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For families with a sitter or nanny

Your sitter sees their pickups. Not your whole week.

The after-school runs on one calendar, the sitter or nanny takes the ones they can do, and you know who’s at the gate.

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No payment to start. Android is on the way.

Sitter apps help you find someone. Once you have, the schedule tends to live in a text thread: which days, which kid, which door, and whether this Thursday is still on.

Sharing your whole family calendar with a sitter is too much. Texting each pickup is too little, and the one that changed is the one that gets missed.

  • Their own role

    Invite them as a nanny or babysitter. They get their own account, free under your plan.

  • Only what they need

    A sitter or nanny sees the pickups that are theirs or still need someone, and the kids on those. Not your work hours, anyone else’s phone number or a child’s notes. You can widen it from their profile.

  • Yes or no from the notification

    They tap I’ll do it, or Can’t make it so you know to ask someone else. One tap can say yes to every Tuesday.

  • A reminder before they leave

    At the time you set on the pickup, from 15 minutes to an hour before.

  • The numbers at the gate

    Everyone you invite can see your emergency contacts, so whoever is doing the pickup has them.

  • No location tracking

    The app never asks for anyone’s location, the sitter’s included.

Kid Pickup organizes the sitter you already have. It doesn’t find, vet or pay sitters. Anyone doing pickup still needs to be on the school’s or daycare’s approved list.

How it works

Posted. Claimed. Done.

Three steps, and a name on every pickup.

  1. Kid Pickup’s Events list with an open drop-off and pickup marked Unclaimed, and the next one claimed
    A mum looking at her phone as she posts a pickup

    Posted

    Add the pickup: which kid, when, where. Everyone in your circle gets a notification and sees it on the calendar, marked open.

  2. Kid Pickup’s month calendar with each of the day’s soccer pickups showing who has it
    Grandma giving a thumbs up at her phone

    Claimed

    Grandma taps I’ll do it. Now it has her name on it, and you and the other parents get a notification that it’s covered.

  3. 4:00
    nowPickup in 30 minutesLeo at 4:30 PM, Riverside Pool.
    ThuNeeds someoneNobody has the drop-off for Mia on Fri, Oct 3 at 8:15 AM yet.
    Grandma and her granddaughter walking home hand in hand

    Reminded and done

    Grandma gets a reminder before she leaves. And while nobody has claimed it, the app sends the parents a nudge the day before, three hours out and two hours out.

FAQ

Questions parents ask

Does our babysitter or nanny have to pay?

No. One subscription covers your family. Family covers three helpers; Premium covers up to eight parents, guardians and helpers.

Can the nanny see our whole calendar?

Not unless you choose. A nanny or babysitter sees the pickups that are theirs or still open, and the kids on those. Switch it on their profile in the Family tab if you want them to see the week.

Is this an app for finding a babysitter?

No. Sites like Care.com and Sittercity help you find one. Kid Pickup is for the one you have: who’s doing which pickup, and a reminder before they go.

Does the sitter need an iPhone?

Yes, for now. Kid Pickup is on iPhone. Android is on the way.

One price for your whole circle. See plans and pricing

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Also for: Two-parent households · Single parents and their people · Families with a full activity schedule · Separated and blended families · Families who lean on grandparents · Daycare families · Families whose school uses a dismissal app