r/Cambly

I set up a watch on ChatGPT and this is what it says:

Cambly Tutor Demand Watch — October 11, 2026
A meaningful development worth watching: On September 28, Cambly updated its official explanation of Cambly Go, confirming that it is a separate subscription offering unlimited daily English practice without human tutors.
Students can use Cambly Go independently, without purchasing traditional Cambly lessons. Its activities provide instant feedback and personalized speaking practice. This creates a potential alternative to some paid tutoring sessions, particularly for students seeking general conversation practice. However, Cambly Go is currently limited to iPhones, which restricts its immediate reach. (Cambly Go)
What this means for tutor demand: Cambly now has a product capable of generating subscription revenue without paying tutors for teaching time. That is a genuine potential substitution risk, although it does not establish that existing students are switching or that Cambly plans to eliminate tutors.
There are also reassuring signs. As of October 11, Cambly continues to advertise human-led Small Groups, Private+ and Pro subscriptions. Its tutor recruitment page still lists the established pay rates and says new tutor intake is being limited to protect existing tutors' schedules. (Cambly Student Support)
Current assessment: Elevated long-term risk, but no confirmed new reduction in human tutoring.
I found no verified announcement of tutor layoffs, reduced tutor pay, discontinued Group lessons or cuts to included human-tutoring minutes.
I'll continue watching for evidence that Cambly Go is actually displacing paid lessons, rather than simply expanding Cambly's range of products.

I am 21 yr old trying to make some side hustle for a while (maybe a month or two). My ethnicity is Indian but born and raised in United Arab Emirates...I speak English pretty much everywhere with friends and family.

I actually wanted to do some work from home stuff for a while to pay off some personal expenses of mine..I have good coding skills and stuff but those are too saturated nowadays and people barely need those. So I wanted to do something new and simple..maybe earn 20-40$ per day.

I came across Cambly through a WFH post and felt like I could do this..but I wanted some more guidance on it, on how it works and when do I start teaching and when do I get paid..and if there is any catch I would need to know beforehand.

For anyone who have done this, please guide me to the right direction. thanks a lot.🙏🏻

Every time I heard WHAT? being shouted, I started grinding my teeth. It drives me up the wall.

To any ESL students reading this, WHAT? is not an acceptable way to ask a tutor to repeat themselves. It's rude and incredibly annoying. You can say "I don't understand" in a normal tone or ask "Can you please repeat?"

I've read a lot about tutors sending messages and proactively asking students to rate them each time, and the importance of rating. I was just wondering if any tutors focus on giving a good lesson and manage to get a good rating, or is it important to talk to the student? Edit: for clarity. Do any tutors have a 99%/100% rating without having to ask students to give them lots of stars?

Today is my first Cambly lesson, and I'm very nervous. I'm a complete beginner, so I only memorized a short introduction. What else should I prepare?

Hi guys, I'm a student and I just wanted to know if tutors always get notified when a student starts booking a lesson but doesn't complete the process.

I sometimes do that because of my OCD, and then I come back and book it another time. I just don't want tutors to get a bunch of unnecessary notifications because of me.

Thanks in advance.

Some of you might be familiar with Cory Doctorow from his book "Enshittification", where he talks about the gig economy and how platforms manipulate workers.

I sent him an email about Cambly. He wrote back, saying he hadn't heard of it before, but now he has. Hopefully having a journalist know about Cambly will help shed some light on it...