Norwood vs LeitnerLoop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Norwood
Stay informed about school district events, receive customized notifications for your student's organizations, and access weekly cafeteria menus. Get live updates from administration and easily find staff and department contact information.
- Event listings with calendar integration
- Customizable notifications by organization
- Weekly cafeteria menus
- Live district updates feed
- Staff and department directory
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Introducing the brand new app for Norwood. NEVER MISS AN EVENT The event section shows a list of events throughout the district. Users can add an event to their calendar to share the event with friends and family with one tap. CUSTOMIZE NOTIFICATIONS Select your student's organization within the app and make sure you never miss a message. CAFETERIA MENUS Within the dining section, you'll find an easy to navigate, weekly menu, sorted by day and meal type. DISTRICT UPDATES In the Live Feed is where you'll find updates from the administration about what's going on in the district right now. Whether that's celebrating a student's success, or reminding you about an upcoming deadline. CONTACT STAFF & DEPARTMENTS Find relevant staff and department contacts under an easy-to-navigate directory.
LeitnerLoop
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LeitnerLoop turns what you know into a revision schedule. You write your own cards — that is the whole point. The app decides when to show them to you again, using the Leitner system: five boxes, and intervals of 1, 3, 7, 14 and 30 days. A right answer moves a card further away, a wrong one sends it back to the start. It is simple, it is explainable, and it has worked for fifty years. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Create your own decks and two-sided cards, with an optional note • Add the reverse card in one tap: "Canada / Ottawa" and "Ottawa / Canada" become two independent cards, because knowing one direction is not knowing the other • Review everything at once, or one deck at a time • Get a reminder at the time and on the days you choose, only on days when cards are waiting for you • See how your cards are spread across the five boxes, and what is coming in the next seven days • Suspend a card without deleting it, archive a deck without losing it • Search your cards, accents and capitals ignored • Back up your whole library to a file, and restore it SO YOU DO NOT START FROM A BLANK PAGE Four decks are already there when you open the app, to carry you until you have written your own. You can refuse them, edit them or delete them like any other deck. YOUR CARDS STAY WITH YOU, UNLESS YOU ASK OTHERWISE Studying requires no account. Your cards live in a local database and are not sent anywhere. The backup produces a file that is yours to do with as you please. If you want your cards on more than one device, you can sign in with Apple or Google and sync. It is optional, you are the one who starts it, and deleting your account from the settings erases everything from the server. A CATALOGUE OF READY-MADE DECKS Prepared decks are offered in a catalogue. Browsing it requires being signed in, because it is your account that remembers what you own — a deck bought on one device opens on the other. HONEST ABOUT WHAT IT IS NOT No leaderboards, no streak to protect, no rewards. The statistics are there to help you understand your progress, not to put pressure on you. The app is built around your own cards: writing them is half the learning. Assisted generation exists, as an option and on credits — it is a door, not the house. FREE, WITH OPTIONS Every study feature is included. An ad appears between sessions, never during one. A single purchase removes it for good. Catalogue decks can also be bought individually. No subscription, anywhere. Four languages: English, French, German and Spanish. Light and dark theme.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Norwood at none against LeitnerLoop's 4. Norwood also leads on ads (none vs shown). LeitnerLoop's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 9 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and iOS requirement 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. LeitnerLoop sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Norwood asks for nothing beyond the download.
Norwood ships an update every 9 months, LeitnerLoop weekly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Norwood | LeitnerLoop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 110 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Norwood School District 63 | Reseau Inter-Systeme inc. |
In-app purchases
Norwood
No in-app purchases
LeitnerLoop
- Basic pack$0.99
- Remove ads$1.99
- Extra pack$1.99
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- Supreme pack$3.99
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