Comparison

ABC Spelling vs Writing Wizard

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

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About

ABC Spelling

This educational game helps young children learn the alphabet, phonics, and spelling through interactive games. It features colorful graphics, animations, and a report card system to track progress, making learning fun and accessible for kids and parents.

Highlights
  • Alphabet and phonics learning
  • Spelling games
  • Fill in the blank exercises
  • Progress tracking report cards
  • Sticker rewards for achievements
  • Customizable game modes
Features
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Discover a brand new world of education with ABC Spelling - Spell & Phonics, a fun and free game for parents and children to play together! ABC Spelling is a colorful and easy to use educational game that helps young children learn the alphabet, sound out words, and associate letters with pictures. Play anytime and anywhere, it only takes a moment to turn on your phone and help your child learn the ABCs! Featuring three games in one: Spelling: A picture is shown on the screen with letters outlined just above it. Children match the letters at the top by choosing from the tiles below, placing them in the correct order to spell out words. Fill In Blank: Kids spell out the name of the picture using letters on the screen. There’s just one catch, though: all the letters are jumbled up! Blank Spelling: Letters are placed at the bottom of the screen, but this time there’s no clue at the top! ABC Spelling was designed with both adults and children in mind. Kids will love the bright graphics, the easy to touch icons, and the fun cartoon drawings. Parents will love the report card feature that helps track learning progress. Best of all, ABC Spelling - Spell & Phonics is absolutely free, with no third party ads, paywalls, or other distractions. Features: - Fun, educational activities for toddlers, kids, and parents alike! - Colorful graphics and wonderful animations to help kids learn. - Sounds to help children learn phonics for letters and words. - Report cards show learning progress so parents can help their kids at every turn. - Parents have complete control to set options and customize game modes to make learning more effective. - Collect stickers to celebrate learning achievements! Note to Parents: ABC Spelling is a passion project for us. We want to reach kids across the world and give them an educational advantage. Children in cities, towns, even remote places where cell phones are more common than schools can benefit from a learning app like this one. There are so many kids who lack proper schooling, and that's why we want to remove as many barriers as possible to help them learn. As parents, you can do a lot to help us spread the joy of education. Share this app with friends, family, schools, daycares, non-profit organizations, or simply post about it on Facebook or Twitter. One share, one tweet, can make a huge difference. We're parents ourselves, and it's our goal to keep making free educational apps for kids. We need your help to make that happen. Every child should have a chance to learn the basics of spelling, phonics, and numbers. Together, we can give countless kids an opportunity they've never had. Thank you! - Best wishes from the parents at RV AppStudios

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
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"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

ABC Spelling4 screens
Writing Wizard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ABC Spelling at none against Writing Wizard's 4. ABC Spelling also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months) and review sentiment (86% vs 74%). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Writing Wizard sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month. ABC Spelling asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ABC Spelling holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3.2K and 5.2K respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of ABC Spelling's written reviews are positive against 74% of Writing Wizard's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ABC Spelling ships an update fortnightly, Writing Wizard every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
ABC Spelling versus Writing Wizard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterABC SpellingWriting Wizard
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (3.2K ratings) — better4.4 (5.2K ratings)
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews — better73.7% of reviews
Number of ratings3.2K5.2K — better
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size210 MB68 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRV AppStudios LLCPierre Abel

Customer experience

ABC Spelling

All ratings3,181 ratings
Positive89.1%
Neutral5.1%
Negative5.8%
Written reviews84 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral4.8%
Negative9.5%

Writing Wizard

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

User reviews

ABC Spelling

From 3.2K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Great for kids
  • 🚀 Fun and engaging activities
  • 💡 Helpful for learning and development
  • 🔒 No ads or in-app purchases

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Inaccurate phonics sounds
  • 🐛 Incorrect teaching techniques
  • 🐛 Frequent freezing or crashing

Writing Wizard

From 5.2K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 User-friendly interface
  • 🚀 Engaging animations
  • 💡 Customizable word lists
  • 👍 Helpful for children with special needs
  • 👍 Effective for improving handwriting

Room to improve

  • 🔒 Locked features behind paywall
  • 🐛 Bugs and glitches
  • 🔒 Paid version not working as expected
  • 💰 Expensive for the limited features

Bugs and requests

ABC Spelling

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Sound issues
  • Compatibility problems on older devices

Requested features

3 requests
  • Add more advanced word families and blends
  • Incorporate lower case letters
  • Improve sentence structure and grammar

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

ABC Spelling

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 ABC Spelling free?
ABC Spelling is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Writing Wizard free?
Writing Wizard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ABC Spelling or Writing Wizard?
ABC Spelling is rated higher. ABC Spelling averages 4.6 out of 5 from 3.2K ratings, while Writing Wizard averages 4.4 from 5.2K ratings.
Do ABC Spelling or Writing Wizard have ads?
Neither ABC Spelling nor Writing Wizard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ABC Spelling or Writing Wizard?
ABC Spelling ships an update fortnightly, and Writing Wizard every 4 months. Most recently, ABC Spelling was updated on November 10, 2026 and Writing Wizard on November 6, 2026.

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