LetraKid vs CaliKids
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LetraKid
This educational game helps children aged 4-10 learn cursive writing through fun tracing exercises. It covers letters, numbers, and shapes with adjustable difficulty and real-time feedback. Supports 16 languages and offline play.
- Cursive letter and number tracing
- Multiple difficulty levels
- Real-time feedback and evaluation
- 16 language support
- Offline play
- Sticker rewards
- Parental gate for settings
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"LetraKid: Cursive Writing Kids" is an educational learning game for kids 4-10 years old that can help them to learn to write cursive letters, while having fun when doing so! Alphabet, ABCs letters, 0-9 numbers, shapes and various funny tracing exercises are included in this educational game. WHAT KIDS CAN LEARN FROM THIS GAME • Recognize letter shapes and perfect alphabet pronunciation • The correct letter formation as learned in school: start, checkpoints, strokes direction, order etc. Difficulty Levels 1 and 2 with assisted writing are designed to focus on the letter formation. • Develop fine motor skills for handwriting activity. Difficulty Levels 3 to 5 with freehand writing activities will focus on this improvement to help maximize confidence and form when writing. • Playing with a stylus pen will also help to improve standard pencil grasp. Any stylus compatible with the device will work. MAIN FEATURES • 16 languages with full support for interface, human native voices for letter/numbers pronunciation and full official alphabets. • Makes use of the 9 most used fonts in classes all over the world for learning cursive handwriting • 5 difficulty levels with AUTO and LOCK settings, ranging from assisted writing for beginners, up to real freehand writing with minimal support and strict evaluation. • 4 set of glyphs: ABC (full alphabet for uppercase letters), abc (full alphabet for lowercase letters), 123 (numbers from 0 to 9) and a special set of shapes for funny exercises. • 5 progression levels, color coded for each glyph that allows parents and teachers an instant evaluation of the progression and most exercised letters at the alphabet level. • 16 funny sticker rewards that will unlock after progression milestones are reached. Writing practice made fun. • 3 profile slots with 50 funny avatars and name customization that will save independently the settings and the progression. • Full support for both Landscape and Portrait orientations. GREAT IN THE CLASSROOM! With a unique and real-time feedback feature as well as complex tracing evaluation algorithms, LetraKid Cursive is one of a kind tracing app. This is a new approach, focused on creating a fun game by utilizing handwriting mechanics itself. This avoids using distracting random rewards or secondary game mechanics that can break and confuse the learning process, optimizing learning progress and educational appeal to children. The real time feedback will give both audio and graphic clues about the quality of the tracing and will adjust with difficulty level. Our ABC and 123 tracing evaluation algorithms allow for an accurate and fun reward, using a 5 star rating for each exercise. This engages and motivates the kids to progress and to strive for more. DESIGNED for KIDS • Works OFFLINE! No Internet connection required. • No irritating pop-ups. • No collection of personal data • Game settings are behind a parental gate. This can be enabled, and ensures a child to work with a certain font, formation rule, difficulty level and various other features for total specification to their needs. • This game can be useful for kids with autism, ADHD, dyslexia or dysgraphia conditions. This is an educational app for kids learning handwriting with cursive alphabet letters in kindergarten, pre-school, home-school, primary school or using as Montessori material.
CaliKids
This app offers a comprehensive learning experience for children aged 1 to 6th grade, covering reading, writing, and math. It features adaptive learning paths with hundreds of games and exercises tailored to specific age groups and grade levels. Parents can manage multiple child profiles, track progress, and customize learning content.
- Adaptive learning paths for ages 1-6th grade
- Reading, writing, and math exercises
- Preschool and elementary school levels
- Progress tracking and child profiles
- Parental admin mode
- Multilingual support
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CaliKids is one app for learning to read, write and count, from age 1 to 6th grade. When you start, you choose Preschool or Elementary school and the level, and each child sees only their own level: a path of exercises in order, each one getting ready for the next, with hundreds of different games and new content every month. 11 LEVELS • Preschool: Age 1 (to play together, from 18 months), Age 2, Preschool (age 3), Pre-K (age 4) and Kindergarten. • Elementary school: 1st to 6th grade, each grade with its own exercises. PRESCHOOL · READING, WRITING AND NUMBERS For the youngest: looking, tapping, matching, colors and shapes. Then vowels and letters with their sounds, rhymes, syllables and first words; first strokes and mazes to loosen up the hand, every letter with its stroke order animated; and counting, comparing, writing numbers and first additions and subtractions with pictures. ELEMENTARY · ENGLISH, WRITING AND MATHS • English: reading comprehension with texts for each grade (in the upper grades, at several difficulty levels), vocabulary and grammar. • Writing: copying, filling in, and word and sentence dictation, by hand, plus handwriting practice (capitals, joins and neat sentences); the app reads what your child has written. • Maths: in arithmetic, answers are typed on the app's own keypad instead of picked from a list. Column arithmetic with a scratch sheet alongside, times tables, word problems with guided help in 4 steps (what we know, what we're asked, which operation, work it out), fractions, decimals, percentages and geometry. • The World Around Us: grades 1 to 6. Animals and plants, the body, materials, energy, water, weather, maps, history, Europe and the universe, with short texts to think about. • French: at every level, with audio. MADE FOR KIDS • A voice reads the instructions aloud, with a button to hear them again. • 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 it was left, even after closing the app. • Stickers to collect. • Print or cursive school handwriting, and 11 notebook rulings. • Works with Apple Pencil. • Works with VoiceOver and the system text size. FOR THE FAMILY • Admin mode for parents, protected by your account (Apple, Google or email) and a PIN. • Several children on the same device, each with their own profile, level and progress. • Stats for each child: what they do well, what they find hard and their history. • You decide what each child sees, their level path and how many times they can use the help in word problems. • "Your feedback": send suggestions or propose new exercises, and read the reply in the app. • No ads. Your children's data stays on the device and, if you sign in with Google or Apple, in your own Google Drive or iCloud so you can restore it on another device; never on our servers. You can delete it from either place or both. • In 6 languages: English, Spanish, Italian, French, German and Portuguese. It opens in the device's language. WHAT'S FREE AND WHAT'S PAID Every exercise of every level — from age 1 to year 6 of primary school — can be tried for free: 8 games of each exercise on each device. To keep going, CaliKids Premium offers packs of 1, 2 or 3 levels, which you choose, and the Full pack with every level and every word topic; the more levels, the less each one costs. They are monthly or yearly subscriptions that renew automatically unless you cancel them, and you manage them from your account settings. Each subscription can be used on two devices at the same time. Word topics can also be bought on their own from their game. Every purchase goes behind a parental gate first, and anyone who already had the app keeps what they had. Terms of use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://calikids.olmotame.com/privacidad
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: CaliKids at fortnightly against LetraKid's every 12 months. CaliKids also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). LetraKid's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (38 vs 1). 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. LetraKid sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and CaliKids sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
CaliKids holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LetraKid has 38 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
LetraKid ships an update every 12 months, CaliKids fortnightly. Both last shipped on November 13, 2026.
| Parameter | LetraKid | CaliKids |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (38 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 38 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 93 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ParKel Soft SRL | Oliver Tacoronte Mendoza |
Customer experience
LetraKid
CaliKids
In-app purchases
LetraKid
- FULL VERSION$4.99
CaliKids
- CaliKids Premium weekly$3.997 Days
- Jobs$2.99
- Feelings$2.99
- The city$2.99
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- The sea$2.99
- The farm$2.99
- The jungle$2.99
- Fairy tales$2.99
- Insects$2.99
- Shapes$2.99









