Comparison

Writing Wizard vs Handwriting Tracing Practice

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

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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

Handwriting Tracing Practice

This app helps children learn and practice writing cursive and block letters. It offers interactive tracing, letter animations, and voice input/output for a fun, educational experience. Includes a memory game and customizable fonts.

Highlights
  • Cursive and block letter tracing
  • Letter writing animations
  • Voice input and text-to-speech
  • Memory game (Pairs)
  • Multiple cursive and block fonts
  • Text export to PDF
Features
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Is your child starting school and learning to write? Handwriting Tracing Practice helps children aged 6–8 master cursive and printed letters step by step — with the exact fonts used in schools. Children learn independently, at their own pace, using voice controls designed for little hands that can't type yet. No ads. No data collected. Safe for children. The app has three sections: Letters Browse cursive and printed letters and find any letter by voice. See all four forms at once — uppercase cursive, lowercase cursive, uppercase print, lowercase print. Play the writing animation to learn the correct stroke order. Then trace it yourself — move the virtual pen along the letter's lines to practise proper technique. Each letter plays its sound too, so children connect the shape with the phonics. Pairs The classic card-matching game — now with letters! Find pairs of identical letter cards against the clock. Choose whether to match lowercase with uppercase, or same-case pairs. Pick cursive or printed cards and set the difficulty by the number of cards. Learning letters has never felt more like play. Texts (SK/CZ Cursive font) Type or speak any text — it appears instantly in cursive handwriting. Listen to it read aloud. Play the Telephone game together: one person speaks a sentence, the other listens back and compares. Export your text as a cursive PDF, print it out, or send it as a handwritten letter to grandma. Available fonts in Settings: Cursive: D'Nealian · Handwriting Without Tears · Zaner Bloser · UK Cursive · SK/CZ Cursive Print: Manuscript · SK/CZ Print Download free and start exploring the world of handwriting today!

Screenshots

Writing Wizard4 screens
Handwriting Tracing Practice4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Handwriting Tracing Practice at Free against Writing Wizard's $13.99. Handwriting Tracing Practice also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 4 months). Writing Wizard's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (3.3K vs 50). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Handwriting Tracing Practice is free to download; Writing Wizard costs $13.99 up front. Handwriting Tracing Practice sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Writing Wizard asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Writing Wizard holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Writing Wizard has 3.3K ratings behind it against 50, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Writing Wizard ships an update every 4 months, Handwriting Tracing Practice weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Writing Wizard versus Handwriting Tracing Practice: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWriting WizardHandwriting Tracing Practice
Price$13.99Free — better
Rating4.3 (3.3K ratings) — better4.0 (50 ratings)
Positive reviews89.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings3.3K — better50
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size69 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPierre AbelVladimir Zavada

Customer experience

Writing Wizard

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

Handwriting Tracing Practice

All ratings50 ratings
Positive70.0%
Neutral12.0%
Negative18.0%

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

Handwriting Tracing Practice

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Writing Wizard

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Handwriting Tracing Practice

One-time3
  • Entry functions$4.99
  • Advanced functions$6.99
  • Premium functions$8.99

Questions

Is Writing Wizard free?
Writing Wizard costs $13.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Handwriting Tracing Practice free?
Handwriting Tracing Practice is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Writing Wizard or Handwriting Tracing Practice?
Writing Wizard is rated higher. Writing Wizard averages 4.3 out of 5 from 3.3K ratings, while Handwriting Tracing Practice averages 4.0 from 50 ratings.
Do Writing Wizard or Handwriting Tracing Practice have ads?
Neither Writing Wizard nor Handwriting Tracing Practice shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Writing Wizard or Handwriting Tracing Practice?
Writing Wizard ships an update every 4 months, and Handwriting Tracing Practice weekly. Most recently, Writing Wizard was updated on October 26, 2026 and Handwriting Tracing Practice on October 24, 2026.

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