Home education,beautifully organised.
AltEd turns the exam board's specification into a paced curriculum and a timetable for the week — then keeps the lessons, the tutors and the payments 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 curriculum
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
Working out what to teach, and when, takes every Sunday evening
Pick a subject and a board: the curriculum builder paces the whole specification across your dates, and the timetable lays the week out around what can't move.
- 02
The plan lives in a notebook, the record in your head
Courses, lessons and assignments in one place — planned ahead, ticked off as they happen.
- 03
Everyone's schedule is a group-chat negotiation
One shared calendar with attendees and recurrence that family and providers both see.
- 04
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.
Curriculum & timetable
From the exam specification to Monday morning
Working out what to teach, and fitting it into a real week, is the planning that eats the evenings. AltEd does both for you — and every part of it stays yours to change.
Step 1
Choose what they're studying
Pick the level, the subject and the exam board. Start from a specification in the catalogue, or import your board's own document. For primary and Key Stage 3, Oak National Academy's programmes stand in for the board.
Step 2
Paced to the dates you have
Every topic gets its week and a time estimate across your start and end dates. Block out a holiday and the plan re-paces around it.
Step 3
Laid out as a timetable
The plan becomes a week — periods sized from the hours each subject needs, arranged around everything that can't move.
Step 4
Ticked off as you go
Drag anything you'd change, tick topics off as they're covered, and the plan quietly becomes the record.
Curriculum builder
A whole curriculum, built from the exam board's own specification and paced to your year.
- Every topic and statement in the board's own words, each with a time estimate — marked started and completed, with the dates
- Paced across the dates you actually have, with a plain answer on whether it fits
- Every subject together, week by week — a column for each week, ticked off in place and printed as a targets sheet
- Already plan your year yourself? Import your own targets sheet or topic list — even a photo of it — as a plan per subject and one timetable for them all
- Holidays and illness re-pace the plan — nothing is dropped, nothing ticked is lost
- Free teaching resources linked beside each topic
- Board or subject not listed yet? Import its specification from the board's own document
Timetables
A week that lays itself out — and shows you whether it matches what you intended.
- Four questions — your days, your subjects and how much of each, what can't move — and the week is laid out
- Each weighting shown as a share and roughly the hours a week it comes to
- Through the whole year on Family — each week dated, holidays off, that week's topics from your curriculum, on your learner's own timetable too
- Hours and percentages per subject always on screen, so drift shows
- Drag, resize, colour and caption periods by hand, undo any of your last ten changes, then print it
- Built straight from your curriculum plans, sized to finish on time
Curriculum plans are free on every plan — no card needed.
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 courses, their pace. You manage it; they don't need an account.
Step two
Plan the year
Build a curriculum from the exam board's specification, paced to your dates, and let the timetable lay out the week. 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 your tuition prices 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 the whole family. £59 a year for the year planned and the record your council asks for. £19 flat for providers — never a percentage of your revenue.
Free
Everyday home education for the whole family — no card, no clock.
Free
Start free- Unlimited learner profiles
- Unlimited curriculum plans from the catalogue, paced to your dates
- Up to 2 subjects imported from your own planning documents
- 10 AI credits a month — top up any time
- Weekly timetables, courses, lessons & assignments
- A year of assignment & attendance history — nothing older is deleted
- 250 MB of evidence storage for photos and PDFs
- Resource library
- Shared calendar with recurrence
- Book sessions with providers
- Magic-link sign-in — no password needed
Family
The year planned for you, and the record your council asks for.
£59/year
Choose Family- Everything in Free, plus:
- Timetables through the year — each week dated, holidays off, that week's topics in place
- The education record for local-authority reviews — print it or save it as a PDF any time
- 100 AI credits a month — drafted summaries, evidence from photos, timetable advice, specification imports and your own planning documents; top up any time
- Unlimited subjects from your own planning documents
- Every year of assignment & attendance history
- 2 GB of evidence storage for photos and PDFs
- Work with any number of providers
- Priority email support
Provider
For tutors and education providers. Flat price — never a percentage of your revenue.
£190/year
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
- 300 AI credits a month — session reports from your notes, and more
- Unlimited learners & families
- Every year of assignment & attendance history
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