Craigslist Finally Gets an Official App

Craigslist has long been a sta­ple of the inter­net since it first launched in 1995—but sur­pris­ing­ly, it has­n’t had an offi­cial app in the decade or so since the smart­phone era began. Well, that’s all changed. You can now find the offi­cial, free app for iOS.

Like the web­site, the mobile app is simple—no frills, bells, or whis­tles. The app’s over­all design mim­ics the web­site as well, mean­ing its most­ly just text and a clean inter­face. As you’d imag­ine, that makes the app extreme­ly fast and easy to load. There’s also a post tab that stream­lines post­ing straight your phone. Not that mak­ing a Craigslist post was ever hard, but the app does make the process a lot smoother.

Even the app’s descrip­tion is the bare min­i­mum. One could say it reads like a haiku or at least some sort of Hem­ing­way-esque mus­ing on inter­net life.

craigslist — The orig­i­nal online clas­si­fieds. Estab­lished 1995.

Find jobs. Hire employ­ees. Post your resume. Offer your skills/services.

Offer your ser­vices, locate con­trac­tors, find term gigs and odd jobs.

Save your favorite post­ings for lat­er, save search­es, set search alerts.

Post, edit, renew your own ads.

Right now, the app ranks No. 14 in the App Store’s shop­ping and has an over­all 4.6 out of 5 star from 63 . Not too shab­by con­sid­er­ing ver­sion 1.0 dropped just yes­ter­day. It’s only mild­ly sur­pris­ing that the launch has been so qui­et. The site stealth­ily launched beta test­ing for the offi­cial app on its web­site an inde­ter­mi­nate time ago, though it’s not that easy to find the link on the main site. Although a search in the Google Play Store only turns up third- at the moment, you can find a link to the beta here.

[9to5 Mac]

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