Remind
Classroom management software
Classroom messaging software
Tutoring software
Education software
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- Ease of management
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What is Remind
Remind is a school communication platform that enables teachers and school staff to send messages and announcements to students and families. It is used for classroom updates, reminders, two-way messaging, and school-wide communications, with options to manage contact lists and message delivery across devices. The product emphasizes communication workflows designed for K–12 environments, including features intended to support privacy and administrative oversight.
Purpose-built school messaging
Remind focuses on teacher-to-family and teacher-to-student communication rather than general video, content creation, or device management. This makes it straightforward to use for routine classroom updates, schedule changes, and reminders. The product structure aligns to common K–12 communication needs such as class rosters and group messaging.
Supports multiple recipient groups
Remind supports messaging to classes, groups, and individuals, which helps teachers segment communications by course section or activity. This reduces the need to maintain separate email lists or ad-hoc contact groups. It also supports school-level communication use cases where staff need to reach broader audiences.
Administrative and safety controls
Remind includes controls intended for school environments, such as account and organization management and features designed to support safer communications. These capabilities can help districts apply consistent policies across classrooms. Compared with tools centered on instructional content delivery, this provides more direct governance over messaging workflows.
Limited instructional content depth
Remind is primarily a communication tool and does not provide the same depth for lesson delivery, interactive instruction, or video-based learning workflows as platforms focused on classroom content and engagement. Schools often need additional systems for assignments, grading, or rich instructional media. This can increase the number of tools teachers and students must use.
Not a full tutoring platform
While it can support tutoring coordination and communication, Remind is not designed as a comprehensive tutoring system with scheduling, session management, payments, or tutor marketplace features. Organizations running formal tutoring programs may require separate software for program operations. Remind typically fits best as the messaging layer rather than the tutoring system of record.
Feature availability varies by plan
Some capabilities for districts and schools may depend on licensing tiers and administrative configuration. This can create differences in functionality across classrooms within the same organization if adoption is uneven. Buyers should validate which compliance, admin, and reporting features are included in the specific edition they plan to deploy.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Remind Chat | $0 — Free for teachers/activity leaders | Two-way, text-based messaging; automatic translation into 90+ languages; mobile-first notifications; up to 100 classes per account and up to 5,000 participants per class; always free for teachers/activity leaders. |
| Remind Hub (Essentials / Plus / Premium) | Contact sales — no public pricing listed | School/organization product with administrator oversight, organization-wide messaging, urgent notifications, voice calls, engagement analytics; plans named Essentials, Plus, Premium — pricing available by contacting Remind sales. |
Usage-based offering (Remind Tutoring): Pricing model: Pay-as-you-go Free tier/trial: First 40-minute tutoring session is free (one-time). Example costs: Subsequent one-on-one tutoring sessions: $40 per session. Discount/options for schools/districts: Remind invites administrators to "offer Remind Tutoring at scale" and to join a waitlist or contact sales for program details (no public per-seat or volume pricing listed).
Seller details
Remind
San Francisco, CA, USA
2011
Private
https://www.remind.com/
https://x.com/remindhq
https://www.linkedin.com/company/remind/
