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For full-time house sitters
Never miss a sit. Never sit in a gap.
Phone alerts for matching TrustedHousesitters sits within minutes of posting, while their own saved-search email is a once-a-day digest. Then chains of back-to-back sits, with the gaps priced, so you know what a month actually costs. You still apply on TrustedHousesitters; we never need your login.
1 in 4
competitive sits reach the application cap within 40 minutes of posting. A daily email digest is too late for those. Our data, 62k listings.
7 in 10
of a full-timer's transitions between sits had a gap to fill. Chains close them. Our own sit history, 2022–2026.
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from a sit being posted to us seeing it, right now (median, last 24 h). We check search every 30 seconds; the rest is the platform's own indexing. Their alert email: once a day, measured on 200+ of our own.
Live, no account needed
Last 24 hours of new sits for:
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Each line is a real listing we detected, with how long after posting we saw it and how many had applied by then.
Pricing
Free
$0
3 saved searches, email and phone alerts. No chains.
Standard
$89 / year
or $12 / month. Unlimited searches, chains with priced gaps, quiet hours and digests.
Pro
$149 / year
or $19 / month. Chains ranked by cost, gap watching, home photo rating and your own taste model, calendar sync.
Every account starts with 14 days of Pro, no card. A TrustedHousesitters membership is $129–$259 a year; this is the part that lands the sits.
Built by a full-time sitter: 53 sits across 4 years, 39 verified reviews on TrustedHousesitters, all five-star. dylanagema.com ↗
- Choose where and when you want to sit.
- Connect phone alerts.
- Open matching sits and apply on TrustedHousesitters.
Setup
Finish setting up alerts
Save a search
Choose where and when you want to sit.
Alerts go to your email
Already on. Turn on phone alerts for speed: nothing to install.
Check an alert arrives
Send a test to any phone app you added, then confirm it appeared.
01 · Recent
Alerts
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02 · What to watch
Saved searches
Start from a preset
Add a search
03 · Plan
Sequences
My sits Gap watching · Pro
Add the sits you have confirmed. The gaps between them are watched: a new sit that fits a gap, near the sits either side, alerts you even when no saved search matches it. You also get a nudge when a sit ends within 10 days and nothing is booked after.
Add a sit
Chains of back-to-back sits inside a saved search, ranked by coverage, gaps and how likely the gaps are to fill. A place with a radius runs in seconds; a whole country is slower and limited to 30-day windows.
04 · Delivery
Alert delivery
Phone alerts on this device
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Nothing to install. One permission tap on Android and desktop. On iPhone: Share → Add to Home Screen, open chainstay from there, then tap the button.
Text message for sits likely to fill fast Pro
Advanced: ntfy, Pushover, Telegram, Discord, Slack, webhook
Timing and priority
05 · Account
Account and subscription
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06 · Pro
Personalize photo matching
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Rate homes
Rate homes you would or would not take. Training starts after 40 ratings (at least 8 yes and 8 no). From about 80 it is worth filtering on. You can also rate from any alert.
Delete account
Deleting your account removes your searches, delivery methods, ratings and alert history immediately. This cannot be undone.