Writing Wizard vs Maths Monsters
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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/
Maths Monsters
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Maths Monsters turns everyday maths practice into a friendly creature-battling adventure. Kids explore islands, meet collectible monsters, and win battles by solving maths questions pitched at exactly the right level — from counting your very first apples in Prep to fractions, decimals and times tables in Year 6. Choose your curriculum — the Australian Curriculum v9, US Common Core, England’s National Curriculum, or the New Zealand Curriculum — from Foundation/Prep to Year 6. And every question and lesson is fully voiced by a friendly professional narrator, so even the earliest readers can play on their own. WHY KIDS LOVE IT • Collect and grow a team of quirky maths "monsters" • Battle town wardens by answering questions — get it right, land the hit • Hundreds of towns to explore across seven year-level islands • Every question read aloud — listen, don’t just read WHY PARENTS & TEACHERS TRUST IT • Four curriculums built in — Australia (AC v9), United States (Common Core), England, and New Zealand • Fully voiced by a professional narrator — great for pre- and early readers • Thousands of unique questions per year level, so practice stays fresh • Pitched by year: Prep counts real pictures; older years tackle place value, fractions, decimals, money, time, percentages and order of operations • A built-in working-out scratchpad (finger or Apple Pencil) for showing your thinking • A big, friendly number pad — including a decimal point — for typing answers • No ads. No accounts. No data collection. Plays fully offline. EASY FOR THE LITTLEST LEARNERS Prep levels are almost entirely visual and fully voiced: count groups of objects, spot which group has more or fewer, find one more and one less, and recognise shapes — little reading required. GROWS WITH YOUR CHILD Pick any curriculum and year level from Prep to Year 6. Each save keeps its own progress, so siblings can share a device. FREE TO TRY Play one year level with a few free battles. A single one-time purchase unlocks every level and every town — no subscriptions, ever.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Maths Monsters at every 2 days against Writing Wizard's every 4 months. Writing Wizard's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Writing Wizard sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month and Maths Monsters sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Writing Wizard ships an update every 4 months, Maths Monsters every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Writing Wizard | Maths Monsters |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (5.2K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 73.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5.2K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 637 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pierre Abel | Kendal Slack |
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
Maths Monsters
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Writing Wizard
- Full Access - Monthly$2.491 Month
- All Letters and Numbers$5.99
- Add Your Words and Word Lists$5.99
- Lifetime Full Access$9.99
Maths Monsters
- Full Adventure$5.99
Questions
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