Comparison

Cursive Letters Writing Wizard vs CaliKids

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

CaliKids

This app offers a structured method for children aged 2 and up to learn reading, writing, and counting. It progresses through 65 levels, covering everything from basic strokes and letter sounds to sentence construction and simple arithmetic.

Highlights
  • 65 structured learning levels
  • Reading, writing, and number modules
  • Age-appropriate difficulty settings
  • Progress tracking for parents
  • Print and cursive handwriting practice
  • Offline progress saving
  • Multilingual support
Features
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CaliKids is a method for learning to read, write and count, from age 2. It isn't a bundle of loose games: it's 65 levels in order, each one getting ready for the next. Pick the age (2-3, 3-5, 5-7 or 7+) and the app teaches what comes next, at the right difficulty. It goes from first scribbles to reading sentences, from tracing an A to writing from memory, and from counting pictures to adding and taking away. READING · 21 levels Letters and their sounds, capitals and lowercase, vowels, rhymes, syllables, words split up and put back together, word searches and sentences to put in order. A slow voice reads aloud while a box follows along. WRITING · 24 levels First strokes, loops and mazes to loosen up the hand; every letter with its stroke order animated; which letters go up and which go down on the line; copying, writing without a model, and letter and word dictation. Writing starts with capitals, which are easier, and lowercase comes next. In the word exercises, the app reads what your child has written. NUMBERS · 20 levels Counting, comparing sizes and amounts, shapes, writing each digit, ordering from smallest to largest, adding and taking away with pictures, doubles, sharing, the number line and telling the time to the hour. MADE FOR KIDS • Each exercise says in one line what it's for. • Hints and an eraser that removes just one part: mistakes are no big deal. • Every exercise picks up where you left it, even after closing the app. • Stickers to collect and an encouraging voice. • Print and cursive school handwriting, and 11 notebook rulings to choose from. • Works with Apple Pencil. • Works with VoiceOver and the system text size. FOR THE FAMILY • A parents panel showing what they've mastered and what they find hard, plus a review of what they find hardest. • No ads and no accounts: progress is stored only on the device. • In 6 languages: English, Spanish, Italian, French, German and Portuguese. WHAT'S FREE AND WHAT'S PAID All 65 levels of the method — reading, writing and numbers — can be tried for free: half the rounds of each one, between 10 and 15. To keep going after that, CaliKids Premium opens every level in full, with every word topic, and brings new content as it arrives. It's a weekly or yearly subscription that renews automatically unless you cancel it, and you manage it from your account settings. Each word topic can also be bought on its own from its game. Every purchase goes behind a parental gate first, and anyone who already had the app keeps what they had: the levels that were free stay free. Terms of use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQ2zvoWh3YxPXD7xGIk0tE_AM1wlQdcVKgvnPvHfmw4ZHDU4qfMQZhYOP8UJ9YDVQUaSwhCHKQsDQvV/pub

Screenshots

Cursive Letters Writing Wizard4 screens
CaliKids4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: CaliKids at 5.0 against Cursive Letters Writing Wizard's 4.4. CaliKids also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 5 months). Cursive Letters Writing Wizard's advantage is ratings volume (1.9K vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). On price, ads, monetization model 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. CaliKids asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

CaliKids holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cursive Letters Writing Wizard has 1.9K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cursive Letters Writing Wizard ships an update every 5 months, CaliKids every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Cursive Letters Writing Wizard versus CaliKids: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCursive Letters Writing WizardCaliKids
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (1.9K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews62.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.9K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 4 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPierre AbelOliver Tacoronte Mendoza

Customer experience

Cursive Letters Writing Wizard

All ratings1,948 ratings
Positive82.5%
Neutral5.3%
Negative12.2%
Written reviews148 reviews
Positive62.2%
Neutral3.4%
Negative34.5%

CaliKids

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

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

CaliKids

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

CaliKids

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 CaliKids free?
CaliKids is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Cursive Letters Writing Wizard or CaliKids?
CaliKids is rated higher. Cursive Letters Writing Wizard averages 4.4 out of 5 from 1.9K ratings, while CaliKids averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Cursive Letters Writing Wizard or CaliKids have ads?
Neither Cursive Letters Writing Wizard nor CaliKids shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cursive Letters Writing Wizard or CaliKids?
Cursive Letters Writing Wizard ships an update every 5 months, and CaliKids every 4 weeks. Most recently, Cursive Letters Writing Wizard was updated on October 2, 2026 and CaliKids on September 29, 2026.

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