Comparison

Tozzle vs Writing Wizard

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

Head to head
About

Tozzle

This app offers over 40 interactive puzzles designed for young children. It helps toddlers develop shape recognition and motor skills through engaging drag-and-drop gameplay with cute animations and sound effects. A helpful guide assists children in solving puzzles, making it an entertaining and educational experience.

Highlights
  • Over 40 shape puzzles
  • Cute sound effects
  • Engaging animations
  • Drag & drop gameplay
  • Shape recognition development
  • Motor skill improvement
  • Helping arrow guide
Features
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-- 2-year-old Madeleine: "Again!" ******* MORE THAN 40 PUZZLES AND CUTE ANIMATIONS! ******* Tozzle supports English, German, French and Spanish! You can choose from more than 40 different shape puzzles, all including cute sound effects and animations. Tozzle is more than your traditional jigsaw puzzle App! Built for children from 1 - 99, Tozzle keeps your toddler entertained while they learn to improve their shape recognition skills and motor activity. Tozzle does not contain any In-App Purchases! It's really easy and fun to play. Just let your toddler pick one out of more than 40 colorful, child friendly puzzles and let them solve it by drag & drop. Once a puzzle is solved your kid can play around with the sound effects and animations by tapping on the figures. An exit button on the bottom left brings you back to the puzzle selection menu. Our team of toddlers tested Tozzle thoroughly and we took their suggestions seriously to create an entertaining but educational App specifically for them. If a child can't find the right place for a piece, a helping arrow guides them to the right slot, so every child can solve every puzzle. Look forward to relaxed car rides and restaurant visits. You can concentrate on your tasks while your child is having fun with Tozzle! If you want to see Tozzle in action please download our free App "Tozzle Lite" from the AppStore. To change the language, select "Settings -> Tozzle -> Language" Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/nodeflexion

About

Writing Wizard

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

Highlights
  • Customizable tracing practice
  • Interactive games and rewards
  • Letter names and phonics
  • Create custom word lists
  • Progress reports
  • Printable worksheets
Features
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"Fantastic, customizable tracing practice with fun rewards." 5 Stars - Common Sense Media 470,000+ units sold (including 260,000 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 • 16 Fonts available (including 3 most popular USA fonts) • Fun tracing using 50+ animated stickers, sound effects and interactive games that animate letters at the end of tracing • Letter names and phonics • 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 very small size _______ 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, France) • Upper and lower case letters, numbers (and word lists) • Letter names and phonics (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) _______ Note that a free to try version is available (search for "Writing Wizard -Starter" on the App Store) _______ 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) • Does not contain in-app purchases • 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. *

Screenshots

Tozzle4 screens
Writing Wizard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Tozzle at $3.99 against Writing Wizard's $13.99. Tozzle also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.6). Writing Wizard's advantage is ratings volume (3.3K vs 42). On rating, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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

Tozzle costs $3.99 and Writing Wizard $13.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.2 for Tozzle against 4.3 for Writing Wizard. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Writing Wizard has 3.3K ratings behind it against 42, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 94% of Tozzle's written reviews are positive against 90% of Writing Wizard's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tozzle ships an update every 5 months, Writing Wizard every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Tozzle versus Writing Wizard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTozzleWriting Wizard
Price$3.99 — better$13.99
Rating4.2 (42 ratings)4.3 (3.3K ratings) — better
Positive reviews93.6% of reviews — better89.7% of reviews
Number of ratings423.3K — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 4 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS10.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size183 MB69 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developernodeflexion.comPierre Abel

Customer experience

Tozzle

All ratings42 ratings
Positive78.6%
Neutral2.4%
Negative19.0%
Written reviews282 reviews
Positive93.6%
Neutral3.2%
Negative3.2%

Writing Wizard

All ratings3,338 ratings
Positive81.8%
Neutral9.5%
Negative8.7%
Written reviews155 reviews
Positive89.7%
Neutral2.6%
Negative7.7%

Bugs and requests

Tozzle

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Writing Wizard

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Incorrect letter formation for some characters
  • Inconsistent performance on older devices

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add more font options, including cursive and UK-specific styles
  • Improve parental control accessibility
  • Integrate Apple Pencil support
  • Allow easier clearing of tracing history
  • Expand character support (e.g., Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Arabic)
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  • Add a free-form writing mode or blank canvas

In-app purchases

None

Tozzle

No in-app purchases

None

Writing Wizard

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tozzle free?
Tozzle costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Writing Wizard free?
Writing Wizard costs $13.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tozzle or Writing Wizard?
Writing Wizard is rated higher. Tozzle averages 4.2 out of 5 from 42 ratings, while Writing Wizard averages 4.3 from 3.3K ratings.
Do Tozzle or Writing Wizard have ads?
Neither Tozzle nor Writing Wizard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tozzle or Writing Wizard?
Tozzle ships an update every 5 months, and Writing Wizard every 4 months. Most recently, Tozzle was updated on October 19, 2026 and Writing Wizard on October 21, 2026.

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