How to track a product's price on any website
· Gairė
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Price drop on shop.example: Philips Airfryer NA120/00.
In short. There are four ways to follow a product's price: check it yourself; use the shop's own "notify me" button; install a price-tracker extension; or give the page's address to a page monitor. The first two cost nothing, but only work on one shop. Extensions mostly cover the large stores they were built for. A page monitor works from the address alone, on most shops, with nothing to install. It writes to you when the price drops.
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We make Gairė, a page monitor. We say below where another way is the better one.
Four ways to track a price
| What you do | Works on | Tells you | Catch | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| By hand | Open the page now and then, and note the price | Any shop | Only when you look | Easy to forget; you miss a sale that lasts a day |
| The shop's own alert | Press "notify me" or add the product to a wishlist, if the shop has one | That shop only | Usually back in stock; sometimes a price drop | Not every shop offers it, and each shop is a separate account |
| A browser extension or the browser's own tracking | Install it, or switch it on, then open the product | The stores it supports | A price drop, by email or notification | An extension needs permission to read the pages you open. Chrome's own tracking works only in some countries (see the questions) |
| A page monitor | Paste the product page's address | Most shops' public pages | The change itself: the old and the new price, back in stock, sold out | Some of the largest marketplaces block automated checks; pages behind a sign-in can't be read |
How to track a price with a page monitor
In Gairė, it takes three steps:
- Paste the product page. Use the exact product, in the size or colour you want, if the shop gives that its own address. Before anything is saved, Gairė shows what it reads there: the name, the price and whether it's in stock. If it can't read the page, it says so on that screen.
- Choose what to be told about: a price drop or rise, back in stock or sold out. To hear only about a real bargain, set a rule: "only when the price is below €100".
- Get the change itself, by email or by text: "Price drop on shop.example: Philips Airfryer NA120/00, 129,99 € → 99,99 €".
On a free account it checks every hour by day and every two hours at night (00:00 to 06:00, Vilnius time). With Plus, every page is checked every 15 minutes, day and night.
Watch two shops, not one
The same model often costs a different amount in two shops, and their sales start on different days. Add the product's page in each shop you'd buy from. Each alert names the shop it came from, so you know where to buy.
Is the sale price a real discount?
In the EU, a shop announcing a discount has to show its lowest price in the 30 days before the sale. A watch you start a few weeks before a big sale keeps those prices for you, with the date of each change. Then you can check the crossed-out price yourself. Our Black Friday study does the same thing for hundreds of products.
When another way is better
- You only buy from one large marketplace: a tracker built for it, or the browser's own tracking, also shows the past price on a chart. Gairė doesn't draw a price chart yet.
- You want a product back in stock at one shop that has a "notify me" button: press it. It's free and comes straight from the shop.
- You want to compare one model across every shop at once: use a price comparison site. Gairė watches the pages you give it, and doesn't search for shops.
What it costs
Gairė watches 10 pages free, checked hourly, with 10 texts and 300 emails a month and no card. Plus is €15 a month for 50 pages, each every 15 minutes, with 60 texts. Other page monitors and shop tools are compared in Price monitoring tools compared (2026).
Questions
- Can I track the price of any product online?
- On most shops, yes: paste the product page and Gairė shows what it reads before anything is saved. Some of the largest marketplaces block automated checks, so those pages can't be read today. Neither can pages behind a sign-in.
- Do I need a browser extension to track prices?
- No. A page monitor checks the page from the cloud, so nothing is installed and your computer can be off.
- Does Chrome track prices?
- Yes, for people in Australia, Canada, India, Japan and the US who are signed in to Chrome with tab and history sync on. It alerts by email, and on Android also by notification.
- How do I get told when a price drops below a certain amount?
- Add the page, then set the rule "only when the price is below" and a figure. You hear nothing until the price goes under it.
- Can I get a text message when a price drops?
- Yes. Gairė texts numbers in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland and Portugal, included on every plan, and emails anywhere.
Watch the price you're waiting for
Free, no card.