Comparison

LYNX Whiteboard 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

LYNX Whiteboard

This app provides a virtual whiteboard for seamless collaboration and idea sharing. It offers various tools for drawing, writing, and presenting, suitable for business, education, and family use. Enhance productivity and creativity with real-time teamwork capabilities.

Highlights
  • Virtual whiteboard for idea sharing
  • Real-time collaboration
  • Variety of pen styles and sizes
  • Customizable backgrounds
  • Multi-touch support for up to 10 users
  • Easy sharing and inviting others
Features
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Introducing LYNX Whiteboard, the ultimate tool for idea sharing and collaboration with your team or classmates. LYNX Whiteboard is designed to enhance your productivity and creativity by providing you with a virtual whiteboard that you can access from anywhere. With LYNX Whiteboard, you can easily sketch, draw, write, and erase just like you would on a physical whiteboard. Whether you’re working on a project, presenting an idea, or teaching a class, LYNX Whiteboard has everything you need to make your collaboration sessions more effective. -- LYNX for Business -- Brainstorming sessions: Collaborate with colleagues to generate new ideas and strategies, and capture them all on your virtual whiteboard. Presentations: Use LYNX Whiteboard to create engaging presentations that showcase your ideas and data, and share them with your team or clients. Project planning: Organize your thoughts, tasks, and timelines on a virtual whiteboard, and collaborate with your team to stay on track. -- LYNX for Education -- Lesson planning: Use LYNX Whiteboard to create interactive lessons that engage students with multimedia, diagrams, and games, and collaborate with other teachers to share your best practices. Group projects: Work with classmates to brainstorm, plan, and create projects using a virtual whiteboard, and collaborate in real-time from anywhere. Virtual tutoring: Use LYNX Whiteboard to provide virtual tutoring sessions, and collaborate with students to help them learn and solve problems. -- LYNX for Families -- Creative projects: Use LYNX Whiteboard to sketch out ideas for art, design, or writing projects, and collaborate with friends or family members to refine your vision. Organization: Keep track of schedules, grocery lists, and other important information by creating a shared whiteboard for your family to access from anywhere. Virtual game nights: Use LYNX Whiteboard to play charades and other drawing games with friends and family. FEATURES -- Easy to Use Interface -- LYNX Whiteboard has an intuitive interface that makes it easy to start using right away. You can create a new board with just a few taps, and start sketching, drawing, or writing immediately. -- Variety of Pen Styles and Sizes -- From ink pens, handwriting recognition and highlighters to rainbow pens and erasers, LYNX Whiteboard has everything you need to create a stylish and engaging presentation. -- Multi-touch -- LYNX Whiteboard supports up to 10 people all collaborating simultaneously on the board. -- Customizable Backgrounds -- You can choose from a range of backgrounds for your whiteboard, including plain white, gridlines, music score or an image from the media search. This makes it easy to tailor your whiteboard to your specific needs. -- Sharing and Collaboration -- LYNX Whiteboard makes it easy to share your whiteboard with others, whether you’re working on a project with colleagues, teaching a class, or presenting an idea. You can invite others to view your board, or share it as a PDF. -- LYNX Cloud Storage -- Whiteboards can be saved to LYNX Cloud, so you can access them from anywhere, anytime. This means you can pick up right where you left off, even if you switch devices or locations. -- Multi-Device Support -- LYNX Whiteboard works across multiple devices, including smartphones, tablets, and computers. This means you can start working on one device, and pick up where you left off on another. -- Extensive File Support -- Use all your existing presentation files and documents. LYNX Whiteboard supports PowerPoint, MS Word, Google Docs, SMART Notebook, PDF and more. -- No Ads -- LYNX Whiteboard is completely ad-free. LYNX Whiteboard is perfect for teams, students, teachers, and anyone who needs to collaborate and share ideas. With its intuitive interface, and comprehensive features, it’s the ultimate tool for boosting productivity and creativity. Try LYNX Whiteboard today, and take your collaboration sessions to the next level.

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

LYNX Whiteboard4 screens
Writing Wizard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: LYNX Whiteboard at 5.0 against Writing Wizard's 4.4. LYNX Whiteboard also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months). Writing Wizard's advantage is ratings volume (5.2K vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17). On price, review sentiment, 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

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

LYNX Whiteboard holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Writing Wizard has 5.2K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of LYNX Whiteboard's written reviews are positive against 74% of Writing Wizard's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LYNX Whiteboard ships an update monthly, Writing Wizard every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
LYNX Whiteboard versus Writing Wizard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLYNX WhiteboardWriting Wizard
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.4 (5.2K ratings)
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews73.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings25.2K — better
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS1715.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size225 MB68 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSAHARA PRESENTATION SYSTEMS LTDPierre Abel

Customer experience

LYNX Whiteboard

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral6.7%
Negative26.7%

Writing Wizard

All ratings5,184 ratings
Positive84.3%
Neutral6.0%
Negative9.7%
Written reviews208 reviews
Positive73.6%
Neutral6.7%
Negative19.7%

Bugs and requests

LYNX Whiteboard

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

LYNX Whiteboard

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 LYNX Whiteboard free?
LYNX Whiteboard 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, LYNX Whiteboard or Writing Wizard?
LYNX Whiteboard is rated higher. LYNX Whiteboard averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Writing Wizard averages 4.4 from 5.2K ratings.
Do LYNX Whiteboard or Writing Wizard have ads?
Neither LYNX Whiteboard nor Writing Wizard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, LYNX Whiteboard or Writing Wizard?
LYNX Whiteboard ships an update monthly, and Writing Wizard every 4 months. Most recently, LYNX Whiteboard was updated on October 7, 2026 and Writing Wizard on October 29, 2026.

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