How to do things in Rival Radar, step by step, in the words on its own screens.
Add your competitors, pick the pages worth watching, and set up alerts. About ten minutes, and the free plan needs no card.
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Describe what your business does and Rival Radar searches for real competitors and alternatives, then sets each one up with its pages already found.
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Put in a name and a domain, let Rival Radar scan their site, then tick the pages worth watching. Takes about a minute per competitor.
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The four numbers across the top, the feed of recent changes, and the list of watched pages with when each was last checked.
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The eight page types Rival Radar understands, what each one tells you, and which to pick first when your plan only allows a couple per competitor.
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Every watched page has its own schedule, from hourly to monthly depending on your plan. How to set it, what the default is, and when to press Scan now instead.
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Check failed, Needs attention, and the Need attention tile on the dashboard. What each one means, the usual causes, and how to put it right.
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Major, Notable and Minor, the one-line explanation, and the before-and-after underneath. What each part is telling you, and what Rival Radar deliberately ignores.
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Rival Radar reads the plans and prices off a pricing page and keeps a dated record of every confirmed change, including ones that went back again.
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Watch a competitor's careers page and Rival Radar finds their public job board, counts open roles by team, and tells you what opened and closed in the last 30 days.
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Once a month, Rival Radar writes up what a competitor appears to be doing, what you could do about it, and talking points for sales. Every point links to the change it came from.
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When you add a competitor, Rival Radar looks for earlier copies of their pages in the Internet Archive and turns them into history, so you don't start from zero.
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Set your own website and the Compare card reads their pages against yours, listing what they say that you don't, with their own wording quoted.
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Choose how big a change has to be before Rival Radar emails you, and send the same digest to a Slack or Discord channel.
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Add teammates as report recipients and they get the same change digests you do, without needing an account or a seat.
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What each plan allows, which limit you're most likely to hit first, and how to upgrade, switch or go back to Free.
Where to change your sign-in, set your own website, switch between light and dark, and delete your account and everything on it.
Ask us through the contact page, or use the feedback button in the corner of any page. For where each number on a competitor comes from, see where our data comes from. For competitor tracking itself, rather than this app, see the guides.