Better Canvas

Name: Better Canvas
Rating: 4.72 (75 reviews)
Author: ksucpea

By: ksucpea

Best dark mode for Canvas, plus other features

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Features & Capabilities

Better Canvas is a powerful Chrome extension designed to improve your Canvas learning platform experience. It offers the best customizable dark mode with options to choose from premade themes or manually edit the settings. Users can benefit from features such as automatic dark mode scheduling, enhanced todo lists, dashboard improvements including grades and notes, preview assignments and announcements directly from the dashboard, and much more.

Additional functionalities include custom fonts, condensed cards, gradient dashboard cards, advanced card customization, customizable card links, and a GPA calculator suitable for both college and high school students. All features are toggleable without refreshing the page, providing seamless usability. The extension supports all Canvas URL variations and is also available for Firefox. Source code is openly accessible on GitHub for transparency and development contributions.

User Growth & Download Statistics

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By:

ksucpea

Daily users:

27,701 -544

Rating:

4.72

(75) 0.05

Version:

5.12.0 Last updated: 2024-10-28

Version code:

5829148

Creation date:

2020-10-28

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Permissions:

storage

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Size:

279.20KB

Email:

he*****@bettercanvas.org

URLs:

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Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-17

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 433

Other rankings

#71 in Appearance

#15 in disclaimer keyword 10 ▼ 2

#27 in beta keyword 36

#44 in upgrade keyword 36

#48 in student keyword 34

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Other platforms

BetterCampus (prev. BetterCanvas) (v8.6.1)

1,000,000 4.73

(4,088)

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Developed by:

ksucpea

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/better-canvas/

Email:

he*****@bettercanvas.org

Website:

https://github.com/ksucpea/bettercanvas

Publisher Change History

2025-07-24: ks*****@gmail.com to he*****@bettercanvas.org

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User Reviews

Users praise Better Canvas for strong customization and ease of viewing Canvas data, plus a lightweight, appealing dark mode. However, recurring issues curb its reliability: submission functionality can fail, GPA calculations can break, the revert option sometimes doesn’t work, theme opt-in is flaky, and it can affect other sites’ behavior. Overall, it’s powerful and visually pleasing but has stability issues in several core areas.

Pros

Powerful customization and theming options that let you personalize course cards and dashboards with many visual themes.
Significantly improves Canvas usability by making due dates, assignments, and grades easier to view at a glance.
Dark mode is lightweight and generally artifact-free with low CPU overhead.
Overall ease of use and quick setup, with visually appealing results.

Cons

Core features can be unreliable, such as the ability to submit assignments.
GPA/grade calculations can fail (NaN) or fail to import course data.
Revert button sometimes does nothing.
User-generated themes opt-in can be broken, showing only one theme per page instead of many.
Interferes with other sites (e.g., animations misbehave) or requires manual on/off to avoid site-wide issues.

Recent reviews

by Fi*****, 2026-06-12

my favorite extension ever. Been using it for years now and it's never failed me. So so so many cool themes made by other users and making a theme is easy. Somehow has genuinely made being on canvas and getting work done way easier when the theme is fun or interesting to me. A ton of thanks and good wishes for the person who made this thing! Thank you!

by de*****, 2026-05-13

No update in two years, devs dont care about firefox

by Fi*****, 2026-04-23

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Is Better Canvas Safe?

Risk impact

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Better Canvas requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

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Risk likelihood

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Better Canvas has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

Medium This extension has medium user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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