Comparison

Writing Wizard vs CVI training (Visual Tracking)

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

Head to head
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
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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. *

About

CVI training (Visual Tracking)

This app trains users to identify a distinct object from a patterned background. Success is rewarded with interactive animations and sounds. It offers various pattern and animal sets for a challenging visual discrimination experience.

Highlights
  • Distinguish objects from patterned backgrounds
  • Interactive animations and sounds upon success
  • Multiple pattern sets (stripes, grids, curves, circles)
  • Diverse animal sets for identification
  • Action sets for dynamic challenges (shrinking, enlarging, rotating)
Features
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This App is used for training the ability of distinguishing a different object from a homogeneous background. Instructions for use: The App shows up some black and white pattern background, users need to tap out an object / an animal that is different from the background and bounded within a colored circle which is just larger than, the animal's shape. An interactive animation and sound will be returned if success to find out the target object. The combinations included in this version. - Pattern Sets 1: Vertical Stripes 2 : Chess board like squares pattern. 3 : A more complicated chess board pattern 4 : Chess board like pattern filled up with triangles 5 : Disturbance curves pattern 6 : Concentric circles 7 : Concentric squares - Animal Sets 1: Green Frog 2 : Brown donkey 3 : Blue mice 4 : Grey and white cow having a pink nose 5 : Rooster 6 : Monkey 7 : Beetle in yellow and white color - Action Sets 1 : Shrinking 2 : Enlarging 3 : Rotating 4 : An action choose from 1 to 3 randomly

Screenshots

Writing Wizard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: CVI training (Visual Tracking) at Free against Writing Wizard's $13.99. CVI training (Visual Tracking) also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.6). Writing Wizard's advantage is ratings volume (3.3K vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On ads and in-app purchases 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

CVI training (Visual Tracking) is free to download; Writing Wizard costs $13.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

CVI training (Visual Tracking) holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Writing Wizard has 3.3K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Writing Wizard versus CVI training (Visual Tracking): the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWriting WizardCVI training (Visual Tracking)
Price$13.99Free — better
Rating4.3 (3.3K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews89.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings3.3K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad
Requires iOS15.68.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size69 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPierre AbelEbenezer school

Customer experience

Writing Wizard

All ratings3,338 ratings
Positive81.8%
Neutral9.5%
Negative8.7%
Written reviews155 reviews
Positive89.7%
Neutral2.6%
Negative7.7%

CVI training (Visual Tracking)

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and 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

CVI training (Visual Tracking)

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Writing Wizard

No in-app purchases

None

CVI training (Visual Tracking)

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Writing Wizard free?
Writing Wizard costs $13.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is CVI training (Visual Tracking) free?
CVI training (Visual Tracking) is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Writing Wizard or CVI training (Visual Tracking)?
CVI training (Visual Tracking) is rated higher. Writing Wizard averages 4.3 out of 5 from 3.3K ratings, while CVI training (Visual Tracking) averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Writing Wizard or CVI training (Visual Tracking) have ads?
Neither Writing Wizard nor CVI training (Visual Tracking) shows ads.

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