Kinobi Internship vs Riipen

Kinobi Internship is a web portal for higher education institutions managing internship programmes from opportunity discovery through completion. Employers can post openings, while students browse, review, and apply through a central opportunity portal. Internship teams can screen applicants, shortlist candidates, coordinate interviews, and track application status. Students, employers, and university administrators can confirm placements, handle approvals, and document placement details. Role-based permissions are available for internship administrators, faculty supervisors, employer users, and school coordinators, with customizable privileges. Dashboards report postings, applications, placements, pending approvals, student progress, and completion status. Kinobi says workflows, approval stages, reports, and integrations can be tailored to an institution. Pricing is on request through an Order Form, generally based on full-time-equivalent counts, authorized users, or another stated metric. A free 30-minute demo is offered, but it is not described as a trial. Standard support runs Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM–6:00 PM Singapore Time.

Riipen connects colleges and universities, organizations, and learners through industry projects linked to education. Organizations can post projects, match them with educator-led experiences, and manage learner communication, deliverables, and feedback. Educators can create course experiences, find and match with projects, onboard learners, assign work, and run experiences again in later terms. Projects are mostly virtual and project-based, with learners completing organizational tasks as part of an academic program. Project management includes milestones, deadlines, team assignments, agreements, surveys, worklogs, and team status tracking. Educators can gather employer feedback, collect survey responses, award achievements, and report on outcomes, including through raw data export. Riipen supports LTI connections and deeper LMS integrations via API, along with SAML 2.0 single sign-on. It also offers a documented REST API, webhooks, a developer dashboard, and Zapier workflows. Students and employers can use the platform free; employer recruitment fees for hiring students after a project or course are not charged. Institutional pricing is shared on request.