r/tutors

Hi everyone,
As a tutor and developer, I kept running into the same hassle: generic calendar apps don't handle student-level attendance or custom billing, while Excel sheets quickly become messy on mobile devices.

To solve this, I built a native iOS app called TimeFlow: Tutor Planner. It’s designed specifically for private teaching workflows:
Flexible Attendance & Billing: Log 1-on-1 or group classes with individual attendance statuses (Attended, Absent, Leave) so you only bill for actual credited time. Supports custom per-student pricing, per-student rates, or session totals.

Live Activities & Widgets: Track ongoing lessons and countdowns directly on your Lock Screen or Dynamic Island.

Multi-Currency Support: View and format tuition rates in USD, EUR, GBP, JPY, AUD, CAD, HKD, and more.

Privacy & Cloud Sync: Built on native SwiftData and CloudKit with private database sync and versioned iCloud backups to keep student details and private lesson notes secure.

CSV Export: Instantly export free slot availability or lesson history to CSV in seconds.

The app is free to download on the App Store under TimeFlow: Tutor Planner with core scheduling features, along with a free trial for Pro analytics if needed.
I’d love to hear from fellow tutors: What is your single biggest headache when managing your teaching schedule or billing? Any feedback to improve the app is super welcome!

Hey, I'm Yakov. Since 2010 I've run a tutoring marketplace abroad. Over 400,000 lessons booked, 50k+ student reviews, tutors who actually make a living from it. We just launched the English version: tutorela.com.

Full honesty because I know how these posts usually go: we don't have a pool of US students yet. Day one. What we do have is 15 years of running this exact thing in another country.

One thing we do differently is the AI assistant every tutor gets, free. You brief it in two sentences after a lesson and it writes the recap for the student, builds practice questions from what you actually covered, and shows you what stuck before the next session. It works for you, not instead of you.

Founding tutors get in free. No commission until there's real student volume, that's the deal for taking a chance on us this early. You also get a direct line to me, I answer my own support email and I'm the one shipping the fixes.

We rebuilt a lot for this launch so some things are probably still broken or just weird. If you hit something, tell me in the comments or at support@tutorela.com. You'd be shaping the thing while it's still soft.

Subjects right now: math, English, computer science, physics, chemistry, statistics, music. All online. Signup is at tutorela.com, "Become a Tutor" at the top. Ask me anything below, including the uncomfortable stuff.

[Tutor] Built a free iOS app for private tutors to track schedules, multi-student attendance, and earnings — seeking your feedback!

[TUTOR] I've run a tutoring platform abroad since 2010 (400k+ lessons). Just launched in the US and looking for our first tutors