Day, week and month views built on your real working pattern — pupils request the gaps you actually have, cancelled slots are re-offered in one tap, and every lesson lands in the calendar you already use.
Colour-coded by payment
Paid, unpaid, block credit and awaiting payment each get their own colour — who owes what is visible from across the room.
Your gaps, counted
Free time is totalled for the day and the week, so you always know exactly how many sellable hours are sitting in the diary.
Day, week and month views
A live line through now, pick-up points on every booking, and a tap takes any month-view day straight into the detail.
A driving instructor's diary isn't a list of meetings. Lessons have pick-up points, travel time between them, pupils who pay in prepaid blocks, and a working week with school runs and days off carved into it. Generic calendar apps understand none of that — and the paper diary can't text your pupils.
The Smart Diary is built on those rules. You set your working pattern once — hours, recurring breaks, days off and the travel buffer you need between pick-ups — and everything else derives from it: the gaps pupils can request, the slots you can offer, and the free hours the diary totals up for you each week.
Your hours, breaks and days off aren't preferences — they're the boundary every booking is checked against. Nothing can land over your lunch, your school run or your Sunday.
Working hours
Mon – Fri · 09:00 – 17:00
Different hours for every day of the week, weekends optional.
Recurring breaks
School run · 15:00 – 15:45
Lunch, prayer, the school run — repeats weekly, booked around automatically.
Travel buffer
15 min between pick-ups
Back-to-back lessons without the sprint across town.
Days off & holidays
Sundays + two weeks in August
Block out a day or a fortnight in a tap — nothing can land on it.
Lesson lengths & prices
1h £38 · 1.5h £55 · 2h £70
Pupils request in the durations you offer, priced your way.
Your cars
Manual · Automatic
Run more than one car and the right one is attached to every lesson.
From their own side of the app, pupils see only the gaps you genuinely have — never your breaks, never your day off. Each request arrives with the duration, pick-up point and a note, and you approve or decline it in a tap.
Want the money first? Turn on pay-to-confirm and a requested slot is only held until the card payment clears — unpaid holds release themselves after 48 hours, so a slot is never blocked by a maybe.
Chloe Bennett
Booking request · 2h ago
Tue 16 Jun · 14:00 – 16:00
2 hrs · pick-up PO5 2AB
“After college works best — Wednesday could also work.”
One tap — the diary, the pupil's app and both calendars update together.
Thu 18 Jun · 11:00 – 13:00
CancelledMaya cancelled — 2 sellable hours freed up
Offer slot to pupilsOffered to 14 pupils · 09:42
Liam Carter requested · 09:45
Slot filled
3 minutes laterEveryone else is stood down automatically — no “sorry, just gone” texts to send.
When someone cancels, the gap doesn't have to die quietly. Offer the freed slot to every active pupil — or just the few you choose — in one tap, with a note if you like. The first request you approve takes it.
And if the cancelled lesson was prepaid, the hours flow straight back to the pupil's credit balance — the slot refills and the money sorts itself.
Driive doesn't ask you to abandon Google, Apple or Outlook Calendar — it feeds them. Three layers, from a simple subscription to instant push. Use one or all of them.
Subscribe once
A live feed puts your whole diary inside Google, Apple or Outlook Calendar — it refreshes itself, so the calendar app you check at night is always current.
Invites that follow the lesson
Every confirmed lesson arrives as a proper calendar invite, for you and the pupil. Reschedule and the invite updates itself; cancel and it disappears.
Push, the moment it changes
Connect Google Calendar and changes land the instant they happen — approve a request at a red light and it is on your calendar before the lights change.
Driving lesson — Chloe Bennett
Tue 14:00 – 16:00 · Pick-up PO5 2AB
Pupils get calendar invites too — the lesson lives in both diaries, so “I forgot” stops being a reason.
Reschedule in the diary and the pupil is notified, calendar invites update themselves, and any block credit or payment is carried across — without you touching anything else. That's the difference between a calendar and a diary that runs the business.
Access opens in waves from the waitlist — founding instructors get in first.
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