Babysitting services
From date nights to long nights at the office, UrbanSitter puts background checked, reviewed sitters from your community at your fingertips with our convenient babysitting service.
Great babysitters shouldn’t be hard to find.
Gathering recommendations for babysitters you can trust to handle your kids from friends, neighbors, and fellow parents in your community can feel as tedious and exhausting as job hunting. Meanwhile, your kids still need a sitter!
With UrbanSitter, finding sitters who have been hired and loved by parents in your community has never been easier.
Your search for the best babysitting website is over.
Our babysitter app and website makes finding and hiring trusted babysitters in your area so easy (even on short notice!), you can do it in just minutes.
UrbanSitter makes it easy to find…
- Date nights sitters
- Last-minute sitters
- Overnight babysitters
- Weekend babysitters
- Weekday sitters
- Homework help sitters
- Hotel babysitting
- Wedding babysitting
- Before-school care
- After-school pickups
- Nanny sharing
- Newborn and infant sitters
- Neurodivergent child care
- CPR/First aid certified sitters
UrbanSitter is…
Trusted
Narrow your search to the best-rated local babysitters using reviews from fellow parents in your school and other communities.
Easy to join
Join, browse your area, and find candidates for free. You don’t pay until you decide to book a sitter.
Safe and secure
Every caregiver on our babysitter app and website is background checked and reviewed by our Trust & Safety team.
Fast
In a hurry? No worries. When something unexpected comes up, you can hire a backup babysitter on short notice.
Easy to use
Across the US, babysitter services are just a tap or click away. Find, book, and pay in minutes!
Tailored for you
Filter babysitters based on specific qualifications and capabilities so your kids get the right care for their age range and specific needs.
UrbanSitter: a babysitting website parents trust
Hiring local babysitters is easy with UrbanSitter.
Create your profile
Fill out your basic info and add your neighborhood, school, church, or other local groups to get personalized babysitting services recommendations from people you know!
Start searching
Find babysitters near you before you pay anything. Once you’ve signed up, you can browse local babysitters for free on the UrbanSitter website or app.
Pay your sitter easily
No more awkward moments or late night ATM runs! We send you a summary of hours worked, rates, and amount due. Just tap to pay with your credit card through our babysitter app.
Meet the sitters both parents and kids love
Join our community to find the circle of support your family needs. From infant whisperers to homework-helping math whizzes, there are babysitters for every stage of your child’s life.
To get started, sign up for a free account to get personalized recommendations based on your child care needs.
Babysitting resources for parents
Find babysitting services near you
Browsing to see if UrbanSitter is a fit? Here’s a peek at top sitters in our community.
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Babysitter services FAQ
Once you sign up for a free account, you can search for nearby babysitters or post a job with your needs to see who applies. Once you’ve found a match, add a paid membership to book an interview or job.
You may join our site to browse nannies and babysitters near you and post jobs for free. We don’t ask you to add a paid membership until you decide to book a babysitter. Once you find the right caregiver, you can upgrade your account to a paid membership plan to get unlimited access to messaging, interviewing, and booking. Your membership plan can be billed monthly, quarterly, or annually.
UrbanSitter is available in 50 states across the U.S. Join for free to immediately browse trusted babysitters near you.
Every babysitter on UrbanSitter must clear an annual background check, and unlike other babysitting websites, profiles are reviewed by a person (not just a computer) to meet our Trust and Safety standards for added peace of mind.
Either pay your sitter in cash or use UrbanSitter’s handy online payment system to pay with a credit card. Babysitter profiles show which payment methods they accept—most accept credit cards, but some only accept cash. If you’re only willing to pay by credit card, simply select that as your payment type when posting a job, so you only receive candidates who match your preference.
Hotel babysitting service: Yes, you can post a job to find a babysitter willing to provide hotel babysitting service while you are traveling.
Drop off babysitting service: No, UrbanSitter does not provide drop off babysitting services. Babysitting is expected to take place in your home or hotel as specified by you in your job booking.