Drive School · United Kingdom

The lesson does not end when they get out of the car

Teach the way you always do. The phone stays in its holder, and your pupil gets your words in writing afterwards — what went well, what to practise, and the drive itself. Free for instructors and learners.

You never touch the phone

No button to press, no screen to look at, nothing to say to a device. You teach out loud, the way you already do, and your own words become the notes your pupil keeps.

Start it while you are parked

Put the phone in a holder, start the lesson before your pupil moves off, and put it down. It keeps recording with the screen locked, and it keeps working where there is no signal.

Then just teach

Hands on the wheel, eyes on the road. Nothing to reach for and nothing to glance at for the rest of the lesson.

Your words are the notes

"Watch your speed" and "that was good" land on the exact corner where you said them. Afterwards you get them as a list, and you decide what your pupil sees — keep it, change it, or throw it away.

On the law: in most countries the offence is holding a phone in your hand, not having one in a mount. Ours is never held — not to start it, not during the lesson. It must not block your view of the road, and you stay in full control of the vehicle, as always. The wording differs from country to country, so check the rules where you teach. In Great Britain, GOV.UK puts it plainly: the offence is holding the device, and hands-free — a dashboard holder, a windscreen mount, voice — is allowed, as long as you never pick it up.

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I teach

Record a lesson without touching the phone, tidy it up afterwards, and send it to your pupil. Free, however many pupils you have.

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I am learning

Get your instructor's lessons in one place — what went well, what to practise, and the drive itself, kept instead of forgotten by the next day.

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We're a driving school

Several instructors, one place. See every diary, track every badge expiry, and let your instructors keep their own pupils.

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No subscription. No per-pupil fee. No card needed.

From 6 April 2027, most instructors report to HMRC every quarter. See what changes

How a lesson gets recorded

You do the thing you already do — teach out loud. Mekavo does the rest.

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Drive and talk normally

Start the recording, put the phone down and teach. It keeps recording with the screen locked, and it keeps working where the signal does not — nothing is lost if you drive out of coverage.

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Your words do the marking

"Watch your speed" is something to work on. "That was good" is something that went well. We read what you said and mark the moment where you said it, so there is nothing to press and nothing to reach for.

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We split what you said into moments

Every sentence you spoke is matched to the exact point on the road where you said it. You get your lesson back as a map of spoken moments, not one long recording nobody will listen to.

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Tidy it before you send it

What you said, point by point. Fix the words, mute a cue you would rather not send, or delete it. There is an AI suggestion if you want one — you always edit and approve it.

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Some things it notices on its own

Hard braking, hard acceleration, a sharp corner, a pothole, an impact. Mekavo pins them; you decide what they meant. A hard brake can be a mistake or the correct thing to do — only the instructor in the car knows which.

And they get the lesson in writing

What went well, and what to practise — with the drive itself: distance, duration, average moving speed, top speed, and a speed graph you can tap to tag.

Written the way you would say it to them, not as a score out of ten.

About the skill, not the street — so it still helps on a road they have never driven.

Theirs to keep and read again, which is the one thing an hour in the car cannot do.

The notes are the point: kept somewhere, instead of remembered for a day. Something to talk through at the start of the next lesson, not a replacement for it.

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And the route, where the road itself is the lesson

Some things about a road do not change — which lane the junction wants, where the limit drops, how tight the slip road is. Your voice plays again at those places, hands-free, eyes on the road.

Never for a parked car or a cyclist. Those were about that moment, not that place, and a pupil who learns a spot instead of a hazard is learning the wrong thing.

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Your pupils, without the admin

A pupil scans your code or taps the link you send them, and they are paired with you. Or add them yourself with a name and a phone number; they never have to sign up. Once they join, every lesson lands in their account.

If a pupil leaves, their past lessons stay theirs. We do not hold their learning hostage.

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Teach in one language, be understood in another

A lesson can be re-voiced in another language, in a clear studio voice, so a pupil who is still learning English hears the same teaching in their own language. Record once, teach anyone.

This is the one optional extra that uses AI credit. Everything else on this page is free.

From 6 April 2027

The year one return a year stops being enough

If what you take in a year — your lessons, plus any rent if you let property — is over £30,000 before costs, you will have to keep digital records and send HMRC your figures every quarter instead of once at the end of the year. From April 2028 the same applies over £20,000. That is most full-time instructors in 2027, and most part-time ones the year after.

Nothing below £20,000 has been made compulsory. If you have heard a 2029 date, that is when HMRC finishes reviewing the scheme — it is not a deadline.

You are already keeping the records

Every lesson you record is income, and every receipt you photograph is an expense — so the digital records the new rules ask for are already building themselves as you teach. Sending those figures to HMRC is the part we are building for April 2027, and no tax software may do it until HMRC has recognised it. We will say plainly on this page when ours has been.

It is being built for the income most instructors have — self-employment, property, employment or pension income, bank interest and dividends, all folding into one year-end calculation. It is not being built for partnership income, trusts or estates, or capital gains: if you have any of those you will need other MTD-compatible software alongside it.

What this is, and what it is not

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It is a recorded human lesson, replayed where it was recorded. It is not a sat-nav and it never tells anyone which way to turn.

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These are practice routes recorded by real instructors. They are not official test routes — the driving test authority in United Kingdom does not publish those, and anyone who tells you otherwise is guessing.

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A learner must always be supervised exactly as the law in United Kingdom requires. Mekavo is a teaching aid, not a substitute for a qualified instructor.

Questions instructors ask

Yes. There is no subscription and no per-pupil fee for instructors or learners in United Kingdom. The only optional cost is re-voicing a lesson into another language in a studio voice, which uses a small amount of AI credit and always shows you the estimate first.

Yes. The lesson is recorded on the phone itself and uploaded afterwards, so a route through the countryside with no coverage records normally. Nothing is lost while you are out of signal.

No. You start it while you are parked, put it down, and teach. What you say does the marking, so there is nothing to press and nothing to look at. You tidy the lesson afterwards, parked.

No, and nobody honestly has them — the driving test authority in United Kingdom does not publish its test routes. These are practice routes recorded by real instructors on real roads, which is a different and more useful thing: your pupil hears your teaching, not a generic voice.

They keep them. Their past lessons stay in their own account, and you keep your recordings. Ending a pairing does not delete anyone's history.

From 6 April 2027, if you take more than £30,000 a year before costs, you must keep digital records and report to HMRC every quarter instead of filing once at the end of the year. From April 2028 it applies over £20,000 — that is most full-time instructors in the first year and most part-time ones in the second. Mekavo already keeps that record for you: your lessons are the income and your photographed receipts are the expenses. Sending the figures is the part we are building for 2027, and no tax software may send them until HMRC has recognised it — we will say so here when ours has been. Nothing below £20,000 has been made compulsory, and the 2029 date some people mention is when HMRC finishes reviewing the scheme, not a deadline.