Lucy Learn vs Teachworks
More time teaching. One price, however busy you get.
Teachworks offers tools for managing teaching businesses, including staff, wages and branches. Lucy Learn is made for independent tutors. Your sessions, families and finances, without paying more as you teach more lessons.
Teachworks is made for teaching businesses with staff. Lucy Learn is made for independent tutors.
Staff, wages and branches matter when you employ other tutors. On your own, what matters is your sessions, your families and your finances, at a price that stays the same however busy you get.
Price
Your busiest term shouldn’t mean a bigger software bill.
Whether you teach ten lessons a week or forty, your Lucy Learn subscription stays the same. No per-lesson fees to eat into what you earn as your tutoring business grows.
Charges a fee for each student lesson, in addition to the subscription.
One subscription in pounds, every feature included, however many lessons you teach.
Your school year
Plan around the school year, not around every holiday.
Set up your teaching year with your council’s term dates, half-terms and bank holidays. Lucy Learn uses those dates when scheduling recurring sessions, so you spend less time adjusting your calendar around school holidays.
Its holiday scheduling approach can require changes to recurring lessons when dates are affected.
Import council term dates for England and Wales, add your own dates and review changes before recurring sessions are updated.
Your day
Your whole day, on one screen.
See your sessions, who’s coming, what you’ve received and anything that needs your attention. Lucy Learn gives you a clear view of your own tutoring business, without the staff and branch management features you don’t need.
Includes features for managing teachers, wages, payslips and branches, which your independent practice doesn’t need.
Today’s sessions, money received and a Needs you list of everything waiting on you, from attendance to invoices ready to send.
- 10:00amAmara Okafor✓ Attended
- 1:30pmTheo Birch✓ AttendedTake attendance
- 4:00pmIsla and Rory KentNow
- 5:30pmYear 6 groupSmall group
Tax
Know what to put aside, before the tax bill arrives.
Lucy Learn estimates your income tax and Class 4 National Insurance using what you’ve recorded, so you can see what to put aside and when HMRC expects payment. Your tax information sits alongside the income, costs and mileage of your tutoring business.
No income tax or National Insurance estimate in its reports. Its tax settings add sales tax or VAT to invoice line items, which most independent UK tutors don’t charge.
Estimates income tax and Class 4 National Insurance on HMRC rates, with your costs and mileage counted, what to put aside and when to pay.
12pfrom every £1 you’re paid
Saved so far £1,078By now you’d want £1,378
The things that matter in your tutoring business.
The practical differences, without paying for features you don’t need.
includes all of theseOne predictable price
The same subscription however many lessons you teach.
Teachworks: A fee per student lesson on every plan
Priced in pounds
Your subscription in sterling.
Teachworks: Billed in US dollars
Made for independent tutors
Calendar, invoicing, family portal and tax estimates for one tutor, without staff to manage.
Teachworks: Staff, wages and branch features
Your school year, built in
Council term dates for England and Wales, with half-terms and bank holidays.
Teachworks: More manual holiday adjustments
Your tax estimate
Income tax and Class 4 National Insurance on HMRC rates, with your costs and mileage counted.
Teachworks: No UK income tax estimate
Each Teachworks cell is what Teachworks’s own website or help centre documents, checked on 31 October 2026. We do not list something as missing unless they say so.
Your teaching business deserves software that fits.
Your sessions, your families, your finances. Everything you need to run your tutoring business, in one place and at one price.
Every feature, every family, £29 a month. Try it free for 7 days.
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