Allegrow vs Music Teacher’s Helper

A Music Teacher’s Helper alternative with real practice

Music Teacher’s Helper has helped private teachers run their studios for a long time. If you want the same essentials, plus practice that’s measured instead of logged and an app your students will open, here’s how Allegrow Studio compares.

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At a glance

	Allegrow Studio	Music Teacher’s Helper
Price	$9 a month for up to 25 students, then $3 a month for each 25 more. Music school: $29 a month	Plans by number of students, from Basic (1–20) to Unlimited (101+). See their site for prices
Free trial	First month free, every feature, no card	14 days, no card
Practice between lessons	Timed automatically. The student’s app listens and counts only real playing, plus tuning and steady rhythm	Practice log
App for students and parents	Free app for iPhone, iPad and any browser (Android app coming soon). Children don’t need accounts	See their site
Scheduling	Yes, with a live calendar feed, cancellations, makeup credits and a booking page	Yes, with email and text reminders
Billing	Billing reminders, late fees, and card payments through your own Stripe account, optional autopay, and a year-end income summary	Automatic recurring billing, card or PayPal payments, and tax preparation
Assignments	With your own recordings, files and links, shown in the student’s app	Lesson notes
Also included	Repertoire, music theory games, recitals with a running order and printable program, progress reports, group classes and camps, an enrollment page you design, studio numbers	Attendance tracking

Also in Allegrow Studio

Families and new students: a booking page you design yourself (photo, what you teach, prices, kind words, questions), trial lessons, an enrollment form, an inquiries board with follow-up reminders, and next year’s sign-up in one tap.
Talking to families: messages to everyone, a class, a day or everyone with a lesson on a date (with a snow-day option that cancels those lessons), RSVPs for recitals, and a welcome checklist for each new student.
Lessons and classes: group classes with waitlists and attendance, camps and workshops, a part for each player in an ensemble, time away with a substitute’s private link, places and rooms, and online lesson links.
Billing: new rates from a date (with a note to families), card payments and autopay, other payers such as a charter school or sponsor, expenses and mileage, and a year-end income summary.
Running the studio: a helper’s login for an assistant, studio numbers (who joined, who left and why), teacher pay for music schools, and search across everything.

See every Allegrow Studio feature → Every feature is optional, and all of them are included in every plan.

Where Music Teacher’s Helper is a good fit

Music Teacher’s Helper is one of the longest-running tools for private music teachers. It covers scheduling, recurring billing with card or PayPal payments, email and text reminders, and tax preparation, with plans priced by how many students you teach.

Where Allegrow is different

Practice is counted, not logged

Instead of a practice log that students or parents fill in, Allegrow’s free student app listens while they play and counts only real playing. Before each lesson you see who practiced, for how long, and how in tune and steady it was.

A modern app families actually open

Assignments with your recordings appear on the student’s phone or tablet, along with streaks, badges, a tuner, a metronome and theory games. Parents get a weekly recap, and you get fewer “I forgot what to practice” lessons.

Everything in one price

Every feature is on every plan. A music school pays one price for all its teachers.

Switching

Start your free month. Every feature is included, and you don’t need a card.
Import your students from a spreadsheet or another app’s export, and your lessons and assignments in bulk.
Send families an invite. They join with a code or a printed sheet with a QR code, and practice is counted from their first session.

Questions teachers ask

Is Allegrow a good Music Teacher’s Helper alternative?

If you want practice that’s measured instead of logged, and an app your students actually use, yes. Allegrow also covers scheduling, assignments, makeups and billing.

Is Allegrow free for small studios?

Your first month is free with every feature. After that, the Teacher plan is $9 a month for up to 25 students. The family app is always free for students and parents.

Can I bring my students over?

Yes. Import them from a spreadsheet or another app’s export, then send families an invite code or a printed sheet with a QR code.

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Allegrow publishes this page, so read it with that in mind. We’ve tried to be fair and to stick to what each company says publicly. Other companies’ details come from their own websites, checked November 9, 2026: My Music Staff’s pricing and features pages, and Music Teacher’s Helper’s pricing and features page. Details change, so check their sites for current prices. My Music Staff and Music Teacher’s Helper are trademarks of their owners. Allegrow isn’t affiliated with them. Spot something out of date? Email hello@allegrowmusic.com and we’ll fix it.