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Google Alerts vs Oh Dear Comparison (2026)

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Overview

Google Alerts is a cloud-based notification platform designed to help users receive emails about content changes and new posts across web pages, articles, research papers, and blogs. It enables users to schedule alerts on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.

Oh Dear monitors the health of every website a team manages, including uptime, SSL, DNS, domain expiration, scheduled tasks, broken links, performance, Lighthouse, APIs and application health.

Platforms supported

Web-based
iPhone app
Android app
Windows Phone app

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Customer support

Phone
Online
Knowledge base
Video tutorials

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Platforms supported

Web-based
iPhone app
Android app
Windows Phone app

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Customer support

Phone
Online
Knowledge base
Video tutorials

view more detailsview details

Video & Screenshots

Pricing

Starting from

Free

Free trial available
Credit cardless trial
Free account
Subscription based

Starting from

Per month

Free trial available
Credit cardless trial
Free account
Subscription based

User reviews

4.7

315

224

Value for money

Ease of use

Features

Customer support

87%

would recommend this app

4.9

Value for money

Ease of use

Features

Customer support

93%

would recommend this app

Pros

“It can be difficult at times to customize the types of alerts you receive, even though Google allows you to create the alert yourself.”

Maryam D.

Coordinator

“I get regular emails that identify which search terms were used, and they come highlighted in the subject so I can decide whether to click through.”

Mindy S.

Executive Director

“For me, they help with general awareness of news I’m interested in or topics I want to stay in the know on, as well as the latest updates on competitors.”

Kaleena L.

Sr. Communications Consultant

Pros

“Notifications can be sent to the channels we want, which is really convenient.”

Peter E.

Tech Lead

“It's not only site-is-down monitor, it's also cron, sitemaps, performance, lighthouse reports, status pages, etc.”

Slava A.

Engineering Manager

“Everything works as expected: reliable alerts, flexible configuration and a clean status page”

Anthony M.

FullStack Developer

Cons

“Not easy to figure out just on your own need a second set of eyes to configure correctly alarms were sometimes not accurate”

Maren L.

General manager

“Sometimes the alerts can be distracting and annoying”

Lynn R.

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

“the keyword tracking sometimes lead to wrong results and spam results and alerts.”

Prathima K.

Junior Frontend Developer

Cons

“Sometimes their app would have a hiccup, causing a false positive. But the most annoying thing is that a monitoring tool like this cannot monitor a domain expiration date.”

Rus C.

CTO

“Dashboard is sometimes very slow when searching for a website or performing an action; not always clear that the website is in a 'loading' state.”

Mark d.

CTO

“Being on a grandfathered plan, I can't upgrade to yearly payments to have less invoices to deal with :)”

Slava A.

Engineering Manager