An alternative to MyMusicStaff, TutorBird, Teachworks and Duet Partner
Lesson Lineup keeps your calendar, attendance, family accounts, invoices and practice logs in one place. Mark a lesson as taught and its charge goes on the family's account, ready for their next invoice.
What one teacher pays, per month
$119.52 less than MyMusicStaff across your 12 bills at $6.99.
Each bar is what a single teacher with no add-ons pays, as listed on the company's own pricing page in September 2026. Duet Partner also showed a $9-a-month promotional rate then; the bar uses its $20 list price. See our pricing below, or compare us with each one.
One teaching week in the calendar: adults during the day, children after school, and the Saturday group class in its own color.
What it does
In a one-teacher studio it's usually the lesson canceled at the last minute, the family who hasn't paid for last month yet, the notes you owe after each student, and the receipts you still haven't logged.
Attendance
Sam's mom texts at 8 a.m.: he's sick and can't come. You mark the lesson "Absent, Issue Make-Up Credit," so it's still billed and Sam has a make-up credit on his record. If you'd rather not charge for it, pick "Absent, Notice Given" instead. You set how many credits a student can hold and how long they last.
Money
Every family account keeps a running list of lesson charges, payments, discounts and refunds, and its balance is added up from that list each time you open it. When a parent pays you at the door, record the payment and you can email them a receipt. If an invoice goes overdue, Lesson Lineup can email the family a reminder.
Notes
While you mark the lesson, write down what you covered and what to practice this week, and email the notes to the family if you like. Each student also has a repertoire list showing every piece, its composer, the date you assigned it, and whether it's in progress or being polished.
Expenses
Log what you spent on sheet music under one of your categories and attach a photo or PDF of the receipt. Studio rent goes in once, set to repeat monthly. The monthly summary adds a wedding gig and any other income to what your lessons brought in, takes off expenses, and shows your net income.
iPhone and Android apps — coming soon
Open the app between students to see the rest of today's lessons, check a family's balance, or take attendance. If you teach somewhere with no signal, the attendance you take is kept on the phone and sent once you're back online.
Scheduling, practice logs and the rest are on the features page.
How it works
Give each student a record and each family one account. When two sisters have back-to-back lessons and one parent pays for both, their lessons go on one family balance.
There's no student import, so you type your list in yourself.
You enter each weekly lesson once and give it an end date, or leave it running. When a school concert knocks out one Tuesday, you move that week's lesson and the others stay where they were. If the new time runs into another student's lesson, Lesson Lineup warns you before it saves.
Take attendance as you teach. When you create a family's invoice, it lists the lesson charges and the payments you've recorded, and ends on what they owe.
Switching from
Each comparison puts the two products side by side and walks through what moving over involves.
Switching from
Stay if parents log in to its portal or pay you online through it, or if a second teacher shares your account. Switch if you teach alone, families pay you in cash or by bank transfer, and you just need a record of which family paid what.
Them $16.95 · Lesson Lineup $6.99 a month
Switching from
Teachworks is built for tutoring companies and adds a fee for every lesson on top of the base price, so in a busy month with extra lessons the bill goes up too.
Them $16.49 + $0.32/lesson · Lesson Lineup $6.99
Switching from
Duet Partner used to be at musicteachershelper.com. Stay if students book their own lessons from its text links or families pay you by card through it. Switch if you want a ledger for each family and practice logs for each student, or you teach somewhere the signal drops.
Them $20 or $99/yr · Lesson Lineup $6.99
Switching from
TutorBird comes from the company behind MyMusicStaff and costs the same, but it's built for tutors of any subject. For a music teacher, the reasons to stay or switch are much the same as with MyMusicStaff.
Them $16.95 · Lesson Lineup $6.99 a month
Pricing
Founder rate
$6.99 a month
for 12 billed months if you sign up on or before December 25, 2026, then $9.99 a month.
Start today and after the free month come twelve bills at $6.99, so it's about thirteen months before you pay $9.99.
At $9.99 you'd still pay $83.52 a year less than MyMusicStaff's $16.95. Teachworks is harder to compare because it charges for every lesson, so the Teachworks comparison works out the bill for studios of ten, twenty and thirty students.
With your first bill, which usually comes the day after the trial ends. The first twelve bills are $6.99, and every bill after that is $9.99.
Usually the trial ends and you're asked for a card for the first time. Nothing can be charged before then, because there's no card on file. If you decide not to keep going, don't add one.
No. You give no billing details during the trial, so there's nothing to cancel if you decide against it.
No. Families pay you however they do now, and you record each payment in Lesson Lineup. It never asks a family for card or bank details.
Yes. Nothing in Lesson Lineup touches your other account, so you can run both through a month of lessons. The switching guide sets out what to do in each week.
Why trust a new product
Thirty days is enough to teach a month of lessons and invoice for them. Then hold each family's balance up against what your current software says they owe.
So is the cutoff date for the founder rate. The Terms of Service are what you agree to when you sign up.
Each comparison page opens with that question, and lists what the other product does that Lesson Lineup doesn't.
Free resources
Written for independent music teachers, and free to read and print without signing up.
Prices and trials for all four, and where each one goes further.
What to export first, and how to fit the re-typing around your teaching.
Practice tracking, last-minute cancellations, late payments, lesson notes.
Cancellation policy, late-tuition emails, make-up credit checklist.
Add your students and next month's lessons, and at the end of the month see what the invoices look like.
Or see everything it does first.