Writing Wizard vs Bitsboard Flashcards PRO
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Customizable tracing practice
- Interactive games and rewards
- Letter names and phonics
- Create custom word lists
- Progress reports
- Printable worksheets
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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. *
Bitsboard Flashcards PRO
This interactive learning app offers over 35 educational games and activities for students and teachers. Create custom lessons, track progress, and master subjects like languages and spelling through engaging mini-games. It supports multiple users and syncs content across devices.
- 35+ educational games and study modes
- Create custom lessons with images and audio
- Track individual user progress
- Supports multiple users and accounts
- Sync content across devices
- Private classroom features
- Accessibility options including switch control
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A top 5 education game in the U.S. 2021 Academic Choice Awards Winner Spark excitement for learning with Bitsboard – an interactive learning app trusted by over 5 million parents, teachers and students worldwide. Create your own learning experience with 35+ educational activities, join a private classroom or dive into thousands of hand-curated flashcard decks – whatever you want to learn, Bitsboard is here to make it fun and make it stick! What you can do with the Bitsboard app: Teachers • Create lessons in minutes with beautiful images and clear audio • Adapt lessons to an individual user’s learning speed • Encourage higher level thinking with fun single/multiplayer mini-games • Keep track of individual progress • Automatically back up and sync data across devices Students • Turn boring assignments into addictive mini-games • Master languages, vocab, reading, spelling and more • Compete in multiplayer games with classmates • Study at your own pace or with others OVER 35+ POWERFUL MINI GAMES / STUDY MODES IN 1 APP INCLUDING • Flashcards • Photo Touch • Memory Cards (1-4 players) • Pop Quiz • Match Up • Word Builder • Sentence Builder • Spelling Bee • BINGO (1-4 players) • Letter Tracing • Sequencing • Related Items • Word Search • Crosswords • Letter Match • Odd One Out • What Comes Next? • Side by Side • Word Chunks • Communicator • Reader • Questions Game • Photo Hunt (1-4 players) • Racing Rivals (2 players) • Battle Time (2 players) • Say It Game TRACKS YOUR PROGRESS • Bitsboard keeps track of every answer for every game, user, and board SUPPORTS MULTIPLE USERS • Bitsboard makes it easy to add multiple users and switch between user accounts • You can now instantly review the detailed progress for each user • Automatically saves game settings at the user level ACCESSIBILITY OPTIONS • Bitsboard fully supports switch control to make all of the games accessible for users with disabilities ORGANIZE YOUR BOARDS • You can now group your boards into classes. • Each board can fit into as many classes as you like. • Organize your boards by class, user, subject, and more. ACCELERATE YOUR LEARNING • Bitsboard's learning algorithm automatically personalizes each game based on the players skills. • Bitsboard knows your problem words and when you are ready to move on to your next challenge. SHARE AND SYNC CONTENT ACROSS DEVICES • With Bitsboard, you can share and sync your custom lessons across devices with just one click • With user based cloud sync you can automatically backup all of your students, boards, and user stats and sync everything across devices BITSBOARD CLASSES • Share and automatically sync all of your content with other users / students on other devices • Bitsboard classes are private - only you and the students you approve see your content CLOUD SYNC • With cloud sync all of your boards, students, classes, and settings are automatically backed up and sync across all of your devices QR LOGIN CARDS • To protect student’s privacy you can generate student accounts without any email or password. Once created, you can share the login details of each student account via a simple QR login card. Just email the QR code to your student and they will be able to download the free Bitsboard app and log into their Bitsboard account. Have questions? We are here to help. Email us at support@happymooseapps.com Privacy Policy: http://bitsboard.com/privacy-policy Subscription Terms: http://bitsboard.com/subscription-terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Writing Wizard at $13.99 against Bitsboard Flashcards PRO's $42.99. Writing Wizard also leads on review sentiment (90% vs 65%) and ratings volume (3.3K vs 400). Bitsboard Flashcards PRO's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 4 months). On rating, 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
Writing Wizard costs $13.99 and Bitsboard Flashcards PRO $42.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Writing Wizard against 4.2 for Bitsboard Flashcards PRO. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Writing Wizard has 3.3K ratings behind it against 400, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 90% of Writing Wizard's written reviews are positive against 65% of Bitsboard Flashcards PRO's.
Writing Wizard ships an update every 4 months, Bitsboard Flashcards PRO every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 15, 2026.
| Parameter | Writing Wizard | Bitsboard Flashcards PRO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $13.99 — better | $42.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (3.3K ratings) — better | 4.2 (400 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 89.7% of reviews — better | 65.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3.3K — better | 400 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 69 MB | 136 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pierre Abel | Happy Moose Apps |
Customer experience
Writing Wizard
Bitsboard Flashcards PRO
User reviews
Writing Wizard
From 3.3K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Customizable word lists and recording
- 🎨 Engaging graphics and animations
- 🏫 Great for teaching handwriting and spelling
- 🔒 No ads or in-app purchases
- 🎓 Helpful for children with special needs
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional crashes or freezing
- 🔤 Limited font options, especially for UK users
- 🔒 Difficulty accessing parental controls
- 🖋️ Apple Pencil not supported
- 🔄 Difficulty clearing tracing history
Bitsboard Flashcards PRO
From 400 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Versatile and customizable
- 🚀 Excellent for speech therapy and language learning
- 💡 Unique and engaging learning games
- 👍 Helpful for students with special needs
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and glitches
- 🐛 Syncing and access issues with user boards and catalog
- 🐛 Slow performance and unresponsiveness
- 🔒 Lack of customer support and communication
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
Bitsboard Flashcards PRO
Reported bugs
4 issues- Inability to access user statistics and data
- Disappearing user boards and content
- Incompatibility issues with newer iOS versions
- Repeated crashes during use
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to back up and restore user boards
- More customization options for games and activities
- Improved user interface and navigation
- Offline access to content
In-app purchases
Writing Wizard
No in-app purchases
Bitsboard Flashcards PRO
No in-app purchases
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