Comparison

Choiceworks 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

Choiceworks

This app helps children develop independence and manage emotions through visual schedules, waiting skill practice, and feeling identification tools. It supports caregivers and educators in fostering positive behavior and emotional regulation at home and in school.

Highlights
  • Visual schedules for daily routines
  • Tools for understanding and managing feelings
  • Improve waiting and turn-taking skills
  • Customizable with own images and audio
  • Supports multiple user profiles
  • Printable boards and PDF export
Features
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Choiceworks is a visual support app that helps make the day easier to understand. It is designed for children, teens, adults, and families who benefit from visual structure, clear routines, and support with transitions, waiting, choices, and feelings. Families, caregivers, educators, and therapists can create customized visual boards using pictures, text, video, and recorded audio. Boards can be used at home, in therapy, during appointments, while traveling, or anywhere a visual plan helps. Choiceworks includes four board types: • Schedule boards show what is happening now and what comes next • Waiting boards make waiting more concrete with a visual timer and activity choices • Feelings boards support communication about emotions, choices, and next steps • Feelings Scale boards help show how big a feeling is and what can help at each level Features include: • Visual schedule, waiting, feelings, and Feelings Scale boards • Visual timers for schedules and waiting • Custom pictures, video, text, and recorded audio • Multiple profiles • Import and export of Choiceworks board files • Send a copy of a board by AirDrop, Files, or email • Optional iCloud Sync & Backup across your own devices signed into the same Apple ID • App menus, included board labels, included card text, and spoken card words in English, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, German, French, and Portuguese • VoiceOver support Choiceworks has no ads, no tracking, and no accounts to create. Your boards, photos, videos, and recordings stay on your device and in your own iCloud. One purchase includes everything. No subscriptions.

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

Choiceworks4 screens
Writing Wizard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Writing Wizard at $13.99 against Choiceworks's $29.99. Writing Wizard also leads on ratings volume (3.3K vs 297) and review sentiment (90% vs 81%). Choiceworks's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 4 months) and rating (4.6 vs 4.3). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Choiceworks costs $29.99 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

Choiceworks holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Writing Wizard has 3.3K ratings behind it against 297, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 81% of Choiceworks's written reviews are positive against 90% of Writing Wizard's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Choiceworks ships an update every 2 days, Writing Wizard every 4 months. Both last shipped on October 15, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Choiceworks versus Writing Wizard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChoiceworksWriting Wizard
Price$29.99$13.99 — better
Rating4.6 (297 ratings) — better4.3 (3.3K ratings)
Positive reviews81.4% of reviews89.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2973.3K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size394 MB69 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBee Visual, LLCPierre Abel

Customer experience

Choiceworks

All ratings297 ratings
Positive91.6%
Neutral2.7%
Negative5.7%
Written reviews140 reviews
Positive81.4%
Neutral10.7%
Negative7.9%

Writing Wizard

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

User reviews

Choiceworks

From 297 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Customizable schedules
  • 👍 Helpful for children with autism and ADHD
  • 🎨 Ability to add own photos and voice recordings
  • ⏱️ Useful timers and visual aids
  • 📚 Includes social stories

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Bugs with image library and customization
  • 🔋 Drains device battery
  • 🔍 Limited image selection
  • 🔀 Difficulty rearranging schedule items

Writing Wizard

From 3.3K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Customizable word lists and recording
  • 🎨 Engaging graphics and animations
  • 🏫 Great for teaching handwriting and spelling
  • 🔒 No ads or in-app purchases
  • 🎓 Helpful for children with special needs

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional crashes or freezing
  • 🔤 Limited font options, especially for UK users
  • 🔒 Difficulty accessing parental controls
  • 🖋️ Apple Pencil not supported
  • 🔄 Difficulty clearing tracing history

Bugs and requests

Choiceworks

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Library won't load, preventing app usage
  • Schedules reset when switching profiles
  • Crashes after recent update

Requested features

5 requests
  • Sync schedules across devices
  • Ability to add more than 7-8 steps in a schedule
  • More diverse set of icons and images
  • Customizable timer sounds
  • Option to use recorded voice for schedule titles

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

Choiceworks

No in-app purchases

None

Writing Wizard

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Choiceworks free?
Choiceworks costs $29.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Writing Wizard free?
Writing Wizard costs $13.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Choiceworks or Writing Wizard?
Choiceworks is rated higher. Choiceworks averages 4.6 out of 5 from 297 ratings, while Writing Wizard averages 4.3 from 3.3K ratings.
Do Choiceworks or Writing Wizard have ads?
Neither Choiceworks nor Writing Wizard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Choiceworks or Writing Wizard?
Choiceworks ships an update every 2 days, and Writing Wizard every 4 months. Most recently, Choiceworks was updated on October 15, 2026 and Writing Wizard on October 15, 2026.

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