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If you're an independent online tutor, you probably know the drill. Before a single lesson starts, you've wrangled four or five different apps: one for video calls, another for scheduling, a payment processor, a spreadsheet for tracking progress, and maybe a flashcard tool somewhere in the
Gear guides love to make you spend. We're here to tell you what you actually need — and what's just expensive procrastination.
Let's talk about flashcards. Specifically, let's talk about why they're both the best thing that ever happened to language learners and the reason half your students plateau at a frustrating level of almost-fluency. Flashcards are great. Spaced repetition is real, it works, and if
Calendly is the default scheduling tool for freelancers. But is it the best fit for independent tutors? An honest side-by-side comparison.
AI has genuinely changed lesson planning. The question is which tools are worth the subscription — and how to actually use them well.
The "How Is Your Student Actually Doing?" Problem Here's a question every language tutor eventually asks themselves, usually mid-session: how is this student actually doing? Not "did they finish the homework" doing. Not "they seemed to understand the subjunctive today" doing. But
If you're an independent language tutor, there's a good chance your "teaching setup" is Zoom plus a browser with sixteen tabs open — one for your calendar, one for the invoice you haven't sent yet, one for that vocabulary list you made in
Independent tutors spend $66+/month on 6 disconnected apps. Here's what the fragmented stack really costs — and what it feels like to run everything from one platform instead.