Wave Writer vs Word Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Wave Writer
This writing application offers a distraction-free environment to enhance your focus. Its unique type-wave feature provides visual feedback as you type, immersing you in your text and encouraging creativity. Unlock all themes with a one-time purchase.
- Distraction-free writing environment
- Unique type-wave visual feedback
- Immersive typing experience
- Unlockable themes
- One-time purchase for full access
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Wave Writer is a writing app unlike any other. It is designed to give you the best writing experience, removing all distractions so you can focus. The unique type-wave gives you visual feedback as you type, immersing you in your text and inspiring you to keep going. It's really cool! Wave Writer is free to use, and all 16 themes can be unlocked for a one time purchase.
Word Tracker
This app helps writers monitor their progress towards daily word count goals for projects. It calculates the necessary daily output to meet deadlines and offers detailed statistics on progress and remaining time. Projects sync automatically across devices via iCloud.
- Daily word count goal setting
- Project deadline calculation
- Multiple project tracking
- Progress statistics and charts
- Automatic iCloud sync
- No account required
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Word Tracker helps you keep track of your writing progress, right on the main screen, so you always know how close you are to reaching your goal. Set a target word count and a deadline for your writing project, and the app works out exactly how many words you need to write each day to hit your deadline. Track as many projects as you like, and switch between them whenever you want. Dive into the statistics screen to see a chart of your progress against your target, your outstanding word count, and how many days you have left until your deadline. Your projects sync automatically across all your devices via iCloud, so your progress is always up to date wherever you write. No account or sign-in required — just open the app and start tracking.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Word Tracker at every 2 weeks against Wave Writer's every 2 months. Word Tracker also leads on ratings volume (271 vs 5). Wave Writer's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 81%) and iOS requirement (13.4 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Wave Writer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Word Tracker sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Word Tracker holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Word Tracker has 271 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Wave Writer's written reviews are positive against 81% of Word Tracker's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Wave Writer ships an update every 2 months, Word Tracker every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Wave Writer | Word Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (5 ratings) | 4.8 (271 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 81.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 271 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Omar Fahmy | Marek Loose |
Customer experience
Wave Writer
Word Tracker
In-app purchases
Wave Writer
- Unlock themes$1.99
Word Tracker
- The First Word$0.99
- The First Chapter$2.99
- Cloud sync$4.99
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- Halfway Through the Manuscript$4.99
- The Bestseller$9.99
- The Published Masterpiece$19.99
