Comparison

Tracing Projector vs Writey Cursive Handwriting

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

Head to head
About

Tracing Projector

This app acts as a portable drawing tool, allowing you to trace any image onto paper using augmented reality. Enhance your drawing skills, create unique artwork, and share your progress through video recordings.

Highlights
  • Trace any image using augmented reality
  • Enhance photos with filters for easier tracing
  • Record drawing process in time-lapse or normal speed
  • Suitable for face painting and makeup art
  • Light Table mode for direct screen tracing
  • Handheld Mode with AR for steady tracing
Features
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Tracing Projector is your personal portable drawing and composition tool. Having Tracing Projector is like always having a sheet of tracing paper with you! Choose any image you'd like to draw, take a photo, or choose from hundreds of images supplied in the app; then look at your screen while you trace the image on paper! - Learn to Draw! Learn proportions and important lines by tracing photos of anything! Use several filters to enhance your photo, making it easier to trace. - Make real one-of-a-kind artwork you can hang on your wall! Send unique greetings on social media! Friends and family will love to see your animated drawings! - Show off your skills! Record a video while you draw and share it on your favorite social network. Your friends will be amazed! Choose from time-lapse and regular speeds, and include a narrative if you want to.  - Great for face painting or artistic makeup! - Great for school projects! Need to draw an image from a book on a poster? Trace it! - Kick-start your painting or portrait! Transfer your idea from a photo to your drawing canvas to get the proportions right. - Match the Composition! Transfer your plan from a sketch to the scrapbook page or photo wall! - Challenge yourself to sketch the essence of the image before the timer runs out! Focus on composition and structure. Freehand the fine details afterward, or disable Quick Sketch and trace them directly. (Disabling requires a one-time purchase.) Several tools make it really easy to trace your image: - Light Table - lock your screen, turn up the brightness, and trace the image from your screen directly! - Handheld Mode -- On supported devices, Augmented Reality keeps your tracing image steady while you hold your device at a comfortable angle. (demo video https://youtu.be/YJeK5Sjdi1Q). Requires iOS 11.3 or later on iPhone 6s/6s Plus or iPad Pro and later. Works best on stable horizontal and vertical surfaces with good light and some visible surface detail. - Lock the camera focus to keep the image steady while you trace. - Lock the canvas area to keep your layout and alignment while you zoom in to get a close look at your work in progress. - Several Filter modes enhance your image, increasing contrast to give you a better result. - Use the flashlight to light up your drawing. (requires Full Version) - Use the selfie camera and draw on your face. (requires Full Version) Other features make it fun and easy to share your creations with your friends. - Video recording in Time Lapse mode to make things smaller and faster and cooler. You can enable normal-speed and audio on the Settings screen. - The recorded video or snapshot includes a small thumbnail of the tracing image (with an option to turn that off). - Your videos and snapshots are stored automatically and available to share later from within the app, the Files app, or iTunes. - Sharing your videos and photos is easy with a preview screen and saved photos/videos! - Interrupted while recording your drawing? No problem - Combine multiple videos to create a single video for sharing! Use the Edit feature on the Saved Files screen: select two movies and tap Join. Tracing Projector is Enhanced For 3D Touch! Start right away from the camera or photo album from the home screen! Force-touch on the tracing image to peek at your progress while you draw! Notes: - For best results, stabilize your device above your drawing surface. A stack of books, drinking glass, or tripod works best. - The app requires access to your camera in order to present its overlay for drawing. - The app requires access to your photos in order to load an image to trace and to save the video of your drawing. - The app optionally uses your microphone when recording a video while you draw.

About

Writey Cursive Handwriting

Learn and improve handwriting skills with interactive courses for calligraphy, cursive, and print writing. Supports multiple languages and is designed for styluses like Apple Pencil. Suitable for children and adults looking to master beautiful handwriting.

Highlights
  • Interactive handwriting courses
  • Calligraphy and cursive practice
  • Multi-language support
  • Designed for styluses (e.g., Apple Pencil)
  • Smart worksheets with learning roadmap
  • Zoom in/out for comfortable writing
  • Dark Mode
Features
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Join over a million users to practice and learn handwriting in many languages! Writey is a fun way of learning and improving your handwriting skills. Courses with interactive and smart worksheets to learn calligraphy, cursive writing, print writing or even simple alphabet. Children can learn how to write correctly and adults can master handwriting in different languages. Calligraphy lessons provide many styles, letters, words and trainings. Cursive lessons are here to train your hand to freely write clean and beautiful notes. Your note-taking ability will transform! Hundreds of thousands of Writey users say in their reviews. Here is words from our users: "I can highly recommend this app. It’s really helpful and easy to use. I do use my ipad to take notes and it really helps me to write better. Plus I am learning how to write cursive and each letter has arrows so you know how to write a letter correctly. So don’t hesitate to download this app and enjoy writing.” - Rubi1998 "Thank you. I can finally work on my handwriting. Thank you for the dark screen. Excellent practice pages with good breakdown - wonderful app.” - Lost in Tactics "It is suitable and helps me write better not only print letter and number writing but also cursive letters and numbers this app has been very helpful for me for this past year use. I recommend other parents use this for their children to help them get a little bit more of higher education than in school. This app is very useful you should download immediately, thank you!” - Mama Queen 43 “The best out there for Apple Pencil. This is one of the only few apps that support practicing with Apple Pencil and this is the best. Huuuuge collection of practice sets for various styles. Crispy interface.” - iPulkit Writey Key Features: + Designed for Apple Pencil and other styluses + Smart worksheets with learning roadmap + Zoom-in and zoom-out to maintain the size you are comfortable to write + 15 English handwriting courses. + 8 Spanish handwriting courses + 8 German handwriting courses + 8 French handwriting courses + Chinese HSK1 handwriting + Dutch handwriting + Japanese guided handwriting, Hiragana and Katakana + Guides for writing each letter type + Roman, print writing, cursive writing, and calligraphy in different languages + Many word lessons for each language + Dark Mode + Ad free This app aims to improve the handwriting of all age groups. Writey is also very helpful for language learning and starting to write beautifully in other languages. So, using that way will help you in your language learning process. --------- Subscriptions will be charged to your credit card through your iTunes account. Your subscription will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You will not be able to cancel the subscription once activated. After purchase, manage your subscriptions in App Store Account Settings. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription. - Terms of use: https://writey.app/terms-of-use/ - Privacy policy: https://writey.app/privacy-policy/

Screenshots

Tracing Projector4 screens
Writey Cursive Handwriting4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Writey Cursive Handwriting at 4.5 against Tracing Projector's 3.8. Writey Cursive Handwriting also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 38%) and ratings volume (12K vs 2.3K). Tracing Projector's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.6). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Tracing Projector sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Writey Cursive Handwriting sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Writey Cursive Handwriting holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Writey Cursive Handwriting has 12K ratings behind it against 2.3K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 38% of Tracing Projector's written reviews are positive against 50% of Writey Cursive Handwriting's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tracing Projector ships an update every 2 weeks, Writey Cursive Handwriting fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Tracing Projector versus Writey Cursive Handwriting: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTracing ProjectorWritey Cursive Handwriting
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (2.3K ratings)4.5 (12K ratings) — better
Positive reviews38.0% of reviews50.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2.3K12K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size107 MB661 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPhotilityWritey B.V.

Customer experience

Tracing Projector

All ratings2,268 ratings
Positive67.6%
Neutral5.8%
Negative26.6%
Written reviews532 reviews
Positive38.0%
Neutral10.7%
Negative51.3%

Writey Cursive Handwriting

All ratings12,053 ratings
Positive87.9%
Neutral5.2%
Negative6.9%
Written reviews403 reviews
Positive50.1%
Neutral11.2%
Negative38.7%

User reviews

Tracing Projector

From 2.3K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Helpful for tracing and sketching
  • 👍 Good for beginners
  • ⭐ Useful app overall
  • 🎨 Improves drawing skills
  • 💡 Innovative AR features

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Image drifts and moves around
  • ⏱️ Limited free drawing time
  • 🔒 Difficult to lock image in place
  • 💸 Forced to pay for full functionality
  • 🤯 Frustrating and buggy

Writey Cursive Handwriting

From 12K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Good app for handwriting practice
  • 💡 Helpful for improving handwriting
  • 🚀 Efficient writing experience with Apple Pencil
  • 🎨 Variety of writing styles and languages

Room to improve

  • 💰 Subscription model is too expensive
  • 🔒 Limited free content, most features require payment
  • 🐛 Issues with screen scrolling and writing detection
  • 🙅‍♀️ Not suitable for left-handed users

Bugs and requests

Tracing Projector

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Image constantly moving and shifting
  • Handheld mode not working as expected
  • App crashes or freezes
  • Purchased features not working
  • Difficulty aligning image with paper

Requested features

5 requests
  • Longer free drawing time
  • Better image stabilization
  • Option to disable timer
  • Improved handheld mode
  • Ability to resize images

Writey Cursive Handwriting

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Screen scrolling issues when writing
  • Inconsistent writing detection and feedback
  • Subscription/purchase issues

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add more practice words and sentences
  • Implement custom word/text input
  • Support for additional writing styles (e.g., UK cursive)
  • Improve overall user experience and accessibility

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Tracing Projector

One-time3
  • High Quality Video$2.99
  • Full Functionality$3.99
  • Pro Bundle - Best Value!$4.99
14 purchases

Writey Cursive Handwriting

Subscriptions11
  • Premium Access3 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription3 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Premium Access3 Days trial$3.991 Month
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  • Premium Access3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Premium Access$14.996 Months
  • Premium Access3 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • Yearly Subscription$19.991 Year
  • Premium Access3 Days trial3 variants$24.991 Year
  • Yearly Subscription3 Days trial$24.991 Year
  • Premium Access3 Days trial2 variants$29.991 Year
  • Premium Access$29.991 Year
One-time3
  • Lifetime Access$29.99
  • Lifetime Access$39.99
  • Lifetime Access$49.99

Questions

Is Tracing Projector free?
Tracing Projector is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Writey Cursive Handwriting free?
Writey Cursive Handwriting is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Tracing Projector or Writey Cursive Handwriting?
Writey Cursive Handwriting is rated higher. Tracing Projector averages 3.8 out of 5 from 2.3K ratings, while Writey Cursive Handwriting averages 4.5 from 12K ratings.
Do Tracing Projector or Writey Cursive Handwriting have ads?
Neither Tracing Projector nor Writey Cursive Handwriting shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tracing Projector or Writey Cursive Handwriting?
Tracing Projector ships an update every 2 weeks, and Writey Cursive Handwriting fortnightly. Most recently, Tracing Projector was updated on September 29, 2026 and Writey Cursive Handwriting on October 1, 2026.

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