Available in more than 20 countries, Care.com is the world’s leading platform for finding and managing high-quality family care. Care.com is designed to meet the evolving needs of today’s families and caregivers, offering everything from household tax and payroll services and customized corporate benefits packages covering the care needs of working families, to innovating new ways for caregivers to be paid and obtain professional benefits.
Care.com (care.com) has 6,298 customer reviews on Five Star Index, with an average rating of 2.4 out of 5.
Website
care.com
Category
Kids & Family
Location
Austin, Texas
Listed on Five Star Index
2026
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The company replied to 76% of reviews.
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Most recent review: October 2026.
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I have been a long time member and very happy with them . I am able to call and communicate with someone when an issue comes up . This site has been amazing for my career.!!!!
Response from Care.comMay 17, 2026
Thanks so much for the great review! I'm happy to hear you are finding success with the site!
Thank you,
Care.com Member Care Team
KA
KauCee
I quickly found a caregiver
I quickly found a caregiver. It was a good match. I am not so sure about safety measures because I didn’t really understand their screening process even though they say that the people are screened.
Response from Care.comMay 17, 2026
We completely understand your concerns over online safety. Please check out our Safety Center at care.com/safety to get more info on our screening process and other tools and resources to keep you safe.
KS
Kim S.
This company takes unauthorized payments out of your checking account
Greater than six years ago I I signed up for care.com. The cost was greater than $100. I never used cara.com. Apparently they had to be on some kind of auto pay. I never authorize that. On May 9, they took $155.44 out of my checking account. I contacted the company and they do not give refunds. My mom passed away greater than five years ago.
DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY THEY WILL RIP YOU OFF!!!
Response from Care.comMay 19, 2026
We are very sorry for your frustration and would like to assist with this! Please contact us directly at [email protected] or at 888-498-1821 so we can address this for you. Please include Reference Number REV-026950 when you contact us. Thank you!
JB
Jana B.
Great experience!
I had access to way more personalized child care options (right at my fingertips) then if I tried to find someone or get recommendations on social media sites. I hired a professional, kind, and reliable child care provider and I couldn’t be happier. I’m so glad I took a chance and used care.com. I would definitely use care.com again and I recommend giving it a try, you’ll be glad you did.
Response from Care.comMay 15, 2026
Thanks so much for the great review! I’m happy to hear you are enjoying your experience with the app!
JO
Joel
Poor value, weak support and difficult to use
I signed up to Care.com to find support at home while caring for my wife, and I expected a service that would be clear, reliable and worth paying for. Unfortunately, that was not my experience.
There were very few reviews for carers in my area, which made it difficult to assess people properly and use the platform with confidence. The website was also slow, awkward to navigate and did not meet the standard I would expect from a paid premium service.
Most disappointing was the lack of effective customer support. When I wanted to request a refund, it was extremely difficult to contact anyone. The live chat did not work, there was no obvious monitored support email, and the help centre was too generic to be genuinely helpful.
Overall, I found Care.com poor value for money, difficult to use and lacking the level of customer support and transparency that a service of this nature should provide.
UPDATE: Care.com Customer Care Operations Manager reached out to me via membercareuk at care.com. They were understanding of my concerns, and were willing to process the refund as a one-off exception. They have fed back some of my development ideas/technical issues, although I'm sure future users will see whether these actually get implemented. They asked me to edit my review, to which I refused to alter the overall rating (I don't like being asked to edit a factual review, in all honesty), but explained I was happy to include that they had finally engaged constructively with me, and for that I am grateful.
Response from Care.comMay 19, 2026
Thank you for sharing your feedback. We are very sorry to hear about your experience.
We will be in touch with you directly via email shortly to address your concerns.
BP
Beverly P.
Carla Rae was excellent!
Carla Rae was excellent as she followed all instructions for walking my 14 year old dog. I would definitely hire her again!
Response from Care.comMay 14, 2026
We love hearing this! Thanks so much for sharing!
Thank you,
Care.com Member Care Team
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JEFFREY T.
THANK YOU
Care.com was a great help in finding a caregiver.
Response from Care.comMay 13, 2026
We're so happy to see that you found success using the service! Thank you for sharing!
RK
Rebecca K.
I strongly advise caution when using…
I strongly advise caution when using this organisation. Since October last year they’ve been debiting my account for a so-called “Premium membership” I never signed up for. I’m unable to cancel it, because I can’t log into their portal and when I try to do a password reset, nothing happens - no reset email - nothing. I’ve tried repeatedly to get help and I’m fobbed off with vague answers and a link to a help page I can’t even access.
I will never use these people again - if in fact I ever did sign up.
Response from Care.comMay 19, 2026
We're truly sorry for the frustration. Please contact us directly via our Help Center and quote reference REV-026944 so we can look into this and resolve it for you immediately.