Cursive Handwriting vs Smart Diary Edu
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cursive Handwriting
Master cursive writing with interactive exercises for all ages. This app provides step-by-step guidance to learn each letter of the alphabet, offering endless practice opportunities for home or school.
- Interactive cursive writing exercises
- Step-by-step letter directions
- Endless practice opportunities
- Suitable for all ages
- Teacher-approved content
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Learn how to write each letter of the alphabet in cursive with simple writing activities that can be practised again and again. Includes easy-to-follow directions. Now fully updated (and teacher approved!) Students of all ages can learn cursive writing. Kids age 7 or younger may need assistance from an adult. In general, 8 year olds can complete cursive writing assignments with some assistance and general direction from a teacher. Kids age 9 or older can complete cursive writing assignments without assistance. As with any new writing technique, it is important to monitor the progress of students and then make adjustments as necessary. This application offer an interactive and fun way to learn cursive writing at home or at school. It will allow students to study the letters of the cursive alphabet in a visually stimulating way and will provide hours of practice.
Smart Diary Edu
This app helps students manage their academic life by organizing schedules, tracking assignments, and monitoring grades. It offers tools for time management, goal setting, and note-taking, with features like customizable timetables and reminders.
- Add homework, tests, and notes
- Manage weekly timetable
- Track grades and set goals
- Time management organizer
- Task reminders and customization
- Notes with text formatting
- iCloud backup
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Smart Diary Edu is dedicated to educational institutes, all the Premium features are included in the app. For personal use we suggest you to download the normal version of "Smart Diary - Student Planner" for a better experience. Smart Diary is a complete student planner / school diary, with this application you can: • add homework, tests and free notes on the Diary • manage your weekly timetable • manage your grades, set goals • use the Organizer, a tool that help you managing the time dedicated to tasks Here are all the functions. 1. Subjects and Timetable • For every subject you can choose a color, add the Professor, and other notes • Set the timetable selecting the subject and the lesson type. You can customize the timetable changing the maximum hours, the end of the week, set the hour in the 'hour:minute' format • Multiple Timetables • Print your weekly timetable 2. Tasks and Absences • Mark a task as important or done, set the required time, set a reminder, associate an emoji • View your tasks in different ways; classic diary with pages or list grouped by day • Reorder the tasks to better organize the Diary, just tap and hold on a task • Mark absences. Count absences by type and period • Memos section 3. Time Management • Organizer - a powerful but simple tool to schedule tasks, it allow you to specify the required time and schedule the task over multiple days. Calculation of the daily work, swipe and consult the days with the bar chart • Time - a pure time management tool. Create work session with customized countdowns 4. Grades Management • Multiple evaluation systems supported (numeric 0 - 10, alphabetical A - F, etc) • Grades chart and filter by grade type / period • Check your general average 5. Goals • Set a grade as a goal, by subject and grade type • Calculate the required grade to reach your goal or the sufficiency 6. Notes • Dedicated editor to write notes • Text formatting in bold, italic, highlighted • History of the previous text reviews 7. General features and customization • Set a reminder notification for tasks, you can select a rapid reminder or a specific date • 3D Touch Shortcut by pressing deeply on the app icon • Customize the app appearance with themes 8. Widget and backup • Widget with tasks overview for the following day, timetable widget • Data and Preferences Backup on iCloud 9. Apple Watch • Add new tasks dictating in natural language • View tasks and timetable • Mark a task as done
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Smart Diary Edu at 100% against Cursive Handwriting's 14%. Smart Diary Edu also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 18 months). Cursive Handwriting's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 12.0). On price, 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
Cursive Handwriting costs $2.99 and Smart Diary Edu $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Cursive Handwriting ships an update every 18 months, Smart Diary Edu every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cursive Handwriting | Smart Diary Edu |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | $2.99 |
| Rating | 3.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 14.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 18 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TOUCHSCREEN LEARNING LTD | Matteo D'Ignazio |
Customer experience
Cursive Handwriting
Smart Diary Edu
In-app purchases
Cursive Handwriting
No in-app purchases
Smart Diary Edu
No in-app purchases
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