Canvas App

A canvas app in Power Apps is an application designed visually — drag and drop controls (labels, buttons, galleries, forms) onto a blank canvas, bind them to data sources, and use Power Fx (an Excel-like formula language) for behaviour. The blank-canvas freedom gives total layout control — useful for task-oriented mobile apps, inspections, custom forms, focused workflows. Different from model-driven apps, which generate UI automatically from a Dataverse data model with less visual flexibility. Canvas apps work well for focused, task-oriented scenarios; model-driven apps work better for record-management apps with many entity types. Canvas apps can connect to SharePoint, Dataverse, SQL, Excel, and hundreds of other sources via connectors.