Xtube review

The Xtube Hustle: Getting Paid for Your Home Movies

Here's how it works. You sign up as a model, upload whatever homemade content you're into, and pick how anonymous you want to be (full face, a mask, or just a very confident torso). Then you set your own prices. Payouts come biweekly, and the site says you can make up to $5,000 each time. I've been banging on for years about porn getting more interactive and participatory, and this is exactly that idea with a payment schedule attached.

Now the reality check, buddy. How much cash you pull in depends on how good your stuff is and how many eyeballs you can get on it. A shaky phone clip of you wrestling your own junk under a desk lamp is not going to fund a vacation. Get a willing partner, a halfway decent camera and lighting that doesn't make you look like a crime scene photo, and suddenly you've got a shot. Me? I've been eyeing my girlfriend and our tripod with some very entrepreneurial thoughts.

Most of you won't upload a thing, and that's fine. Plenty of people just aren't built for the camera, amateur or not. The good news is there's a lot to do as a plain old spectator.

First Look at the Free Xtube Porn Tube

Land on the homepage and videos come at you from every direction. One heads up: gay and straight clips are mixed together by default. If you only want one side of the menu, there's a preference box up top (labeled I am and I like, with Male and Female checkboxes), so you untick what you don't want and it disappears. Takes two seconds. If a few stray dicks on the homepage ruin your day, the problem is you, not the site.

The layout is classic tube territory. Under the menu bar sits a row of six thumbnails showing what people are watching right now, then a big gallery sorted newest first with page numbers at the bottom. You can reshuffle by most viewed, top rated, most discussed, length, favorites or premium, and a dropdown narrows things down by category. The main menu takes you to videos, amateurs, live cams, categories, community, photos, and even a merch store selling DVDs, which feels adorably old school.

And if your drunk thumbs typed xtubu or x-x-xtube into the address bar at 2 a.m., relax, you still ended up in the right spot. Nobody spells perfectly with one hand.

Watching an Xtube Video Without Losing Your Mind

The player is decent. Hover over the scrub bar and you get little previews of what's coming (or who's cumming), so you can skip the awkward small talk and jump straight to the good part. Every clip carries a list of tags, related videos stack up underneath, and the uploader's other stuff sits on the right in case you've found someone worth binging. Comments live at the very bottom, where they belong.

Playback held up fine for me. Quality looked good, links worked, and I never sat staring at a spinning wheel with my dick in my hand, which is honestly all I ask of life. As a plain tube for streaming free stuff, it keeps up with the big names without breaking a sweat, and it throws in a whole lot of extras those guys don't bother with.

A Social Network With Your Pants Down

This is where xtube gets weird in the best way. The community side goes way beyond the usual comment box. You can search members through a clickable world map, drilling down to countries and even states, so finding the horny exhibitionists in your own neck of the woods is actually possible. There's also a social feed of member updates, personal blogs, and an official Xtube blog on top of that.

In member search, hovering over a profile pic flips through several photos, and you can add someone as a friend or message them right from the results. Their profile has a timeline, an about me section, a photo gallery, comments and a friends list, plus buttons to send a gift, donate, or block them if they turn out to be a creep. If they sell videos, that's where you buy them. It's basically Facebook with way more butt and way less of your aunt's political rants.

The crowd is genuinely active, too. People post, comment and back their favorite models, which gives the place a pulse most tubes simply don't have. Fans of homemade stuff will feel right at home here, at least until the site asks for a credit card.

Ads, Paywalls and What Xtube Premium Actually Gets You

Okay, the annoying bits. Ads sit on the right side of every page, and when you pause a video, an ad takes over the whole screen. For a site with this many ways to make money, that feels greedy as hell. You can kill the ads with a paid membership at $9.99 a month on a 12-month contract. I'm not sold on it, mainly because even premium members still have to buy amateur videos one by one.

Which brings me to the big gripe. The amateur content, arguably the whole reason this place is interesting, isn't free. You need to register, then rent or buy each clip at whatever price the uploader picked. I get it, that's how the models get paid. I'd still love a short free preview before handing over cash, because buying a homemade video blind is like ordering a mystery burrito from a gas station.

On safety and apps, I'll keep it straight. I couldn't find a proper app, just the site running in a mobile browser, and I didn't run into anything shady beyond the pushy ads. If the site seems down or won't load, try a hard refresh, a different browser or another connection before you panic.

My Honest Verdict on xtube.net

If you want a porn tube where you can chat with other members, try your luck as an amateur star, stream a pile of free non-amateur videos and throw money at models you like, xtube is a genuinely fun place to hang out. It has personality, which is more than I can say for a lot of the faceless clip dumps out there.

If you're here for a quick fap and go, though, the social stuff turns into clutter, the pause ads get in your face, and the best amateur clips sit behind a paywall. For that mood you're better off grabbing something from my list of best free tubes, or heading over to xvideos. That's the site that reportedly told Fabian Thylmann to get lost in 2012 when he offered $120 million for it, replying that they had to go play Diablo II. Absolute legends.

And if homemade porn is your real addiction, check out my picks for best amateur sites too, then swing back here when you're ready to spend a few bucks on someone's bedroom masterpiece. Xtube isn't the fastest wank in town, but it's one of the few that feels like a community instead of a vending machine.