I Can Write Words vs CaliKids
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
I Can Write Words
This educational app teaches children how to write English letters correctly through fun, colorful exercises. Kids can collect stars to stay motivated and even compete with friends, making learning an engaging experience.
- Learn English letter writing
- Colorful and easy interface
- Star collection for motivation
- Competitive element for friends
- Focus on correct writing techniques
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This educational app helps children learn English words. Easy and colourful the app will teach kids to write correctly every single letter and have fun in the process. Collecting stars will inspire the little boys and girls to exercise the right way of writing the letters and compete with their friends.
CaliKids
This app offers a structured method for children aged 2 and up to learn reading, writing, and counting. It progresses through 65 levels, covering everything from basic strokes and letter sounds to sentence construction and simple arithmetic.
- 65 structured learning levels
- Reading, writing, and number modules
- Age-appropriate difficulty settings
- Progress tracking for parents
- Print and cursive handwriting practice
- Offline progress saving
- Multilingual support
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CaliKids is a method for learning to read, write and count, from age 2. It isn't a bundle of loose games: it's 66 levels in order, each one getting ready for the next. Pick the age (2, 3–4, 5–6 or 7+) and the app teaches what comes next, at the right difficulty. It goes from first scribbles to reading sentences, from tracing an A to writing from memory, and from counting pictures to adding and taking away. READING · 22 levels Letters and their sounds, capitals and lowercase, vowels, rhymes, syllables, words split up and put back together, word searches and sentences to put in order. A slow voice reads aloud while a box follows along. WRITING · 24 levels First strokes, loops and mazes to loosen up the hand; every letter with its stroke order animated; which letters go up and which go down on the line; copying, writing without a model, and letter and word dictation. Writing starts with capitals, which are easier, and lowercase comes next. In the word exercises, the app reads what your child has written. NUMBERS · 20 levels Counting, comparing sizes and amounts, shapes, writing each digit, ordering from smallest to largest, adding and taking away with pictures, doubles, sharing, the number line and telling the time to the hour. MADE FOR KIDS • Each exercise says in one line what it's for. • Hints and an eraser that removes just one part: mistakes are no big deal. • Every exercise picks up where you left it, even after closing the app. • Stickers to collect and an encouraging voice. • Print and cursive school handwriting, and 11 notebook rulings to choose from. • Works with Apple Pencil. • Works with VoiceOver and the system text size. FOR THE FAMILY • Admin mode for parents, protected by your account (Apple, Google or email) and a PIN: each child's progress, what they do well and what they find hard, their history, what each one sees and their own level path. • No ads. Your children's data stays only on the device, and you can delete it all at once. • Several children on the same device, each with their own name, age and progress. • In 6 languages: English, Spanish, Italian, French, German and Portuguese. It opens in the phone's language. WHAT'S FREE AND WHAT'S PAID All 66 levels of the method — reading, writing and numbers — can be tried for free: 6 rounds of each one. To keep going after that, CaliKids Premium opens every level in full, with every word topic, and brings new content as it arrives. It's a weekly or yearly subscription that renews automatically unless you cancel it, and you manage it from your account settings. Each word topic can also be bought on its own from its game. Every purchase goes behind a parental gate first, and anyone who already had the app keeps what they had: the levels that were free stay free. Terms of use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQ2zvoWh3YxPXD7xGIk0tE_AM1wlQdcVKgvnPvHfmw4ZHDU4qfMQZhYOP8UJ9YDVQUaSwhCHKQsDQvV/pub
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: I Can Write Words at weekly against CaliKids's every 3 weeks. I Can Write Words also leads on iOS requirement (6.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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
Both are free to download. I Can Write Words sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and CaliKids sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for I Can Write Words against 5.0 for CaliKids. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
I Can Write Words ships an update weekly, CaliKids every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | I Can Write Words | CaliKids |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CODORE OOD | Oliver Tacoronte Mendoza |
Customer experience
I Can Write Words
CaliKids
In-app purchases
I Can Write Words
- My First English Words$0.99
CaliKids
- CaliKids Premium weekly$3.997 Days
- Jobs$2.99
- Feelings$2.99
- The city$2.99
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- The sea$2.99
- The farm$2.99
- The jungle$2.99
- Fairy tales$2.99
- Insects$2.99
- Shapes$2.99
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