Cursive Practice vs Play Parlance
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cursive Practice
Practice your English cursive handwriting with this app. It offers exercises for uppercase letters, lowercase letters, words, sentences, and numbers. Customize your practice with adjustable pen width and blank mode.
- Practice uppercase and lowercase letters
- Practice words and sentences
- Practice numbers
- Adjustable pen border width
- Blank mode for freehand practice
- Shuffle and case switching functions
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This application is for practicing English Cursive Handwriting. You can practice to write word as well as upper Case and lower Case. - In the same section, the font size has same, but each sections has different size. The font size has adjusted by the length of contents. Context using a smaller font means more higher level of difficulty. 1. Contents - Upper Case - Lower Case - Word(26, 52, 78 Words Set) - Sentence(Famous Persons' Quotes, Basic Sentences) - Number 2. Functions - Shuffle - Switching between upper case and lower case - Pen border width selections - Blank Mode - Cursive Practice Fullscreen is no ad version, including same contents. - Cursive Practice reached 1.29M (1,291,012) downloads(July 22, 2017) - The number of downloads of Cursive Practice exceeded 1 million (1,000,364) (Sep. 6, 2016) - Cursive Practice reached 770 K (775,345) downloads(May 5, 2016) - Cursive Practice reached 500 K (523,290) downloads(Sep. 23, 2015)
Play Parlance
This app helps you learn new words and their meanings through an interactive swiping game. Review your learned vocabulary with definitions and pronunciations. Expand your lexicon with ease.
- Interactive word learning game
- Swipe right for correct meaning
- Swipe left for incorrect meaning
- Review learned words
- Pronunciation guide
- Intuitive user interface
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Parlance helps you expand your vocabulary through a simple and intuitive user interface. Simply swipe right if the give word matches the meaning displayed, else swipe left. Every word the user interacts with is stored under the Words Learnt section. Users can visit this tab and review the words with their meanings and pronunciation.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Play Parlance at 100% against Cursive Practice's 57%. Play Parlance also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.9) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Cursive Practice's advantage is ratings volume (114 vs 2) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 4 months). On price 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. Cursive Practice sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Play Parlance asks for nothing beyond the download.
Play Parlance holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cursive Practice has 114 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of Cursive Practice's written reviews are positive against 100% of Play Parlance's.
Cursive Practice ships an update every 5 weeks, Play Parlance every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cursive Practice | Play Parlance |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (114 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 114 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brainstop | Akhil Ivaturi |
Customer experience
Cursive Practice
Play Parlance
Bugs and requests
Cursive Practice
Reported bugs
17 issues- App asks for address/personal info
- Font size too large on iPad and not adjustable
- App crashes frequently
- Locked on uppercase, switches to uppercase A
- Inconsistent letter formations between individual letters and sentences
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- Difficulty switching between letters
- Landscape mode stuck on iPad
- App shuts down or exits constantly
- Doesn't correct handwriting
- Ads are inappropriate for children
- Q uppercase letter formed incorrectly
- App dies after download (virus concern)
- Cannot install app
- Cuts off chalkboard when rotating iPad
- Grammar and spelling mistakes
- Different font used in sentences
- Scribble and move on without proper practice
Requested features
22 requests- Add more sentences
- Add more colors (rainbow)
- Add more quotes from famous people
- Add font size feature
- Add ability to create/save own words/sentences
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- Add ability to go up/down alphabet sequence
- Add more letters/words
- No ads
- Add more content/exercises
- Mark handwriting
- General sentences instead of quotes
- Easily access letters
- Other writing styles
- iPad retina display graphics
- Space for writing by self
- Correct handwriting
- Check letters for accuracy
- Typed word to write without tracing
- Print or d'nealian handwriting option
- Larger word bank
- Test or flash cards
- Make own words to be shown in cursive
Play Parlance
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Cursive Practice
- Remove Ads$0.99
Play Parlance
No in-app purchases
Questions
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