The short answer
Pick TutorBird if you run a tutoring business with staff, want text reminders sent for you, or want a portal where families log in. It costs $16.95 a month for one tutor, plus $4.95 a month for each extra tutor or staff login.
Pick Tutitor if you teach on your own and want students, the lesson calendar, attendance and invoices in one place without paying for it. Every feature is free. There is no paid plan to upgrade to later.
Price
TutorBird has one plan at $16.95 a month. Each additional tutor or staff member is $4.95 a month. There is a 30-day free trial with no card and a 90-day money-back period.
Tutitor costs nothing. There is no trial, because there is nothing to pay for after it. You sign up and use the full app.
Over a year, a solo tutor on TutorBird pays about $203. That is roughly ten hours of tutoring at $20 an hour. Whether that is worth it depends on how much you use the extras below.
Where TutorBird is stronger
- SMS reminders. TutorBird sends text reminders to students and parents and includes them in the price. Tutitor does not send SMS or email on your behalf. You share an invoice link or a calendar link yourself.
- Student portal. Families get a login to see lessons and invoices. In Tutitor, parents never need an account. They open a private link instead.
- Website builder. TutorBird includes a simple website for your tutoring business. Tutitor has a public tutor profile page but no site builder.
- Staff. TutorBird is built for a business with several tutors and admins. Tutitor is built for one tutor running their own students.
- Storage. TutorBird lists unlimited storage with a 2 GB limit per file. Tutitor gives each tutor 15 GB.
Where Tutitor is stronger
- Price. $0, with every feature included.
- Attendance drives the invoice. You mark each lesson Completed, Excused or Unexcused on the calendar. The invoice adds up completed lessons and applies your no-show charge to unexcused ones. Excused lessons cost nothing. A lesson is never billed twice.
- A no-show charge you control. Set a default such as 100% or 50%, override it for one student, or change it for a single lesson.
- Getting paid without a card processor. Every invoice can show a VietQR code, a bank QR image, bank details, a payment link or written instructions. Parents pay the way they already pay, and there is no processing fee.
- 21 invoice languages and 42 currencies. Bill a family in Vietnamese or Japanese while you use the app in English.
- Google Calendar and Meet. Connect Google once. Lessons sync to your calendar, and online lessons get a Meet link. A weekly series keeps one fixed link.
- Works like an app on your phone. Add it to the home screen on iPhone or Android. Nothing to download from an app store.
Who should pick which
If you have staff, want text reminders, or want families to log in, TutorBird earns its fee.
If you are one tutor and your problem is tracking who came, what they owe and whether they paid, Tutitor does that for free. Run it next to your current setup for a month and see which one you open more.
Switching from TutorBird
- Write down each student's rate, weekly slot and parent contact.
- Add them to Tutitor and set up the weekly lessons.
- Connect Google if you want calendar sync and Meet links.
- Run both for one billing cycle, then cancel the one you use less.
Feature by feature
"Not checked" means we did not verify that item on the other product. Ask them before you decide.
| Feature | Tutitor | TutorBird |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly price | $0 | $16.95 |
| Extra tutors or staff | Built for one tutor | $4.95 a month each |
| Free trial | Not needed. Free for good. | 30 days, no card. 90-day money-back. |
| Student limit | No plan limits | Unlimited |
| SMS reminders | No. Tutitor does not send SMS or email. | Included |
| Parent or student login | Not needed. Private links instead. | Student portal |
| Website builder | No. Public tutor profile page only. | Included |
| File storage | 15 GB per tutor | Unlimited, 2 GB per file |
| Invoice built from attendance | Yes. Completed, Excused and Unexcused each bill differently. | Not checked |
| No-show charge | Default per tutor, override per student or per lesson | Not checked |
| Payment methods on the invoice | VietQR, bank QR image, bank details, payment link, written instructions. No card processing. | Invoicing and payments |
| Invoice languages | 21 | Not checked |
| Currencies | 42 | Not checked |
| Google Calendar and Meet | Sync, plus one Meet link per online lesson series | Not checked |
| Mobile | Installs to the home screen on iPhone and Android | Not checked |
Prices were checked on 24 September 2026 on each vendor's own pricing page. They may have changed since. Tutitor has no price to check.
Common questions
Is Tutitor really free?
Yes. Every feature is free, there is no paid tier, and you do not enter a card. Tutitor is built in Vietnam and used by tutors worldwide.
Does Tutitor send SMS reminders like TutorBird?
No. Tutitor does not send SMS or email for you. You share invoice and lesson links yourself, for example on Zalo, WhatsApp or Messenger.
Can parents log in to Tutitor?
No login is needed. Each invoice has a private link the parent can open, download as a PDF and pay from. You can also give a family a calendar subscription link.
Does Tutitor take online card payments?
No. Tutitor shows your payout details on the invoice: a VietQR code, a bank QR image, bank details, a payment link or written instructions. The money goes straight to you, with no processing fee.
How much does TutorBird cost?
$16.95 a month for one tutor, plus $4.95 a month for each additional tutor or staff login, as listed on TutorBird's pricing page on 24 September 2026.
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