Comparison

Eggy Time vs Writing Wizard

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

Head to head
About

Eggy Time

This app uses interactive games to teach children aged 4-8 how to tell time. It covers o'clock, half-hour, and quarter-hour times, time estimation, and problem-solving for past and future events. Progress is tracked across three levels per activity, with collectible rewards.

Highlights
  • Interactive time-telling games
  • O'clock, half-hour, and quarter-hour practice
  • Time estimation and problem-solving
  • Progress tracking with 3 levels
  • Collectible rewards (Mashies)
  • Suitable for ages 4-8
Features
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Eggy Time is an enjoyable and motivational app that helps children aged 4 – 8 learn to tell time. The app develops skills and concepts to assist with telling time using 5 highly interactive games that make learning to tell time fun. Children will enjoy setting the hands and numbers on a variety of clocks. They get to read and match times, including o’clock times, half hours and quarter hours, as well as exploring time estimation. They can also do some problem solving – working out the times of events in the future and the past. Each activity has 3 levels to complete so children can see their improvement and make real progress in each skill. There are plenty of rewards too, with 15 Mashies to unlock and collect for completing each activity. Eggy Time is brought to you by the popular educational websites Reading Eggs and Mathseeds. Our team has more than 20 years’ experience in making high quality educational products. We believe learning should be fun, motivating and full of success.

About

Writing Wizard

This app helps children learn to trace letters, numbers, and words with a fun, motivating system. It offers customizable tracing practice, interactive games, and progress reports for parents and educators.

Highlights
  • Trace letters, numbers, and words
  • Customizable tracing practice
  • Interactive games and animated stickers
  • Create custom word lists with audio
  • Progress reports for tracking
  • Printable PDF worksheets
Features
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"Fantastic, customizable tracing practice with fun rewards." 5 Stars - Common Sense Media 500,000+ units sold (including 300,000+ 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 • Letter names and phonics (customizable) • 16 Fonts available (including 3 most popular in the US) • Fun tracing using 50+ animated stickers, sound effects and interactive games that animate letters at the end of tracing • 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 a very small size All the shapes, the first 7 letters, numbers, and words are free. The remaining letters and the ability to add your own words can be unlocked with a one-time purchase or a monthly subscription. _______ 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 and France) • Upper and lower case letters, numbers (and 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,...) • In the A-Z section, special graphics available to match letters (e.g. ant graphic for A/a) _______ 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) • External Links : Before accessing a parent section, an operation must be solved so that young kids cannot access it. Terms of use : https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Eggy Time4 screens
Writing Wizard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Writing Wizard at Free against Eggy Time's $1.99. Writing Wizard also leads on review sentiment (73% vs 33%) and update cadence (every 4 months vs every 38 months). Eggy Time's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.6). On ads 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 is free to download; Eggy Time costs $1.99 up front. Writing Wizard sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month. Eggy Time asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Writing Wizard holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Writing Wizard has 5.2K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Eggy Time's written reviews are positive against 73% of Writing Wizard's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Eggy Time ships an update every 38 months, Writing Wizard every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Eggy Time versus Writing Wizard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEggy TimeWriting Wizard
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.0 (2 ratings)4.4 (5.2K ratings) — better
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews73.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings25.2K — better
Update frequencyEvery 38 monthsEvery 4 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size61 MB68 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBlake eLearningPierre Abel

Customer experience

Eggy Time

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

Writing Wizard

All ratings5,152 ratings
Positive84.3%
Neutral6.1%
Negative9.6%
Written reviews207 reviews
Positive73.4%
Neutral6.8%
Negative19.8%

Bugs and requests

Eggy Time

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Writing Wizard

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes when trying to access locked features
  • Purchased content not unlocking properly
  • Inconsistent letter formation guidance

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add more letters, numbers, and shapes
  • Allow recording of custom voice instructions
  • Improve compatibility with stylus/digital pens
  • Provide more customization options

In-app purchases

None

Eggy Time

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Writing Wizard

Subscriptions1
  • Full Access - Monthly$2.491 Month
One-time3
  • All Letters and Numbers$5.99
  • Add Your Words and Word Lists$5.99
  • Lifetime Full Access$9.99

Questions

Is Eggy Time free?
Eggy Time costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Writing Wizard free?
Writing Wizard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Eggy Time or Writing Wizard?
Writing Wizard is rated higher. Eggy Time averages 4.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Writing Wizard averages 4.4 from 5.2K ratings.
Do Eggy Time or Writing Wizard have ads?
Neither Eggy Time nor Writing Wizard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Eggy Time or Writing Wizard?
Eggy Time ships an update every 38 months, and Writing Wizard every 4 months. Most recently, Eggy Time was updated on October 5, 2026 and Writing Wizard on October 16, 2026.

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