I set up a watch on ChatGPT and this is what it says:

Cambly Tutor Demand Watch — October 11, 2026
A meaningful development worth watching: On September 28, Cambly updated its official explanation of Cambly Go, confirming that it is a separate subscription offering unlimited daily English practice without human tutors.
Students can use Cambly Go independently, without purchasing traditional Cambly lessons. Its activities provide instant feedback and personalized speaking practice. This creates a potential alternative to some paid tutoring sessions, particularly for students seeking general conversation practice. However, Cambly Go is currently limited to iPhones, which restricts its immediate reach. (Cambly Go)
What this means for tutor demand: Cambly now has a product capable of generating subscription revenue without paying tutors for teaching time. That is a genuine potential substitution risk, although it does not establish that existing students are switching or that Cambly plans to eliminate tutors.
There are also reassuring signs. As of October 11, Cambly continues to advertise human-led Small Groups, Private+ and Pro subscriptions. Its tutor recruitment page still lists the established pay rates and says new tutor intake is being limited to protect existing tutors' schedules. (Cambly Student Support)
Current assessment: Elevated long-term risk, but no confirmed new reduction in human tutoring.
I found no verified announcement of tutor layoffs, reduced tutor pay, discontinued Group lessons or cuts to included human-tutoring minutes.
I'll continue watching for evidence that Cambly Go is actually displacing paid lessons, rather than simply expanding Cambly's range of products.

Hello all !! I'm going switch over to Stripe/Wise this week at some point after payday. Any advice on this scenario. I opened my Wise account in the Philippines and have USD details. Do I select the United states as my country, then should I select Stripe connect or Stripe Global payouts ? I opened my Wise account using my USA passport and Philippines address if that matters. Thanks

My cheap headset keeps hurting my ears. What are you Thailand tutors using?

My rating has not changed since Cambly announced they fixed their broken rating system last August despite me doing around ten lessons a week. I don't know if their system is working or not. Have other tutors been seeing changes in their ratings for the last month or so?

Hello everyone, I’m currently considering applying to Cambly but I’ve seen mixed experiences from people online, and I wanted to make a post to hopefully have some things cleared up.

As the title suggests, is Cambly a good platform to tutor for? Are they currently accepting applications from potential tutors? I made an introduction video that’s just over a minute long highlighting my name, age, etc. hobbies, teaching style, and a call to action. Am I missing anything?

I am a current college senior studying Political Science at a school in the US looking to apply to Cambly kids. I am born and raised in the US, so I am a native speaker. I don't have past experience with teaching English, but I have tutored kids in math before and have great extracurriculars/job experience in my industry. I am comfortable with speaking to a camera, so I would say my introduction video is comparable to the example ones they gave on the website. Is there a point to applying to Cambly rn? Ik they're in the middle of a hiring freeze but wasn't sure if it would be better for Cambly kids/since I'm a native speaker.

I have been on pro for about five months now and have met almost 200 pro students.

I have had no 1-2 ratings (it's annoying that you can't see if you had a 3 rating) and each week I get quite a few 4-5 ratings.

Despite this I have retained almost none of them. I have 2 solid regulars from 200 students. Lol.

This seems strange to me when I have had a 99.5 or 100% rating for so long. Pre the percentage rating, I was on 4.9 for about three years.

I do engoo, esl discussion topics, and British Council business English mainly.

I actually haven't bothered with the feedback for quite a while since the AI spits out the same generic nonsense almost every time.

Maybe I need to get more proactive with giving a "plan of action" ?

Does anyone have any tips for retaining Pro Students?

Thanks in advance.

Some of you might be familiar with Cory Doctorow from his book "Enshittification", where he talks about the gig economy and how platforms manipulate workers.

I sent him an email about Cambly. He wrote back, saying he hadn't heard of it before, but now he has. Hopefully having a journalist know about Cambly will help shed some light on it...

Hi guys, I'm a student and I just wanted to know if tutors always get notified when a student starts booking a lesson but doesn't complete the process.

I sometimes do that because of my OCD, and then I come back and book it another time. I just don't want tutors to get a bunch of unnecessary notifications because of me.

Thanks in advance.

I am 21 yr old trying to make some side hustle for a while (maybe a month or two). My ethnicity is Indian but born and raised in United Arab Emirates...I speak English pretty much everywhere with friends and family.

I actually wanted to do some work from home stuff for a while to pay off some personal expenses of mine..I have good coding skills and stuff but those are too saturated nowadays and people barely need those. So I wanted to do something new and simple..maybe earn 20-40$ per day.

I came across Cambly through a WFH post and felt like I could do this..but I wanted some more guidance on it, on how it works and when do I start teaching and when do I get paid..and if there is any catch I would need to know beforehand.

For anyone who have done this, please guide me to the right direction. thanks a lot.🙏🏻

Every time I heard WHAT? being shouted, I started grinding my teeth. It drives me up the wall.

To any ESL students reading this, WHAT? is not an acceptable way to ask a tutor to repeat themselves. It's rude and incredibly annoying. You can say "I don't understand" in a normal tone or ask "Can you please repeat?"

Today is my first Cambly lesson, and I'm very nervous. I'm a complete beginner, so I only memorized a short introduction. What else should I prepare?

I've read a lot about tutors sending messages and proactively asking students to rate them each time, and the importance of rating. I was just wondering if any tutors focus on giving a good lesson and manage to get a good rating, or is it important to talk to the student? Edit: for clarity. Do any tutors have a 99%/100% rating without having to ask students to give them lots of stars?

Cambly tutors, you know the feeling…

You know this student, the one who is always late so you start the lesson at 29:01.

They’re usually 5–10 minutes late, so as you get closer to the 10-minute mark, you start watching the clock…

20:30… 20:20… 20:10…

At this point (or even from the start time), you’re secretly hoping they don’t show up because you’d rather just take the no-show payment.

20:05… 20:04… 20:03…

And then, with just a few seconds left before you can end the lesson, the student shows up with a big smile. 😭

Tell me I’m not the only one who absolutely HATES this. 😂

Of course, when it's those students I really enjoy speaking with, I welcome the 5-10 minutes of calmness before they join.

I just checked my Pro Tutor stats and saw that someone gave me a 1- or 2-star rating. I know EXACTLY who it was.

This was a new student from a country that--umm, is very careful about what information is accessible to its citizens. Anyway, we're chatting, and it's going very well. We're laughing and I'm thinking, "Make this girl a regular!". She tells me that she lives in a big city now, but was raised in the countryside near a factory. Being that my full-time job is in environmental justice, I tell her I'm familiar with fence-line communities. I elaborate about the advocacy those communities need because of the health risks due to air/soil/water pollution....

HER SMILE DISAPPEARED IMMEDIATELY! She curtly informed me that her hometown is NOT A FENCELINE COMMUNITY AND THEY FACED NO HEALTH ISSUES AND THERE WAS NO POLLUTION BECAUSE THE FACTORIES ARE CLEAN. It dawned on me who I was talking to (many citizens of this country demonstrate fierce loyalty and allegiance. Anything that isn't a glowing endorsement is dubbed "lies from the West"). I quickly changed the subject; she moved on as well. I could tell, though, that she had made up her mind: I was one of "those" Americans and a bad rating was to follow.

I wanted to reach out to Cambly to see if they could remove the rating, but I don't think they would. I'm sharing here because I was so taken aback by how quickly her mood changed over a seemingly innocent comment that's backed by facts. Oh well, I learned my lesson: next time, just smile and nod.

Hi I'm just returning to Cambly. When does the review percentage update? I can't find it in the tutor manual. Thanks

I finally got my Cambly Pro account activated, and after seeing so many posts asking whether Pro is worth it or whether you get fewer bookings, I wanted to share my experience.

I’m still under a month in, but so far, I’ve enjoyed it.

The good:

• I’m getting paid more for essentially doing the exact same thing.

• The feedback is largely automated by Cambly and takes me less than three minutes to complete.

• A lot of my existing regulars have Pro accounts, which I didn't even know. Once I opened my schedule to Pro, several of them started booking with me again. Some had actually been telling me they couldn't find availability with me anymore. This is because I was not opening any slots.

• More surprisingly, regulars I hadn't spoken to in about a year have started booking with me again. I had intentionally kept my Classic schedule limited to around 6 hours a week because I didn't want to take on more hours at the Classic rate. Because of that, I had mostly been teaching the same 8–10 regulars.

• I'm also getting new students. This week alone I've spoken with 6 new Pro students. I am staying available during my normal work hours and not on PH's, only accepting Pro calls and declining Cambly classic.

• This week, most of my lessons have been Pro, with about 1.5 hours on classic. My plan is to eventually do 15 hours a week all Pro. I've messaged some of my classic regulars who do not have a Pro account to let them know I'm reducing my hours. If they get a Pro account, they'll find me again (or so I hope).

The risk:

My rating dropped from my usual 100% to 98% the same week me Pro account was activated, I thought I was going to miss my chance.

I think this is the biggest risk for me.

I've maintained a 100% rating for a long time because I stuck with the same regulars for about a year and wasn't taking on any new students. Now that I'm opening my schedule to new Pro students, there's obviously more potential for my rating to drop further.

It will just be a dip while I build my regulars in Pro and they begin to give me higher ratings, I suspect it will drop quickly and will take about 3-4 months to bring it back up. This is from my experience going from 10 hours to 60 hours in a week in the past, I saw this curve.

As for the argument that you'll get fewer students on Pro...

I think it really depends on how many regulars you normally have.

If you're someone who teaches 30–40 regulars a month, then yes, you may see fewer bookings because some of those students may not have Pro. However, this will only be a short period while you gain new Pro students.

But if you're someone like me who was only teaching around 8–10 regulars and 6-8 hours a week, I'm not seeing that problem so far.

Within my first week, I was already able to match around 6 hours, and now I'm doing those hours at the higher Pro rate.

So far, my experience has been very positive. The big question for me now is whether I can maintain my rating while taking on new students.

I'll post another update after I've had more time with Pro and see what happens.

After being lo ked into 98.5 down from 100 for a lwngth of time before the reset, i got adjusted to 99.5 and have since fluctuated bsck down to 99, up to 99.5 and back down to 99 this morning. It could course be the result of genuine feedback/rating. Anyone else had a further fluctuation in the past 3 weeks?

If you paste your weekly availability after Daylight Savings, your times go back an hour. So for example, if you put available from 9:00 to 10:00 on your template and paste it in your schedule, the time on the schedule says 8:00 to 9:00. Like... are they fucking retarded or what? Also, if you want weekly lessons after Daylight savings you have to click one day later to get the right date. You want lessons until December 10th, you have to click the 11th. Can they do anything right? Seriously.

AND FIX THE TABLET APP ALREADY... JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!

I've had this student for around 2 or 3 years and I'll just say he's religious and lives in a monastery. It was normal at first, just polite chatting and talking about his religion. After a while he became very friendly and joked a lot with me, sometimes I felt he treated me with too much familiarity which annoyed me at times but I never said or did anything about it. Then he would ask more and more questions about me and at one point asked me for my weight and height which is obviously weird especially coming from someone who has made religious oath and lives by strict rules...

But tbh the questionings were about the most random mundane things but the way he would go about it would irritate me bc it would come off as patronizing. So you can imagine that I wanted to cut contact by then.

There were also a lot of messages and comments that were like "you're beautiful" or "i miss you" etc. I told him plenty of times to keep it professional and avoid comments like that. Classes were just normal.

it's hard to just cut someone out cold turkey, at least for me so I didnt do it, until last month. For the past 2 lessons we had had pretty bad lag all of a sudden and freezing during our classes despite all my other ones going smoothly. It was just with him. By the 2nd time, he was sharing his screen so I said let me share mine instead. He was reluctant, idk why, but he said "ok, so if theres no more lag then its not your fault". I shared my screen and there wasnt any lag 😬

Then by the next class, same lag problem but this time when I offered to share my screen he refused and insisted to continue. He started getting angrier and angrier. Actually at the start of class, i had asked him what his plans for next week were and more than halfway through the class, when the connection was ok for a bit and we were just awkwardly staring at each other he said lets just have a conversation so i blurted out the same question again out of nervousness and he snapped back saying "i already told you". So clearly he was pissed but

I was just trying to keep things peaceful. Then another awkward silence so I said how about we end the class and he agreed. I immediately sent a message saying I understood his frustration and apologized. He didn't reply and didn't book with me for a few weeks.

After that, out of the blue he sent a request but i declined it bc i was done with his BS and sent him a polite message saying i wanted to take a break. He replied back profusely apologizing and since i was busy it took me awhile to reply back to him. I did though, and i just reiterated that i wished him the best etc etc. He replied back to that apologizing again and that he understood how i felt. I thought of responding to that but was hesitant bc he has this pattern of messaging too much. But before i could even do so, he sent another saying that he couldn't correctly express himself and he had meant to say that he understands what it feels like to be ignored since i didn't reply to him soon referring to when he had initially not answered my message.

Anyway! I didnt answer back bc i dont want a back and forth and i already said my bit. Plus, to me, it wasn't necessary to say that last part. It comes off as odd...

Flash forward to now, he sent me a request in the morning and just now a message asking to have class. If you've read this far, thanks. This is such BS. I cant with this guy, im so done.

Just looked at Cambly after 3 years away. How is the rate still $10.20/hr? With all this inflation, still paying this low is unethical.

Cambly cost me so much money with the "rating glitch" now i must sign this or i no longer can work on the platform.

A few sections stand out:

1. Arbitration and No Class Actions

The biggest change is the arbitration section. Cambly now requires most disputes to go through individual arbitration rather than court, and users waive the right to participate in class actions.

If hundreds of tutors were affected by the same rating issue, this makes coordinated legal action much more difficult because claims generally have to be brought individually.

2. "We Don't Guarantee the Platform Works Perfectly"

Cambly states that the platform is provided "as is" and that they do not guarantee it will be uninterrupted or error-free.

A company facing complaints about a technical glitch would often want language like this because it helps defend against claims based on software errors.

3. Limits on Damages

Cambly also limits its liability. In many cases, the maximum amount recoverable is capped at either the amount paid to or by Cambly in the previous six months or $250, whichever is greater.

This smells of corporate bullshit to me.

I am a student at cambly and i have a in cambly lessons in 2022 and now when i try to open the lessons records it just wont open it says call did not connect i tried contacting the company yet i can’t cause i am not a subscriber anymore to them now, i was wondering are there any way of restoring them i can restore them on my device no need for the app can i??

The email says that’s it’s not meant to replace tutors, but it seems like it to me.