“Prices go up, service goes down — Like the title says, we keep getting price increases for the very little service THS provides. Private equity strikes again.”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 509 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.8 ★16,113 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
162 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Pet owners and verified sitters connect to swap loving pet care for a place to stay on their travels.
Sitters can find global pet sitting opportunities, providing in-home cat and dog sitting and get a place to stay on their travels in return.
Pet owners travel with peace of mind, knowing their furry friends are looked after in their own home.
Trust is all that our house sitters and pet parents exchange - no money changes hands between members. So, it’s easy for pet parents to find cat and dog sitters who are here for the right reasons.
HOW IT WORKS FOR PET PARENTS…
CHOOSE A MEMBERSHIP PLAN: Get a year of unlimited access to arrange in-home pet sitters. CREATE YOUR LISTING: Describe your home and pets, and add the dates you need pet care. REVIEW APPLICATIONS: See who’s applied and secure the perfect house sitter for your home and pets.
HOW IT WORKS FOR SITTERS……
Preview
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Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 3.40.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 3.40.0, updated 2026-09-28.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States a price and a billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Price keeps rising
The price of the paid tier has been raised on existing users.
What we saw: Price keeps rising: raised by 7 distinct reviewers (1.4% of 509 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Not great — Just pushed through a huge price increase (Fee for every house-sit), and adjusted Ts & Cs to the detriment of house-sitters. Be careful! The search function, a very basic necessity for a site like this, delivers unreliable…”
“World Class Greed — Volunteer work exchange pet sitter work hard, and Trusted Housesitters reached the benefits financially. They just significantly increased the fee that they charge their volunteer work exchange pet sitters who make…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 3.40.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.