Comparison

The ABC Song vs Writing Wizard

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

The ABC Song

This app offers a comprehensive collection of interactive games and activities designed to teach young children the alphabet, numbers, and colors. It features animated sing-alongs, coloring pages, memory games, and more, all presented with high-quality illustrations and sounds.

Highlights
  • Interactive ABC song sing-along
  • Peekaboo letters hide-and-seek game
  • Animal coloring book for each letter
  • ABC memory matching games
  • Letter to animal matching
  • Connect the dots alphabet activity
  • Bubble pop letter game
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~~~ 9 amazing spelling activities and games inside + interactive ABC song ~~~ ~~~ More than 3,000,000 downloads, Selected New and Noteworthy by Apple! ~~~ ~~~ Superb HD illustrations and sounds ~~~ An all in one collection of educational ABC activities and games, including the famous alphabet song in a vivid interactive and high quality production. This application provides the perfect place to learn basic concepts such and numbers, colors and more in an enjoyable and rich environment. + INTERACTIVE SING ALONG Animated, Interactive Sing-Along story book for children - The most famous ABC song comes to life in an interactive rich song and dance experience. Each page presents the alphabet in its own unique, adorable and educational style. + PEEKABOO LETTERS Where are the letters hiding? Fun educational activity for toddlers, practice and train cognitive skills in this fun and addictive hide and seek game. + A to Z ANIMALS COLORING BOOK Each letter comes with a lovely animal drawing page. Enjoy drawing and filling colors while learning about spelling and animals. + ABC MEMORY GAME Intuitive, educational preschool memory matching games. Play the classic memory game and learn the ABC letters. Improve memory & concentration. + ANIMAL LETTERS MATCH Intuitive, fun drag and drop matching game. Drag the letter to the animal that starts with this letter to make a match and advance to the next stage. + FLOATING BUBBLES Fly up with the ABC bunny while learning your ABC. Enjoy the cheerful scenery as you fly higher and higher in the sky. Pop the letter bubbles in order from A to Z to move higher and higher. + HAPPY FRUIT TRAIN Hop on the Happy Fruit Train and learn fruit names from A-Z! A is for Apple, B is for Banana, C is for Cherry… Fruit has never been this fun! + CONNECT THE DOTS - LETTERS Connect dot to dot and learn all about the alphabet letters with fun activities and sounds. + BUBBLE POP FUN Letter bubbles are flying in the air, tap them to pop and lean. Fun educational activity for toddlers, practice and improve cognitive skills in this fun and addictive popping game. + FLOATING TYPEWRITER Welcome to a letter typing experience. A wonderfully illustrated keyboard will sound the letter voices as they are typed and activate adorable bubble animations. + Puzzle Fun Put together 26 adorable animal puzzles - each animals starts with a letter of the alphabet.

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
Currently charting
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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

The ABC Song4 screens
Writing Wizard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Writing Wizard at 90% against The ABC Song's 29%. Writing Wizard also leads on rating (4.3 vs 3.9) and ratings volume (3.3K vs 9). The ABC Song's advantage is price ($3.99 vs $13.99) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.6). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

The ABC Song costs $3.99 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

Writing Wizard holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Writing Wizard has 3.3K ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of The ABC Song's written reviews are positive against 90% of Writing Wizard's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

The ABC Song ships an update every 5 months, Writing Wizard every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
The ABC Song versus Writing Wizard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe ABC SongWriting Wizard
Price$3.99 — better$13.99
Rating3.9 (9 ratings)4.3 (3.3K ratings) — better
Positive reviews28.6% of reviews89.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings93.3K — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 4 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank—#76 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB69 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTabTale LTDPierre Abel

Customer experience

The ABC Song

All ratings9 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral11.1%
Negative22.2%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive28.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative71.4%

Writing Wizard

All ratings3,340 ratings
Positive81.8%
Neutral9.5%
Negative8.7%
Written reviews155 reviews
Positive89.7%
Neutral2.6%
Negative7.7%

Bugs and requests

The ABC Song

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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

The ABC Song

No in-app purchases

None

Writing Wizard

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is The ABC Song free?
The ABC Song costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Writing Wizard free?
Writing Wizard costs $13.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, The ABC Song or Writing Wizard?
Writing Wizard is rated higher. The ABC Song averages 3.9 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while Writing Wizard averages 4.3 from 3.3K ratings.
Do The ABC Song or Writing Wizard have ads?
Neither The ABC Song nor Writing Wizard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, The ABC Song or Writing Wizard?
The ABC Song ships an update every 5 months, and Writing Wizard every 4 months. Most recently, The ABC Song was updated on November 1, 2026 and Writing Wizard on November 10, 2026.

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