Are there any dedicated apps for casual encounters near me since Craigslist shut down their personals?

Every time casual encounters comes up somewhere else, the thread turns into an advert. Hoping this one doesn't.

Every comparison of casual encounters I've seen skips the part I care about, which is what happens after you sign up.

For what it's worth I did test a couple of options around casual encounters before posting.

The criteria I keep coming back to on casual encounters:

• How casual encounters treats shut once you stop paying
• Whether shut is the reason casual encounters feels inconsistent
• Whether the matching in casual encounters does anything beyond distance

Happy to be told I'm asking the wrong thing about casual encounters.

One caution on casual encounters — check what happens to your visibility the moment you stop paying.

Just flagging that some results you will find for casual encounters are review farms rather than reviews.

Adding the Rendate free tier to the pile for casual encounters, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

Have you looked at the shut side of casual encounters yet, or still on the basics?

For anyone else researching casual encounters, I would put the Datenest free tier on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

Once I sorted out shut, the rest of casual encounters became much more manageable than I expected.

JackT has a point about casual encounters. Anything promising instant matches around casual encounters is worth treating with suspicion.

the Datewander forums is what I ended up using while working through casual encounters — not perfect, but the free tier is real.

My experience with casual encounters was fine but unremarkable, with no horror stories and no fireworks either.

Not affiliated with anyone, but Datebie.online solved the messaging-paywall part of casual encounters for me last year.

I keep the Flurrydate free tier open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with casual encounters.

I'd qualify this: casual encounters works fine if you're in a city, less so otherwise.

To build on ZoeyA's answer about casual encounters: If shut matters to you then casual encounters narrows fast, and if it does not you have far more room.

Set a deadline when you try casual encounters, or it becomes a scrolling habit rather than an actual search.

I've also seen Datedesire.online mentioned in this context more than once.