SwingSitters connects parents with experienced, discreet babysitters who take late nights and overnights on purpose. Your night is your business. Their night is ours.
No membership. Pay per booking. Not in your city yet? Join the waitlist.
Home at 3 a.m.?We already knew. That's the booking.
You have a full adult life and children you adore. Arranging one around the other should not take a costume and a script.
Dressed for your evening, then dressed over it for the forty seconds the sitter spends in the hallway.
A work thing. A late dinner. A restaurant you looked up in advance so the details would hold.
And a sitter observant enough to notice, and friendly enough to ask.
Most sitters expect ordinary hours. Your evening is getting good right when theirs is supposed to end.
Blissfully happy, slightly rumpled, and now making small talk under the hallway light.
Family help is a gift until it comes with an interview. And sooner or later, it runs out.
There is an easier way: a sitter who never asks, and who expected you at three.
See how it worksNo membership required. Going out with friends? Ask about sharing a sitter.
Choose the date, the start time and a firm return time, or book the overnight. There is nowhere to say what the evening is for, because we do not collect it.
Profiles show experience, rates, reviews and exactly which vetting steps each sitter has passed. Send a request; once the sitter accepts, you pay and the booking is confirmed.
Your sitter arrives with your household brief, checks in, looks after your children and checks out when you are back. No raised eyebrows at the door.
Sitters on SwingSitters do what every good babysitter does: dinner, bath, stories, bed, and a calm house. They are also chosen for the things your last sitter was not.
Every sitter signs a code of conduct and a confidentiality agreement. They do not ask about your plans, remark on what you are wearing or packing, or discuss your household with anyone.
One thing confidentiality never covers: a child's wellbeing. A sitter can always report a concern or call 911. How that works.
Sitters set their availability into the small hours and are paid a premium after midnight, so a 2 a.m. return is a normal booking and not a favour. Prefer not to watch the clock at all? Book the overnight. Overnight sitters are 21 or older.
Sitters set their own hourly rate and keep all of it, along with a ride-home stipend on late finishes, overtime at 1.5× if you run over, and every dollar of every tip. Our service fee is added on top, never taken out of their pay.
We would rather tell you exactly what we check than hand you an adjective. A badge on a sitter's profile appears only for a step that sitter has actually passed, and you can see which ones.
Screening looks backwards. A background check reports what is on record, in the places that were searched, on the day it was run. It cannot predict behaviour, and records can be incomplete. Treat our vetting as a strong starting point, then read the profile, message the sitter and trust your own judgment about who looks after your children.
Each sitter sets an hourly rate between $18 and $60. You see the full quote before you pay.
Two children, a sitter who charges $25 an hour.
Your sitter receives $180.00, before any tip.
Two or three families, one host home, one sitter, and the bill split per family. The service fee drops to 10%.
We are looking for experienced adult babysitters who are kind, reliable and uninterested in other people's business. You set your rate. You keep all of it.
SwingSitters is new, and we open a city only once there are approved sitters to book. Then we let families in a few at a time, so nobody signs up, searches and finds an empty page. Leave an email and a ZIP code and we will write when it is your turn.
You get two emails: one now, asking you to confirm the address, and one invitation with your personal link when there is room near you. Nothing else, unless you tick the box for updates. Every email has a one-click link to leave the list. We don't sell or share your details, and no message will mention what kind of night you might be planning, because we have no idea.
No. We never ask, so there is nothing to pass on. Sitters get a household brief: your return time, a phone number you will answer, an emergency contact, and what your children need. Where you spend the evening is not part of it.
There is a 15-minute grace period. After that, overtime is billed in 15-minute blocks at 1.5× your sitter's hourly rate and goes entirely to the sitter. If you suspect it will be a long one, book later than you think you need, or book the overnight.
The descriptor on your statement is abbreviated and does not describe the occasion. It is a childcare charge, and it reads like one.
No. Sitters keep your private life private, but nothing in our agreement limits anyone from reporting a genuine concern about a child or calling 911. A parent's consensual adult relationships are not a child-welfare concern, and sitters are told so.
Create an account in a couple of minutes. No membership, and no charge until you confirm a booking.