On a phone, aitutors.me looks and feels like an app โ€” a bottom row of tabs your thumb can reach, and a clean full-screen space when your child is actually studying. But there's nothing to download. No App Store, no Google Play, no updates to chase. You open your browser, sign in, and it's just there, behaving like the apps your child already uses all day. That's the whole idea: app-like where it helps, browser-simple where it counts.

Most families reach for a phone far more often than a laptop. If a tutoring product only feels right on a computer, it quietly doesn't get used. So the phone experience isn't an afterthought here โ€” it's a first-class version of the same thing.

"App-like" without the app store

Let's be precise about what this means, because "web app" can sound like a compromise. It isn't.

The app-store way The aitutors.me way
Search a store, download, wait Open your browser, go to the site
Approve permissions, create yet another account Sign in once โ€” the account you already have
Chase updates every few weeks Always the current version, nothing to update
Two installs for two children's devices Works on any device, straight away

You get the feel of an app โ€” a fixed bottom tab bar, a full-screen surface, thumb-friendly targets โ€” with none of the download-and-maintain overhead. If you'd like, you can add the site to your home screen so it opens with a tap, but even that's optional. This sits naturally alongside the web tutor: a tutor that lives on the web, now shaped for the device you carry.

Two shells, two thumbs

A key detail: the parent and the child each get their own app-like shell, with their own bottom bar. Nobody wanders into the other's controls.

Your child's learner home gives them a kid-friendly bottom bar with the places that matter to them:

  • Home โ€” their greeting, their streak, and a big "start a session" button
  • Learn โ€” into the tutor
  • Genius โ€” their Learning Genius hub
  • Points โ€” their Heddy Points, level and reward shelf
  • More โ€” goals, reports, and the way back to a parent

Your parent dashboard gets its own bar for the places that matter to you:

  • Overview โ€” the household at a glance, a card per child
  • Children โ€” profiles, logins and preview
  • Rewards โ€” approvals waiting for you (with a little dot when there's something to do)
  • Progress โ€” this week's sessions and streaks
  • More โ€” Personality, Subjects, Data, billing and the rest

It's the same split we describe in two views, one account โ€” just laid out for a phone. And the parent bar is simply your family dashboard re-housed for a thumb; every destination you'd find on a laptop is still there.

Full screen when it's time to focus

When your child actually starts a tutoring session, the bottom bar tucks away and the conversation takes the whole screen. There's a clear way back, but while they're working, there's nothing to tap by accident and nothing pulling their eye to another tab. It's the phone equivalent of clearing the kitchen table before homework โ€” a small thing that helps a child settle.

That focus-first instinct runs through the product. A tutoring session is meant to be a bounded, purposeful thing, not an endless scroll โ€” which is also why we're straightforward about how much screen time AI tutoring really is.

Nothing is cut down

A fair worry with any "mobile version" is that features go missing. Here, they don't. The phone shell is a re-housing of the same navigation, not a smaller product:

  • Same tutors, same subjects, same teaching.
  • Same reward approvals, same reports, same Learning Genius.
  • Same account โ€” connectors and settings sync across your devices, so something set up on a laptop shows up on the phone.

On a larger screen the navigation lives in a side rail; on a phone it moves to the bottom bar. The plumbing underneath is identical. You're never choosing between "the good version" and "the phone version" โ€” there's one version, dressed for whatever screen you opened it on.

What you can do as a parent

  1. Try it on your own phone first. Sign in, tap through your dashboard bar, and get a feel for where things are before you hand anything to your child.
  2. Add it to the home screen (optional). If your child will use it often, a home-screen shortcut makes it a one-tap open โ€” as familiar as any other app to them.
  3. Point your child at "Learn." On their phone, that's the one button that matters most. Everything else can wait until they're curious.
  4. Use the dot. When the Rewards tab shows its little marker, there's an approval waiting. Clearing it takes seconds and keeps your child motivated.

Because it all rides on the browser, there's no device left behind: an old tablet, a shared family laptop, a parent's phone on the school run โ€” if it has a browser and a sign-in, it works.

FAQ

Do I need to download an app from the App Store or Google Play?

No. aitutors.me runs in your phone's web browser. Sign in, and both the parent dashboard and the child's learner home behave like an app โ€” a bottom tab bar, full-screen study โ€” with nothing to install or update from an app store.

Is the phone version cut down compared to a computer?

No. It's the same tutors, same tools and the same destinations as on a laptop โ€” just re-housed for a thumb. On a phone the navigation moves to a bottom tab bar; on a larger screen it uses a side rail. Same features either way.

What does my child see on the phone versus what I see?

Each person gets their own app-like shell. Your child's learner home has a kid-friendly bottom bar โ€” Home, Learn, Genius, Points, More. Your parent dashboard has its own bar โ€” Overview, Children, Rewards, Progress, More. Nobody sees the other's controls.

Duke Harewood built aitutors.me for his own KS3-aged daughter โ€” who, like most teenagers, would rather do almost anything on her phone than on the family laptop. So the phone had to feel right. Updated 09 July 2026.