface, before-and-after diff previews, a notification rules engine, and template library access. The published plans make the product suitable for users who want to start without a subscription and upgrade for more detailed monitoring controls.
Its strongest fit is narrow, browser-based change detection. Weekly schedules by hours or days, multi-tab refresh control, and several alert methods support ongoing monitoring, while webhook URLs are encrypted locally with AES-256-GCM. PageRefresh runs as a Chrome extension and does not provide cloud execution, so it is better suited to workflows that can remain within the browser than to unattended, server-side automation. Choose it for simple page refresh and change alerts with selector and keyword options; choose an alternative when you need broader automation capabilities or cloud-based execution.
PageRefresh pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Fixed or randomized refresh timers with weekly scheduling
- DOM-selector, whole-page, and keyword-based change monitoring
- POST webhooks with locally encrypted webhook URLs
- Where it doesn't
- Chrome extension only
- No cloud execution
- Focused on refresh and change detection, not general automation
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