# BetterCampus (prev. BetterCanvas)

> Best dark mode for Canvas, plus other features

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/better-canvas](https://chrome-stats.com/d/better-canvas)

## Overview

- **ID:** `better-canvas`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** BetterCampus
- **Category:** appearance,alerts-updates
- **Daily users:** 31,648
- **Weekly downloads:** 2,241
- **Rating:** 4.70 / 5 (77 ratings)
- **Version:** 5.12.0
- **Last updated:** 2024-10-28
- **First published:** 2020-10-28
- **Size:** 279 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/better-canvas/)
- **Website:** [https://bettercampus.com/](https://bettercampus.com/)

## Description

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.

## Rankings

- #407 — Overall
- #12 — Alerts & Updates
- #68 — Appearance
- #11 — disclaimer
- #28 — beta
- #45 — upgrade

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`

### Content script matches

- `*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has recently changed publisher email (might be a transfer in ownership)

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## Review summary

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.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/better-canvas)