Home education,beautifully organised.
AltEd brings your learners, lessons, calendar, tutors and payments together in one calm, shared record — for home-educating families and the providers who work with them.
Free to start · No card needed · One place for the lessons
Maths — fractions
Ava · lesson
Science with Elm Tutors
Ava · session · 2pm
Reading hour
Noah · lesson
The real problem
Home education is a full-time job. The admin shouldn't be.
Most families run the plan, the diary and the tutor payments across four apps and a kitchen notebook. AltEd replaces the juggling — not the way you educate.
- 01
The plan lives in a notebook, the record in your head
Curricula, lessons and assignments in one place — planned ahead, ticked off as they happen.
- 02
Everyone's schedule is a group-chat negotiation
One shared calendar with attendees and recurrence that family and providers both see.
- 03
Paying the tutor means awkward messages and mental arithmetic
A proper ledger: session charges, credits with approval, a shared history, and card payment.
“The freedom is the point. The paperwork is the tax you pay for it — and nobody said it had to be this expensive.”
175,900+
children in EHE in England (2024/25) — a market doubling
Two-sided
families and providers share one record
£0
to get started — free plan, no card
UK-first
GBP, UK English, LA-review framing
EHE figure: Department for Education, elective home education statistics 2024/25.
The platform
Four sides of the same record
Planning, the week, the providers and the money. Not four tools that occasionally sync — one record each of them writes to.
How it works
Three steps to a calmer term
Set up in an afternoon; the record then keeps itself as the weeks go by.
Step one
Add your learners
A profile for each child — their subjects, their curricula, their pace. You manage it; they don't need an account.
Step two
Plan & record
Lay out lessons and assignments on the shared calendar. As work gets done, the record writes itself.
Step three
Book & settle up
Tutors schedule sessions, both sides confirm them, and the ledger keeps the money straight — settled by card when you're ready.
See it in action
The whole week, on one screen
From each child's plan to the evidence at the end of term to what's owed at the end of the month — swipe through the shape of AltEd.
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
A guardian's week
Each child has their own profile and subjects; the shared calendar lays the week out with lessons, tutor sessions and recurring events side by side.
Ava — education record
Autumn term · 147 hours logged
63
Assignments
24
Sessions
96%
Attendance
A learner's record
Hours by subject, assignments completed, sessions attended — the evidence a local-authority conversation asks for, already written and ready to export.
Elm Tutors — your account
Shared ledger · both sides see the same history
Secure card payment via Stripe
The billing ledger
Completed sessions raise their own charges, credits go through approval, and both sides read the same running history. Settling up is one card payment.
Illustrative product mock-ups — names and figures are examples, not customer data.
Who it's for
Three audiences, three honest answers
Including where AltEd isn't the right tool yet — we'd rather tell you on the way in.
For tutors & providers
Teach the sessions. The ledger does the invoicing.
Set a price per lesson type once. Completed sessions raise their own charges, absences go through a fair approval flow, credits keep goodwill on the record, and families pay by card.
£19/month, flat
Unlimited students and families. Never a percentage of what you earn — that model belongs to the tools you're leaving.
- Two-sided session confirmation
- Card payments via Stripe
- Absences, handled fairly
- Your families, on the record
The register is coming. Your records can be ready.
The Act creates a compulsory Children Not in School register, expected around 2027 — and with it, more conversations with your local authority about what your child is learning. Families who keep organised records as they go won't be scrambling to reconstruct a year from memory.
Pricing
Simple, honest pricing
Free for one learner. £6 a month for the whole family. £19 flat for providers — never a percentage of your revenue.
Free
Try AltEd properly with one learner — no card, no clock.
Free
Start free- 1 student profile
- Curricula, lessons & assignments
- Resource library
- Shared calendar with recurrence
- Book sessions with providers
- Magic-link sign-in — no password needed
Family
The whole family's education, organised and evidenced.
£6/month
Choose Family- Everything in Free, plus:
- Unlimited student profiles
- Evidence exports for local-authority reviews
- Full assignment & attendance history
- Work with any number of providers
- Priority email support
Provider
For tutors and education providers. Flat price — never a percentage of your revenue.
£19/month
Choose Provider- Everything in Family, plus:
- The provider↔family billing ledger
- Lesson pricing, charges & credits
- Card payments from families via Stripe
- Session scheduling with absence approval
- Unlimited students & families
Day to day
What organised feels like
AltEd is shaped around how home-educating families and providers actually work together — here's what that looks like in an ordinary week.
“Our home ed week used to live across four apps and a kitchen notebook. Now the lessons, the tutor sessions and what we owe are all in one place — and I can actually see it.”
“Setting a lesson price once and letting the charges and credits sort themselves out means I never have the awkward money conversation with a family again.”
“When the local authority asked what we'd been covering, the answer was already written down — the plan, the work, the sessions, all of it.”
175,900
children known in elective home education in England, 2024/25
3 roles
guardians, providers and admins — one shared record
£0
to get started — free plan, no card needed
~2027
when the UK's Children Not in School register is expected. Be ready.
Quotes are illustrative of intended use while AltEd is in early access — they are not real customer testimonials. EHE figure: Department for Education, elective home education statistics 2024/25.
Start today
Give the admin a home. Keep the freedom.
Start free with just your email — no password, no card — and have your first learner, lesson and week planned before the kettle boils twice.
Free plan, no card needed · Built for UK home education