Cursive Writing Wizard vs LetraKid PRO
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cursive Writing Wizard
This app teaches children cursive handwriting through interactive tracing, games, and customizable word lists. It supports various fonts, phonics, and progress tracking, with features for left-handed users and accessibility.
- Cursive letter and word tracing
- Customizable word lists with audio recording
- Interactive games and animated stickers
- Progress tracking and replayable tracings
- Multiple font options (US, UK, French, Swiss)
- Left-handed mode
- Printable worksheets
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• Editor's Choice Award (96/100) - Children's Technology Review • "Simply an amazing app for kids to learn cursive writing." - 5/5 - Top Pick - smartAppsForKids.com 142,000 units sold (including 62,000 to schools)! • Teach and reinforce the accurate tracing of cursive letters, as well as the proper way to join letters within words, utilizing our proprietary technology • 3 most popular US fonts (ZB, DN & HWT) + UK , French and Swiss fonts • Customise by adding your word lists (and record audio for each word) • Enjoy engaging tracing with 50+ animated stickers, sound effects, and interactive games that bring letters to life at the end of each tracing • Uppercase & lowercase letters, numbers, and words • Fully customizable to suit every child’s needs (letter size, difficulty,...) • Phonics and letter names for each letter • Monitor progress through reports that allow the replay of the child's tracing • Introduce toddlers to shapes tracing activities, fostering early developmental skills • Left-Handed Mode • Create printable Worksheets to assist your child with handwriting practice on paper • Apple Pencil support • Accessibility settings for children with visual impairments _______ PERFECT FOR KIDS Kids want to have fun, and Cursive 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 5 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 US fonts (ZB, DN & HWT) + UK and U French fonts • Upper and lower case letters, numbers + word lists • Letter names and letter sounds (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,...) • Left-Handed Mode • In the A-Z section, special graphics available to match letters (e.g. ant graphic for A/a) • Accessibility settings for children with visual impairments _______ "Cursive Writing Wizard is just as wonderful and well-designed as the original Writing Wizard" 5/5 - AppyMall.com _______ 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.
LetraKid PRO
This educational game helps children aged 4-10 learn cursive handwriting through interactive tracing exercises. It focuses on letter formation, pronunciation, and developing fine motor skills with adjustable difficulty levels and fun rewards.
- Cursive letter and number tracing
- Adjustable difficulty levels
- Pronunciation and letter formation guidance
- Fine motor skill development
- 16 language support
- Sticker rewards
- Offline play
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"LetraKid PRO - Cursive Writing" is an educational learning game for kids 4-10 years old that can help them to learn to write cursive letters, while having fun when doing so! Alphabet, ABCs letters, 0-9 numbers, shapes and various funny tracing exercises are included in this educational game. WHAT KIDS CAN LEARN FROM THIS GAME • Recognize letter shapes and perfect alphabet pronunciation • The correct letter formation as learned in school: start, checkpoints, strokes direction, order etc. Difficulty Levels 1 and 2 with assisted writing are designed to focus on the letter formation. • Develop fine motor skills for handwriting activity. Difficulty Levels 3 to 5 with freehand writing activities will focus on this improvement to help maximize confidence and form when writing. • Playing with a stylus pen will also help to improve standard pencil grasp. Any stylus compatible with the device will work. MAIN FEATURES • 16 languages with full support for interface, human native voices for letter/numbers pronunciation and full official alphabets. • Makes use of the 9 most used fonts in classes all over the world for learning cursive handwriting • 5 difficulty levels with AUTO and LOCK settings, ranging from assisted writing for beginners, up to real freehand writing with minimal support and strict evaluation. • 4 set of glyphs: ABC (full alphabet for uppercase letters), abc (full alphabet for lowercase letters), 123 (numbers from 0 to 9) and a special set of shapes for funny exercises. • 5 progression levels, color coded for each glyph that allows parents and teachers an instant evaluation of the progression and most exercised letters at the alphabet level. • 16 funny sticker rewards that will unlock after progression milestones are reached. Writing practice made fun. • 3 profile slots with 50 funny avatars and name customization that will save independently the settings and the progression. • Full support for both Landscape and Portrait orientations. GREAT IN THE CLASSROOM! With a unique and real-time feedback feature as well as complex tracing evaluation algorithms, LetraKid Cursive is one of a kind tracing app. This is a new approach, focused on creating a fun game by utilizing handwriting mechanics itself. This avoids using distracting random rewards or secondary game mechanics that can break and confuse the learning process, optimizing learning progress and educational appeal to children. The real time feedback will give both audio and graphic clues about the quality of the tracing and will adjust with difficulty level. Our ABC and 123 tracing evaluation algorithms allow for an accurate and fun reward, using a 5 star rating for each exercise. This engages and motivates the kids to progress and to strive for more. DESIGNED for KIDS • Works OFFLINE! No Internet connection required. • No irritating pop-ups. • No collection of personal data • Game settings are behind a parental gate. This can be enabled, and ensures a child to work with a certain font, formation rule, difficulty level and various other features for total specification to their needs. • This game can be useful for kids with autism, ADHD, dyslexia or dysgraphia conditions. This is an educational app for kids learning handwriting with cursive alphabet letters in kindergarten, pre-school, home-school, primary school or using as Montessori material.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Cursive Writing Wizard at 89% against LetraKid PRO's 0%. Cursive Writing Wizard also leads on ratings volume (788 vs 4) and update cadence (every 5 months vs every 12 months). LetraKid PRO's advantage is price ($4.99 vs $12.99) and rating (4.8 vs 4.4). 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
Cursive Writing Wizard costs $12.99 and LetraKid PRO $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
LetraKid PRO holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cursive Writing Wizard has 788 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 89% of Cursive Writing Wizard's written reviews are positive against 0% of LetraKid PRO's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Cursive Writing Wizard ships an update every 5 months, LetraKid PRO every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cursive Writing Wizard | LetraKid PRO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $12.99 | $4.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (788 ratings) | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.8% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 788 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 92 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pierre Abel | ParKel Soft SRL |
Customer experience
Cursive Writing Wizard
LetraKid PRO
Bugs and requests
Cursive Writing Wizard
Reported bugs
3 issues- Tracing not recognized properly at times
- App crashes or freezes unexpectedly
- Certain words not working as expected
Requested features
4 requests- Add uppercase cursive letters
- Implement a coin/reward system for practicing
- Include International Phonetic Alphabet support
- Expand content and add more variety
LetraKid PRO
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Cursive Writing Wizard
No in-app purchases
LetraKid PRO
No in-app purchases
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