Care.com: Hire Caregivers

Care.com Inc

About this app

Finding the right care comes from making the right connections. Word of mouth searches only takes you so far. At Care.com, you’ll have access to our large network of caregivers right in your local area. Join our community and find the right match for all your child care, senior care, pet care, housekeeping, or tutoring needs.

No matter the occasion; special event, date night, recurring, full-time or part-time, find the care that suits your needs.
• Share your needs by creating a job post
• Search and view caregiver profiles, photos, and reviews
• Get instant alerts when interested caregivers respond
• Manage bookings, interviews, and payments-all in one place
• Make fast and easy payments through the app

Looking to access care benefits from your employer? You can find and book backup care and access your other employer benefits directly from the app.

Ratings and reviews

Entering credit card information was easy, but that was about it. Uploading and cropping a profile photo was challenging due to the app not scaling to the wider screen of the Surface Duo 2. Updating other profile information kept failing because it would say something was left blank when it wasn't. I'll probably have to just use this in tandem with the website.

Not consistently accurate, App freezing up, and slow to refresh. Not as many candidates as advertised, plus there are sitters and nannies that advertise to be hired, but haven't been active in months. The app is slow and lagging, the website runs a bit smother but still not the greatest. It takes about 20 min. or so for anything to refresh, including messages. There is no customer service contact for no shows and you still get charged for the services, even when a sitter is a no call, no show.

Horrible interface, constantly prodding you to buy extra features, major issues with the application such as showing chat messages coming from one profile when they're actually coming from another, blocking out email addresses and phone numbers chat messaged to you by possible nannies or babysitters, and on and on. I'm not renewing my subscription.

What's new

We are always making enhancements and addressing issues to improve your experience. To always get the latest and greatest version of the app, turn auto updates on. New to this version: we’ve fixed a handful of bugs and made some small enhancements to make the app more stable.