Penn State Go 4+
Official Penn State App
The Pennsylvania State University
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- Free
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Description
Penn State Go is the official mobile app of Penn State. The app connects you with the tools, services, and updates that matter most.
With a personalized homepage, Penn State Go greets you with the current date and campus weather, and highlights timely content based on your experience.
STAY ON TOP OF ACADEMICS
• Canvas: View course updates, announcements, to-do items, messages, and grades
• Academic Calendar: Track key academic dates and semester milestones
• Starfish: Connect with your adviser and receive academic alerts
• Countdown Widget: Track upcoming deadlines, events, and breaks
MANAGE CAMPUS LIFE
• LionPATH: Check grades, class schedules, tuition bills, and more
• PSU Email: Quick access to your Penn State email account
• id+ Card: View LionCash and meal plan balances, manage transactions, and update plans
• Dining: Order food on the go, view past orders, and manage payment methods
STAY INFORMED AND CONNECTED
• Messages: Get personalized push notifications and in-app alerts based on your college, housing, dining plan, international status, and more
• Events Calendars: Discover campus events and filter by your academic college or interests
• Special Events: Stay up to date on THON, Homecoming, Commencement, Welcome Week, and more
• Digital Signage: View content from campus digital signage, directly in the app
• News: Catch up on the latest updates from across the Penn State community
SUPPORT AND SAFETY
• Wellness: Find campus health, counseling, and fitness resources
• Safety: Access emergency contacts, safety tips, and campus services
CAMPUS RESOURCES
• Maps: Explore buildings, departments, services, and parking
• Shuttles: Get live updates on Penn State and CATA shuttle routes
• Library: Search library catalogs and access academic resources
• Paw Prints: Use pay-as-you-go printing services on campus
You can also share your Penn State pride with Penn State Go Sticker Packs in Messages.
Penn State Go is available to students, faculty, staff, parents and families, and alumni. While some features are designed for students, the app provides valuable tools and information for the entire Penn State community.
Whether you’re managing your classes, supporting a student, or staying connected to your alma mater, Penn State Go helps you stay in the know and on the go.
What’s New
Version 2.4.2
The personalized homepage is now available to all student users!
New widgets make it easier to stay organized and connected:
• Welcome Widget with date and campus weather
• Canvas Widget for course info, announcements, and grades
• Starfish Widget for adviser connections and academic alerts
• Academic Calendar Widget for tracking key semester dates
• Countdown Widget for upcoming events and deadlines
• Events Widget to browse what’s happening on campus
• Digital Signage Widget for campus-wide announcements
• News Widget for the latest from Penn State News
-Performance and bug fixes.
Ratings and Reviews
The most pointless app ever built.
What better way a school to spend your tuition than to develop an app that uses a laggy and outdated embedded browser that literally just takes you to a mobile webpage. Oh you want Canvas. It just opens the Canvas app. If you want to see your email? Well it doesn’t use The Outlook app they pushed on students. It uses that crappy outdated browser again. What if I log in? Will it work then? Of course not. If you log in, the only thing it does is continue to ask you to log in when you touch anything. Do you know why we actually need? A new LionPATH app. Not this monstrosity.
Developer Response ,
Thanks for the candid feedback. We'd love to talk to you personally about your opinions on how to make the app better and explore future changes. Can you please email us at pennstatego@psu.edu?
Has an extreme amount of bugs.
When first opening the app, you are greeted with a page full of options that you may need. Many very helpful in your day to day life. But as soon as you click one, the problems start to arise. To start, the messages feature rarely works as it should. The app also has you log in often, but won’t let you auto fill and will sometimes just not log in.
The biggest pet peeve is how none of the icons lead you to that section like you would expect. Most of them open a page of safari in the app. The app renders itself pointless due to how you can do everything faster by a google search. The app needs an extreme amount of bug fixes before it is usable.
It’s fine
It’s alright. Really useful in certain aspects, really annoying in other. Sometimes I rather just open the Penn State websites on chrome or safari instead of on the app, and the notifications keep saying that they’re unread even though I press “mark all as read” every time they show up. Sometimes it feels like the app is just using the website and didn’t change the function for the phone experience (example: the maps). Has a lot of potential and some of it is good but a fair bit wasted
App Privacy
The developer, The Pennsylvania State University, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- The Pennsylvania State University
- Size
- 17.3 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease battery life.
- Copyright
- © The Pennsylvania State University
- Price
- Free
