| 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 |