They're the same tutors reached two different ways. Heddy is a door a student opens alone; aitutors.me is a service a parent sets up. Which is right depends on who's deciding, not on which is better.
At a glance
| Heddy | aitutors.me | |
|---|---|---|
| Who opens it | The student, alone | A parent, for a child |
| Account needed | None | Parent account + kid login |
| Age | 13+ only | Any secondary age, parent-provisioned |
| Tutors | All eight | All eight |
| Flashcards | Free, unlimited | Free, unlimited |
| Tutoring | Metered free allowance | Subject seats on a plan |
| Parent dashboard | No — by design | Yes |
| Termly progress report | No | Yes |
| Journey map / term goals | No | Yes |
| Multiple children | No | Yes — one subscription, a seat pool |
| Where it runs | iOS app + heddy.app | Web, plus the Claude and ChatGPT connectors |
Choose Heddy if the student is the one deciding
The situation Heddy is built for is specific: a teenager who has heard about it, has homework tonight, and would rather not open a conversation with a parent about tutoring in order to try something.
That's not a small case. Until Heddy existed there was no route into this product that didn't run through an adult's decision and an adult's payment details — which means a fifteen-year-old who wanted help at nine in the evening had no way to get it.
What you give up: the parent view. There's no dashboard, no report, and no way for you to read their conversations. That's a deliberate design decision, and if it's the wrong trade for your family, the other product exists precisely for you.
Choose aitutors.me if you're setting this up for a child
If you've decided your child needs tutoring and you're arranging it, the subscription is the better product — not because the tutoring is different, but because everything around the tutoring is.
You get a dashboard. What they've worked on, which subjects, how often, and the shape of a term rather than a transcript.
You get a termly progress report — a written account of what changed, not a dashboard of numbers.
You choose subjects per child. The paid unit is a child-and-subject seat, and you pick them. One subscription covers a household from a shared pool, so two children in different subjects don't mean two subscriptions.
You get term goals and a journey map — the KS3 curriculum as a visible map, with what's been met on it.
And it reaches further than an app. The same tutors are available through the Claude and ChatGPT connectors, so a child who already works in one of those doesn't have to move.
What happens if you do both
This is the common path, and it's designed for.
A student starts with Heddy, uses it for a term, and asks you to unlock more. When you subscribe, their existing record transfers into your household — every point, every flashcard, every session. It's a reassignment rather than a copy: nothing from the months before you were involved is lost, and their shelf on Monday looks exactly like their shelf on Friday.
That's why Heddy keeps a real record from the first meaningful action rather than storing everything on the phone. Local-only storage would mean starting again on the day someone decides to pay, which is precisely the wrong moment to lose a term of work.
The short version
Under 13? aitutors.me. Heddy's age floor is real and not a soft one.
Student found it themselves and just wants to try? Heddy. It costs nothing and asks nothing.
You want to see progress, or you have more than one child? aitutors.me.
Both? Fine, and normal. Start with Heddy and subscribe later without losing anything.
Updated 10 Sep 2026. Written by Duke Harewood, who builds the tutors at aitutors.me.