Penji vs HPU+
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Penji
Connect with campus support services like tutoring, advising, and mentoring. Schedule appointments, join drop-in hours, and find study groups to enhance your academic journey. This app provides a modern, mobile-first experience for accessing university resources.
- Schedule tutors and mentors
- Attend drop-in hours
- Register for group sessions
- Find study groups
- Access advising resources
- Remote-friendly support
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Penji is the central hub for tutoring, advising, and other support resources on campus. We partner with support centers at your university, allowing them to provide a modern, mobile-first, and remote-friendly experience for scheduling tutors, mentors, and coaches. Book appointments, attend drop-in hours, register for large-group sessions, meet study groups, and more, all from the app. As recent students ourselves, we know how important friends, tutors, and mentors can be in developing your interest and confidence in different subjects. We hope Penji encourages you to take advantage of these resources more frequently. Each university is different, so sign up to see what your university offers in Penji. Enjoy!
HPU+
Access a complimentary streaming library of professional development and life skills content. Learn from leadership series, university news, live events, and podcasts. Develop wisdom, distinction, and awareness as a leader with on-demand content.
- Life skills and leadership development content
- Weekly new episodes of "3-Minute Master Class"
- HPU News and Live Events
- Podcasts and interviews
- On-demand streaming
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High Point University is respected for its focus on Life Skills and leadership development. This complimentary streaming app features the professional development series “3-Minute Master Class” with HPU President Nido Qubein - a power-packed life skills series to help you develop wisdom, distinction and awareness as a leader (new episodes launch weekly). HPU+ brings the best of HPU News, Live Events, podcasts, interviews with industry leaders and so much more. Now, the High Point University values-based experience is available on-demand anywhere you stream. App Features: • Complimentary library of leadership development and life skills content • Behind the scenes look at High Point University • Live events broadcast at HPU • Original Series: Transformation YOU with Nido Qubein • Academic Innovations Podcast
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Penji at none against HPU+'s shown. Penji also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). HPU+'s advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, rating and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Penji against 4.9 for HPU+. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Penji has 1.2K ratings behind it against 171, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 93% of Penji's written reviews are positive against 75% of HPU+'s.
Penji ships an update every 9 days, HPU+ every 2 months. Both last shipped on September 23, 2026.
| Parameter | Penji | HPU+ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (1.2K ratings) | 4.9 (171 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 92.6% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.2K — better | 171 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Penji, Inc. | High Point University |
Customer experience
Penji
HPU+
Bugs and requests
Penji
Reported bugs
2 issues- Unusable on iPad
- Tutors not showing as available
Requested features
2 requests- Add voice/call features
- Improve messaging and notifications
HPU+
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Penji
No in-app purchases
HPU+
No in-app purchases
