CaliKids vs Loopy Letters

CaliKids is one app for learning to read, write and count, from age 1 to 6th grade. When you start, you choose Preschool or Elementary school and the level, and each child sees only their own level: a path of exercises in order, each one getting ready for the next, with hundreds of different games and new content every month. 11 LEVELS • Preschool: Age 1 (to play together, from 18 months), Age 2, Preschool (age 3), Pre-K (age 4) and Kindergarten. • Elementary school: 1st to 6th grade, each grade with its own exercises. PRESCHOOL · READING, WRITING AND NUMBERS For the youngest: looking, tapping, matching, colors and shapes. Then vowels and letters with their sounds, rhymes, syllables and first words; first strokes and mazes to loosen up the hand, every letter with its stroke order animated; and counting, comparing, writing numbers and first additions and subtractions with pictures. ELEMENTARY · ENGLISH, WRITING AND MATHS • English: reading comprehension with texts for each grade (in the upper grades, at several difficulty levels), vocabulary and grammar. • Writing: copying, filling in, and word and sentence dictation, by hand, plus handwriting practice (capitals, joins and neat sentences); the app reads what your child has written. • Maths: in arithmetic, answers are typed on the app's own keypad instead of picked from a list. Column arithmetic with a scratch sheet alongside, times tables, word problems with guided help in 4 steps (what we know, what we're asked, which operation, work it out), fractions, decimals, percentages and geometry. • The World Around Us: grades 1 to 6. Animals and plants, the body, materials, energy, water, weather, maps, history, Europe and the universe, with short texts to think about. • French: at every level, with audio. MADE FOR KIDS • A voice reads the instructions aloud, with a button to hear them again. • Each exercise says in one line what it's for. • Hints and an eraser that removes just one part: mistakes are no big deal. • Every exercise picks up where it was left, even after closing the app. • Stickers to collect. • Print or cursive school handwriting, and 11 notebook rulings. • Works with Apple Pencil. • Works with VoiceOver and the system text size. FOR THE FAMILY • Admin mode for parents, protected by your account (Apple, Google or email) and a PIN. • Several children on the same device, each with their own profile, level and progress. • Stats for each child: what they do well, what they find hard and their history. • You decide what each child sees, their level path and how many times they can use the help in word problems. • "Your feedback": send suggestions or propose new exercises, and read the reply in the app. • No ads. Your children's data stays on the device and, if you sign in with Google or Apple, in your own Google Drive or iCloud so you can restore it on another device; never on our servers. You can delete it from either place or both. • In 6 languages: English, Spanish, Italian, French, German and Portuguese. It opens in the device's language. WHAT'S FREE AND WHAT'S PAID Every exercise of every level — from age 1 to year 6 of primary school — can be tried for free: 8 games of each exercise on each device. To keep going, CaliKids Premium offers packs of 1, 2 or 3 levels, which you choose, and the Full pack with every level and every word topic; the more levels, the less each one costs. They are monthly or yearly subscriptions that renew automatically unless you cancel them, and you manage them from your account settings. Each subscription can be used on two devices at the same time. Word topics can also be bought on their own from their game. Every purchase goes behind a parental gate first, and anyone who already had the app keeps what they had. Terms of use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://calikids.olmotame.com/privacidad

Watch a pen movement, trace the model, then try writing independently. Loopy Letters brings US and UK handwriting practice together on iPhone and iPad, and includes French and Romanian handwriting too. By default the app follows the device language. Choose the handwriting your child learns in onboarding or Settings: • US: Traditional, Slanted and Vertical, each with print and cursive, on primary paper with a dashed midline. • UK: Print, Selected joins and Joined, with alternative f, q and t forms, British-English words and speech, and four-line guides. These models follow handwriting conventions used in England; school schemes vary. • French: the joined cursive taught in French schools, on Seyès ruling, with French words and speech. In this collection the app is in French and is called Plumélio. Practice lowercase and capital letters, numbers, letter pairs, words, warm-up shapes, your child’s name and your own text. The animation demonstrates each model’s movements and joining rules. Stars compare the attempt with that model; they are a guide, not a school grade. Follow your child’s teacher and practice on paper too. Switch handwriting whenever you need to. The app remembers your style in each one, and each keeps its own stars, notebook and stickers. The notebook saves the best writing attempts. Adjust the paper size, left-handed layout, Pencil-only input, sounds, spoken guidance and stickers. Free in every handwriting: warm-ups, numbers, selected lowercase letters, capitals A and M, the first row of letter pairs or syllables and a sample word (“mom”, “mum” or “ami”). One optional purchase, Everything, unlocks all remaining exercises in all three, the child’s name and custom text. No subscription; Family Sharing supported. Practice works offline. No accounts, ads or analytics. The name, texts and writing stay on the device and may be included in device backups. External links and purchases are behind a parental gate. Requires iOS or iPadOS 17 or later. Write with a finger, or Apple Pencil on a compatible iPad. Published by druidori s.r.o.; not affiliated with any handwriting program publisher.