This article examines how shadow education is changing with digital platforms. Using the case of Egyptian education, it argues that digital learning platforms and social media platforms are profoundly penetrating Egypt's private tutoring landscape in a process of platformization. Rather than adding an online type of tutoring to an already-existing repertoire, this platformization is facilitating the restructuring of private tutoring into a new modality of polymorphous tutoring. In this reconfiguration, digital platforms are simultaneously co-existing and tightly co-constituted with in-person tutoring in a functional complementarity that utilizes novel business models and economic logics towards commercial ends. Critically, they are amplifying each other, changing with situations, and producing variegated configurations that are entrenching the roots and amplifying the scope of tutoring. By unpacking the structure and dynamics of a nascent polymorphous tutoring, this article raises critical questions concerning the commercialization of education, the relevance of schools and the exacerbation of inequalities.