Comparison

Cursive Letters Writing Wizard vs Penwick

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

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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

Penwick

Features
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Penwick teaches cursive / joined-up handwriting the way schools teach it: one letter family at a time, starting with how the letter is formed. Most handwriting apps look at the shape a child leaves behind. Penwick watches how they made it. Where the pen started, which way it travelled, whether it lifted in the middle of a letter, whether the exit came back down to the line. A tidy-looking "a" drawn backwards is still a backwards "a", and it causes trouble the moment your child tries to join it to something. WHAT YOUR CHILD DOES - Writes on a proper four-line stave, with a stylus or a finger - Works through the letter families in the order schools use them: the straight letters, the anti-clockwise family, the clockwise family, the diagonals - Moves on to joins, then words, then sentences and short stories - Earns their way through activity maps, two mini-games and an eight-land Story Quest ONE THING AT A TIME When a letter falls short, Penwick picks the single worst thing about it, replays the correct formation stroke by stroke, and says one sentence. Not a list of five corrections. A five-year-old reads none of a list. BUILT WITH A TEACHER Every lower-case letter, and the joins behind dozens of common words, was recorded stroke by stroke by a qualified primary teacher rather than pulled out of a font. It is why the joins move like handwriting instead of like letters pushed together. KEPT, MONTH BY MONTH Penwick keeps your child's actual writing, not just a score. Every month shows their real work oldest to newest, so you can see January against June, tap any piece to watch it redrawn stroke by stroke, and print a keepsake page. It stays on the device, for years. FOLLOWS THE CURRICULUM Letter families in Year 1, joins from Year 2, in line with the national curriculum for England. Useful anywhere cursive is taught. MADE FOR HOW CHILDREN ACTUALLY HOLD A TABLET One finger always writes. Scrolling is a side slider or two fingers, so a hand resting on the screen never sends the page flying. Five writing sizes, because a five-year-old and a nine-year-old do not need the same line. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No accounts and no adverts. Your child's writing, their scores and their profile stay on the device. Only three things ever leave it: referral codes if you share one, the weekly leaderboard, and anonymous usage counts. All three are switchable in Settings, and every detail is at penwick.app/privacy. FAMILY SUBSCRIPTION, FREE TO START The full lowercase alphabet, the assessment and 45 practice sittings are free, with no locks mid-alphabet, ever. A single family subscription unlocks every word, sentence, story and the Story Quest for everyone in the house, with 7 days free before anything is charged. Cancel any time in the App Store. Privacy policy: https://penwick.app/privacy/ Terms of use: https://penwick.app/terms/

Screenshots

Cursive Letters Writing Wizard4 screens
Penwick4 screens

Verdict

The call

Cursive Letters Writing Wizard and Penwick are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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 and Penwick sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Cursive Letters Writing Wizard versus Penwick: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCursive Letters Writing WizardPenwick
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (2K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews62.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings2K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB32 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperPierre AbelMyAutobot Ltd

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

Penwick

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
8 purchases

Penwick

Subscriptions8
  • Founders Club Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Founders Club Monthly7 Days trial$4.491 Month
  • Founders Club Monthly7 Days trial$5.991 Month
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  • Penwick Monthly7 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • Founders Club Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Founders Club Yearly7 Days trial$44.991 Year
  • Founders Club Yearly7 Days trial$59.991 Year
  • Penwick Yearly7 Days trial$69.991 Year

Questions

Is Cursive Letters Writing Wizard free?
Cursive Letters Writing Wizard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Penwick free?
Penwick is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Cursive Letters Writing Wizard or Penwick have ads?
Neither Cursive Letters Writing Wizard nor Penwick shows ads.

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