MyCat is a well-established information system, purpose-built for language schools and used across several Central and Eastern European countries. If you’re weighing it against Zooza, here’s an honest look at where each one fits — Zooza’s emphasis is AI-native operations, a white-label portal on your own website, and a broad reach across every kind of children’s activity business.
MyCat is a capable, well-established information system that has been refined for language schools since 2010, and it’s used by schools across several Central and Eastern European countries. If you run a language school, it’s a serious, purpose-built option. Zooza plays in the same broad space but with a different emphasis: AI-native operations, a white-label parent portal embedded on your own website, and workflows built for every kind of children’s activity — dance, sports, music, gymnastics as well as languages.
This page is an honest look at where that emphasis makes Zooza the better fit — and where MyCat may well be the better choice.
MyCat is an information system built specifically for language schools, developed since 2010 out of real experience with schools in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and now used by more than 90 schools across countries including the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Switzerland. Its interface is available in several languages (including Czech, German, English and Polish). It brings together course and teacher scheduling, substitution management, attendance, student progress and test-result tracking, billing and payment reconciliation, a publication library, bulk email and SMS, and parent/client access to attendance and progress. For a language school that wants software shaped tightly around how language teaching actually works, it’s a genuinely strong, proven choice — and well worth a look.
Both platforms handle the core of running a class-based education business — scheduling, attendance, billing and a client-facing experience — and both do it well. This isn’t a scorecard against MyCat; the table simply lays out where Zooza puts its emphasis, so you can judge the fit for your own school or network. For MyCat’s current capabilities and pricing, we’d genuinely encourage you to check directly with their team.
| Where Zooza puts its emphasis | Zooza |
|---|---|
| AI-native operations | Run your business from Claude or ChatGPT via Zooza’s MCP connector, plus an open API |
| Every kind of children’s activity | Dance, sports, music, gymnastics and language schools — one platform for varied programmes |
| Embedded white-label parent portal | Branded booking portal embedded on your own website — helps your SEO, traffic and credibility |
| SEO & AI visibility | Structured class data + llms.txt per location so you rank in Google and get cited by ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini |
| Reviews collection automation | Automatically invites parents to review after terms, trials and recitals; centralizes Google Reviews across locations |
| Broad localization & currencies | Many languages and local currencies/payment methods, with operators across Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa |
| Loyalty & referral tools | Built-in loyalty and referral programs |
| Multi-location franchise dashboard | Per-location and consolidated views |
| Transparent published pricing | Plans published on the website, priced by active clients — free tier up, unlimited locations on every plan |
Through its MCP connector, Zooza plugs your back office into assistants like Claude and ChatGPT — send a photo of your timetable and Zooza builds every group for you, or ask it to pull attendance, message parents, reschedule sessions or run reports in plain language. Combined with an open API, the idea is to let you run and connect the whole operation through AI, not just one part of it.
Zooza isn’t built for a single teaching model. It’s purpose-built for dance studios, music schools, language schools, sports clubs and gymnastics centres alike — so a network that runs mixed programmes, or a business that grows from one activity type into another, stays on one platform instead of stitching together several.
Every location gets a branded, white-label parent portal where families browse classes, enrol, pay and manage bookings. Because it’s embedded directly on your own website — under your brand, not a separate third-party domain — the bookings and class pages strengthen your own site’s SEO, traffic and credibility. Built-in class pages, loyalty and referral programs help turn happy parents into a growth channel.
Zooza treats discovery as part of the product. Your class pages carry structured, search-friendly content on your own domain, and Zooza generates the machine-readable layer — structured class data and an llms.txt file per location — so you show up both when parents search Google and when they ask ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini for classes near them.
Social proof is one of the biggest drivers of new enrolments, so Zooza automates it: parents are invited to leave a review at the natural moments — after a term, a trial class or a recital — and your Google Reviews are managed centrally across every location. Those reviews then feed both your SEO and the answers AI assistants give about you.
Zooza ships in many languages — including English, Czech, Slovak, Polish, German, Romanian, French and Italian, with more added on request — and localizes local currencies, payment methods, date/number formats and public-holiday calendars per market. Operators run classes not just across Europe but in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, so as you expand the platform adapts to each new market.
Zooza publishes its pricing on the website, so you can see what you’ll pay before you sign up — with scheduling, attendance, payments, the parent portal and communication tools included.
Zooza is likely the better fit if you are:
MyCat may be the better fit if you run a language school and want software shaped tightly around language teaching — student progress and test-result tracking, teacher substitution, a publication library and translation-project management — across the Central and Eastern European markets it knows well. Both are serious tools — the honest deciding question is how specialised your teaching model is, and how far beyond your home region you plan to grow.
Switching platforms doesn’t have to be painful. Zooza offers dedicated onboarding support with a clear migration path: we help you move your course structures, schedules and student records so you’re up and running fast.
The things that rarely fit in a comparison table — and that most alternatives simply don’t have. This is where growing, multi-location activity businesses pull ahead.
Run your operation by just asking — in Claude or ChatGPT. Send a photo of your timetable and Zooza builds every group for you. No competitor connects your business to AI like this.
Your brand, end to end — the parent booking portal, emails and app all carry your name, not Zooza’s. Most platforms can’t make themselves invisible.
The numbers you actually run on — built to your KPIs across every location, not just the one canned dashboard everyone else ships. Ask, and we build it.
Connect your accounting, CRM, website or any tool you already run. Your data flows where it needs to — nothing is locked in.
Booking confirmations, reminders and follow-ups delivered on WhatsApp — where parents actually read them — not emails that sit unopened.
Stripe and GoCardless plus the local payment methods parents expect in each country — automated instalments, memberships and pay-per-term.
One dashboard across every location, in real time. Consistent enrolment, royalty integrity and a system your franchisees actually want to use.
See for yourself how Zooza compares to MyCAT for your specific operation. Start a free trial or talk to our team.
