Comparison

School Fonts vs Drawing pad

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

Head to head
About

School Fonts

This app helps users learn to write letters, numbers, and words in US-approved plain and cursive fonts. It allows for custom word lessons, audio recording, and progress tracking, making it a flexible tool for educators and parents.

Highlights
  • Trace letters, numbers, and words
  • Customizable word lessons
  • Record audio responses
  • Progress tracking with accuracy
  • Multiple user profiles
  • Email tracings and recordings
Features
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Learn to write the correct letters, numbers and words in the US education approved plain and cursive fonts. D’Nealian and Zaner-Bloser. In this Free version, numbers are complete, the first three letters in lowercase and uppercase are available and one words lesson is enabled. Feature Highlights: • Create your own words lessons • Students can trace and record audio answers • For early to adult education • Can be used for spelling lists, sight words and any other content you wish to create • Customise all content including images, sounds and teacher example tracings • Lock app to limit student customization • Automatically, by choice, email the student's tracings and audio recordings as a webpage to the teacher or parent at the end of a completed lesson. • Create and manage multiple profiles School Fonts allows the teacher or parent to prepare word lessons using written instructions, unique images and audio instructions, to which the student can respond using written and audio recordings. School Fonts maximizes the flexibility for a teacher or parent who wants to create his or her own content. For example, instructors can create words with missing letters together with unique images and user-created audio recordings that provide a rich learning environment. Unlimited activities can be created and customized to the individual levels of student learning needs. Activities can include: spelling lists where the student writes the word and records audio of the spelling, Dolch sight words, circle the vowels, write the opposite and much more. School Fonts features four activity areas including Words, Numbers, Lower Case and Upper Case. Each lesson features a large tracing area, on which the student can use their finger, or for penmanship instruction, a stylus, to trace the letters, numbers, or words. Also included with each lesson is the ability to play an audio recording of the lesson, the ability for the student or teacher to record their own audio instruction or response, a reset button, and three different tracing options: outlines with directional tracing arrow prompts, solid lines without arrow prompts, and dot representations. Teacher tracing allows teachers to record their own example tracings for each letter and number, which replay when the student taps the Learn button. Teacher tracing offers the ability to record audio behind the tracing to replay for letter sounds or phonetics or as simple tracing instructions. This allows for regional variations of the letter sounds. With tracing accuracy turned on to easy, medium or hard the students are rewarded with a half or full star depending on their accuracy. The default teacher tracings or your customisations of the teacher tracings are used as the basis for checking the students tracing accuracy. This allows for complete flexibility over stroke direction for left hand writers. The Words activity section allows students to learn to read, write, say and spell pre-programmed teacher or parent created words. The Numbers activity section includes an image button with a picture of a number of items that correspond to the number being learned, which also can be customized. The Lowercase and Uppercase activity sections also feature the customizable photo and sound options. Teachers can create, save and share their verbal and word lessons, profiles and customizations, with complete control over the management of the lessons, the app and student profiles. Full import and export functions are included. Teachers or parents can lock the app into a restricted student mode using a four digit PIN. In student mode, word lessons cannot be created or deleted and profiles cannot be changed. Other options are available such as hiding the homepage external links. The app also has internal encouragements that can be turned off and customized via the settings.

About

Drawing pad

This app offers a fun and simple way for young children to learn drawing using alphabets. It provides step-by-step tutorials and a practice pad, allowing kids to create beautiful drawings by tracing letters. Designed for preschoolers, it encourages creativity and sharing.

Highlights
  • Step-by-step drawing tutorials
  • Side-by-side practice pad
  • 26 drawing lessons
  • Draw from alphabets
  • Preschool drawing activity
  • Share kid's drawings
Features
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A very easy and fun way for kids to learn drawing from Alphabets. * Step by Step drawing tutorials. * Side by Side drawing pad to practice. * 26 Drawing lessons. * Instruction to draw beautiful things from alphabets. * Pre-School drawing activity for kids. * Share your kid's drawing with friends. Let your kids learn beautiful drawings straight from alphabtes. No need to have strong artistic skills to draw. If they know how to trace Alphabets, They can create many beautiful things!! Sounds interesting right? :) :)

Screenshots

School Fonts4 screens
Drawing pad4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Drawing pad at 100% against School Fonts's 0%. Drawing pad also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 5 months). School Fonts's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. School Fonts sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Drawing pad sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

School Fonts ships an update every 5 months, Drawing pad every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
School Fonts versus Drawing pad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSchool FontsDrawing pad
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS10.010.0
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerdemografix pty ltdPLUS INFOSYS

Customer experience

School Fonts

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative50.0%

Drawing pad

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

School Fonts

One-time2
  • All Letters$0.99
  • All Words$0.99
1 purchases

Drawing pad

One-time1
  • Unlock All drawings$0.99

Questions

Is School Fonts free?
School Fonts is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Drawing pad free?
Drawing pad is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do School Fonts or Drawing pad have ads?
Neither School Fonts nor Drawing pad shows ads.
Which is updated more often, School Fonts or Drawing pad?
School Fonts ships an update every 5 months, and Drawing pad every 5 days. Most recently, School Fonts was updated on October 14, 2026 and Drawing pad on October 22, 2026.

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