Comparison

Set the Tune vs Teachworks.

Teachworks is a usage-based admin platform for tutoring and music businesses - billing, a parent portal, attendance, and a calendar you fill in yourself, priced per student lesson. Set the Tune is the scheduling engine that builds that calendar. Here is the honest version.

What Teachworks is good at
  • ♩Per-lesson billing and invoicing that scales with volume
  • ♩Parent and student portal, attendance, and lesson notes
  • ♩Unlimited students, teachers, and user accounts on every plan
  • ♩Modular design - 60+ add-ons, turn on only what you use
  • ♩21-day free trial, no credit card
Where it stops
  • ✱The calendar is manual - you place every lesson by hand, organized by teacher
  • ✱No engine optimizes a whole roster in one click
  • ✱No drive-time awareness for teachers who travel between homes
  • ✱No teacher workday rules - 8-hour caps or meal-break compliance
  • ✱No alternating A/B week balancing
CapabilitySet the TuneTeachworks
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 Spot something out of date?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
Teachworks
  • ♩Starter $16.49 per month + $0.320 per student lesson
  • ♩Growth $47.99 per month + $0.189 per student lesson
  • ♩Premium $187.99 per month + $0.065 per student lesson
  • ♩21-day free trial

Can you use both?

Yes. Keep Teachworks for per-lesson billing, attendance, and the parent portal. Let Set the Tune do the part Teachworks leaves to you: turn a season of availability into an optimized, conflict-free, drive-time-aware schedule. Build it here, bill it there.

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