Litecter
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Watch web pages
for changes.

Litecter loads every page you follow in a real headless browser, diffs the text a human would actually read, and collects what changed in an inbox — like mail you mark as seen.

Download for macOS

Apple Silicon · signed & notarized | v0.1.5 | Release notes

Litecter
Changes 2 Library
docs.stripe.com/api
- Rate limit: 100 requests per second in live mode.
+ Rate limit: 250 requests per second in live mode.
2h ago
jobs.example.com/engineering
+ Systems Engineer, Storage — Remote (EU)
Yesterday
status.openai.com
Mon

How it works

Rendered, not fetched

Each check runs the page in headless Chromium, so JavaScript executes and single-page apps are compared the way you'd see them.

Words, not markup

Comparison runs on the visible text — normalized and hashed — so cache busters, rotating tokens and class-name churn never wake you up.

An inbox, not a firehose

One unseen item per page: if it changes again the diff just extends. A daily digest nags once until everything is marked seen.

Also a CLI

The same Rust engine ships as litecter, a CLI and daemon for servers — one SQLite file, no service to sign up for, nothing leaving your machine.

At rest there is no browser process: a tick wakes, checks what's due, and puts Chromium away.

$ litecter add docs.stripe.com/api
$ litecter changes        # the inbox
$ litecter diff 3         # what moved
$ litecter daemon         # scheduler + digest

Before you install: Litecter drives a Chromium-family browser to render pages, so you need Chrome, Chromium, Edge or Brave installed. macOS on Apple Silicon only — Intel Macs are not supported, and there's no in-app updater yet, so re-download to update.