How Tuton compares
Tuton isn't a marketplace: it doesn't find you students. It's the classroom and back office for the students you teach yourself. Here's how it compares with the other things tutors use, including when the alternative is the better choice.
Tuton vs marketplaces
They solve different problems. A marketplace brings you students and takes a cut of each lesson. Tuton is your own platform for the students you teach independently: it doesn't find you students, and it takes no commission on the payments they send you directly.
Tuton vs the DIY stack
Zoom for video, Google Docs for notes, ChatGPT in another tab, Calendly for bookings, WhatsApp for reminders. It works, and it costs little to start. Tuton is what it looks like when those five jobs are done by one tool built for language teaching.
Tuton vs video call tools
Zoom and Google Meet are excellent at what they were built for: meetings. But a lesson isn't a meeting. Tuton puts the video call inside an actual classroom, with lesson pages, vocabulary and ready lessons 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 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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