Penji vs Norsify
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!
Norsify
This campus companion app connects students to campus life with announcements, events, dining information, and a student marketplace. It also provides a campus directory for essential services and allows for digital storage of student IDs.
- Campus announcements and stories feed
- Event discovery and calendar integration
- Dining menus and hours
- Student marketplace for listings
- Campus directory for services
- Digital student ID barcode storage
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Norsify is the all-in-one campus companion for Luther College students. Stay connected to campus life with a polished feed of announcements and stories from the pages you follow, and quickly see what’s happening across campus in one place. Explore upcoming events, live headcounts, streams, and reminders. Check official dining pages for menus and hours, browse student marketplace listings, wanted posts, and lost-and-found items, and save the details you want to revisit later. Features: Follow campus pages, clubs, and organizations to see the latest updates and stories. Switch between Following, Trending, and All in the feed. Search, save, and react to announcements. Browse upcoming events and add campus events to your Calendar. Use the campus directory for buildings, class locations, textbooks, dorm maintenance, RA contacts, Title IX reporting, printing, and parking. Check dining pages for official menus and daily updates. Browse marketplace listings, filter and sort results, save favorites, and contact sellers directly by email. No in-app transactions. Scan your physical Luther ID card once to store a secure digital barcode on your phone.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Penji at 1.2K against Norsify's 5. Penji also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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 5.0 for Norsify. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Penji has 1.2K ratings behind it against 5, 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 100% of Norsify's.
Penji ships an update every 9 days, Norsify every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Penji | Norsify |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (1.2K ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 92.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.2K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 82 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Penji, Inc. | Beka Abesadze |
Customer experience
Penji
Norsify
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
Norsify
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Penji
No in-app purchases
Norsify
No in-app purchases









