Planning tools, not class libraries. What yoga teachers actually need software for — sequencing, timing, cues and lesson plans — and which tools do it. Checked August 2026.
We loaded every tool's own site on 8 August 2026 and report what it publishes. Where a company does not publish its price — and two of these do not — we say so and attribute third-party figures rather than presenting them as confirmed.
We publish FLOW, one of the tools listed. Its limitations are stated alongside everyone else's, and the section on Tummee explains plainly where Tummee is the better choice. No tool paid to be here and no link earns us anything.
Knowing what prepares what, and what has to counter it. A class library shows finished classes; it will not help you build one.
A class that runs eight minutes over is a real problem. Live timing while you plan is the fix.
Cues, breath counts, contraindications, which side you started. Held in the plan, not in your head at 7am.
A plan you cannot print or hand to a substitute has not finished the job.
1Best for: Teachers planning several classes a week, often on a phone between them
2Best for: Teacher trainers and anyone building curriculum who needs breadth above all
3Best for: Therapeutic and one-to-one teaching, where the reasoning matters more than the library
4Best for: Teachers who want a plan written down and nothing more
5Best for: Teachers with a settled repertoire who do not need a pose library
Be honest about how many classes you teach. Below two a week, a notebook genuinely wins — the tool costs more time to maintain than it saves. Above four, the timing and the reusable plans pay for themselves in the first month, and the argument for paper stops working.
Most use either a dedicated sequence builder — FLOW, Tummee, Sequence Wiz, Yoga Class Plan — or a general note-taking tool. The dedicated tools add a pose library with cues and contraindications, live class timing, and exportable lesson plans; a notebook adds none of those but costs nothing.
It depends on what you use Tummee for. If it is the library depth, nothing here matches it and switching will feel like a downgrade. If it is week-to-week class planning, FLOW covers that with an openly published price and a free tier that includes its whole pose library. For therapeutic one-to-one work, Sequence Wiz is the closer fit.
Openly published prices in this category run roughly $8 to $15 a month, with annual plans cheaper. Two of the best-known tools do not publish a price on their site at all — when we checked on 8 August 2026, Tummee's pricing page redirected to a login and Sequence Wiz did not list membership pricing. Third-party roundups quote figures for both; treat those as second-hand.
FLOW is free to use with its complete 420+ pose library; the paid plan adds unlimited saved sequences, PDF export and sharing. Most competitors offer a trial rather than a lasting free tier. A general tool like Notion is free but gives you no pose data.
Not if you teach one or two classes a week from a repertoire you know. The case appears at volume: four or more classes a week, covering for other teachers, or teaching styles you are still learning. That is where timing, saved plans and contraindications in front of you save real time.
That is the practical test of any planning tool. Exportable PDFs and share links mean a sub can teach your class without a phone call. If a tool keeps the plan locked inside itself, it has not finished the job.
Breadth for curriculum work: Tummee. Therapeutic one-to-one: Sequence Wiz. Planning several group classes a week, often on a phone: FLOW. Teaching twice a month: a notebook.
Search "best yoga apps" and you will get Down Dog, Glo and Alo. Every one of them is a class you follow. None of them helps you build a class for twenty other people on Tuesday evening.
The teaching job is different in kind. You are ordering poses so the body is ready for what comes next. You are watching a clock, because a class that overruns by eight minutes is a genuine problem when the next group is waiting in the corridor. You are remembering that someone in the room has a shoulder, so the plan needs an alternative to what you had in mind. And when you are ill, someone else has to be able to teach it from what you wrote down.
A video library does none of that, no matter how large. That is why teachers searching for a "yoga app" so often come away thinking nothing exists — they were shown the wrong category.
Here is something concrete we found while checking these sites on 8 August 2026.
The page at tummee.com/pricing redirected to a login screen. Sequence Wiz's site did not list a membership price. Both are long-established, widely recommended tools, and neither will tell you what it costs before you create an account.
Third-party roundups quote figures for both — usually around $70 to $100 a year for Tummee and higher for Sequence Wiz. We have not verified those and are not going to repeat them as fact. What we can say is what a teacher trying to compare tools on a Sunday evening will experience: two of the five options here cannot be compared on price without signing up.
That is worth knowing, and it is the kind of thing that never appears in roundups written from memory.
The honest question is not which tool is best. It is whether you need one.
One or two classes a week, familiar repertoire. A notebook wins. The time you would spend maintaining a tool exceeds the time it saves. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something — including us.
Three or four classes, some of them styles you are still growing into. The tool starts paying. Live timing stops the overruns, and having contraindications visible while planning catches the thing you would otherwise remember mid-class.
Five or more, or covering for other teachers. Now it is not close. Reusing and adapting last week's plan instead of starting from a blank page is most of the value, and being able to send a substitute a link is the rest.
We publish FLOW, so it is worth being direct about where we are not the right choice.
If you are building teacher-training curriculum, writing a manual, or need the deepest available reference on pose variations and their Sanskrit names, Tummee's library is larger than ours and larger than anyone's. That depth is the product, it has been built over many years, and no amount of interface polish substitutes for it. Teacher trainers should look there first.
FLOW is built around a different job: planning this week's classes quickly, often on a phone, and walking away with something you can teach from or hand over. If that is your week, the smaller library will not be what limits you — 420 poses is more than any group class uses.
Pick the one that matches the job. The list above is arranged so you can tell which is which.
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