Penn Mobile vs Smooth For Students
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Penn Mobile
Streamline your campus experience with essential tools for student life. Access study room bookings, dining hall menus and hours, course schedules, and laundry machine availability. Quickly find fitness facility hours and emergency services.
- Study room booking
- Dining hall hours and menus
- Course schedule access
- Laundry machine availability
- Fitness facility hours
- Emergency services access
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Study room booking, dining hall hours, course schedule, daily menus, laundry machine accessibility, fitness facility hours, and quick access to emergency services! Penn Mobile was designed by students in Penn Labs with the intention of making your school life simpler. What does this mean? No more carrying your laundry four floors up trying to find a laundry machine. No more hunting for dining hall hours on the web. And no more struggles trying to book a study room. You can now do it all at the press of a button. Enjoy!
Smooth For Students
This app organizes your course deadlines from your school's learning platform into a single, prioritized list. It helps you track upcoming assignments, visualize your progress, and manage your tasks effectively to avoid missing important due dates.
- Prioritized list of all assignments
- Urgency color-coding
- Weekly progress tracking
- Custom task addition
- Local reminders and daily digests
- Manual due date adjustment
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There's more to life than school, Smooth is for the rest of it. Every deadline your classes throw at you: assignments, readings, quizzes, labs, the lecture you keep forgetting - it all lands in one app. You open it, you see what's next, you close it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Smooth For Students at 100% against Penn Mobile's 53%. Smooth For Students also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). Penn Mobile's advantage is ratings volume (410 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.
Smooth For Students holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Penn Mobile has 410 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 53% of Penn Mobile's written reviews are positive against 100% of Smooth For Students's.
Penn Mobile ships an update monthly, Smooth For Students every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Penn Mobile | Smooth For Students |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (410 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 52.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 410 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | University of Pennsylvania | Stem Forward Co. |
Customer experience
Penn Mobile
Smooth For Students
Bugs and requests
Penn Mobile
Reported bugs
9 issues- Unable to log in after Duo pop-up
- Cannot load dining halls or retail dining
- Unable to log in with PennKey
- App does not open after recent update
- App prompts to log in every time
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- App does not save login after exiting
- Pop-up message: "Couldn't connect to API"
- App crashes frequently
- Dining hall information is incorrect or not shown
Requested features
6 requests- Include fitness center hours
- Include building directory of campus
- Fix API connection issues
- Update app for better stability
- Fix login bugs
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- Improve login persistence
Smooth For Students
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Penn Mobile
No in-app purchases
Smooth For Students
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Penn Mobile free?
Is Smooth For Students free?
Which has better reviews, Penn Mobile or Smooth For Students?
Do Penn Mobile or Smooth For Students have ads?
Which is updated more often, Penn Mobile or Smooth For Students?
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