Comparison

Writing Wizard vs Exponent Calculator

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

Exponent Calculator

Perform calculations involving exponents, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. This app is designed for offline use, offering a fast, intuitive, and clutter-free experience for all your exponentiation needs.

Highlights
  • Offline functionality
  • Add exponents
  • Subtract exponents
  • Multiply exponents
  • Divide exponents
  • Intuitive interface
Features
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The iOS Exponent Calculator App was created in response to visitor requests from our popular online Exponent Calculator. Visitors to our site wanted a standalone Exponent Calculator that can be used in remote areas where there may not be a strong Internet signal. This app does not require an Internet connection, so you can use it anytime and anywhere. The goal was to make the app intuitive, clutter-free, fast to operate, and easy to use. This app can add, subtract, multiply, and divide numbers with exponents. In other words, the Exponent Calculator App is the only exponent app you will ever need! We hope that the Exponent Calculator App will become one of your favorite math apps.

Screenshots

Writing Wizard4 screens
Exponent Calculator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Writing Wizard at 90% against Exponent Calculator's 0%. Writing Wizard also leads on rating (4.3 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (3.3K vs 1). Exponent Calculator's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $13.99). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

Writing Wizard costs $13.99 and Exponent Calculator $0.99 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 1.0. 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. Written reviews point the same way: 90% of Writing Wizard's written reviews are positive against 0% of Exponent Calculator's.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Writing Wizard versus Exponent Calculator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWriting WizardExponent Calculator
Price$13.99$0.99 — better
Rating4.3 (3.3K ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews89.7% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3.3K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.614.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size69 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPierre AbelH Valeur

Customer experience

Writing Wizard

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

Exponent Calculator

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

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

Exponent Calculator

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Writing Wizard

No in-app purchases

None

Exponent Calculator

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Writing Wizard free?
Writing Wizard costs $13.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Exponent Calculator free?
Exponent Calculator costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Writing Wizard or Exponent Calculator?
Writing Wizard is rated higher. Writing Wizard averages 4.3 out of 5 from 3.3K ratings, while Exponent Calculator averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Writing Wizard or Exponent Calculator have ads?
Neither Writing Wizard nor Exponent Calculator shows ads.

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