Passly vs ADI Network

The subscription is genuinely free: no monthly fee, no contract, and that is a real saving over any paid diary app. But free is not fee-free. ADI Network's own terms set a 2% + 30p charge on every card payment you take from your own private pupils, which is higher than GoRoadie's 1.9% and Passly's flat 1.5%, and the fee is kept even if you refund the lesson. On £20,000 a year of private-pupil card payments, ADI Network's payment fee comes to about £400 more than a year of Passly costs in subscription and fees combined, depending on your average transaction size.

ADI Network Limited and Star Genie Limited, which trades as PassMeFast, sit in the same group, and the app's seller on the App Store is PassMeFast. The jobs board is PassMeFast's intensive-course pipeline: ADI Network's own site says it has "partnered with our friends at PassMeFast to host their available jobs". The app is free for the same reason a franchise car can look cheap: it recruits and retains the instructor supply that the learner-facing business sells to.

Three things, all from ADI Network's own terms. The course supplier sets the rate, not you; you can request a change but not set your own price. The learner is ADI Network's customer, not yours, and you handle their data on the platform's behalf. And once you accept a course, disconnecting from it is discouraged, with repeat disconnections affecting your standing. Against that, the upfront payment in 10-hour blocks before the first lesson is a genuinely good deal that most rivals do not match.

The marketplace learners were never yours to take: they are the platform's customers. Your private pupils are yours, but ADI Network's terms say account termination results in your private students' data being deleted, and you cannot close the account at all while you have active courses, unresolved complaints or outstanding debts. Passly's position is the opposite: every pupil is yours, your data exports to CSV free at any time, and you can cancel self-serve whenever you like.

Yes, and for some instructors that is the honest answer. ADI Network's terms have no exclusivity clause, so you can take PassMeFast course work through its jobs board when you have gaps, while running your own pupils, payments, online booking and finances on Passly, where the 1.5% payment fee is lower and the business you build is yours.