CheatGPT
CheatGPT is a paid Chromium browser extension and companion web app that reads Canvas quiz, test and homework questions, answers them on the page with a short explanation, and suppresses the tab-switch and focus signals Canvas logs.
What is CheatGPT?
CheatGPT is a browser extension for Chromium browsers, paired with a web dashboard and chat, built around a single target: the Canvas learning platform from Instructure. Its own homepage calls it a study cheating assistant, and the product does two quite different things that are worth separating.
The first is generation. The extension reads the question and its answer options from the page you are looking at, sends them to an AI provider, and returns an answer with a short explanation and a confidence score. One-click apply then ticks the option or types the response into the field. On quizzes that allow several attempts, correct answers are stored and pre-filled next time, with a green badge marking questions already solved. A side panel offers a general AI chat, and a selection toolbar rewrites, summarises or explains any highlighted text; both work on any website, not only Canvas.
The second is concealment, and it involves no AI at all. Canvas writes an activity log during a quiz, recording when a student stops viewing the page. The feature the vendor calls Ghost Mode intercepts those browser events so the page reports itself as permanently visible and focused, leaving the log clean.
The advertised scope and the documented scope diverge. The homepage says it reads every question type and works on all quizzes; the support page restricts it to Classic Canvas quizzes and assignment pages, and states that Canvas New Quizzes is not supported yet. Question types actually listed are multiple choice, true/false, multiple answer, short answer and numeric. The homepage and store listing name ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok as the models behind it, while the privacy policy discloses only one AI provider, OpenAI.
Setup is a subscription, an install from the Chrome Web Store and an activation link by email, with one active device per subscription and no password. Scale is worth noting: the site claims 31,724 students since 2023, while the vendor's own Chrome Web Store listing shows 32 users, no ratings, and version 1.0.0 dated 1 July 2026. The terms describe the whole thing as a study and reference tool supplied as is.
What it does
- Read the Canvas question on screen and place an answer with a short explanation directly on the page
- Fill the answer in with one click, ticking the option or typing into the response field
- Stop Canvas recording tab switches, focus loss and visibility changes during a quiz attempt
- Save correct answers from one attempt and pre-fill them on the next, flagging solved questions with a green badge
- Answer a question from a screenshot when it is presented as an image
- Hold a side-panel AI conversation on any page, with screenshot capture built in
- Rewrite or summarise any highlighted passage from a floating toolbar
When to use CheatGPT / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if CheatGPT is the right fit.
When to use CheatGPT
- Undergraduates taking graded Canvas quizzes in Classic Canvas courses
- High-school students aged 13 and over whose school runs Canvas
- Students on online or self-paced courses with multiple-attempt quizzes, who benefit from saved-answer autofill
- Students in heavy factual-recall subjects such as statistics, organic chemistry, biology, accounting or nursing
- People who want ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini behind one low-cost subscription instead of several
When not to use CheatGPT
- Anyone whose course runs on Canvas New Quizzes, which the vendor states is not supported yet
- Users of any other learning platform: no Blackboard, Moodle, Brightspace or Schoology support exists
- Safari and Firefox users, since only Chromium browsers are covered
- Teams, institutions and developers: one active device per subscription, no seats, no API, non-commercial licence only
- Anyone bound by an exam regulation or honour code they intend to keep, as the terms place the whole academic risk on the user
How to use CheatGPT
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Buy a plan, monthly or lifetime, paying through Stripe
- Install CheatGPT from the Chrome Web Store and pin it to the toolbar
- Open the extension popup and enter the email address you used at checkout
- Open the activation link sent to that address and click Activate this device
- Wait a few seconds for the popup to switch to active
- Open a Classic Canvas quiz or assignment page, where the toolbar mounts itself
- Read the suggested answer and its explanation, then apply it in one click or type it yourself
- Take a screenshot for questions presented as images
- Open the side panel for a follow-up question, on Canvas or anywhere else
- Manage or cancel from the dashboard, remembering that uninstalling the extension does not cancel billing
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Low entry price: under ten dollars a month, or fifty dollars once for lifetime access
- Several model families behind a single subscription rather than separate ones
- Fast, configuration-free setup, advertised at about two minutes
- Narrow permissions, explained page by page rather than buried
- Question text is never stored on the vendor's servers, only a one-way hash, and IP addresses and login tokens are hashed
- Six sub-processors disclosed by name, which is unusual at this size, with no data selling and cookieless analytics
- Works on any Canvas instance including custom institutional domains, and the chat and toolbar work beyond Canvas
Cons
- Canvas New Quizzes is not supported, so a large share of current quizzes falls outside the tool
- Canvas only, Chromium only: no other platform, no Safari, no Firefox
- No free plan and no free trial; a subscription is required before the extension does anything
- Two irreconcilable monthly prices on the vendor's own pages: ten dollars on the pricing card, 9.99 in the structured data and the FAQ
- One active device per subscription, and activating another disables the previous one immediately
- No postal address anywhere, a single email support channel, a promoted Discord that has no working link, and four footer social icons that all point nowhere
- Claimed reach of 31,724 students against 32 users and no ratings on the vendor's own store listing
Pricing & Plans
There is no permanent free plan and no free trial: the Chrome Web Store listing states that a subscription is required before the extension will work. The cheapest paid entry point is the monthly plan at 9.99 USD per month, the figure carried by the pages' structured data and by the FAQ, although the pricing card itself displays 10 USD struck through from 15 USD. A lifetime licence is offered at 50 USD once, struck through from 80 USD. Billing runs through Stripe, renews automatically at the prevailing rate until cancelled, and is covered by a seven-day money-back guarantee on a first purchase only.
- Monthly — 10 USD per month shown on the card
- struck through from 15 USD
- and 9.99 USD in the structured data and FAQ
- marked most popular
- includes instant answers on every question
- ChatGPT
- Claude and Gemini built in
- Ghost Mode
- Lifetime — 50 USD one-time
- struck through from 80 USD
- includes everything in Monthly plus all future updates
- early access to new features and priority support
- No free plan
- no team plan
- no enterprise plan and no per-seat pricing
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how CheatGPT handles your data.
GDPR overview
The site never claims GDPR compliance in so many words, yet the privacy policy implements much of the machinery. A dedicated section sets out legal bases for the EEA and UK — performance of a contract, legitimate interests, legal obligation and consent — and the usual data-subject rights are listed, exercised through one email address, with a response promised within the time applicable law requires rather than a stated number of days. Users in the EEA or UK are told they may complain to their local authority. Transfers to the United States are acknowledged, but the safeguard is described only as appropriate, with no mechanism named. What is missing matters: no Article 27 EU representative, no data protection officer, no DPA and no certification. The policy is dated 20 July 2026.
Who owns the data?
You keep ownership of what you submit, which the terms call Your Content: the questions you send and the messages you type. Boast Holdings takes a worldwide, non-exclusive licence to use, process and transmit that content as needed to run the service, explicitly including sending a question to its AI provider. The software, design and branding stay the property of Boast Holdings, and your own licence is limited, personal, revocable and non-commercial. For data protection Boast Holdings is the controller. Six named sub-processors receive data: OpenAI, Stripe, Supabase, Vercel, PostHog and Resend. Nothing is sold, rented or shared for advertising, though the policy reserves the right to transfer data in a merger or sale of assets.
Reuse rights
The terms are silent on who owns the AI output itself: nothing attributes the generated answers to you, and nothing restricts your use of an individual answer. What is restricted is scale and commerce. You may not resell, redistribute or commercially exploit the service or your access to it, and you may not copy, scrape or build a competing or derivative product from the service or its outputs in bulk. Your licence covers your own non-commercial use only. On personal data, you may request access, correction, deletion, export, restriction or objection, and withdraw consent, all through the single support address; chat conversations can be deleted on request. Californian users may exercise CCPA/CPRA rights, and users in the EEA or UK may complain to their national data-protection authority.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
The operator states it is based in the United States and that its providers may process data in the United States and other countries, without listing them. Hosting is disclosed by naming the providers rather than the datacentres: Vercel runs the website and web app, Supabase holds the application database and authentication, and PostHog is explicitly hosted in the United States. OpenAI generates answers, Stripe handles payments and card details, and Resend delivers transactional email. Transfers out of the user's own country are acknowledged for anyone outside the United States, with safeguards described only as appropriate where required and no mechanism named. Declared protections are encryption in transit, hashing of IP addresses and login tokens, no storage of raw question text or card details, database access controls and row-level security. The contract is governed by the law of Wyoming. No hosting region, data-residency option, DPA or security certification is offered, and the domain's resolved IP is an anycast edge node rather than a storage location.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting CheatGPT.
- Academic integrity is the central risk, and the vendor treats it as such: a dedicated terms section calls itself the most important part of the agreement, acknowledges that many schools and universities prohibit AI tools on graded quizzes and exams, makes no claim that use is permitted, and assigns every consequence — failing grades, disciplinary action, lost credit — to the user alone
- Two mechanisms are bundled and should not be confused: the AI generates an answer and an explanation, while Ghost Mode intercepts browser events so the Canvas activity log stays clean. The second involves no model at all; it is log evasion, and it is what changes the nature of an attempt
- The undetectable claim is contradicted by the vendor: the terms state the word describes how the tool works on the page and is not a promise that any school, instructor or proctoring system will fail to detect it
- Answer reliability is asserted in two incompatible ways: the store listing claims 99% accuracy, while the terms warn answers can be wrong, incomplete, outdated or misleading and may not match what an instructor expects
- The tool is designed to supply the answer before any effort, and to pre-fill later attempts, which removes the retrieval practice a quiz exists to produce and can leave a gap that surfaces in invigilated exams
- Claimed reach and measurable reach diverge sharply — 31,724 students on the site against 32 users and no ratings on the vendor's own store listing — and the twenty testimonials give only a first name, an initial and a university, with no verifiable profile
- Consumer recourse is limited: mandatory individual arbitration, a class-action waiver, liability capped at the greater of twelve months of fees or a hundred dollars, a non-trader declaration removing EU consumer rights, and auto-renewing billing that uninstalling the extension does not stop
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Very low, and no technical skill is needed. Four steps, advertised at about two minutes: subscribe, install from the Chrome Web Store, pin the icon, enter your email in the popup and open the activation link. Sign-in uses a single-use email link, so there is no password or API key, and the toolbar mounts itself on Classic Canvas pages. Documented friction is minor: use the checkout email or nothing matches, request a fresh link if it expired, and reload the quiz tab if the toolbar is absent. Only one device may be active at a time.
Deployment
Integrations
Supported languages
Behind CheatGPT
Resources
All the official URLs gathered for verification and reference.
Frequently asked questions
Which platform does CheatGPT actually work on?
Does it support Canvas New Quizzes?
Is there a free plan or a free trial?
What does it cost?
Does the vendor guarantee that Canvas cannot detect it?
Who is responsible if an institution penalises the use?
How reliable are the answers?
Is my question text stored, and is it used for training?
What is the minimum age, and how many devices can I use?
How do I get support or cancel?
Should you pick CheatGPT?
CheatGPT is a narrow product: one learning platform, one of that platform's two quiz engines, and one browser family. Within those bounds it is unusually candid on the technical side. Permissions are explained rather than buried, six sub-processors are named, question text is not retained beyond a one-way hash, and IP addresses and login tokens are hashed. Few tools this small document themselves as well.
The difficulty is that the vendor's own pages contradict each other on the points a buyer most needs settled. The homepage promises it works on all quizzes and reads every question type; the support page excludes Canvas New Quizzes. The store listing claims 99% accuracy; the terms warn that answers can be wrong, incomplete or misleading. The homepage names ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini; the privacy policy discloses one AI provider. The pricing card says ten dollars a month while the structured data and FAQ say 9.99. And the site's claim of 31,724 students sits beside the vendor's own store listing showing 32 users and version 1.0.0 dated July 2026.
Accountability is thin. No postal address is published anywhere, no individual is named, the operating entity is a Wyoming company whose developer contact sits on a different domain, and the store listing carries a non-trader declaration meaning EU consumer rights do not apply. The terms impose individual arbitration, waive class actions, and cap liability at a hundred dollars. There is no DPA, no Article 27 representative and no certification.
Most importantly, the terms are explicit that using the tool on graded work may breach an institution's academic-integrity policy, that the vendor makes no claim it is permitted, and that every consequence falls on the user. Anyone weighing this product should read that section before the marketing.
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