69
BU Score
Solid
Canvas Parent
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Canvas Parent is an iOS app from Instructure Inc. in the Education category, currently rated 4.3★ across 111,675 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Our BU Score puts it at 69: Solid (established niche player). For a Education app, that means established niche player.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 7 of 7 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (111,675 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| Mature app (9y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (30 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Good rating (4.3★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
💚Sentiment Over Time↑ green = positive · ↓ red = negative
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LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🗓️ Snapshot Timeline
HISTORYEach bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 112 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v3.27.3🔄 updated 1mo ago🌐 AR, CA, DA, NL, EN +25📂 Education💰 Free🚀 Launched 2016 (9y old)
📝 About this app
Stay connected. Encourage success.
Canvas Parent helps parents and guardians track student progress, support learning, and communicate with teachers in real time.
What you can do
• Communicate: Message teachers directly to ask questions or follow up on school updates or particular grade & page
• Check progress: View grades, assignments, due dates, and homework across all courses
• Get alerts: Receive real-time notifications for missing work, low scores, or new announcements
• Encourage: See teacher feedback, celebrate milestones, and help your student stay organized
• Plan ahead: Use the calendar view to track upcoming tasks, events, and class updates
Canvas Parent is more than a grade monitor—it’s a progress tracker that helps families and schools work together.
Canvas Parent helps parents and guardians track student progress, support learning, and communicate with teachers in real time.
What you can do
• Communicate: Message teachers directly to ask questions or follow up on school updates or particular grade & page
• Check progress: View grades, assignments, due dates, and homework across all courses
• Get alerts: Receive real-time notifications for missing work, low scores, or new announcements
• Encourage: See teacher feedback, celebrate milestones, and help your student stay organized
• Plan ahead: Use the calendar view to track upcoming tasks, events, and class updates
Canvas Parent is more than a grade monitor—it’s a progress tracker that helps families and schools work together.
🆕 What's New · v3.27.3
- Front page tab is now always visible when the front page is available for a course.
- Fixed urls pointing to cross-shard course files in Syllabus not working.
- Fixed urls pointing to cross-shard course files in Syllabus not working.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Canvas Parent
- Developer
- Instructure Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.instructure.parentapp
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Education
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, CA, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, HT, HI, IS, ID, GA, IT, JA, KO, MS, MI, NB, PL, PT, RU, ZH, SL, ES, SV, TH, ZH, VI, CY
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Welcome to the most-visited education website in the world.
- Description
- Empower learning with Instructure’s LMS and edtech solutions for K–12, higher education, and businesses. Discover Canvas, Impact, and Mastery to drive success.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- OG image
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $2.2K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Education
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- https://twitter.com/Instructure
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/instructure-inc-/mycompany/
- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
Funding
- Total raised
- Not found
- Last round
- Not found
- Investors
- Not found
- Crunchbase
- Not found
- AngelList
- Not found
Press & Links
- Articles found
- Not found
- Listed on
- Not found
- Blog
- http://www.instructure.com/resources/blog/what-we-shared-april-2026-new-next-showcase
- Press / News
- Not found
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- facebook · instagram · linkedin · twitter · youtube
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- http://www.instructure.com/support/canvas-support-faq
- About page
- http://www.instructure.com/about
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: HIGH
The iOS app "Canvas Parent" by Instructure Inc. is a free companion app designed for parents to monitor their children's academic progress within schools that utilize the Canvas Learning Management System (LMS). The app itself does not appear to generate direct revenue through in-app purchases or subscriptions, as its primary function is to provide access to information from the institution's Canvas LMS. Instructure Inc.'s revenue is derived from institutions licensing the Canvas LMS, not directly from the Canvas Parent app.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Instructure Community, App Store, Google Play, Wikipedia
Citations: google.com · instructure.com · sensortower.com · apple.com · foxdata.com · instructure.com
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 1.45★ · 0% 5★ · 65.3% 1★
5★0 (0%)
4★0 (0%)
3★5 (10%)
2★12 (24%)
1★32 (65%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: perfect ×1 great ×1 love ×1Complaints: crash ×8 terrible ×3 bug ×3 worst ×2 broken ×2
Top positive
★★★☆☆ App freezes while scrolling
Did anyone find a solution to this issue?…
★★★☆☆ Ok for most part
Works for the most part. I’m still new to using it so maybe I’m still learning but seems pretty straightforward but it’s freezes up when I go in to look at the assignments and I can’t see all of them so I don’t know what is going on. I will…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Freezes on grades page
Awful.…
★☆☆☆☆ Unusable
After I scroll it just freezes. Useless.…
📈Ratings growth111,675 ratings+34% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (44 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
