
84
BU Score
Excellent
Canvas by Instructure
✍️ BU Analytics Review
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Canvas by Instructure is an iOS app from Instructure Inc. in the Education category, currently rated 4.7★ across 2,769,210 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews — supporters praise core features while critics cite stability/value gaps.
Our BU Score puts it at 84 — Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Education app, that means strong product-market fit.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below — live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
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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 9 of 9 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (2,769,210 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (14y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (30 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| 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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⭐ Rating Trend
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 →💾 134 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v8.9.0🔄 updated 1mo ago🌐 AR, CA, DA, NL, EN +25📂 Education💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2011 (14y old)
📝 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.
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
• 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 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.
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
• 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.
🆕 What's New · v8.9.0
- Customizable Dashboard for Learners is available if the feature flag is enabled.
- Fixed a crash on iPads when the syllabus was empty.
- Fixed tinted widgets not appearing correctly.
- Fixed urls pointing to cross-shard course files in Syllabus not working.
- Fixed assignments not loading when opened from a push notification for users logged-in with different account domains.
- Career - Added Learning Library.
- Fixed a crash on iPads when the syllabus was empty.
- Fixed tinted widgets not appearing correctly.
- Fixed urls pointing to cross-shard course files in Syllabus not working.
- Fixed assignments not loading when opened from a push notification for users logged-in with different account domains.
- Career - Added Learning Library.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Canvas by Instructure
- Developer
- Instructure Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.instructure.icanvas
- 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
- With Canvas, smart tech is just the beginning.
- Description
- Discover Canvas by Instructure, the world-leading, user-friendly LMS designed to simplify teaching and enhance student learning.
- 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
- $7.5K/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
- https://www.canvaslms.com/resources/blog/what-we-shared-april-2026-new-next-showcase
- Press / News
- Not found
Contacts & Socials
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: HIGH
The iOS app "Canvas by Instructure" is a free companion app for learners and does not generate direct revenue through in-app purchases. Instructure Inc., the developer, primarily generates revenue through a subscription-based model for its Canvas Learning Management System (LMS) used by educational institutions. Instructure Holdings Inc. reported total revenue of $530.2 million for the full year 2023 and had a revenue of $173.2 million for the quarter ending September 30, 2024.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Statista, Adapty, Instructure Inc. financial reports, Wikipedia, DCFmodeling.com, Alpha Spread, Higher Ed Dive, SaaStr, Stock Analysis
Citations: sensortower.com · sensortower.com · apple.com · instructure.com · alphaspread.com · dcfmodeling.com
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 1.78★ · 12.2% 5★ · 75.5% 1★
5★6 (12%)
4★4 (8%)
3★0 (0%)
2★2 (4%)
1★37 (76%)
+16,035,119 ratings/week
Praise: love ×4 best ×2 perfect ×2 great ×2 favorite ×1Complaints: bug ×4 terrible ×3 worst ×3 hate ×2 broken ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Canvas is hacked and I love it
Let’s not pay the group let them leak everything. So I don’t have to do exams, thank you…
★★★★★ Hacked
Got hacked…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Lock in
Bro got hacked how does that even happen I hate this app best thing that happened was it got hacked lock In
Shrek: The Opening Scene
[Screen opens on a fairy tale book]
SHREK (V.O.)
Once upon a time there was a lovely princess. But she h…
★☆☆☆☆ Can’t believe it got hacked
I’m scared it’s going to sell all my data.…
📈Ratings growth2,769,235 ratings+8% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (18 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.
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