Download Final Login to access Craigslist Live or watch a Video of Craigslist Live in action

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Feature Craigslist Live Alerts.com CraigsList Reader Easy Web Page Watcher Ad Notifier Craig Look Searchtempest All Of CL CraigsPal NotifyWire CraigsWatch CL Desktop Find-a-Deal
Automated Searching Yes Based on schedule Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes Yes X No Yes
Live, real-time results Yes Once a day Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Allows paging through results Yes Never received results No No No Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes No
Local, desktop notifications of new postings Yes No Yes Sound notification only No No No No No No No No No
Saves local (desktop) notifications of new postings Yes No No No Yes No No No No No No No No
Text Message notifications of new postings Yes Never received notification No No Yes No No No Yes Yes, but can bombard phone with text messages No No Yes
Email notifications of new postings Yes Never received notification Never received notification Yes, but only provides URL to search page Yes No No No Yes Yes, but can bombard email account with email messages (doesn't provide a digest) Support for, but never worked No Yes, but with strange formatting
Instant Messenger notifications of new postings Coming soon No No No No No No No No No No No No
Twitter notifications of new postings Coming soon No No No No No No No No No No No No
iPhone and other phone notifications of new postings Coming soon No No No No No No No No No No No No
Controlling frequency of notifications Within Final Login and from each notification Within application only Within application only Within application only Within application only No No No Within application only Within application or on website Within application only No Within application only
Look and Feel Excellent, built on enterprise-level user interface software Nice look. Requires browser page refreshing though. Nice Ugly Bland Decent, but kind of clunky Bland and clunky Ugly Decent, but kind of clunky Looks nice and clean Ugly Clean and decent Very plain
Inline posting view (shows details without losing results) Yes No Yes No No Yes No No Yes No No No Yes
Full Search capabilities (all countries, cities, categories, etc.) Yes No No Only accepts URLs Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Layout isn't very easy to use Yes Yes
Saves Searches Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Requires external application Yes, but per browser No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Saves Postings Yes No Yes No No No No No Yes Yes No Yes No
In application help Yes Yes, but not interactive No Yes, but not for Windows Vista No Yes, but not interactive Yes, but not interactive No No Yes No No No
Cost FREE Free, but with advertisements Free lite version, $77 - $127 Full version Free lite version (no advertisements), $15 Full version Free trial version (limited features), $9.95 Full version Free, but with advertisements Free, but with advertisements Free, but with extreme advertising Free lite version with advertising, $29.99 Full version Free lite version with advertising, $29.95 every year Full version Free Free Free trial version, $9.95 Full version
Built on a platform that gives you access to other software Yes Yes No No No No No No No No No No No
Displays advertisements No Yes Yes, within each posting No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes, within each posting
Sofware formats Windows Installer
Linux tar.bz file
Depends on browser Windows Installer Windows Installer or zip file Windows Installer Depends on browser Depends on browser Depends on browser Windows Installer for Full version only Requires external software to install Windows Installer Requires external software to install Windows Installer
Type of sofware updates Automatic Automatic Information not available Information not available Information not available Automatic Automatic Automatic Automatic Automatic Information not available Information not available Information not available
Runs on multiple Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, Mac) Yes Depends on browser No No No Depends on browser Depends on browser Depends on browser Yes Yes, but requires external software to install No Yes, but requires external software to install No
Last update Jan, 2010 Not published Nov, 2009 Not published Nov, 2009 Not published Jan, 2010 2008 Sometime in 2009 Jan, 2010 2008 Possibly 2010 Not published
Provides support Yes Yes Yes Yes Support form inaccessible Yes Possibly, slightly ambiguous Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes