Comparison

Set the Tune vs Jackrabbit.

Jackrabbit Music is class-management software - online registration, billing, reporting, and a parent portal, built around group classes. Set the Tune is a private-lesson scheduling engine. Here is where each one earns its keep.

What Jackrabbit is good at
  • ♩Online registration and enrollment
  • ♩Billing, recurring payments, and QuickBooks export
  • ♩Parent portal and automated reminder emails
  • ♩Group-class management at scale
  • ♩Every plan includes the full feature set - from $49/mo, scaled by student count
Where it stops
  • ✱Appointments and class calendars are managed by hand - nothing optimizes the schedule for you
  • ✱No automatic conflict engine for double-bookings or availability violations
  • ✱No drive-time awareness for teachers who travel between homes
  • ✱No teacher workday compliance - hours caps, meal breaks
  • ✱Built class-first; solo and traveling private-lesson programs are not the center of gravity
CapabilitySet the TuneJackrabbit
One-click schedule optimization (whole roster)♩ Yes-
Automatic conflict detection - double-booking, availability, overlaps♩ YesManual
Drive-time-aware scheduling for traveling teachers (real traffic data)♩ Yes-
Teacher workday rules - 8-hour cap, meal-break compliance♩ Yes-
A/B (alternating) week balancing♩ Yes-
Messy-file roster import (CSV/DOCX) with AI cleanup♩ YesCSV import
Waitlist with one-click placement♩ Yes-
Season clone & roll-forward♩ Yes-
Teacher self-serve availability links + calendar (ICS) feeds♩ YesCalendar sync
Tuition invoicing & family billing-♩ Yes
Parent / student portal-♩ Yes
Attendance tracking-♩ Yes
Online registration & enrollment-♩ Yes

Based on each product's published feature list and pricing page, June 2026. Spot something out of date? Tell us.

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What Set the Tune doesn't do.
Tuition invoicing, attendance, parent portals, family messaging. On purpose. Set the Tune is the scheduling layer - it builds the calendar your admin tools manage. If you need full studio admin, keep it and use both.
Set the Tune
  • ♩Starter $79 / Pro $129 / Studio $199 per month, per school
  • ♩Sized by students you actually schedule, not your raw roster
  • ♩Unlimited teachers on every tier - one price per school, never per teacher
  • ♩Free look at signup: build your real schedule free, pay only to export and keep it
Jackrabbit Music
  • ♩Starts at $49 per month
  • ♩Tiered by total student count, billed monthly
  • ♩No contracts or setup fees

Can you use both?

Yes. If Jackrabbit runs your registration and billing, keep it. Set the Tune sits in front of it as the scheduling brain: import your roster, let the optimizer place every lesson around availability, drive time, and teacher workdays, then run the season wherever your admin lives.

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