Comparison

Peeping Musicians 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

Peeping Musicians

This app helps young children develop early observation, touch, and targeting skills. Children wait for colorful musicians to appear and tap them to make them play music, discovering 20 different characters and instruments. Its high-contrast design is beneficial for users with visual and perceptual difficulties.

Highlights
  • Develops early observation skills
  • Enhances touch and targeting skills
  • Encourages waiting for visual cues
  • Features 20 characters and instruments
  • High-contrast design for visual accessibility
  • Promotes hand-eye coordination
Features
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Has been designed to encourage early looking/observation skills and develop basic touch and targeting skills. Wait and watch for the musician as they ‘peep’ from the top, bottom or side of the screen. Simply touch them to make them move centre stage and play a piece of music. There are 20 different characters and instruments to find. Black background and brightly coloured musicians provide great contrast making this activity very suitable for users with visual and perceptual difficulties. Peeping Musicians is a fun way to help a child to develop hand eye co-ordination and learn to use a touch screen. Key Features: • Black background for maximum contrast with bright rewards. • Minimum distraction - screen blank until musician appears. • Encourage waiting for visual and auditory cue before touching screen. • Develop visual location skills. • Great for listening skills with real and fantasy musicians.

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

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Writing Wizard at Free against Peeping Musicians's $3.99. Writing Wizard also leads on rating (4.4 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (5.2K vs 4). Peeping Musicians's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 15.6). On 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

Writing Wizard is free to download; Peeping Musicians costs $3.99 up front. Writing Wizard sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month. Peeping Musicians asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Writing Wizard holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Writing Wizard has 5.2K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of Peeping Musicians's written reviews are positive against 74% of Writing Wizard's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Peeping Musicians ships an update every 14 months, Writing Wizard every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 1 level
Peeping Musicians versus Writing Wizard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPeeping MusiciansWriting Wizard
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating4.0 (4 ratings)4.4 (5.2K ratings) — better
Positive reviews54.5% of reviews73.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings45.2K — better
Update frequencyEvery 14 monthsEvery 4 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS6.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB68 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperInclusive Technology LtdPierre Abel

Customer experience

Peeping Musicians

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive54.5%
Neutral9.1%
Negative36.4%

Writing Wizard

All ratings5,184 ratings
Positive84.3%
Neutral6.0%
Negative9.7%
Written reviews208 reviews
Positive73.6%
Neutral6.7%
Negative19.7%

Bugs and requests

Peeping Musicians

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

Peeping Musicians

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 Peeping Musicians free?
Peeping Musicians costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Writing Wizard free?
Writing Wizard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Peeping Musicians or Writing Wizard?
Writing Wizard is rated higher. Peeping Musicians averages 4.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Writing Wizard averages 4.4 from 5.2K ratings.
Do Peeping Musicians or Writing Wizard have ads?
Neither Peeping Musicians nor Writing Wizard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Peeping Musicians or Writing Wizard?
Peeping Musicians ships an update every 14 months, and Writing Wizard every 4 months. Most recently, Peeping Musicians was updated on October 2, 2026 and Writing Wizard on October 26, 2026.

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