Once
Rank the sitters you already trust.
A first name, a mobile number and the rate you've agreed, in the order you'd call them. You confirm each is 18 or older.
How it works
Thursday’s ask, Saturday’s sit.
Thu 5:40 pm
The ask takes a minute.
The day, the hours, which kids and pets, the rate, and how long before the next text if nobody's said yes. An hour, this time.
5:41 pm
Maya’s text is ready. You send it.
It goes from your phone, a number Maya knows, with Alex on the thread. The page it opens shows no sign anyone else was asked.
Meredith and Alex are asking
Saturday, October 10
6 to 10 pm
Nora and Theo, ages 6 and 3, and a dog
$28 an hour — $112 in allChange rate
“Just dinner out, nothing fancy.”
Yes, I’m in
Yes, with a change
6:05 pm
No answer yet. Ben is next.
Once Maya's hour is up, Ben's text is ready for you to send. Don't want to wait? Ask Ben now.
Ben’s text is ready at 6:41 pm.
MMayatexted from your phone at 5:41 pm · $28/hr
BBennext · from your phone
KKaiafter that
6:09 pm
Maya says yes. The light comes on.
The first yes books it. Your address and sit sheet open on Maya's page alone. Ben and Kai never hear about Saturday.
Sat 10:34 pm
Home late. A note, not a bill.
Put in the hours that ran, and Past sits does the sum at the booked rate. Maya never sees it.
Saturday, October 10
MMaya6:00 to 10:34 pm$128
4 hours 34 minutes at $28 an hour. Rounded from $127.87.
What it costs
Free is the whole app.
You send them
Free
Tuck writes every ask and says whose turn it is. You send each one from your phone, so it comes from a number your sitter knows.
Every screen, every sitter, every ask. Not a trial.
Tuck sends them
$6 a month, or $60 a year
Tuck sends each one itself, from its own number, and only to sitters who have texted YES to Tuck.
Not on sale yet
Both ways side by side, and what has to be true first.
Who sees what
Nothing arrives early.
Your first names, the day, the time, your kids' first names and ages and your pets (or, if you choose, just how many kids, their ages and what kinds of pets), the rate and your note are all a sitter reads before they answer. Only a text you send yourself shows anything more before yes, and two of these never light at all.
| What a sitter could learn | Saying Tuck can text them | Being asked | After they say yes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Your first names | Shown | Shown | Shown |
| The day, hours, kids' ages, pets, rate and your note | Never | Shown | Shown |
| Your address | Never | Never | Confirmed sitter only |
| Your kids' and pets' first names | Never | Shown, unless you choose Generic | Shown |
| Your sit sheet | Never | Never | Confirmed sitter only |
| Your mobile number | Only on a text you send yourself, with your household's other parents on it | Only on a text you send yourself, with your household's other parents on it | Confirmed sitter only, to call or text you |
| Who else you asked, or in what order | Never | Never | Never |
| What you write down after the sit | Never | Never | Never |
Shown, from that moment onNever shownOnly on a text you send from your own phone
The same promise is on the trust page and in the privacy policy.
The short version
What Tuck will never do.
No strangers
Tuck is for sitters you already trust, 18 and over. It never shows you anyone else, never shows yours outside your household, and runs no background checks.
No money through us
The rate is between you and your sitter. Tuck states it in the text so nobody's surprised, and never touches the payment. Afterwards it can do the arithmetic for you and hold your own note of whether you've paid.
No selling your data
Not to advertisers, not to anyone. Delete your family in the app, or ask us and we'll do it within 30 days. Your data goes with it, from our backups within 30 days, but for what a phone carrier can ask about a text already sent.
Nothing for sitters to install
One text, one tap, one page answers every ask. No account needed, and no password, ever.
Who makes Tuck
Jarryd, a parent who asks the family's own sitters with it. Tuck opened to other families in September, and there are no reviews to quote yet. Write to jarryd@asktuck.com and it reaches Jarryd.
Set up your family
The next Saturday can go like that one.
Free for families. One tap with Apple or Google, then your first name and your mobile number.
By continuing you agree to the terms and privacy policy.
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