Penn State Go

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Last verified 31 Jul 2026

4.5 11 ratings · App Store

1. 5/5Really useful for PSU students

   I’ve been using Penn State Go for a while now and it’s been super handy. All the stuff I actually need day to day (Canvas, email, LionPATH, Starfish, dining menus, shuttle info, mobile ordering, etc.) is in one place so I’m not constantly digging around different sites or apps. It makes checking to-do’s and class announcements way easier. Honestly, it’s just nice having everything Penn State related in one app. Definitely makes life as a student here simpler.

   roc4ever · 31 Jul 2026

2. 4/5Still needs design work.

   While I am glad this app finally exists, and appreciate all the functionality it contains, it could use some design tweaks. From the main screen you get a 4x5 grid of icons. While I would have done it differently, there’s nothing wrong with that. However, the quick access menu at the bottom is grossly underutilized. It contains the least important items, when it should contain the most frequently used items. Moving into the LionPATH navigator, the first issue I see is that all the categories are expanded by default. There should be an expandable option for each item (I.e. My Schedules, My Finances, etc..) rather than showing it all to the user immediately. Continuing, when a user makes any selection, the page goes white with “updating” at the bottom for a few seconds. The main concern here is the blank screen which refreshes once updated. It is fine, but the user experience would be more fluid if the “updating” was an overlaying text box on the previous scene rather than dedicating an entire window to “updating”. Update in the background, and then take the user to the new scene. Never take the user to a blank screen. The “dining” tab takes you to the website menu for each dining hall. For mobile users, the menu could be optimized. I actually took ist 311 with a group who dedicated their project to redesigning the menu for mobile use, and I expect they would have contacted Food Services. Otherwise, the app looks great. Visually appealing, functional in all the ways I could find. I couldn’t identify any “bugs” as of yet.

   Aman245 · 31 Jul 2026

3. 5/5Convenient for student

   Just downloaded and everything just flows, it’s a nice user friendly UI. Along with the simplicity everything that you need is all accessible from the app, it’s really a time save when trying to switch between lion path on the web and another penn state system such as Canva or the penn email.

   TechGuy_ · 31 Jul 2026

4. 1/5The 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.

   Ste Ste Steve · 31 Jul 2026

5. 3/5It’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

   HershB · 31 Jul 2026

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