Comparison

Reversals for Dyslexia vs Writing Wizard

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

Head to head
About

Reversals for Dyslexia

This app offers targeted activities and games designed to help children with dyslexia overcome common letter and number reversals. It focuses on specific reversal patterns like b-d and p-d-b, with customizable game options.

Highlights
  • Letter reversal activities (b-d, p-d-b)
  • Number reversal practice
  • Customizable reversal games
  • Focus on vertical and horizontal reversals
  • Designed for children with dyslexia
Features
Read full description

For children who have dyslexia, this app helps with common letter and number reversals. There are a number of activities based around the common b-d reversals, the p-d-b reversals, and two games, where you can select from other letter or numbers and how they can be reversed (vertical or horizontal).

About

Writing Wizard

This app helps children learn to trace letters, numbers, and words with a fun, motivating system. It offers customizable tracing practice, interactive games, and progress reports for parents and educators.

Highlights
  • Trace letters, numbers, and words
  • Customizable tracing practice
  • Interactive games and animated stickers
  • Create custom word lists with audio
  • Progress reports for tracking
  • Printable PDF worksheets
Features
Read full description

"Fantastic, customizable tracing practice with fun rewards." 5 Stars - Common Sense Media 500,000+ units sold (including 300,000+ to schools) ! Writing Wizard is designed to help every child learn how to trace letters, numbers, and words through a fun system carefully designed to maintain motivation. • Show and enforce how to trace letters correctly • Letter names and phonics (customizable) • 16 Fonts available (including 3 most popular in the US) • Fun tracing using 50+ animated stickers, sound effects and interactive games that animate letters at the end of tracing • Uppercase & lowercase letters, numbers, and words • Ability to create your own word lists (and record audio for each word) • Fully customizable to suit every child’s needs (letter size, difficulty,...) • Check progress thanks to reports that display what the child has traced • Shapes tracing activity for toddlers • Create PDF Worksheets and print them to help your child to write on paper • Use Apple pencil to write at a very small size All the shapes, the first 7 letters, numbers, and words are free. The remaining letters and the ability to add your own words can be unlocked with a one-time purchase or a monthly subscription. _______ ACCOLADES • "Writing Wizard is the most complete and intelligent letter tracing app we’ve seen"" AppoLearning.com • "This brand-new app should be the go-to for every parent, teacher and therapist to work on handwriting" - TOP PICKS - 5 stars - SmartAppsForKids.com • "Writing Wizard by L’Escapadou is everything a parent wants in a handwriting app, and more." 5/5 - kids-app-reviews.com • "L’Escapadou has made handwriting fun." AppyMall.com 5/5 • Listed in "20 best educational iPhone and iPad apps for kids of 2013" - appsplayground.com • Editor's Choice Award for Excellence in Design - Children's Technology Review _______ PERFECT FOR KIDS Kids want to have fun, and Writing Wizard offers a lot of fun to keep them motivated in the learning process! • They can trace using 50+ animated stickers and sound effects • Once tracing is complete, they can interact with them on 4 games that animate letters • They can trace any word - like their name - and record their voice for each word • They can collect stars in 5-Stars play mode _______ PERFECT FOR PARENTS & TEACHERS • Ability to create your own word lists (and record audio for each word) • Detailed reports provide information on what kids have done, including the ability to replay and export the tracings to view kids' progress • Share word lists via iCloud Drive or other cloud providers, adhoc network, or email • Multiple parameters to customize the app according to the child’s current education level (e.g. letter size, difficulty, show/hide model, allow to stop between key points, etc.) • 3 most popular fonts in the US (ZB, DN & HWT) and 13 international fonts (UK, Scandinavia, Australia, Germany and France) • Upper and lower case letters, numbers (and word lists) • Letter names and letter sounds (which can be customized) • A customizable 5-Stars play mode prompting the child to trace a letter or a word 5 times using different parameters (each step is more challenging) • Create an unlimited number of users • Many settings to customize the app (sound, game time limit, black background,...) • In the A-Z section, special graphics available to match letters (e.g. ant graphic for A/a) _______ Privacy Policy KNOW WHAT'S INSIDE As a Moms with Apps member, we follow the "Know what's inside" best practices for kids’ apps L’Escapadou takes children’s privacy seriously. We believe you should not have to worry about your kids being tracked by apps or websites. This app: • Does not collect any user information (we do not use data collection tools) • External Links : Before accessing a parent section, an operation must be solved so that young kids cannot access it. Terms of use : https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Reversals for Dyslexia4 screens
Writing Wizard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Writing Wizard at 74% against Reversals for Dyslexia's 10%. Writing Wizard also leads on price (Free vs $3.99) and rating (4.4 vs 2.7). Reversals for Dyslexia's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). On update cadence, ads and device support 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

Writing Wizard is free to download; Reversals for Dyslexia costs $3.99 up front. Writing Wizard sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month. Reversals for Dyslexia asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Writing Wizard holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Writing Wizard has 5.2K ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 10% of Reversals for Dyslexia's written reviews are positive against 74% of Writing Wizard's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Reversals for Dyslexia ships an update every 5 months, Writing Wizard every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Reversals for Dyslexia versus Writing Wizard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReversals for DyslexiaWriting Wizard
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating2.7 (11 ratings)4.4 (5.2K ratings) — better
Positive reviews10.0% of reviews73.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings115.2K — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 4 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB68 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBlast Off to Learning, LLCPierre Abel

Customer experience

Reversals for Dyslexia

All ratings11 ratings
Positive45.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative54.5%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive10.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative90.0%

Writing Wizard

All ratings5,184 ratings
Positive84.3%
Neutral6.0%
Negative9.7%
Written reviews209 reviews
Positive73.7%
Neutral6.7%
Negative19.6%

Bugs and requests

Reversals for Dyslexia

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Writing Wizard

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes when trying to access locked features
  • Purchased content not unlocking properly
  • Inconsistent letter formation guidance

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add more letters, numbers, and shapes
  • Allow recording of custom voice instructions
  • Improve compatibility with stylus/digital pens
  • Provide more customization options

In-app purchases

None

Reversals for Dyslexia

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Writing Wizard

Subscriptions1
  • Full Access - Monthly$2.491 Month
One-time3
  • All Letters and Numbers$5.99
  • Add Your Words and Word Lists$5.99
  • Lifetime Full Access$9.99

Questions

Is Reversals for Dyslexia free?
Reversals for Dyslexia costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Writing Wizard free?
Writing Wizard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Reversals for Dyslexia or Writing Wizard?
Writing Wizard is rated higher. Reversals for Dyslexia averages 2.7 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while Writing Wizard averages 4.4 from 5.2K ratings.
Do Reversals for Dyslexia or Writing Wizard have ads?
Neither Reversals for Dyslexia nor Writing Wizard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Reversals for Dyslexia or Writing Wizard?
Reversals for Dyslexia ships an update every 5 months, and Writing Wizard every 4 months. Most recently, Reversals for Dyslexia was updated on November 2, 2026 and Writing Wizard on November 6, 2026.

Other comparisons