# Varsity Tutors Live Tutoring

> Live online tutoring platform connecting students with qualified tutors for academic support. (iPhone/iPad app by Varsity Tutors.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/varsity-tutors-live-tutoring/id1050814379 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Varsity Tutors](https://appshunter.io/developer/866311651)
- Category: Education, Reference
- Price: Free
- Rating: 4.90/5 from 38,496 App Store ratings · 187 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 104 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2015-12-30
- Data updated: 2026-08-26
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/varsity-tutors-live-tutoring/id1050814379/reviews.md

## What is Varsity Tutors Live Tutoring?

The live online tutoring app by Varsity Tutors for iPhone and iPad helps you get tutoring whenever and wherever you need it with thoroughly qualified tutors. Our tutoring app allows students and tutors to participate in video tutoring, manage their accounts, send and receive messages, and manage appointments.

Features for students:
- Receive video tutoring via mobile phone or tablet, which incorporates chat, photo/homework upload, virtual whiteboard, document collaboration, and graphing
- Work on more than 200,000 high-quality practice and test preparation questions, organized by concept
- Purchase tutoring hours and schedule appointments
- Get live instant tutoring 24/7 in 70+ subjects
- Instant message with tutors

Features for tutors:
- Provide video tutoring via mobile phone or tablet, including instant sessions
- Get notified of and accept or decline tutoring opportunities
- Invoice sessions and enter session notes
- Schedule sessions
- Instant message with students
- Online tutoring session support

The Varsity Tutors' Live Online Tutoring app can connect students to live expert tutors and give students access to thousands of practice questions in many subjects, including:

- ACT prep
- AP exam prep
- GRE prep
- SAT prep
- LSAT prep
- Math (including statistics, trigonometry, calculus, geometry, and algebra)
- Science (including biology, chemistry, human anatomy, and physics)
- Computer Science
- Common Core subjects
- And hundreds of additional topics

## Key features

- Live video tutoring
- Virtual whiteboard
- Homework upload
- Practice questions
- 24/7 instant tutoring
- Appointment scheduling
- Instant messaging

## What do users think of Varsity Tutors Live Tutoring?

Overall sentiment: mixed

**Pros**

- 🚀 Efficient and fast
- 👍 Great tutors and system
- 💡 Convenient and flexible
- 👍 Helpful and professional staff

**Cons**

- 🐛 Technical issues and glitches
- 💸 Expensive tutoring services
- 🕰️ Unreliable and unresponsive tutors
- 🤖 Poor customer service and lack of refunds

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App crashes frequently
- Compatibility issues with newer devices
- Tutors unable to join sessions

**Most requested features**

- Improved push notifications
- Better integration with Google Docs

## Recent user reviews (10 of 187)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/varsity-tutors-live-tutoring/id1050814379/reviews.md

### 1/5 — Scam!!!

*2026-08-08, version 10.26.0*

Don’t download app.  This company continues to charge you AFTER you cancel! Worst customer service they lie & respond by email but keep charging!!!!

### 1/5 — AI

*2026-08-06, version 10.25.0*

It has so much ai you can just use a free ai app to help teach you

### 1/5 — More like Junior Varsity

*2026-07-23, version 10.23.0*

Enough said.

### 1/5 — Stole my money

*2026-07-11, version 10.21.0*

Be careful of this app. Didn’t ask for more sessions and was charged for two more months and only received one months back. Worst experience Iv ever had dealing with customer support. Wouldn’t recommend this app.

### 3/5 — Good content but app experience made me give up.

*2026-07-09, version 10.21.0*

App is very frustrating to use
Banner is stuck on forgot password above
When I try to change preferred contact to text, it gteys out continue
Keep getting an ad to use the app even though I’m in the app

### 1/5 — Scams

*2026-07-09, version 10.21.0*

Paid 1k and the meetings got rescheduled also never showed up to the meetings and when I checked the weekly schedules, they removed all the sessions we were supposed to have. So I paid for nothing. The 5 star reviews are most likely fake and the same goes for the ai “tutors” and also deleted my account after paying. It’s embarrassing to scam people who are trying to learn.

### 1/5 — Service and payment

*2026-07-08, version 10.21.0*

Service is usually delayed. Most of the experience will be trying to communicate through the computer because of the delay. They don’t offer refunds even if they charge you for 8 hours and you don’t use it.

### 1/5 — Nothing works right and the app freezes constantly

*2026-06-03, version 10.9.0*

Stop reworking the app before your new versions are properly tested. It's like watching amateur hour developers push new versions that straight up crash after 30 seconds of use.

### 1/5 — SUBSCRIPTION SCAM!!

*2026-05-30, version 10.8.1*

We set up weekly tutoring sessions and the instructor had an emergency event and could not make one of the sessions and now this dishonest company wants us to pay for another month to accommodate their issues.  Do not sign up with them.  I would guess that the 40k reviews are fake AI generated trash as well. good luck to anyone like me dumb enough to believe that they really care about anything but your money

### 1/5 — As a tutor, I love working with the students but have issues with the platform, billing, and app

*2026-05-29, version 10.8.1*

It seems that my students are billed weekly or monthly, regardless of whether we have a session. At the same time, I am only paid as a tutor for actual sessions by the minute. So Varsity is stacking cash while tutors get paid rather little (they advertise $40/hr but in reality, we start at only $18/hr and get minimal incentives for repeat sessions). I’ve been with the platform for about 2 months now and enjoy my time with my students very much, and have been able to accommodate their schedules and overall they report having a great experience with me. However when a student cancels their contract, all our message history is immediately erased without warning and I can no longer contact them and I get a weird email from Varsity about “no follow up needed.” They just disappear into a vacuum. At one point I had 5 students/week. I now only have 1 adult learner without any billing complaints (their work pays for it), and another adult learner who is in limbo and asked me for help and clarification on how many times we actually met. It’s not really possible to see my earnings by student nor how many actual meetings we had. I can see how much I’ve been paid in a week, but not scoped by student. 

I find their messaging system doesn’t work well on older phones (on the web or app), and the Varsity tech support could only tell me to update my iOS and my app. They use AI for first line help which is useless, so I’m often having to email different teams to escalate issues, which is a waste of my time (that I also don’t get paid for).

My students find their Live Learning platform difficult to use to screen share. I like the whiteboard feature, but I have to explain every.single.time to my adult learner students how to properly share their screen, which takes time away from our learning session.

The iOS app has been getting a lot of updates over the past few weeks, which is good in theory but also annoying as I’m trying to hop on to message a student, for example before a scheduled meeting or if a session dropped due to WiFi or something else. 

Overall, I appreciate the philosophy of this platform and the students I’ve connected with. Unfortunately, the actual tech and the billing issues I hear about from my students make me wary.

## Frequently asked questions about Varsity Tutors Live Tutoring

### What is Varsity Tutors Live Tutoring?

Varsity Tutors Live Tutoring is a mobile application designed to connect students with thoroughly qualified tutors for live online sessions. It facilitates video tutoring, account management, messaging, and appointment scheduling, offering academic support whenever and wherever it's needed.

### What features are available for students?

Students can receive video tutoring with features like chat, photo/homework upload, a virtual whiteboard, document collaboration, and graphing. They also gain access to over 200,000 practice questions, can purchase tutoring hours, schedule appointments, and get live instant tutoring 24/7 in over 70 subjects.

### How does the app handle payments and scheduling?

Students can purchase tutoring hours directly through the app and schedule appointments with tutors. Tutors can invoice sessions and enter session notes, and both students and tutors can manage their schedules within the application.

### What subjects are covered by the tutoring service?

The app offers live tutoring in a wide array of subjects, including ACT, AP, GRE, SAT, and LSAT prep, as well as various branches of Math (statistics, trigonometry, calculus, geometry, algebra), Science (biology, chemistry, human anatomy, physics), Computer Science, Common Core subjects, and hundreds of other topics.

### Is this app available on different devices?

Yes, the Varsity Tutors Live Tutoring app is available for iPhone and iPad, allowing students and tutors to connect and engage in tutoring sessions via their mobile devices.

## Version history (last 5 of 5)

### 10.27.4 — 2026-08-24

We are continuously adding improvements and bug fixes, thank you for using our mobile app!

### 10.26.0 — 2026-08-06

We are continuously adding improvements and bug fixes, thank you for using our mobile app!

### 10.25.0 — 2026-07-30

We are continuously adding improvements and bug fixes, thank you for using our mobile app!

### 10.23.0 — 2026-07-22

We are continuously adding improvements and bug fixes, thank you for using our mobile app!

### 10.22.0 — 2026-07-16

We are continuously adding improvements and bug fixes, thank you for using our mobile app!

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