Pocket Sitter vs SitterCircle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pocket Sitter
Easily find and schedule babysitters from your trusted network of friends and family. Connect with other parents, view sitter recommendations, and manage bookings and payments.
- Connect with friends and family for sitter recommendations
- Search for sitters by date, time, age, location, and pay rate
- View sitter profiles and read parent recommendations
- Schedule, pay, and organize sitter requests (paid version)
- Build a database of your existing babysitters
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At PocketSitter, we understand that you can’t always plan each time you need a babysitter perfectly. That is why we created the ultimate babysitter scheduling experience. After you have entered your existing babysitters into our database, our database will connect you to all of your friends and family. Simply enter the date, time frame, minimum age of babysitter, location range and what you plan to pay (hourly or flat). The app allows you to connect with other parents, see the sitters they use and read their recommendations. The paid version also makes it easy for you to schedule, pay and organize your sitter requests.
SitterCircle
Connects parents with trusted babysitters from their existing social network. Sitters can easily post availability and manage bookings within their community. Streamlines the entire babysitting process from request to payment.
- Request babysitters from your trusted network
- Sitters post available hours
- Connects with friends and mutual friends
- Job details and instructions in one place
- One-tap Venmo payment integration
- Calendar sync with Google and Apple
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SitterCircle is a babysitting app built on real relationships. Parents request babysitters. Sitters post their available hours. The app connects friends and mutual friends for babysitting jobs, so every booking comes from your community, not hundreds of strangers in a marketplace. FOR PARENTS Request a babysitter once, instead of sending eighteen "you free?" texts. SitterCircle shares your request in the order you trust. Your regular sitters get first dibs, then your friends' trusted sitters, then sitters in your community groups. Every sitter is connected to someone you already know, and the app shows you exactly how. FOR SITTERS Post the hours you are available, and parents in your network book them directly. Block the time that is already yours, and the app stops asking. When a family connected to you needs a sitter, you are the first to know. Set your rate, pick your families, and track what you earn by week, by month, by year. HOW A JOB WORKS Once a sitter is booked, the app runs the night. Directions to the door, the wifi password, the bedtime routine, all in one place. When it is over, SitterCircle does the math and opens a one-tap Venmo payment to close out. BUILT INTO YOUR LIFE Calendar sync for Google and Apple. Maps and Venmo built in. No new tools to learn. SitterCircle is a babysitting app built on the friends, mutual friends, and community you already have. Not a marketplace of strangers. Not a group chat. Not an agency. Privacy Policy: https://sittercircle.app/#/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://sittercircle.app/#/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pocket Sitter at none against SitterCircle's 2. Pocket Sitter also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.1). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. SitterCircle sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Pocket Sitter asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Pocket Sitter against 5.0 for SitterCircle. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 7 respectively.
Pocket Sitter ships an update fortnightly, SitterCircle every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pocket Sitter | SitterCircle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 104 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Michael Johnson | BB Dev Studio LLC |
Customer experience
Pocket Sitter
SitterCircle
In-app purchases
Pocket Sitter
No in-app purchases
SitterCircle
- Monthly Membership1 Month trial$9.991 Month
- Annual Membership1 Month trial$99.991 Year
Questions
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