Highly over sensitive
we were recommended this app by one of my sons school teachers. He is 4. For 4, his letters are great, however this app says repeatedly “that’s not quite right” if he doesn’t hit every dot in the letter exactly. For a child who has just turned 4, he is great at writing but this app made him feel his letters “he wasn’t quite right”. The app is way to sensitive and needs work to reflect this
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Issues with f
My son loves the app, but we are having issues with f not showing as correct no matter what we do.
Great app for letter shapes
This app has been great for my child - the format of clues and then practising each letter shape is works. We have tried a range of apps about letters, and this is definitely the most fun - our favourite. Thank you!
Awful
Stupidly over sensitive considering it is for young children. I would like a refund it was so bad.
Nice App - Terrible Voice Over
Nicely made app and my daughter really enjoys practising her letters, but seriously what were they thinking with the voice over?
A boring voice who cannot tell a story and sounds like it was recorded in someone's kitchen with a £10 microphone from Argos.
A boring voice who cannot tell a story and sounds like it was recorded in someone's kitchen with a £10 microphone from Argos.
Excellent App
My son used this at school and it was recommended to us for some extra writing practice. The extra practice has paid off (in only a few sessions) and he loves playing it. In case its not clear (I didn’t read the description), your child is asked to write letters in the sky with a wand to cast spells. So your child learns to write to correctly and is rewarded by producing a spell. The spells are then added to their spell book and they go out and use them in different situations around the castle (Like summoning a cat to scare away a mouse or a yo-yo for a jester that has run out of ideas). It is a brilliant app, definitely one of the best apps we have bought.
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Best Letter Writing App
My son loves this game. Unlike many other writing apps (and we have tried many others - including several paid ones) this one really held his attention. He’s learnt how to write the whole alphabet in basically a week and because its a real adventure with interesting little challenges he’s really into it!
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Excellent App, needs a tweak or two
This app is excellent and has really helped my daughter with her writing. I'd tried a bunch of free apps and took a gamble on this one and it paid off, it's by far the best on the apps store. Just a couple of small details could do with a tweak, the ability to sync progress between devices is a must. Having to repeat ground already covered when her iPad died and I had to lend her mine really annoyed my daughter and almost put her off. Also, the voices are a little robotic and are not very emotive.
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Great App
Excellent app that teaches the correct formation of letters. We use this app across our infant school, and the children love it.
Outstanding
Of all the writing apps we have tried (and we have tried most of them) this is easily the best. Our daughter loved helping out around the castle and can now write each letter without help. It was a struggle to get her to write more than a few letters on the other apps we tried. With this, she was desperate to learn how to write the letters to be able to cast the next spells!
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Full marks!
Both my children love this (3 and 5) and played this through to the end.
Highly recommended.
Highly recommended.
Brilliant
This is a brilliant way to make writing fun for kids. Our son’s writing is hugely improved and he absolutely loved it. Best writing app we have tried by far.
great app
writing magic letters really has helped my kids to learn to write letters. the story is engaging and keeps the kids interested. Its a big app and great value for £1.49
Fizzie
This would be great app except that I can't find a way to go back to the beginning. I've tried it out for grandson who would love it BUT each time I go back to the home page, it says Continue. I don't want to continue. I want to go back to Start.
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
Flawed realisation
I bought this for my daughter who has a tendency to write letters starting in the wrong place and going in the wrong direction. While this program helps her to start in the right place, it doesn't seem to care what happens after that. In the case of an "O" for example you can write it clockwise or anticlockwise. See how many ways you can write an "a". This is not helpful at all and, as a programmer, not hard to fix. Needs to be improved before I could recommend it for this reason alone. On other points, the "voice talent" is anything but, being very dull and quite annoying. The "story" is weak and my kids were not at all inspired! A waste of money, however little it cost!
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Writing can be fun too!
A bit quirky but definitely good fun. I like the wizard story and the 'letter writing' adventures around the castle. Love this App, Surely its a classic.
Dross.
The narrators voice is infuriatingly dull and slightly regional English accent, although I can't quite tell exactly where she's from. The story is read in a dreary, dull, drudging kind of way, slow and plodding in that monotone voice... we were getting tired of it before we even reached the first challenge.
But the writing part of the game is frustrating too; it demands more accuracy than my 5 year old or I could manage. There were only so many times we could bear to hear that dreary voice telling us "that's not quite right" before we were ready to throw the device across the room. After a few set backs my son started cheating; a spot or a line to get past the "that's not right" until the app offers the option "do you want me to do it for you?" after the 3rd attempt. I couldn't blame him, it's really very unforgiving and not at all encouraging.
In all honesty I resent having paid for it.
But the writing part of the game is frustrating too; it demands more accuracy than my 5 year old or I could manage. There were only so many times we could bear to hear that dreary voice telling us "that's not quite right" before we were ready to throw the device across the room. After a few set backs my son started cheating; a spot or a line to get past the "that's not right" until the app offers the option "do you want me to do it for you?" after the 3rd attempt. I couldn't blame him, it's really very unforgiving and not at all encouraging.
In all honesty I resent having paid for it.
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Unique and entertaining way to learn ABCs
This is a very engaging and educational way for children to learn the letters of the alphabet. Children practice tracing letters and then unlock "spells" which they use to solve problems as they move around the castle and it's grounds. It is all narrated so kids don't have to be able to read to play. The game aspect is never the same twice and my students stay involved for a long time. There are a few glitches such as that the tracing can be too sensitive and hard for kids to get right, but the developer is extremely responsive and has an update coming out soon. Highly recommended.
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Very frustrating
In principle this is a good app, but it is so frustrating.
The woman's voice very quickly got on my nerves!
As for tracing the letters, unless your spot on all I got was "that's not quite right..." Thought it was my fat fingers, so used a stylus, even then not very good.
So, my 3.5 year old who's really learning quickly but struggles to support a pen for a long period found this app very frustrating.
Overall not too bad, but use it in conjunction with other apps.
The woman's voice very quickly got on my nerves!
As for tracing the letters, unless your spot on all I got was "that's not quite right..." Thought it was my fat fingers, so used a stylus, even then not very good.
So, my 3.5 year old who's really learning quickly but struggles to support a pen for a long period found this app very frustrating.
Overall not too bad, but use it in conjunction with other apps.
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Learn to write
The app helps kids learn to write by showing how to write a letter then getting them to try themselves by using their finger on the touch screen and tracing the letter, success rewards them with a spell. The narrator reads the on screen text as well, the illustration style is fun bright and attractive. When letters have been learnt they are added to a spell book and the spells can be cast to help with tasks around the game world. There are multiple location to visit from a home screen where different spells can be used. My only criticism would be the voiceovers seem to be only recorded by a single female narrator, it would be nice for different voices to be used for the different characters in the game, great app though and the kids will have lots of fun learning whilst playing the game.
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