LetterSchool vs TouchCounts
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LetterSchool
This app helps young children learn to write letters, numbers, and shapes through interactive tracing and engaging animations. It offers progress tracking and is designed by educational professionals to be safe and fun for toddlers and preschoolers.
- Block and cursive letter tracing
- Uppercase and lowercase letters
- Numbers 1-10 tracing
- Geometric shape tracing
- Progress tracking for multiple players
- Interactive animations and sound effects
- CVC, CVCC, and long sound word practice
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The #1 alphabet tracing and words spelling app for toddlers & pre-schoolers. Recommended and used by parents, teachers, and occupational therapists! Loved & played by more than 2 million kids and used at more than 5,000 schools! - Winner of 'National Parenting Product Awards' - NAPPA Awards - ‘Best Mobile App Platinum Award’ nominee! – BMA SPECIAL FEATURES: - Block & Cursive Letters, - Uppercase and Lowercase, - Numbers 1-10, - 24 geometric shapes for toddlers! - Keep track of your child’s progress, - Unlock Golden Levels! - 72 CVC words, 36 CVCC words, and 39 long sound words! - Progress and settings stored for up to three players on the same device, - Interactive and visually attractive fun animations, - Available for both iPads and iPhones! IMPORTANT: The first five letters of the alphabet (both uppercase and lowercase), five shapes, and the first three CVC flashcards (nine words) are completely for free. They can be played entirely (on 3 game steps). Enjoy this trial and have fun! PERFECT FOR KIDS: Kids want to have fun and LetterSchool offers an educational journey with the most engaging and entertaining educational material! - Learn while engaging with over 20+ exciting animations, graphics, and sound effects. - Associate letters with words, master and memorize tracing directions and the correct formation of each character. - Learn phonics, the formation of words, understand syllable formations, and spell entire words. - Perfect for home-schooling kids and kindergartens. A user-friendly app for children with special educational needs. PERFECT FOR PARENTS & TEACHERS: - Choice of the three most popular font families in handwriting education (Handwriting Without Tears, D’Nealian, and Zaner-Bloser). - Complete a set of letters, numbers, or shapes to unlock the Golden Levels! - Golden Level allows progress tracking and displays exactly how the letter was drawn! - A new challenge at every step: Your child traces a letter, number or shape 3 times using different parameters. SAFE: - An educational app created together with parents and educational professionals. - NO ADS! - Advanced settings or purchases only accessible by an adult! - Extremely committed Customer Support ready to answer all questions and fix any issues. LET'S PLAY & LEARN! Join LetterSchool on this exciting educational journey! Download the app and allow your toddler to discover the magical world of letters and words. Before you know it, your kid will become a pro in writing and spelling! SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS: LetterSchool offers several auto-renewing subscription options: per month. quarter, and year. - You can cancel your subscription anytime without an extra cancellation fee. - Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. - Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. - The account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours before the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. - Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. - No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during an active subscription period. - Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. - Your iTunes account will be charged automatically after the 7-day free trial. CONTACT For more reviews and information, visit our website www.letterschool.com If you have any question or suggestions, please contact us at support@letterschool.com You can also check our FAQ page on https://www.letterschool.com/en/help. Terms of service and privacy policy: https://www.letterschool.com/legal/terms-of-use & https://www.letterschool.com/legal/privacy-policy
TouchCounts
This app helps children learn fundamental math concepts like counting, addition, and subtraction through interactive finger gestures and visual exploration. It fosters number sense by allowing kids to create and manipulate numbers, building a strong foundation for arithmetic.
- Interactive counting and arithmetic
- Finger gesture-based learning
- Develops number sense
- Explores ordinality and cardinality
- Supports addition and subtraction
- Foundations for division and multiplication
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TouchCounts lets children use their fingers, eyes and ears to learn to count, add and subtract. By tapping and swiping and by using specially-designed gestures for adding and subtracting, children create and manipulate their own numbers, developing a stronger number sense as they explore the mathematical foundations of ordinality, cardinality, and arithmetic. As children begin to learn how to count with their fingers, TouchCounts is the perfect environment to solidify that learning and help them generalize beyond their fingers, “going past ten” into the endless world of larger values. TouchCounts allows children to focus on both ordered and operational views of numbers, inviting them to develop their number sense by creating and exploring coordinated number sequences tactilely, visually, symbolically and verbally. In addition, learners can explore how numeric quantities can be composed from–and decomposed into–other, smaller quantities. Neither a repetitive drill-and-practice worksheet nor an rigid "level-driven" game, TouchCounts is a mathematics exploration environment designed to allow students to discover, pose and examine their own questions and understandings. Sample activities on the TouchCounts website show parents and teachers how TouchCounts can support learners' conceptual understanding of: - number naming - counting and skip-counting - ordinality and cardinality - even and odd numbers - less-than, greater-than and equal-to relationships - subitization - addition, subtraction, and the foundations of division and multiplication. Based on contemporary research understandings of how children learn mathematics, and developed by the Tangible Mathematics Learning Project in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, TouchCounts is intended for use in school, pre-school and at home; and with small groups, with 1:1 pairings of a learner and a parent or teacher, or individually.
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Verdict
LetterSchool and TouchCounts both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 92% of TouchCounts's written reviews are positive against 54% of LetterSchool's. TouchCounts also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 14) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). LetterSchool's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 61 months) and ratings volume (17K vs 9). On price, rating 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
Both are free to download. LetterSchool sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. TouchCounts asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for LetterSchool against 4.4 for TouchCounts. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LetterSchool has 17K ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 54% of LetterSchool's written reviews are positive against 92% of TouchCounts's.
LetterSchool ships an update every 2 months, TouchCounts every 61 months. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and June 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LetterSchool | TouchCounts |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (17K ratings) — better | 4.4 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 54.4% of reviews | 91.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 17K — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 61 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 156 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Letterschool Enabling Learning B.V. | Nathalie Sinclair |
Customer experience
LetterSchool
TouchCounts
Bugs and requests
LetterSchool
Reported bugs
4 issues- Dari letter (پ) keeps glitching
- Subscription issues (app reverts to lite version, need to restore purchases)
- Incompatibility with older devices
- Login screen freezes
Requested features
5 requests- Add more languages (Russian, Serbian, Thai, Korean, Hebrew, Hindi, etc.)
- Allow creating custom words/names to practice
- Improve letter sound pronunciations
- Add more visual options (fonts, themes, etc.)
- Integrate with International Phonetic Alphabet
TouchCounts
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
LetterSchool
- Monthly Access Pass7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- LetterSchool - Monthly Pass7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Monthly Access Pass7 Days trial$9.991 Month
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- Quarterly Access Pass7 Days trial$12.993 Months
- LetterSchool - Monthly Pass7 Days trial$14.991 Month
- Quarterly Access Pass7 Days trial$19.993 Months
- Annual Access Pass7 Days trial$44.991 Year
- LetterSchool - Annual Pass$59.991 Year
- Yearly Access Pass7 Days trial$59.991 Year
- LetterSchool - Annual Pass7 Days trial$74.991 Year
- Unlock All Shapes$2.99
- Unlock Full Block Alphabet$6.99
- Unlock Full Cursive Alphabet$6.99
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- All-in-one Package$79.99
TouchCounts
No in-app purchases
Questions
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