Stillio vs ChangeTower
Two ways to keep a record of the web, compared honestly.
By the URL Love It team · Updated July 3, 2026
Stillio and ChangeTower both answer "what did this page look like, and can we prove it?" but from different angles. Stillio is the pure archivist: scheduled page captures (hourly to monthly), filed neatly and deliverable to your own storage. ChangeTower is the monitored archive: timestamped records plus change detection and keyword criteria, aimed at compliance and enterprise teams.
If you're choosing between them, the question is whether you need a filing cabinet or a filing cabinet with an alarm. Here's the honest breakdown, plus a third option if what you actually need is the alarm.
About Stillio
An automated website capture service: scheduled page images from hourly to monthly, archived and deliverable to storage like Dropbox or Google Drive. Simple, single-purpose.
About ChangeTower
A monitoring and archiving platform: visual, content, and code change detection with timestamped snapshot records and criteria-based alerts, built for compliance-minded teams.
Key differences
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Core job
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Scheduled capture archive | Monitored, timestamped records |
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Change detection & alerts
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Keyword / criteria alerts
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Deliver captures to your storage
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Platform-centric | |
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Capture frequency
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Hourly to monthly | Plan-dependent |
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Simplicity
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More to configure | |
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Best-fit user
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Archivists & agencies | Compliance & legal teams |
What Stillio is best for
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Scheduled visual records of pages, kept tidy and automatic -
Delivering captures to your own storage (Dropbox, Drive) -
Agencies keeping visual archives for clients -
Teams that want simplicity over features
What ChangeTower is best for
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Compliance and legal teams needing defensible, timestamped records -
Being alerted when watched criteria or keywords change -
Detection and archiving combined in one product -
Enterprise-style monitoring requirements
Which should you choose?
Choose Stillio if the requirement is purely archival: keep scheduled visual records, own the files, keep it simple. It does one thing and does it neatly.
Choose ChangeTower if the record needs to come with awareness: you want the archive and an alert when something in it changes, especially against specific keywords or criteria.
A fair rule of thumb: Stillio to remember, ChangeTower to remember and be told.
Limitations of both tools
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Both are archive-first: neither is built to triage what matters. Even ChangeTower's alerts report criteria matches, not business importance. -
Both are configured page by page, with no automatic discovery of the pages tied to your business. -
Stillio has no change detection at all: comparing captures is a manual, visual job. -
Neither organizes activity by competitor: no per-brand timeline of what a rival changed this month.
A third option
If you need to act on changes, not just record them, consider URL Love It
Archives answer questions after the fact. Growth teams usually need the question answered now: did something change on a page that affects revenue, and does it matter?
URL Love It captures full-page snapshots as often as every 15 minutes, detects visual, text, and CTA changes, scores each Critical / High / Medium with AI, filters noise automatically, auto-discovers your ad landing pages from Meta, and organizes everything into per-brand timelines. You still get a browsable snapshot history; it just comes with an alarm and a brain.
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Change detection with AI severity scoring and noise filtering -
Email and Slack alerts within minutes of a change -
Meta Ads auto-discovery of your landing pages -
Full snapshot history with side-by-side visual diffs
Bottom line
Stillio and ChangeTower are both record-keepers at heart: Stillio the simple one, ChangeTower the monitored one. If your deliverable is an archive, pick by how much alerting you need on top. If your deliverable is actually a decision (what changed, does it matter, what do we do), you're shopping in the wrong aisle, and URL Love It is the tool built for that job.
Frequently asked questions
Does Stillio detect changes between captures?
No. Stillio captures and archives on a schedule; comparing captures is manual. ChangeTower adds detection and criteria-based alerts on top of its records, which is the main difference between them.
Which is better for compliance records?
ChangeTower is built specifically for defensible, timestamped records and audit-style needs. Stillio works for lighter-weight archival policies where simple scheduled captures are enough.
Can Stillio send captures to Dropbox or Google Drive?
Yes, delivery to your own storage is a Stillio strength, useful when your policy requires owning the files. ChangeTower keeps records within its platform.
What do both miss for marketing teams?
Triage and organization: no severity scoring, no noise filtering, no per-brand competitor timelines, and no automatic discovery of ad landing pages. That's the gap URL Love It fills.
Can I combine one of these with URL Love It?
Yes, and it's a sensible split: keep Stillio or ChangeTower for formal record-keeping requirements, and run URL Love It for live monitoring, alerts, and competitive timelines. Join the waitlist for early access.
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