One aitutors.me subscription already covers all your children, so the question isn't "how many accounts do I pay for" — it's "should each child sign in as themselves, or share the tutor on my screen?" The short answer: younger siblings are usually fine sharing your parent screen, while older children, or children who are very different from each other, do better with their own logins. Either way, each child keeps their own progress, points and subjects.
This trips a lot of families up, because "share or separate" sounds like a billing decision and it isn't. Every child in your household is already a distinct learner under one subscription. What you're actually choosing is how each child gets to their own learning — through your account on a shared device, or through a login of their own.
First, clear up the money question
There is no per-child cost, and giving a child their own login doesn't add a penny. A three-child family pays the same whether all three share the tutor on your screen or each has a personal login. So set price aside completely — it genuinely doesn't enter this decision. What's left is experience, privacy and practicality.
What stays separate no matter what
It helps to know what you're not trading away. Even if your children never have their own logins and simply take turns on your device, each one remains a fully separate learner:
- Their subjects are their own — see Choosing the Right Subjects for Each Child.
- Their progress and reports are their own.
- Their Heddy points are their own, and there's no leaderboard between them.
So "sharing" never means blending. When you open the tutor from your Overview, you pick which child you're opening it for, and the tutor becomes that child's tutor. The only thing separate logins change is who does the signing in.
What separate logins add
Giving each child their own username and password — a couple of minutes on the Children page — buys three things:
- Privacy. A child signs into their own learner home and sees only their own world. A sibling can't wander into their goals, points or reports.
- Independence. An older child can sit down and start a session without you unlocking anything. It becomes their routine rather than something they borrow from your screen.
- A cleaner boundary. Their login can never reach your dashboard, billing or another child's data, and it locks after repeated failed guesses — the safety model in Passwords, Lockouts and Peace of Mind.
The cost is small but real: another password to remember, and the discipline of signing out on a shared device so the next child gets a sign-in screen rather than an open account.
A quick decision guide
| If this sounds like your family… | Lean towards… |
|---|---|
| Primary-age or early Year 7, uses your device with you nearby | Sharing — open the tutor for them from your screen |
| Teenager who wants their own space | Separate login for that child |
| Siblings who bicker or compare | Separate logins — private worlds, no comparing |
| Very different learners (a keen writer, a maths-avoider) | Separate logins — cleaner, each fully their own |
| A tablet the children share happily | Either — sign out between users if separate |
| You want the simplest possible setup to begin with | Start shared, add a login later |
You don't have to be consistent across your children, either. It's perfectly normal to give your Year 9 their own login while your Year 5 just uses the tutor on your phone. Match each child, not the household.
You can change your mind
This isn't a decision you're locked into. Start shared, and add a login the day a child asks for one. Or give a login and revoke it if it turns out to be too much independence too soon — revoking loses nothing, because every session and point lived under your account all along. Because the switch is free and reversible, the honest advice is: start with whatever's simplest today, and let it grow with your children.
FAQ
Is it cheaper for siblings to share one account?
There's no cost difference. One subscription already covers every child in your household, whether they share a login or each have their own. So the decision is about experience and safety, not price.
If my children share the parent screen, do they still get separate progress?
Yes. Even without their own logins, each child is a separate learner with their own subjects, progress and points — you just pick which child you're opening the tutor for. Separate logins add privacy and independence, not separate data.
What age should a child get their own login?
There's no fixed age. A rough rule: if a child is old enough to want privacy and to manage a password, a login suits them; younger children are usually happy using the tutor on your device. You can add a login later at any time.
Related reading
- One Subscription, Every Child in the House
- Choosing the Right Subjects for Each Child
- Giving Your Child Their Own Safe Login
Duke Harewood built aitutors.me for his own family. With children of different ages he's made both calls himself — shared screen for the younger, own login for the older — and that mix is exactly what the account is built for. Updated 09 July 2026.