Can parents see the board?

Give them a read-only share link; they can see every card but not edit. The two editors are the tutor and the student.

Can I put the exam date on it?

Yes — a countdown with a label (“GCSE maths in 61 days”) sits at the top of the board.

Does it hold the actual worksheets?

Notes on a card can hold links and checklists. There's no file storage today.

Does the other person need to pay or install anything?

No. They open your invite link, type a name and an email, and they're on the board. Installing it as an app on their phone is optional. Simpleban is free forever for two: you and the one person you invite get every feature, unlimited boards and cards, no trial and no credit card. The promise is written into the Terms: nothing that is free today will ever move behind a paywall, and your +1 never pays. If you need more people or want to share boards beyond your +1, we'll soon introduce subscription tiers — a flat rate, never per seat.

Tutors & students

A shared planner for a tutor and a student

Updated 20 October 2026 · by the Simpleban team

In short

Tutoring loses most of its value in the six days between lessons, when the homework quietly doesn't happen. Simpleban is a free shared kanban board for a tutor and one student: each piece of homework and each revision topic is a card owned by the student with a due date, the exam date sits at the top as a countdown, and when the student finishes something they hand it to the tutor to mark — which shows as “waiting on you” on the tutor's board. Parents can follow along with a read-only link.

Simpleban, a kanban board for two people: a shared “Our home” board with This week, Doing, Waiting and Done columns, cards marked Mine or assigned to a partner, due dates, repeating chores and a moving-day countdown.

Columns that work for study

Column	What's there
To learn	Topics on the syllabus not started yet
This week	What the tutor set at the last lesson — due before the next
To mark	Handed to the tutor
Done	Marked and understood — the pile that grows before the exam

How it works

Every card has an owner: you, the student, or either of you — so “who is on this?” is answered before anyone asks.
Hand a card to the student and it moves to the top of their board under “waiting on you”. If they're not on the app, Simpleban emails them a few minutes later, and the next morning's 8am email mentions it once if it's still waiting — never every day. You never press a “remind” button.
When the student is done, they hand it back and it reappears at the top of the tutor's board.
Repeating cards come back on their own schedule — daily, weekly, chosen weekdays, every N days, monthly — and can alternate between the two of you.
Due dates with a calm Today / This week filter, a private calendar feed for Google, Apple or Outlook, and a countdown on the board for the date that matters.
Notes, checklists and comments live inside each card, so the context travels with the task.
A repeating card for the weekly lesson prep, and for daily revision in the final month.
The student joins from your invite link with a name and an email — no password, nothing to pay. Both of you have the full app on your own phone; it installs like an app and works offline for reading.

For parents and teenagers

The same board works between a parent and a teenager revising for exams: the countdown makes the timeline real, ownership removes the nagging, and the 8am email is the app's, not the parent's.

Templates to start from

Questions, answered

Can parents see the board?: Give them a read-only share link; they can see every card but not edit. The two editors are the tutor and the student.
Can I put the exam date on it?: Yes — a countdown with a label (“GCSE maths in 61 days”) sits at the top of the board.
Does it hold the actual worksheets?: Notes on a card can hold links and checklists. There's no file storage today.
Does the other person need to pay or install anything?: No. They open your invite link, type a name and an email, and they're on the board. Installing it as an app on their phone is optional. Simpleban is free forever for two: you and the one person you invite get every feature, unlimited boards and cards, no trial and no credit card. The promise is written into the Terms: nothing that is free today will ever move behind a paywall, and your +1 never pays. If you need more people or want to share boards beyond your +1, we'll soon introduce subscription tiers — a flat rate, never per seat.