The Best Babysitter Agencies

Saturday, September 30th

2023 Babysitter Agency Reviews

Sittercity

Sittercity is a reliable option for families looking for affordable babysitters, pet sitters, nannies, or senior care. It is easy to browse babysitters on their website and quickly gather information to make a decision as to whether or not to interview a potential candidate. There are many babysitters throughout the United States that use Sittercity to find jobs, so families should be able to view quite a few candidates in their area that they could hire. Sittercity has an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau, and they easily earn our highest rating for babysitting agencies.

Bambino

Bambino is an app that helps families find babysitters nearby that have been recommended by friends and other community members. There are many qualified candidates available throughout the United States who have undergone a thorough vetting process. People who have used Bambino to find a babysitter have great things to say about the process and the candidates they have hired. We highly recommend using the Bambino app to find local babysitters!

Care

Care helps families find individuals to assist with watching children, special needs family members, seniors, and pets. They also have candidates for hire to help with tutoring and housekeeping duties. The Care platform allows parents to post jobs to their site that babysitters can browse through and apply for. A subscription to Care's services ranges from $12.99/month to $38.99/month depending on the length of online access you'll be needing. However, recent customer issues have caused us to take a closer look.

Babysits

Babysits is a service that helps parents find babysitting services. They aim to provide transparency between babysitters and families looking for caregivers. Unfortunately, background checks are not part of the hiring process here and we don't feel like there are as many candidates to choose from compared with competing companies. For better value and hiring safety standards, we recommend looking for a babysitter through a higher-rated site.

Bubble

Bubble is a well-liked babysitting service app in the UK that helps parents find safe childcare for their families. Bubble has a background check process for all candidates who use their site and gives plenty of information to families to help them make a good decision on who to hire. However, since Bubble is only accessible in the UK, you won't be able to use their services or even browse their app if you are in the United States or elsewhere. Since this eliminates a lot of potential customers, Bubble has earned a low rating from us.

Urban Sitter

Founded in 2010, UrbanSitter is your basic babysitting service platform that shows a list of candidates near your location available to help with childcare. They don't have much more to offer families than their competitors. Their pricing is quite expensive, with few babysitters to choose from and an F rating from the Better Business Bureau. There are better options for finding childcare than going through UrbanSitter, so they have fallen towards the bottom of our list of recommendations.

Sitter

Sitter is one of many companies run by CareGuide, a family of companies that connects individuals with services they need around the house, for their children, or to help manage their finances. Sitter is your basic, but fairly expensive, babysitting site without any unique bells and whistles. We can't find much about the background of this company and both parents and babysitters claim there are a lot of scammers that try to connect with them under false pretenses. We think families will be better off sticking with a higher-rated babysitting agency to find reliable care for their children.

Babysitter's Registry

Babysitter's Registry tries to help families find babysitters through their services as well as Care and Sittercity all in one place. Unfortunately, their company history as well as pricing are nowhere to be found on their site. Finding candidates for hire here is confusing because you are redirected to other babysitting agencies and the babysitters from Babysitter's Registry are impossible to get a hold of because they have broken links on their site. Save the hassle and skip over Babysitter's Registry when you're looking for someone to take care of your kids.