Comparison

Writing Wizard vs ClasStars

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

Head to head
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/

About

ClasStars

This app helps educators track student attendance and behaviors to foster positive relationships and identify potential issues early. It offers both enterprise and single-user versions, with options to manage classes and students.

Highlights
  • Student attendance tracking
  • Behavior recording
  • Visual feedback on student issues
  • Enterprise and single-user modes
  • Class and student management
  • Tutorial videos
Features
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ClasStars empowers teachers to understand each student’s unique learning process and to enable the teacher to have a positive relationship with each and every student in the classroom. We do this by providing a simple yet powerful interface to record student attendance and behaviors. The system then provides continuous visual feedback alerting the teacher to possible issues so that they can be mitigated early on. The application can be used as an Enterprise User which requires that your school has registered with us and that they have authorized you to use the application. It can also be used as a Single User version where you can add your own Classes and Students and manage them yourself. The Single User version (Bronze) will allow you to create a single Class and assign up to 50 students. You can upgrade to paid Silver and Gold versions from within the application. The paid version will permit additional classes and options which are explained during the subscription purchase. All versions will provide a Demo Class which does not count towards your class limit and provides a way to discover the application and learn the features. Tutorial Videos are available on each page to help you get started.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: ClasStars at 5.0 against Writing Wizard's 4.4. ClasStars also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 4 months). Writing Wizard's advantage is ratings volume (5.2K vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 and ClasStars sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ClasStars 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 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Writing Wizard ships an update every 4 months, ClasStars every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Writing Wizard versus ClasStars: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWriting WizardClasStars
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (5.2K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews73.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings5.2K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size68 MB209 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPierre AbelPNQ LLC

Customer experience

Writing Wizard

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

ClasStars

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and 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

ClasStars

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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
4 purchases

ClasStars

One-time4
  • ClasStars Silver – Monthly$2.99
  • ClasStars Gold – Monthly$9.99
  • ClasStars Silver – Annual$23.99
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  • ClasStars Gold - Annual$59.99

Questions

Is Writing Wizard free?
Writing Wizard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ClasStars free?
ClasStars is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Writing Wizard or ClasStars?
ClasStars is rated higher. Writing Wizard averages 4.4 out of 5 from 5.2K ratings, while ClasStars averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Writing Wizard or ClasStars have ads?
Neither Writing Wizard nor ClasStars shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Writing Wizard or ClasStars?
Writing Wizard ships an update every 4 months, and ClasStars every 2 weeks. Most recently, Writing Wizard was updated on October 29, 2026 and ClasStars on October 29, 2026.

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