Comparison

Canvas Teacher vs iFY

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Canvas Teacher

This app allows educators to grade assignments, provide feedback, and manage their classes remotely. It offers tools for annotating work, communicating with students, and updating course content directly from a mobile device.

Highlights
  • Grade assignments with annotations
  • Provide audio/video feedback
  • Post class announcements
  • Reply in discussions
  • Send messages
  • Update assignment content
  • Manage Inbox
Features
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Save time. Teach on the go. Canvas Teacher helps educators, instructors, and teachers grade, give feedback, and manage their classes from anywhere. What you can do • Grade or mark work: Use mobile friendly SpeedGrader to annotate assignments, apply rubrics and give written, audio, or video feedback • Communicate: Post class announcements, reply in discussions, and send messages right from your device • Update content: Adjust due dates, publish/unpublish assignments, or fix typos in seconds • Stay connected: Manage your Inbox, reply to student questions, and keep class communication flowing on the move Canvas Teacher is designed for educators—making mobile grading and class management faster and easier.

About

iFY

This platform helps newcomers to the US learn about health, safety, laws, and daily life through videos in 18 languages. Earn badges as you gain knowledge and personalize your learning experience. Access content offline and sync with your phone's calendar for reminders.

Highlights
  • Multilingual video content
  • Health, safety, and law education
  • Personalized profile and layout
  • In-app calendar with US holidays
  • Offline access
  • Video sharing
  • Progress tracking with badges
Features
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IFY is a multilingual learning platform for newcomers to the US so you can learn about health, safety, laws, and everyday life and customs in your new home. Select from 18 languages and watch hundreds of videos in that language, earning badges as your knowledge increases. Personalize your profile by taking a photo or choosing one from your phone’s photo library. Organize and customize your layout so you can focus on the topics that are most important to you. Use the in-app calendar feature to be alerted to holidays and important dates in the US and watch videos related to them. Sync the app’s calendar with your phone’s calendar to enable reminders with Siri voice commands and access content even when you’re offline. Easily share videos with friends via social media and messaging apps directly from the app. Notifications alert you when a new video is added to the app, so you’ll never miss out on important information. iFY organizes videos into intuitive categories like Employment, Health, Weather and Climate, and Transportation, and marks them using universal symbols, making the app accessible to people of all literacy levels. English videos are captioned for increased accessibility for Deaf and Hard of Hearing users. iFY content has been vetted by health, legal, and safety experts and the Vermont Language Justice Project (a nonprofit), and is translated by highly-qualified professionals living and working in the US. You can watch videos to learn about everything from driving safely in winter, to getting a mammogram, to opening a bank account, to taking care of your dental health, to calling 911, to staying safe during a flood. iFY is available in English, Arabic, Burmese, Dari, French, Haitian Kreyol, Kirundi, Mandarin, Maay Maay, Mandarin Chinese, Nepali, Pashto, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Tigrinya, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. The ease of toggling back and forth between languages makes iFY a useful teaching tool for educators and service providers working with immigrants and refugees. Adjusting to life in a new country is challenging and iFY’s engaging audiovisual content and user-friendly design makes it fun and easy for newcomers to advance on the path of learning. Watching and listening to videos on a huge range of important topics, sharing them with friends and family, and earning badges to celebrate your achievements all make the learning and adjustment process more enjoyable and effective

Screenshots

Canvas Teacher4 screens
iFY4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: iFY at 5.0 against Canvas Teacher's 4.6. iFY also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). Canvas Teacher's advantage is ratings volume (96K vs 4) and update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

iFY holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Canvas Teacher has 96K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Canvas Teacher ships an update monthly, iFY every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Canvas Teacher versus iFY: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCanvas TeacheriFY
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (96K ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews26.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings96K — better4
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size181 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperInstructure Inc.Alison Segar

Customer experience

Canvas Teacher

All ratings95,931 ratings
Positive91.3%
Neutral4.0%
Negative4.6%
Written reviews328 reviews
Positive26.5%
Neutral17.7%
Negative55.8%

iFY

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Canvas Teacher

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • App crashes frequently
  • Inability to save grades and annotations
  • Inconsistent behavior when rotating device
  • Issues with loading student submissions
  • Problems with syncing data between app and web version

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to access and edit modules
  • Improve grading tools and functionality
  • Allow customization of notification settings
  • Enhance integration with other platforms
  • Improve stability and reliability

iFY

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Canvas Teacher

No in-app purchases

None

iFY

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Canvas Teacher free?
Canvas Teacher is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is iFY free?
iFY is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Canvas Teacher or iFY?
iFY is rated higher. Canvas Teacher averages 4.6 out of 5 from 96K ratings, while iFY averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Canvas Teacher or iFY have ads?
Neither Canvas Teacher nor iFY shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Canvas Teacher or iFY?
Canvas Teacher ships an update monthly, and iFY every 4 months. Most recently, Canvas Teacher was updated on October 27, 2026 and iFY on October 9, 2026.

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