Canvas By Instructure

225K reviews
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Rated for 3+
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About this app

Your learning, anywhere.
Stay connected to your courses with the official Canvas app for learners. Whether you’re in class, commuting, or offline, Canvas helps you stay organized and engaged.

-Note for instructors: For teaching and grading features, use the Canvas Teacher app.
-Note for parents & guardians: Use Canvas Parent app to follow student progress.

What you can do:
• Organize: View grades, track assignments, homework, and schoolwork; get reminders, push notifications and add customizable widgets for quick access
• Engage: Send messages, join class discussions and collaborate with classmates in real time
• Learn: Submit assignments, PDFs, docs, and media files for teachers to annotate in SpeedGrader, take quizzes, and watch videos on the go
• Strategic Planning: Use "What-If" grade calculations to simulate future scores and plan your study goals with confidence
• Offline: Download full courses and keep studying even without internet
• Integration & inclusivity: Use integrated classroom tools (LTIs), enjoy dark mode, and rely on built-in accessibility for everyone (VPAT 2.2 compliant)
• Lifelong learning: Support for continuous learning, career-focused skill based learning programs, and AI-powered learning experience via Career experience

Trusted by over 40 million learners worldwide.
Stay on top of your courses: View grades, submit work, and study offline.
Updated on
Jul 30, 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • This app may share these data types with third parties
    Location, App activity and 2 others
  • This app may collect these data types
    Location, Personal info and 7 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

209K reviews
Bradyn Andres
September 17, 2026
The app's UI is fine and I haven't experienced any issues with notifications. The downsides come from the load time and network handling. For whatever reason launching the app or clicking on things like grades, notifications, to-do list, etc. take FOREVER to load. It's not a network or hardware issue, just terrible optimization. Secondly, if you happen to open Canvas right when your phone loses WiFi connection (happens more often than you would think), it logs you out every single time.
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Leon ā€œLeeā€
September 17, 2026
Been a user since i started high school in 2024, and honestly it was confusing at first, but ive gotten the hang of it! definitely a lifesaver with due dates and such. Formatting on phone is a little bit difficult to navigate, but on laptop its easy! It allows stuff to be graded immediately which im happy about because i used to have to wait for teachers to grade until i moved schools. Love this app! (it also lets me us google even tho my dad doesn't allow itšŸ˜‹!!)
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Mike G
May 22, 2025
So... This worked great. Solid, good UI, totally a 5-star app. Then I had the audacity to need it for courses at two schools at once. Instead of, say, keeping me logged in to both and letting me switch with a simple drop-down (like email apps and websites have for over 25 years) it instead logs me out of both after short periods of inactivity--say, the time it takes to read a section and take a short quiz on a publisher's app. 1-star for failing at basic credential management.
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What’s new

- Canvas Career now supports offline submissions.
- Fixed Studio videos not playing in course content when the RCE Studio Embed Improvements feature is enabled.
- Fixed What-If grade totals on the Grades screen differing from the web calculation.
- Discussion and Announcement links inside a Discussion or Announcement now open the native screen instead of the full web view.
- Various bug fixes and stability improvements.