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The remaining letters and the ability to add your own words can be unlocked with a one-time purchase or a monthly subscription.\n_______\n\nACCOLADES\n\n• \"Writing Wizard is the most complete and intelligent letter tracing app we’ve seen\"\" AppoLearning.com\n• \"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\n•  \"Writing Wizard by L’Escapadou is everything a parent wants in a handwriting app, and more.\" 5/5 - kids-app-reviews.com\n• \"L’Escapadou has made handwriting fun.\" AppyMall.com  5/5\n• Listed in  \"20 best educational iPhone and iPad apps for kids of 2013\" - appsplayground.com\n•  Editor's Choice Award for Excellence in Design - Children's Technology Review\n\n_______\n\nPERFECT FOR KIDS\n\nKids want to have fun, and Writing Wizard offers a lot of fun to keep them motivated in the learning process! \n\n• They can trace using 50+ animated stickers and sound effects\n• Once tracing is complete, they can interact with them on 4 games that animate letters\n• They can trace any word - like their name - and record their voice for each word\n• They can collect stars in 5-Stars play mode\n_______\n\nPERFECT FOR PARENTS & TEACHERS\n\n• Ability to create your own word lists (and record audio for each word)\n• Detailed reports provide information on what kids have done, including the ability to replay and export the tracings to view kids' progress\n• Share word lists via iCloud Drive or other cloud providers, adhoc network, or email\n• 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.)\n• 3 most popular fonts in the US (ZB, DN & HWT) and 13 international fonts (UK, Scandinavia, Australia, Germany and France)\n• Upper and lower case letters, numbers (and word lists)\n• Letter names and letter sounds (which can be customized)\n• 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)\n• Create an unlimited number of users\n• Many settings to customize the app (sound, game time limit, black background,...)\n• In the A-Z section, special graphics available to match letters  (e.g. ant graphic for A/a)\n\n_______\n\nPrivacy Policy\n\nKNOW WHAT'S INSIDE\nAs a Moms with Apps member, we follow the \"Know what's inside\" best practices for kids’ apps\n\nL’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:\n• Does not collect any user information (we do not use data collection tools)\n• External Links : Before accessing a parent section, an operation must be solved so that young kids cannot access it.\n\nTerms of use : https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/","facts":{"developer_id":367460664,"developer_url":"http://lescapadou.com","first_released":"2017-11-15T12:23:40Z","support_url":null,"privacy_url":null,"website_url":null,"app_version":"3.5.2","release_notes":"• New sight-word lists: We've added the popular Dolch and Fry sight-word lists, the most common words children meet in early reading and writing.\n• Smoother tracing: We've improved how tracing is detected and drawn, so letters and words feel more responsive as your child writes.\n• Worksheet fix: A new worksheet layout for iPhone makes the font size control much easier to use on smaller screens.\n• Bug fixes and stability: We fixed several crashes and a number of smaller issues to make practice time more reliable.\n\nThank you for using Writing Wizard! 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