Piazza vs enCourage UW
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Piazza
This platform facilitates communication and learning for higher education. Students can ask and answer questions, while instructors can monitor student engagement. It provides real-time updates and a centralized space for class interactions.
- Ask and answer questions
- Real-time updates
- Centralized class communication
- Student engagement monitoring
- Mobile access for students and instructors
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Piazza is the leading social learning platform for higher education, used by hundreds of thousands of students and more than 15 thousand professors for centralized class communications and polling. If you're a student, the Piazza app lets you ask and answer questions in all your Piazza classes from your mobile device, and updates you in real time when your peers are engaged. If you're an instructor, the app gives you a simple way to check in on your students during those spare moments between meetings. Stay connected to your class with Piazza!
enCourage UW
This application facilitates the creation of supportive and genuine learning environments. It is designed to foster authentic communities for educational purposes in various settings.
- Create supportive learning communities
- Foster authentic educational environments
- Applicable in any learning situation
- Designed for community building
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This app is designed to help you create supportive, authentic learning communities in any situation.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: enCourage UW at 5.0 against Piazza's 2.1. Piazza's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 28 months) and ratings volume (277 vs 3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
enCourage UW holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Piazza has 277 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Piazza ships an update fortnightly, enCourage UW every 28 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Piazza | enCourage UW |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.1 (277 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 14.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 277 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 28 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Piazza Technologies, Inc. | University of Wisconsin-Madison Shared Apps |
Customer experience
Piazza
enCourage UW
Bugs and requests
Piazza
Reported bugs
4 issues- Inability to post or reply
- Randomly logs out users
- Fails to load posts and resources
- Incompatible with newer iOS versions
Requested features
5 requests- Dark mode option
- Ability to access course materials
- Improved formatting and editing tools
- Better organization of posts and discussions
- Seamless integration with web version
enCourage UW
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Piazza
No in-app purchases
enCourage UW
No in-app purchases
