Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Your website went down last night... Or did it? Set up a monitor launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Sleeping Spider▲103

   Web page change monitor - track changes on any site.

   2014 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Down for Everyone or just Me?▲239

   The essential tool for checking if a website is up or not

   2015 · downforeveryoneorjustme.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Lamplighter▲61

   Monitor all your sites in one place.

   2014 · lamplighter.io · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Monitor v2 [Retired]▲129

   Alert your entire team when your site goes offline.

   2015 · brandongreen.co · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Am I Responsive▲108

   see your website in multiple screen resolutions

   2014 · fireship.dev · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Thrust Boatswain ▲96

   Make sure you're the first to know when your website breaks

   2015 · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Monitor This Site▲6

   Identify latency issues, receive notifications of downtime..

   2016 · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Uptime Monitor▲76

   Get instant alerts when your website goes down.

   2023 · uptime-monitor.io · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Drunk User Testing▲109

   See how your site performs in the wild

   2014 · goodux.appcues.com · its alternatives →

10. 10IW
    Is website up or down?▲7

    2014 · iswwwup.com · its alternatives →

11. 11
    monitor backlinks▲220

    Monitor backlinks to your (or your competitors') website

    2015 · seoptimer.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Check My Links▲82

    Highlights broken links on page

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Go Fucking Do It▲211

    Set a deadline and a price. If you fail, you pay.

    2014 · gofuckingdoit.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Reddit Wayback Machine▲83

    See what the frontpage looked like the day you joined

    2016 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    WebCheck▲65

    Get notified whenever some of your websites are down

    2020 · webcheck.vercel.app · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Vigil▲105

    Like a weather app for your website (uptime monitoring)

    2014 · its alternatives →

17. 17
    DownNotifier▲139

    Get an alert when your website is down 🚨

    2016 · downnotifier.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Failswitch▲99

    Never worry about website downtime again

    2015 · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Uptime Monitor by HetrixTools▲81

    Minimize your downtime by being the first to know about it

    2021 · hetrixtools.com · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Curl Up▲5

    Sleep easy knowing your site is monitored.

    2022 · curlup.app · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Nodown▲67

    Know when your website goes down, before your customers will

    2022 · its alternatives →

22. 22
    WebsiteDown.xyz▲12

    Website status checker, uptime monitor & site outage reports

    2025 · websitedown.xyz · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Website Checker▲110

    Sends you alerts when your website goes down.

    2018 · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Check a Site▲95

    Scan websites for over 700 quality problems

    2014 · try.powermapper.com · its alternatives →

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