Learn To Write vs School Fonts
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Learn To Write
This app helps children learn to write letters and numbers through interactive tracing and animated guides. It uniquely records and plays back a child's writing strokes, allowing educators and parents to review and provide targeted instruction.
- Interactive letter and number tracing
- Adjustable-speed animated stroke guides
- Real-time playback of writing strokes
- Audio pronunciation of letters
- Multiple pen styles
- Mess-free learning tool
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The app educators choose for classroom use, and the only app that records a child's letter strokes for parents and educators to review. Learn to Write is a fun way for children to learn how to write their letters and numbers, and with the improved playback feature in version 4.1, it's easy for the teacher to make sure they do it correctly. This unique playback function, found in Learn to Write, saves the child's writing so you can play it back in real time to see how the child is forming letters and numbers. Children learn the proper strokes with the help of an adjustable-speed-animated ball that they can follow and write along with. With each selection of a letter or number, an audio file says the letter to aid in memorizing the alphabet. Over a dozen unique pen styles are available for tracing. Parents enjoy the educational value and entertainment this mess-free learning tool provides (after all, who needs crayon, marker, or pencil stains on the carpet, table, or wall?). Also great for long car trips, doctor's offices, and other waiting times. Write letters and numbers, or draw on the screen, and push the play-back button to see it all in real-time. Not only is this a great app for teaching children at home, educators are also choosing this app for classroom instruction. You won't find silly cartoon characters and frustrating feedback that tells children they formed letters incorrectly when they failed to trace exactly as outlined. You help children Learn to Write, and then you can review the strokes of every letter formed for further one-on-one instruction. Recommended for children 2 years and up. --------- No in-app purchases. No advertisements, popups, or storing of personal data. --------- The strokes used in Learn To Write resemble the Zaner-Bloser style, which is also used in Romalda Spalding's The Writing Road to Reading, with the exception that O’s and Q’s are started at the top 12 o’clock position instead of the suggested 2 o’clock position. Not all teachers agree on the proper strokes for some letters. For example, some teachers prefer that the pen or stylus never leave the paper except to cross a t, or dot an i. A person's handwriting often adapts with time to be as efficient as possible, while still maintaining proper form. This application is meant as a guide to children and parents, but your individual curriculum may differ slightly. Instructions for use: -Select numbers, or letters in lowercase, uppercase, or mixed case using the segmented control on the settings screen. -When a letter is selected and the child writes upon the screen, the writing is saved in memory. Pushing the triangle-shaped play button at the bottom of the writing screen plays back the last recorded strokes for each letter. A toolbar button allows the user to erase all of the saved strokes in memory. -Red number icons on the settings screen give the total number of letter or number recordings. -The brush button displays a pulldown menu full of usable brush styles. Just touch the brush-style to select it. -Letter buttons display the letter on the screen and turn orange when there are saved strokes for the letter. At any time the user can draw using one's finger, just like a real pen and erase the drawing with the erase button on the toolbar. -The toolbar button with a letter and ball activates the animated red ball, which demonstrates proper letter or number formation. - Adjust the speed of the ball and volume using the sliders on the settings screen. -Press the home and power button at the same time to take a snapshot of the screen and save it in the photo archive of the device .
School Fonts
This app teaches children and adults to write letters, numbers, and words using US school-approved fonts like D'Nealian and Zaner-Bloser. It offers customizable lessons, tracing activities, and progress tracking for personalized handwriting instruction.
- Learn cursive and print writing
- Trace letters, numbers, and words
- Customize lessons with own content
- Adjustable tracing difficulty
- Email completed lessons
- Multiple student profiles
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Teach writing the right way—your way. School Fonts helps students of all ages learn to write letters, numbers and words using US education-approved fonts including D'Nealian and Zaner-Bloser, plus many more. Customizable for early learners through adult education, this app is perfect for teachers, tutors and parents who want full control over handwriting and literacy instruction. Key Features: • Learn to write in cursive and print using D'Nealian, Zaner-Bloser and other fonts • Trace letters, numbers and words with finger or stylus • Record audio responses and play back teacher-created examples • Customize lessons with your own words, images and audio • Adjustable tracing difficulty with star-based feedback • Automatically email completed lessons to parents or teachers • Lockable student mode with PIN-protected settings • Create and manage multiple student profiles Create Unlimited Activities: • Spelling lists • Sight words • Opposites, missing letters and phonics • Dolch word practice • Fully personalized writing lessons Why Teachers and Parents Love School Fonts: School Fonts is one of the most flexible handwriting tools available. You can tailor every aspect of each lesson to fit your student's learning needs, helping them stay focused, engaged and successful.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: School Fonts at 100% against Learn To Write's 29%. School Fonts also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.9) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 7 months). Learn To Write's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 1) and price ($1.99 vs $2.99). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Learn To Write costs $1.99 and School Fonts $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
School Fonts holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Learn To Write has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of Learn To Write's written reviews are positive against 100% of School Fonts's.
Learn To Write ships an update every 7 months, School Fonts every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Learn To Write | School Fonts |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 2.9 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 29.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Justin Hackett Productions | demografix pty ltd |
Customer experience
Learn To Write
School Fonts
In-app purchases
Learn To Write
No in-app purchases
School Fonts
No in-app purchases
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