Comparison

Cursive Letters Writing Wizard vs Learn Abacus

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

Head to head
About

Cursive Letters Writing Wizard

This app helps children learn cursive handwriting through interactive tracing, engaging games, and customizable features. It supports various fonts, phonics, and progress monitoring for parents and educators.

Highlights
  • Interactive cursive letter tracing
  • Customizable word lists with audio recording
  • Engaging games and animated stickers
  • Progress monitoring and tracing replays
  • Support for multiple fonts and left-handed mode
  • Printable worksheets
Features
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• Editor's Choice Award (96/100) - Children's Technology Review • "Simply an amazing app for kids to learn cursive writing." - 5/5 - Top Pick - smartAppsForKids.com 142,000 units sold (including 62,000 to schools)! • Teach and reinforce the accurate tracing of cursive letters, as well as the proper way to join letters within words, utilizing our proprietary technology • 3 most popular US fonts (ZB, DN & HWT) + UK, French and Swiss fonts • Customise by adding your word lists (and record audio for each word) • Enjoy engaging tracing with 50+ animated stickers, sound effects, and interactive games that bring letters to life at the end of each tracing • Uppercase & lowercase letters, numbers, and words • Fully customizable to suit every child’s needs (letter size, difficulty,...) • Phonics and letter names • Monitor progress through reports that allow the replay of the child's tracing • Introduce toddlers to shapes tracing activities, fostering early developmental skills • Left-Handed Mode • Create printable Worksheets to assist your child with handwriting practice on paper • Apple Pencil support • Accessibility settings for children with visual impairments _______ PERFECT FOR KIDS Kids want to have fun, and Cursive 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 5 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 US fonts (ZB, DN & HWT) + UK, French and Swiss fonts • Upper and lower case letters, numbers + 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,...) • Left-Handed Mode • In the A-Z section, special graphics available to match letters (e.g. ant graphic for A/a) • Accessibility settings for children with visual impairments _______ "Cursive Writing Wizard is just as wonderful and well-designed as the original Writing Wizard" 5/5 - AppyMall.com _______ 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: Protected parent sections are available where you can send us a mail and check out our others apps. Before accessing a parent section, an addition must be solved so that young kids cannot access it. Terms of use : https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Learn Abacus

This online learning system automates course delivery for franchises, managing student progress, fees, and attendance. It offers smart assessment tools, communication features, and automatically generates practice and test sums in various formats. The system aims to reduce costs and improve student engagement and results.

Highlights
  • Automated online learning management
  • Student attendance and fee tracking
  • Progress monitoring and smart assessments
  • Automated sum generation for practice and testing
  • Communication tools for engagement
  • Animated tutorials for concept understanding
Features
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- 100% Automated Online Learning Management System - Define your course to ensure a standard process to be followed by franchises across the globe - Manage students attendance, fee payments and progress at the touch of your finger - Monitor performance of students across the globe with smart assessment tools - Keep students and parents engaged with your business with the help of communication tools built specially for Abacus training centres - Automatically generate millions of sums for Teaching, Practicing and Testing - Achieve outstanding results by providing students a variety of sum formats like Numerical, Auditory and Visual - Generate test papers for across various levels of students within seconds - Organise competitive tournaments within centres or across the globe - Eliminate the requirement of identifying, hiring and training highly experienced teachers - Reduce the cost per student dramatically by saving on Teachers, Stationary and more - Animated tutorials for easy understanding of concepts - A personalised guide to help students overcome challenges

Screenshots

Cursive Letters Writing Wizard4 screens
Learn Abacus3 screens

Verdict

The call

Cursive Letters Writing Wizard and Learn Abacus both sit at 4.4 stars, but that hides the real split: 62% of Cursive Letters Writing Wizard's written reviews are positive against 25% of Learn Abacus's. Cursive Letters Writing Wizard also leads on ratings volume (2K vs 2). Learn Abacus's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months). On price, rating, 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. Cursive Letters Writing Wizard sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month. Learn Abacus asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Cursive Letters Writing Wizard against 4.5 for Learn Abacus. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cursive Letters Writing Wizard has 2K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 62% of Cursive Letters Writing Wizard's written reviews are positive against 25% of Learn Abacus's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cursive Letters Writing Wizard ships an update every 5 months, Learn Abacus every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Cursive Letters Writing Wizard versus Learn Abacus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCursive Letters Writing WizardLearn Abacus
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (2K ratings)4.5 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews62.2% of reviews — better25.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2K — better2
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB484 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPierre AbelDweek Studios

Customer experience

Cursive Letters Writing Wizard

All ratings1,976 ratings
Positive82.7%
Neutral5.3%
Negative12.0%
Written reviews148 reviews
Positive62.2%
Neutral3.4%
Negative34.5%

Learn Abacus

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative50.0%

Bugs and requests

Cursive Letters Writing Wizard

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Purchased content not unlocking
  • Frequent crashes and freezes
  • Incompatibility with certain devices

Requested features

3 requests
  • More free content and letters
  • Improved navigation and usability
  • Support for multiple fonts and languages

Learn Abacus

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Cursive Letters Writing Wizard

Subscriptions1
  • Full Access - Monthly$2.491 Month
One-time3
  • Add Your Own Words$5.99
  • All Letters and Numbers$5.99
  • Unlock Everything$9.99
None

Learn Abacus

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cursive Letters Writing Wizard free?
Cursive Letters Writing Wizard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Learn Abacus free?
Learn Abacus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Cursive Letters Writing Wizard or Learn Abacus?
Learn Abacus is rated higher. Cursive Letters Writing Wizard averages 4.4 out of 5 from 2K ratings, while Learn Abacus averages 4.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Cursive Letters Writing Wizard or Learn Abacus have ads?
Neither Cursive Letters Writing Wizard nor Learn Abacus shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cursive Letters Writing Wizard or Learn Abacus?
Cursive Letters Writing Wizard ships an update every 5 months, and Learn Abacus every 3 weeks. Most recently, Cursive Letters Writing Wizard was updated on October 13, 2026 and Learn Abacus on October 11, 2026.

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