Interactive Handwriting vs Meet the Colorblocks!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Interactive Handwriting
This app helps children develop good handwriting habits through interactive lessons and visual clues for letter formation. It offers animations and games for each letter of the alphabet, making learning engaging on mobile devices.
- Interactive letter formation lessons
- In-built clues for remembering shapes
- Movement pathway guidance
- 52 handwriting animations
- Alphabet letter games
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Good handwriting habits come from a good foundation. With Letterland there are in-built clues to help your child remember how to form letter shapes; where each letter starts and the ‘movement pathway’. Use this free app on your mobile or tablet for an interactive experience. Unlock 52 handwriting animations and a game for each letter of the alphabet.
Meet the Colorblocks!
This app introduces young children to the world of colors through interactive activities and familiar characters. It helps kids recognize, name, and mix colors, fostering a lifelong passion for color exploration.
- Meet colorblock characters
- Discover favorite things and their colors
- Use color magic to color in
- Video rewards from episodes
- COPPA and GDPR-K compliant
- 100% ad-free
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Join in the coloring fun and learn all about colors with the brand new show, Colorblocks! Colorblocks helps kids to see and understand colors in a brand new and exciting way. It's the story of a group of friends, who use Colouring-in Magic and Colour Mixing Magic to bring Colourland to life in the most vibrant way imaginable! COLORBLOCKS uses the proven magic of Blocks to help young children dive into the wondrous world of color. Developed in consultation with a global team of color experts, and packed with loveable characters, show-stopping songs, humour and adventure, the show delivers color recognition, color names, meaning and signifiers, mixing, mark making, similar and contrasting colors, light and dark and all kinds of patterns – and that’s just for starters. It's all designed to inspire young children to be color explorers, discovering how the colors all around them work, whilst getting hands-on with color themselves. Importantly, it's designed to instil a passion for color in young children which they can take with them throughout life. MEET THE COLORBLOCKS app has been carefully designed to support your child on their early colour learning adventure and provides the first digital stepping stone for children to engage with the Colorblocks. The app is scaffolded to introduce children to colours in a particular order and helps children connect the concept of individual colours with how they might feature in the real world. More COLORBLOCKS apps will follow exploring colour variations and creative expression using colour. MEET THE COLORBLOCKS is brought to you by color experts and experts in play from the BAFTA-award winning animation studio, Blue Zoo Productions, creators of Alphablocks and Numberblocks. Are you ready for the color adventure of a lifetime? Let's get hands-on with color! What's included in Meet the Colorblocks? 1. Meet each colorblock as they are shown on CBeebies and Colourblocks on YouTube! 2. Discover some of their favorite things, making the connection between the things around us and what color they typically are. 3. Use color Magic to color them in! 3. Video rewards from the brilliant Colorblocks episodes. 4. This app is entertaining and safe, being COPPA and GDPR-K compliant and 100% ad-free. Privacy & Safety At Blue Zoo, your child’s privacy and safety is the first priority for us. There are no ads in the app and we will never share personal information with any 3rd parties or sell this on. You can find out more in our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service: Privacy Policy: https://www.learningblocks.tv/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://www.learningblocks.tv/terms-of-service
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Meet the Colorblocks! at 4.4 against Interactive Handwriting's 2.6. Meet the Colorblocks! also leads on review sentiment (52% vs 14%) and update cadence (every 11 days vs every 3 months). Interactive Handwriting's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 13.0). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Meet the Colorblocks! holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Meet the Colorblocks! has 114 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 14% of Interactive Handwriting's written reviews are positive against 52% of Meet the Colorblocks!'s.
Interactive Handwriting ships an update every 3 months, Meet the Colorblocks! every 11 days. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Interactive Handwriting | Meet the Colorblocks! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (8 ratings) | 4.4 (114 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 14.3% of reviews | 52.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 114 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 254 MB | 217 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Letterland International Ltd. | Blue-Zoo |
Customer experience
Interactive Handwriting
Meet the Colorblocks!
Bugs and requests
Interactive Handwriting
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Meet the Colorblocks!
Reported bugs
20 issues- App crashes constantly
- App keeps kicking user out
- Fill tool is broken
- Bucket tool cannot erase
- Static in background causing phobia
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- Lime's mouth stays open when speaking
- Resetting progress shows everything colored
- Bucket tool creates glitched background
- Pink's TV not coloring in
- Music turns on when trying to turn it off
- Pixelated square on Orange's tiger
- Part of tiger's leg missing
- Stop sign glitch when coloring
- Green part turns whole picture green when painting flowers
- Tiger and Basketball icons swapped
- Violet calls users purple
- Grey, Cyan, and Magenta missing
- App crashes on first color
- App resets each time used
- Cannot get on main game
Requested features
9 requests- Add compass and map for Indigo
- Add more colorblocks (Lime, Deep Blue, Sky Blue, Cyan, Magenta, Pink, Brown, Black, White, Grey shades)
- Add Indigo and Violet's helmets
- Make app available in all countries
- Add more phrases for Colourblocks
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- Add Numberblocks maker
- Fix character gender assignments (Teal, Rose, Vine, Mint, Marigold as girl, Vermillion as boy)
- Add more episodes and content
- Add 3D models for characters
In-app purchases
Interactive Handwriting
No in-app purchases
Meet the Colorblocks!
No in-app purchases
Questions
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