Every student remembered, every lesson in one calm place — video, notes, scheduling and payments that finally belong to you, not a marketplace.
Built for coaches — not another marketplace.
Everything a private teaching practice needs — in one calm place
Verbalgerbil keeps a running memory for every student — goals, level, what you covered last time, the words they keep tripping over. It surfaces the moment their lesson opens, so you walk in already knowing exactly where to pick up.
“Wants to hold a comfortable 10-minute conversation about daily life and travel by the autumn.”
Past tense storytelling — she narrated a weekend trip. Still mixing up fui / fiz. Loved the market vocabulary.
A private video room for every lesson — no links to send, no downloads. Your notes live right beside the video, and when you hang up, Verbalgerbil drafts the recap. Nothing reaches the student until you approve it.
Great session on past-tense storytelling. Suggested focus next time: fui vs. fiz.
Private until you approve — nothing reaches Sofia yet.
Prefer Zoom or Google Meet? Attach your own link instead — both work.
Send a card-payment invoice straight from a student's page, prefilled from your rates. Card payments run through Stripe on your own Stripe account, so you're the merchant of record: the money is yours, and Verbalgerbil never sits in the middle of it.
Mark each lesson as it really happened — completed, skipped or rescheduled — and your earnings and hours come straight off that record instead of off memory.
Students get one clean place to join the call, read the recaps you approved, see their focus areas, open resources and pay by card — across every coach they learn with.
Nice work on phrasal verbs. Focus next: work out vs. figure out.
A friend of a happy student is your best lead. Add them in seconds and pick up like you've always taught here.
The ones who drifted off. Their whole history comes with them, so returning feels like they never left.
The people who found you and chose you. Keep the relationship — and the payment — entirely between the two of you.
Set up your workspace in minutes and explore with a sample roster — no card required.
Verbalgerbil is in beta — an early version. Features can change, and things can break. It's free to use today, and if that ever changes you'll be told before anything is charged.
Verbalgerbil is built and run by one person — B. Miles Tharp — rather than by a company. Support, privacy and legal questions all reach the same inbox: bmilestharp@gmail.com.
The database is backed up daily and can be rolled back to any point in the last 7 days. That is not a promise that nothing can be lost — during the beta, keep your own copy of anything you can't afford to lose.
Verbalgerbil was previously called Cadence — same operator, same app, new name. The site is still reached at myperfectcadence.com while the change works its way through.
The full picture is in the Terms and the Privacy Policy.