AusBabysitters
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The whole site is free

Browse every profile, message any babysitter or nanny, post a job ad. There is no card to enter, no trial that runs out, and no fee anywhere on the site.

We are new, run by two parents in the Inner West rather than a company. The site has one job right now: getting families talking to babysitters and nannies.

A babysitter walking along an Inner West footpath on her way to a booking.

Parents

FreeNo card, no trial

  • Browse every profile in every suburb, without an account
  • See rates, availability, languages, and who is verified
  • Message any babysitter or nanny on the site
  • Post a job and have the babysitters and nannies who travel to your suburb emailed about it
  • Read and leave reviews after real contact
Find babysitters near you

Babysitters and nannies

FreePermanently

  • A profile that stays up, with no reposting
  • Verification of your ID and WWCC, at no cost
  • Job alerts for families inside the distance you travel, and nowhere else
  • Direct messages from families, with block and report on every conversation
  • 100% of what you earn, because we never handle or take a cut of payments
List your profile

The only money is the rate you agree

What babysitters are asking$16–$65 an hour

across the 189 profiles that state a rate

Every profile shows its rate up front, and you filter by it.

You pay the babysitter or nanny directly, by whatever method you both agree. We never handle the payment and we never take a cut, so they keep 100% of what they earn.

What moves a babysitting rate

How a free site pays its bills

AusBabysitters is two people. Matt writes software for a living and built the site himself, so there is no office and nobody drawing a wage. Keeping it online costs less each month than one Saturday night of babysitting.

The checks are nearly free too. Our ID-check partner’s free plan covers a site our size, and we check WWCC numbers with the state registers ourselves, which costs nothing.

Even the ads are mostly covered, because ad platforms give new businesses credit to spend. Ours goes on bringing families here.

So we are not asking you for money. What the site needs is babysitters and nannies listing, families messaging them, and the occasional email telling us what to fix.

Questions we get

Is it really free?
Yes, for everyone, with no card and no trial period. Nothing on this site sits behind a payment.
What's the catch?
The site is new, and some areas are still thin. A search near you might turn up four babysitters rather than forty. Every number on the site is a real count, and where a suburb has none yet, the page says so instead of padding the list.
How do you make money?
Right now we don't. The site costs very little to run, the checks cost us almost nothing, and we built it because we needed it ourselves. What we want from this year is more families meeting babysitters and nannies, and that works best with nothing in the way.
Will babysitters ever be charged?
No. Babysitters and nannies stay free permanently. There is no listing fee, no membership, and no commission on what they earn.
Do you take a cut of what I pay my babysitter?
No, and we could not. We never touch the payment. You pay your babysitter directly, by whatever method you both agree. We are an introduction service, not a booking or payments platform.

Terms and privacy set out the rest.