A Preply alternative for private English tutors

There is a common mix-up when Preply comes up. Because the name shows up everywhere when you search for online English lessons, it feels like any teaching platform is a direct competitor. That is not the case. Preply is a marketplace where students discover a teacher they did not know before. Noladi is the classroom where you teach the student who is already yours. These are two different moments in your operation, and you can use both at the same time.

A marketplace and a classroom are different things

Preply does one specific thing very well: a new student looking for English lessons goes there, filters by nationality, price, and availability, and finds you. If you are still building a student base, that acquisition flow has real value. You do not control where the next first lesson comes from.

The part of your operation that involves private students you found on your own works differently. That student came from your Instagram, from a referral, from a job fair, from a coworker who recommended you. They already trust you. What they need is a good classroom for the lesson, a place to review what they studied, and a simple way to keep booking the next session.

Today, in most cases, that work happens over Google Meet or Zoom, with a PDF shared on WhatsApp and payments tracked by hand in a spreadsheet. That is the part Noladi replaces.

The lesson classroom with your brand

When your private student joins the lesson, they land on an address like yourname.noladi.app, with your name, your logo, and your colors. The classroom runs in the browser, with no installation, and opens inside that space of your own.

The practical difference is that the student stops associating your lesson with a generic meeting tool and starts associating it with a space that is yours. That is a small detail in the first lesson and a big detail six months later, when the student is used to logging in to that address every day.

Post-class review with AI

After the lesson ends, the student finds the full lesson in their dashboard to review on their own time. Along with the recording, they get the transcription of the conversation, the new vocabulary that came up in the lesson sorted by word type, and speaking stats such as time spoken in English and unique words used.

This material is what Zoom does not deliver. The Meet lesson ends and the student is left with a notebook and the memory of the conversation. With Noladi, they build up a structured history of their lessons, and that gives them a reason to keep paying for private lessons instead of switching to a one-off marketplace lesson the following month.

Schedule, plans, and finances in one place

What happens outside the classroom matters too. Noladi keeps all of this in the same dashboard:

• Schedule. Recurring bookings per student, with cancellation and rescheduling inside the dashboard itself.
• Plans and credits. You define the packages you offer, and the student's credit is deducted automatically when a lesson is booked.
• Receivables. A view of who is paid up, who has an outstanding balance, and which installment is due on which date.
• Students. Each student has their own history with past lessons and materials.

The payment itself still happens through the method you already use, Pix or card through your own processor. Noladi handles the tracking, not the card reader.

The two can coexist

The most common way to combine the tools is like this: a new student who comes in through Preply keeps being taught through Preply, under the marketplace rules. Your own private student, who comes from elsewhere, moves to Noladi, on your own domain, with your brand and automatic post-class review.

At some point, you may notice that your base of own students has grown a lot and that the marketplace has become just an occasional source. From there, the decision about whether to stay on Preply becomes yours, based on your own numbers. In the meantime, you can treat Noladi as the place where the private part of your operation is set up well.

If you want to try how this part of your operation behaves with your brand, it is worth creating an account and running a test lesson in the live classroom to see how it works in practice.