Free online booking for music teachers
What you see. A sample dashboard, shown with a cleaning business's bookings.
What your clients see. The music teacher starter page, before you change anything.
My Music Staff and TutorBird are studio management tools. If you teach on your own, 1MinuteBooking books and sells your lessons, free.
A parent books up to 3 students back to back, each with their own lesson length, instrument and level. How it works
A 10-lesson package books the first lesson, and students book the rest from their own link once it's paid for. How packages work
Book a weekly student for up to 26 lessons at once, and each one can still be moved on its own. How repeating bookings work
No add-ons to buy and no per-feature upgrades. Pro, at $10 a month, only adds your branding, Excel export and analytics.
Clients pay a deposit or the full price by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay as they book, straight into your own Stripe account. How it works
Bookings are confirmed the moment they come in, with a confirmation email. Bookings that look risky still wait for you. How it works
Clients get the date, time and address by email 24 hours before, or when you choose. How it works
A Manage booking button lets clients move or cancel up to a cutoff you set. You get an email for every change. How it works
When you mark a booking Completed, the client gets a Book again button with their last booking filled in. How it works
Every booking shows up in Google, Outlook or Apple Calendar, and moves and cancellations update by themselves. How it works
Paste one line of code, and clients book and pay right on your site.
Square, Calendly and BookingKoala, side by side, for one person running their own business.
| 1MinuteBooking | Square Appointments | Calendly | BookingKoala | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost for one person | $0, with no time limit. Pro is an optional $10 a month | Free for one location. Plus is $49 a month per location (Oct 2026) | Free for one event type. $10 to $12 a month for more (Oct 2026) | From $27 a month, after a 14-day trial (Oct 2026) |
| Prices built from the job | Hours, quantities, sizes, add-ons and travel fees | Service variations | One event, one length | Pricing parameters for cleaning-style forms |
| Card deposits as they book | On the free plan, into your own Stripe account. 2% plus Stripe's fee | Through Square payments | On paid plans | Through its payment gateway |
| Quote requests with photos | Yes, with your own questions and up to 5 photos | Estimates in Square Invoices, not on the booking page | No | A lead form |
| Travel fees and drive time | A fee and drive time for each distance | Not a built-in setting | No | Pricing by location |
| Setup | Minutes. Your trade's services, prices and questions start filled in | Build your services in the Square dashboard | Build your event types | Pick an industry, then set up forms and providers |
Last updated . From each company's pricing page and help center. Plans change, so check theirs before you decide. Full comparisons: Square Appointments · Calendly · BookingKoala
Music teachers comparing software usually look at My Music Staff and TutorBird. They're studio management tools with invoicing, attendance, student portals and lesson notes.
If you run a studio with term billing and several teachers, studio software is worth it. If you teach on your own, 1MinuteBooking books lessons and siblings and lets weekly students rebook themselves. It's free, with no time limit.
Your booking page with stock photos, bookings and quote requests.
Your logo, your own photos and colors, Excel export and analytics, and no "Powered by" badge.
Studios with term billing often use My Music Staff or TutorBird. A teacher who mainly needs lessons, instruments and sibling bookings can use 1MinuteBooking for free.
Yes - up to 3 students in one booking. After picking the first student's lesson, the parent taps "+ Add another student" and fills in the next one: their own lesson length and instrument, and their own age and level. The lessons run back-to-back, so the booking is as long as all of them together and the price is the sum; the date, time and location are asked once, and an in-home travel charge is added once. Your bookings, receipts and emails list each student separately.
Only if you want them to. Each lesson asks for the instrument, and the starter menu prices piano, guitar, voice, drums and other instruments the same. To charge more for one, give that option its own price in Settings > Add-ons.
Open a Completed booking and click Duplicate booking - the same client, services, add-ons and notes are filled in at your current prices, so you just pick the next date. For a fixed schedule, set Repeat on New booking (every 1-4 weeks, up to 26 visits) - see repeating bookings. Clients also get a Book again link in their thank-you email.
Yes - buffer time keeps a fixed gap of 5 to 60 minutes before and after every booked lesson.
Yes - with location options. The Private Music Teacher preset starts with "Our studio" (no charge), "Your home" (+$15) and "Online (video call)" (no charge). Students who come to you see your business address on the booking page and in their emails. Change the names, prices and travel times, or add your own, under Settings > Locations. The drive time blocks your calendar but is never shown to the client.
Yes - Online (video call) is one of the starter locations, at no extra charge.
Sign up free with Private Music Teacher already selected. You can change anything later.