UURC Tracing Board vs Blume Method
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
UURC Tracing Board
This educational app helps students practice proper letter writing motions on screen. Educators can "stamp" letters, allowing students to trace them with their fingers, with customizable colors for engagement. It's designed for supervised use to supplement reading clinic training.
- Digital letter stamping
- Finger tracing practice
- Adjustable guidelines
- Customizable element colors
- Supervised educational tool
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The UURC Tracing Board app supplements training received from the University of Utah Reading Clinic (www.uurc.utah.edu). The app is not intended to be used by students without educator supervision. With this app, educators (or students) “stamp” letters on the screen so that students can practice proper writing motions for producing letters (with or without guidelines) using their fingers. The colors of the various elements can be changed to keep students engaged.
Blume Method
This app provides training and tools to help school districts write IEPs that are consistent, objective, and legally sound. It aims to standardize the IEP writing process for educators.
- IEP writing training
- Objective IEP development
- Defensible IEP documentation
- District-wide consistency
- IEP tools
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The Blume Method mobile app helps make your district's IEP writing consistent, objective and defensible with The Blume Method training & tools.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Blume Method at every 2 months against UURC Tracing Board's every 12 months. UURC Tracing Board's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for UURC Tracing Board against 5.0 for Blume Method. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
UURC Tracing Board ships an update every 12 months, Blume Method every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | UURC Tracing Board | Blume Method |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The University of Utah | BlumeIEP LLC |
Customer experience
UURC Tracing Board
Blume Method
In-app purchases
UURC Tracing Board
No in-app purchases
Blume Method
No in-app purchases
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