Handwriting Wizard - Learn to Write Letters, Numbers & Words 4+

This tracing app is impressive in the sense it give you customization that other tracing apps do not; however, it is just a tracing app.

I must say I received this app for free (with limitation to use capitol, lower case letters, and one group of words). I was informed the regular price would be $4.99. That price is too high for just this one app. I would never recommend or buy this app with $4.99 as its price tag.

I would recommend THUP games for that kind of price. There is more of an incentive for kids to complete the tracing or building of words. THUP apps treat learning as a game...making it fun to "work/learn."

The true test was handing this to my four year old son. He traced letters for about five minutes and quickly became bored.

All in all, I would rate this app well if my son had more interest in learning (as many kids do), and also if the suggested price was less than $2.00.

The game run fluidly

Allows for parent customization

Allows parents to track progress

Gives digital sticker rewards

for the most part I don't like the shapes they're teaching the kids for writing numbers like a one and a 9. The one can be easily mistaken for a seven. I'd rather see just the line from top to bottom making a one way most people write it.

I don't want the nine to look like a g. I prefer the traditional line with the sort of half circle and the stick going straight down. It seems like this app's fonts are following type-written fonts rather than typical written numbers.

There are so many nice things about this app and they have been covered in many of the other reviews. I want to like this app; perhaps just add one font that would be more like we typically teach children to write their numbers, and that will do it for me.

It's almost perfect. Perhaps in a more advanced version, the words module could have the entire word written on the same screen instead of just at the end in a miniature version. Additionally, some of the numbers like 1, 4, and 9 are a more advanced writing style than what an emerging writer would use. There is the option to change the location of the dots, but I wasn't able to ascertain how to change the tracing shape. Overall, for an inexpensive app, it's well designed. Maybe a few tweaks would make it perfect.