Vote For The Best Craigslist Personals Replacement

After craigslist personals was shut down, a lot of new alternatives have popped up.  Not all of them work well though, so we created this tool that let's everyone vote for their favorites.  

This way, we can have an unbiased view of what has replaced craigslist personals the best.

Classified sites are the alternatives most like craigslist personals.  They let you post ads for casual encounters and view other ads in your areas.  Depending on the site, they may or may not allow pictures or obscenity in the titles.  Doublelist for example, has filters that prevent you from putting words like 'suck' in the title.

Social hookup sites work kinda like facebook and require you to make a profile and upload a picture.  You can then browse the profiles of other people and send them messages.  Some sites like Adult Friend Finder have extra features like voice chat, chatting, forums, and cams.  While others like Alt.com, BBW Hookups, and Ashley Madison are for specific niches like BDSM, Big Beautiful Women, and Affair dating.

Escort sites are alternatives for sex work and sex workers.  They exist to connect sex workers with new clients.  The best site for this so far is Switter.at, which was created by sex workers,  for sex workers.

The top ten sites to use instead of personals

Craigslist personals has been down for a while, and it doesn't look like it's coming back any time soon.  In fact, the man responsible for shutting it down has been saying he won't stop until all alternatives and replacements are shut down.  

This site is the resistance to that kind of attitude.  We try to update this site with any new alternatives, so we can continue finding casual encounters, just like we did in the good old days of personals.

• Doublelist.com
• Adult Friend Finder
• Grindr (M4M)
• Reddit R4R
• Bedpage
• Switter
• Ashley Madison
• Free Hookup Search
• Slixa
• YesBackpage
• Ebackpage
• Oodle

The Most Similar Site To Personals: DoubleList

After you visit the site you will be prompted to put in your email and phone number so they can verify your identity (and track you), this makes them SESTA compliant and a legal alternative to craigslist personals.  The company of 200 employees is mostly dedicated to removing spam and ads for underage sex.

Once you're logged in you will answer a series of questions about what you are looking for and who you are.  You can choose couples, M4M, M4F, trans, and more.  This will update your profile and show you results that you are more likely to be interested in.

After the sign-in phase it's much more similar to craigslist personals.  You just pick a section and browse for what you are looking for.  You can read my full review of doublelist here.

Bedpage

In my experience, bedpage is not nearly as good as doublelist, and i'd only recommend trying it if you feel stuck with doublelist.  The main problems with it is that there aren't as many users, and it's about 1000 times less busy than craigslist personals was.  In addition, there's lots of spam and fake accounts that can make it tricky to find real people.  It's also more for finding providers than it is for hookups, if you are looking for M4M i'd especially avoid this one, as it's a bit of a ghost town in that department.

You can read my longer bedpage review here.

Fetlife

If you are a kinky and open minded person, this will probably be the best personals alternative for you.  You can read more about how to use the site in my full review.