Comparison

SightWords Pro vs Writing Wizard

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

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About

SightWords Pro

This app helps young learners master essential sight words, crucial for reading comprehension. It offers over 1,600 words from various lists, customizable flashcards, and custom pronunciations to support structured learning or quick study sessions.

Highlights
  • Over 1,600 essential sight words
  • Customizable word lists
  • Record custom pronunciations
  • Mark flash cards with stars/flags
  • Shake to shuffle words
  • American-English pronunciations
Features
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***** 24x7digital's SightWords app has been featured as an iTunes App Store Staff Pick! Help your young learner master the most frequently used words in the English language! A child who can recognize just 8 of 10 words in a sentence can typically understand its meaning! "Sight words" often cannot be illustrated via simple pictures or sounded out according to regular phonetic decoding rules, thus they need to be learned and recognized "on sight". Our SightWords app is a handy way to encourage a child's mastery of their sight words either as part of a structured reading program at school, or as an impromptu study session when standing in line at the grocery store. SightWords Pro contains a selection of over 1,600+ sight words which comprises up to 85% of the text in a child's early reading materials -- comprehensively compiled from Dolch, Fry, Pinnell-Fountas, UK, and many other high-frequency word lists. Choose a pre-defined flash card word list, or build and save custom flash card lists to match what is taught in the classroom. Add custom words and record your own pronunciations. Mark flash cards with stars or flags. Flash cards respond to swipes and taps. Shake your device to shuffle the words. Beautiful voice-pronunciations for all included words. FEATURES: • Over 1,600+ essential sight words • Upper and lower-case alphabet, numbers 0-100, colors, shapes, animals, months • Beautifully recorded American-English pronunciations for all words • Words organized by number of letters • Customizable word lists with copy/paste • Add your own words • Record your own pronunciations • Simple textual editing of word lists • Export your custom word lists as text • Mark flash cards with stars or flags • Flash cards respond to swipes and taps • Shake to shuffle words • In-app Help documentation • Universal app optimized for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad TRY OUR OTHER APPS: TeachMe: Toddler, TeachMe: Kindergarten, TeachMe: 1st Grade, TeachMe: 2nd Grade, TeachMe: 3rd Grade, TeachMe: Math Facts. CONTACT US: Please do not hesitate to contact us at support@24x7digital.com

About

Writing Wizard

This app helps children learn to trace letters, numbers, and words with a fun, motivating system. It offers customizable tracing practice, interactive games, and progress reports for parents and educators.

Highlights
  • Trace letters, numbers, and words
  • Customizable tracing practice
  • Interactive games and animated stickers
  • Create custom word lists with audio
  • Progress reports for tracking
  • Printable PDF worksheets
Features
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"Fantastic, customizable tracing practice with fun rewards." 5 Stars - Common Sense Media 500,000+ units sold (including 300,000+ to schools) ! Writing Wizard is designed to help every child learn how to trace letters, numbers, and words through a fun system carefully designed to maintain motivation. • Show and enforce how to trace letters correctly • Letter names and phonics (customizable) • 16 Fonts available (including 3 most popular in the US) • Fun tracing using 50+ animated stickers, sound effects and interactive games that animate letters at the end of tracing • Uppercase & lowercase letters, numbers, and words • Ability to create your own word lists (and record audio for each word) • Fully customizable to suit every child’s needs (letter size, difficulty,...) • Check progress thanks to reports that display what the child has traced • Shapes tracing activity for toddlers • Create PDF Worksheets and print them to help your child to write on paper • Use Apple pencil to write at a very small size All the shapes, the first 7 letters, numbers, and words are free. The remaining letters and the ability to add your own words can be unlocked with a one-time purchase or a monthly subscription. _______ ACCOLADES • "Writing Wizard is the most complete and intelligent letter tracing app we’ve seen"" AppoLearning.com • "This brand-new app should be the go-to for every parent, teacher and therapist to work on handwriting" - TOP PICKS - 5 stars - SmartAppsForKids.com • "Writing Wizard by L’Escapadou is everything a parent wants in a handwriting app, and more." 5/5 - kids-app-reviews.com • "L’Escapadou has made handwriting fun." AppyMall.com 5/5 • Listed in "20 best educational iPhone and iPad apps for kids of 2013" - appsplayground.com • Editor's Choice Award for Excellence in Design - Children's Technology Review _______ PERFECT FOR KIDS Kids want to have fun, and 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 4 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 fonts in the US (ZB, DN & HWT) and 13 international fonts (UK, Scandinavia, Australia, Germany and France) • Upper and lower case letters, numbers (and 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,...) • In the A-Z section, special graphics available to match letters (e.g. ant graphic for A/a) _______ 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 : Before accessing a parent section, an operation must be solved so that young kids cannot access it. Terms of use : https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

SightWords Pro4 screens
Writing Wizard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Writing Wizard at Free against SightWords Pro's $0.99. Writing Wizard also leads on rating (4.4 vs 3.9) and ratings volume (5.2K vs 11). SightWords Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.6). On review sentiment, update cadence, ads 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

Writing Wizard is free to download; SightWords Pro costs $0.99 up front. Writing Wizard sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month. SightWords Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Writing Wizard holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Writing Wizard has 5.2K ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 76% of SightWords Pro's written reviews are positive against 73% of Writing Wizard's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 months. Both last shipped on October 16, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
SightWords Pro versus Writing Wizard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSightWords ProWriting Wizard
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating3.9 (11 ratings)4.4 (5.2K ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.0% of reviews — better73.4% of reviews
Number of ratings115.2K — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB68 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer24x7digital LLCPierre Abel

Customer experience

SightWords Pro

All ratings11 ratings
Positive63.6%
Neutral9.1%
Negative27.3%
Written reviews50 reviews
Positive76.0%
Neutral6.0%
Negative18.0%

Writing Wizard

All ratings5,152 ratings
Positive84.3%
Neutral6.1%
Negative9.6%
Written reviews207 reviews
Positive73.4%
Neutral6.8%
Negative19.8%

Bugs and requests

SightWords Pro

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Writing Wizard

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes when trying to access locked features
  • Purchased content not unlocking properly
  • Inconsistent letter formation guidance

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add more letters, numbers, and shapes
  • Allow recording of custom voice instructions
  • Improve compatibility with stylus/digital pens
  • Provide more customization options

In-app purchases

None

SightWords Pro

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Writing Wizard

Subscriptions1
  • Full Access - Monthly$2.491 Month
One-time3
  • All Letters and Numbers$5.99
  • Add Your Words and Word Lists$5.99
  • Lifetime Full Access$9.99

Questions

Is SightWords Pro free?
SightWords Pro costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Writing Wizard free?
Writing Wizard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, SightWords Pro or Writing Wizard?
Writing Wizard is rated higher. SightWords Pro averages 3.9 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while Writing Wizard averages 4.4 from 5.2K ratings.
Do SightWords Pro or Writing Wizard have ads?
Neither SightWords Pro nor Writing Wizard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SightWords Pro or Writing Wizard?
SightWords Pro ships an update every 4 months, and Writing Wizard every 4 months. Most recently, SightWords Pro was updated on October 16, 2026 and Writing Wizard on October 16, 2026.

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