Piazza vs Codon
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!
Codon
Explore biology from molecules to ecosystems with 100 structured lessons. Features include quizzes, researcher profiles, and landmark experiments. Study offline with bundled content and track progress with flashcards and notes.
- 100 structured biology lessons
- Researcher profiles and glossary
- Quizzes with explanations
- Spaced-review flashcards
- Offline study capabilities
- Home screen widgets
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Codon is a structured biology study course with 100 lessons covering cells and molecules, inheritance, evolution, ecology, organisms and physiology. It teaches mechanisms and evidence without presenting the course as a university degree or medical advice. WHAT IS INSIDE 100 lessons with estimated reading times and on-device narration 82 researcher profiles 735 glossary entries 20 quizzes with answer explanations 18 landmark experiments Spaced-review flashcards, bookmarks and notes Three Home Screen widgets: a source idea, a term and a figure FREE AND FULL ACCESS The first ten lessons are free. A one-time Full Access purchase opens the other 90 lessons. The current price for your App Store region is shown in the app before purchase. No subscription or app account is required. OFFLINE STUDY Lessons, profiles, glossary entries, quizzes and case studies are bundled for offline reading. Loading a purchase, buying or restoring Full Access, and opening external reference or support links may require a network connection.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Codon at 5.0 against Piazza's 2.1. Piazza's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (282 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Codon sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Piazza asks for nothing beyond the download.
Codon holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Piazza has 282 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Piazza ships an update every 11 days, Codon every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Piazza | Codon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.1 (282 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 13.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 282 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Piazza Technologies, Inc. | OMAR DANIEL GRAZIANO |
Customer experience
Piazza
Codon
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
Codon
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Piazza
No in-app purchases
Codon
- Codon Full Access$9.99









