How Tuton compares
Tuton isn't a marketplace — it doesn't find you students, and it doesn't take a cut of your lessons. Here's how that model honestly stacks up against the platforms tutors usually consider.
Tuton vs marketplaces
They solve different problems. A marketplace brings you students and takes a cut of every lesson. Tuton is your own platform for the students you teach independently — it doesn't find you students, and it takes 0% commission.
Tuton vs the DIY stack
Zoom for video, Google Docs for notes, ChatGPT in another tab, Calendly for bookings, WhatsApp for reminders. It works — that's how most independent tutors start. Tuton is what it looks like when those five jobs are done by one tool that was built for language teaching.
Tuton vs video call tools
Zoom and Google Meet are excellent at the thing they were built for: meetings. But a lesson isn't a meeting. Tuton wraps the video call in an actual classroom — notes, vocabulary, materials and recording on the same screen — so the lesson doesn't end when the call does.
Tuton vs online whiteboards
An online whiteboard gives you a brilliant blank canvas — and only a blank canvas. The Tuton Space is an infinite canvas that lives inside the classroom, next to the video call, where notes, drawings, images and vocabulary are part of the lesson, not stranded in another tab.
Want the full editorial guide? Marketplaces vs teaching independently on the Tuton blog.
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