LetterSchool - Block Letters App Reviews

Helpful for dyslexic and Fine Motor. Looking for handwriting app for my dyslexic 9yo with weak fine motor skills, I read the reviews for Letterschool. Since the reviews were so good, I tried it. I'm pretty impressed. This teaches correct way to form letters and won't allow bad habits to form or confusion of left or right/ top or bottom starting points. Son has to push pretty hard for some to hold the "train on the track" which strengthens the muscles in his hand for writing. Each letter has unique animation which does hold their attention. It was so fun that my older kids wanted to try it. I also loved the Handwriting Without Tears option.

Wonderful and engaging. Love how the app provides support as needed, especially the fading of arrows as the child writes. It has been very helpful for my special needs preschoolers in helping them focus, slow down, and creating muscle memory. I also like the progression from demo with starting points to independent with disappearing line. The last one can be challenging, but the app provides support prompts. I agree with the reviewer who suggested changing the g sound to a hard g sound, but the app deserves 5 stars and more.

It kicked me out. Right as I almost finished 1 in the golden level it kicked me out and made me start all over again UGH!

Great app to teach letter formation. I use this app every day with my special education students who need help learning letter formation using the Handwriting Without Tears formation guidelines. This app reinforces a developmentally appropriate approach to learn letter formation. It provides engaging visual cues to enhance independent formation. The kids I work with along with my grandchildren really enjoy this app. Thank you Letter School!

My 3-year-old's favorite app. This app is great! I wasn't convinced it would be one of my son'a favorite apps and I thought I'd have to really insist he play with it but I didn't! He has gone through all the upper an lower case letters as well as the numbers and he still goes back to re-write the letters over and over. Interestingly, he's left handed but plays the app with his right. I'm not sure if he found he had better results with his right compared to his left. No matter what, he LOVES this app and I'd love the developers to make more. Maybe spelling some begging sight words with the same 3 rehearsal process. On another note - I'm a school psychologist and I've recommended this app to many parents and fellow educators because the rehearsal process is excellent.

Do my kids love this app!. My 4 and 8 year-old played this game for 45 minutes today and there were peals of laughter every 30 seconds from them. They thought all the animations were hysterical. I love the choice of fonts and the fact that it allows kids to write the letters themselves after they've traced. I also love how it keeps track of the letters they have done. All in all, a fantastic app for this Homeschool family!

Reading Specialist Questions the Sounds. As a game for writing practice, the app seems good, clever, and visually appealing. However, as a reading specialist, I question how the app gets such high reviews when it is presenting phonetically confusing information for young children. Any good introductory phonetic information for young children needs to be consistent and as clear as possible. The designers have presented inconsistent phonetic information, and have chosen questionable examples for words beginning with alphabet sounds. Three of the 5 vowels are fine- "a" (axe or ant) and "e" (egg or elephant) and "o" (octopus and ostrich.) All six of these are short sounds of the vowels. For i, they use ice cream or igloo; both the long and short sounds, respectively. And for "u" they include two examples of the long sound of "u" with ukulele aned unicorn. Garage is used for "g" in one example, but the soft "g" is also included with giraffe. X is just plain wrong, as x does not say zzzz and in xylophone. Reading specialists present consistent information to beginning readers: the short, more predictable sound comes first. The long sounds are treated as exceptions in alphabet charts. The soft "g" should be left out until later as it is less confusing. X has never said ZZZZZ. It may seem harmless to present this information carelessly, but I believe kids deserve the best start possible. This app needs to clean up the sounds section.

This is a good app if they change few things. After reading other reviews I purchased this app as it seems to be a fun app for children who are exploring writing. My child is 4 years old and knows how to write his name and simple words. But this app is very restrictive in how to write each letter. Not very child friendly who are learning how to write. This app would be more appropriate for older children 5 and up. But then what’s the point of this app as these children know how to write. If this app is targeted towards younger children 5 and under they need make it easier and not restrict to a certain way how to write a letter! There are more ways in writing letter than just ONE!

Fun for the little ones!. My 4 year old loves this app and is pretty good at it. My 2 year old can even play it! I really like that there are three stages to learning each letter. One to show you how, one to let you practice, and one to do it on your own. Even in the last step the line shows up if you need it. There are also different graphics once you've gone through the alphabet the first time. The ONLY thing I think could be improved on would be for them to hear the letter again after the last step.

Wow. I love this game because it has new styles like the uk style and Australian style!!

Teaches proper letter formation in an engaging format. 4 and 3/4 stars. Great app teaching proper letter formation. This is right on with respect to engaging and holding the child's attention, teaching the correct way to form letters, and provide reinforcement and feedback. Love that Handwriting Without Tears Letters are an option. My only complaint is that when you click a letter to start and it gives you that letter in the initial position of a word, the word choices could have been better; more familiar and simple for children. For example, for c, t, f, s, I would prefer words that don't use the consonant in blends as they chose clown, tractor, flute, spider. Also don't really like the choice for m (monster), q (Quentin), and x (xylophone, I would prefer x-ray or something that better represents the x-sound). But it's not an app for phonics really, that's just my nit picking.

Suggestions for Future Updates. I love this app! It makes learning to write fun. My kindergarten students enjoy it and I feel it reinforces correct letter formation. I have some suggestions for future updates. First of all, I would like to see lines for the lowercase letters. The kids need to learn letter placement and the app is not teaching this. In addition, I would prefer the letter g to have a beginning sound word like game instead of giraffe. I would also like to be able to make each child their own account in the game to track their performance.

Excellent. Finally, someone got it right! I have tried dozens of handwriting apps, with multiple students, and this is by far the best. The letters are correctly formed, with the proper sequence of movement (for the most part). At some point, I hope the developers put in a way to make the letters smaller, as kids get more proficient. Also, my students have requested a greater variety of animations and rewards, as they find some of them annoying and too slow. But, hey, this is a Ferrari, compared to some of the Yugo's out there!

Crashes every time now. My kiddo loves this app but now it crashes every time he opens it on his iPad. His device is updated and it still works on my phone. Super hopeful that there’s a simple fix.

Great App. just wish it repeated..... This is the first alphabet game we've found that keeps my son's attention. As a teacher, I find value in the fact that there is great repetition of the child seeing and practicing the letters. The flaw that I see though is that they do not hear the letter name enough. If the letter name was repeated more often, perhaps after each time it is drawn, it would be more effective. Children need to do, and see, and hear in order to learn the most. I think this would be an easy enough fix for this app designer to work on and include in a future update. PLEASE repeat the letter names! My son can trace and then draw the letters, but he cannot tell me what the letter is. He needs to hear it more.

Why are the lines diagonal!?. I was using an older version of this app on my friends iPad, which is why I decided to purchase one for myself. I am surprised that all the block letters start with diagonal lines. That is so confusing and for it being the same app, I feel like I wasted my money. Not happy.

Very good but. I got this for my son and he loves it alot :) But there’s some things i wanna talk about: can you add different languages please? My son loves other languages. Also can you add shapes and cursive letters to it please? Thats all overall the game is very good thats why i gave it 4 stars. :D

Great app. This has been an amazing app where my son enjoys writing all letters and numbers. He is autistic and this has helped him a lot. The levels and guidance seem very appropriate. There are few requests. 1. It would be good to add more number support like 2 digits, to understand the concept of 2 digits. 2. For giving sensory input adding vibrations as they trace the letters or numbers would really help. 3. Would be good to have some words added to tracing or Would be nice to have customizable words or numbers 4. It would be nice to adjust the size of letters and numbers. It is good to have them large in the beginning, but once that is practiced, would be nice to work on smaller font size. 5. Tracing in shapes would be good as well.

Can’t get app to work. The app won’t face the correct way when the iPad is laying in landscape. So frustrating!

Great multi-sensory handwriting app!. As a kindergarten teacher, it is important that I choose apps for my students that are of high-quality. And so is the case with the LetterSchool app. A multi-sensory, interactive, and engaging app that is educational and entertaining - all at the same time. The only thing is doesn't have is a mess :) There are three fonts the teacher can choose from: Zaner Bloser, D'Nealian, and HWT (Handwriting Without Tears). Proper letter formation is critical at this age. This app gives the child enough room to trace and/or write the letter but not too much. Rather than just stopping the user if/when the user makes a mistake, the app also re-directs the user, informing he/she where the proper place is to start. My students were so excited to use this app - there is nothing else like it in the App Store. Definitely worth the money! If you are not sure, try the LetterSchool Lite version - that's what it's for!

Terrific with one improvement suggestion. My daughter loves this app and it has helped her tremendously. The reason why I do not give it five stars; The one major area of frustration is that she is left-handed (as am I). For instance, the letter 'O' forces the user to make the circle in a counter-clockwise motion. As a left-handed adult, my inclination to make the letter 'O' (or 'Q,' etc) is to draw the circle in a clockwise motion. Having the choice to make alterations from left to right-handed such as this would be far less frustrating for parent and child. If the developer can make this change in the settings, it will get five BIG stars from me.

Great app - letter H glitch. This app is really great for teaching to write letters independently and I would give it 5 stars but there is a glitch with the letter H where sometimes it freezes and you have to do each part twice and my son gets really frustrated. I saw a comment from two years ago that reported it and it’s a little disappointing it still hasn’t been fixed. I would still recommend!!

Fantastic. I think that this app is wonderful. I love the dnealian, zan bloser, etc. It would be nice though to have between the part where the student is drag tracing and the part where they trace while not seeing the letter to have a part where the letter is there faintly and they can trace. So have 4 ways and not 3. That way they have that before the letter goes completely unseen for tracing. Also if there could be more different animations like horses, people, etc. rather than just the grass, lights, etc. on the letters and different congratulations when a student gets the letters correct. Put numbers up to 30 or have an option as to how many numbers we want to use for our students. Other than that this is a very awesome and fun sight!!!

Great app small glitch. Love this app for my preschooler. I love that I can pick the font to learn so it matches up with what she’s learning in school. All the different animations keep my daughter engaged and motivated. My only complaint is that the letter H gets frozen after the first animation. My daughter is so sad she can’t get all the stars.

Best printing app!. As a K teacher, this is my go-to app for supported latter formation practice. Kids love it. I like the way the support is slowly withdrawn as the kids practice.

Love this app. I'm a school-based OT. It both cracks me up and horrifies me to see the complaint that this app is restrictive in how it makes children write the letters. THAT IS THE POINT!! I guess it has been so long since children were actually taught that there is a way you are supposed to form letters and not just draw them however you can figure out yourself, that people have forgotten there is any such thing. Anyway, this app is so inherently motivating to many children, that it can get them to really work hard at learning to control their movements and learn to form letters when games, promised rewards, modeling by peers, cheering by adults etc failed. It has some magical draw that makes children keep wanting to work on it. And I love that you can set it to Handwriting Without Tears style letters. I agree about the Left-handers, though. There should be a way you can switch it so that you can form the horizontal lines right-to-left. And I wish it didn't keep it from working properly if you stabilize the side of your hand down on the screen while writing, but that is a complaint I have with every tablet-based visual-motor app.

more than pleased!. We started out with the "lite" version of Letter School. I forgot to tell the kids I had even put it on there when my son found it. I kept hearing this noise and him laughing and squawking/screaming delight (he's on the autism spectrum however he IS verbal). He told me he wanted more of the app! NOW! I said show me and he went to it and started the letter P and and then his sister had to have a go of it. I took the iPad and purchased it right away. He could not put it down and when I made him turn if off and go to bed he was 'bummed out' and the first thing he wanted the next morning was "Letter School". He completed it in a matter of days as did his sister. I loved it as much as they did - I mean they were actually learning to trace the letters "correctly" in STEPS and with practice and they were not upset when they did not get it right (which is hard for my son). They would laugh at their own letters and numbers when they were accepted and shown on a 'chalkboard' saying look how silly it is mommy! The various cars and insects that zoom or buzz through and more made them want to go on and on and on in order to see what would happen next! This is one of the BEST alphabet and number writing apps out there in the market (and we have a LOT)! Thank you for making such an ingenious app!

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The BEST app for 3-5 Year Olds!. My daughter LOVES this app. She began at 3 years old and had fun with it. Parts are a bit frustrating, like the third phase of each letter that requires tracing an invisible letter- BUT, the app compensates- after a few attempts it gives hints to facilitate the process. Now that she's 4, she knows each letter by heart, caps and small, and can sound out words. If someone asks how she learned to write or how she knows the sounds of each letter, she'll tell you; "Letter School!" Thanks Boreaal! I hope you come up with other great apps--we'll be your first customers!

This app is dumb. Why are u asking me questions like what numbers is visible by 3 and when I select the answer it doesn’t work ? I want my money back

BEST KID GAME IN THE WORLD. ITS THE BEST

4 year old and 7 year old alike love this app!. I really bought the app for my 4 year old who is just starting to recognize letters and show interest in letter formation. He is also a lefty, I think, so I figured this app might help since holding a crayon or pencil is sort of awkward for a beginner anyway. Well he loves the app and as soon as my 7 yar old dtr tried it she loved it too. She is a great reader and very bright but her handwriting is pretty bad and her teacher complains that her letter formation is incorrect. They literally both played with it for an entire 45 min car ride yesterday ( on seperate devices). Hopefully the letter formation on the app is cosnistent with how they want them to do it at school-which I actually have not verified. But regardless I like feeling like they are enjoying an electronic activity that doesnt shoot anything or make silly body noises. My only suggestion for improvements is that it would be fun i the item that retraces the letter could start with that letter. For instance, have the train come to trave over the letter "t" as reinforcement of the sound. Just a thought.

Great in OT sessions. IMO, this is the best letter writing app that I have worked with so far. I've tried many many many trial apps. I love that you can choose which handwriting style to use. The only thing I think could be improved is to give the adult the choice to bypass some of the animations and noises. As a therapist, practicing the letter more than once during the same session gets to be time consuming and sometimes irritating to the child to have to see animations and hear the sounds again. It would also be nice to be able to save more than 3 profiles, especially for school based therapist who work on beginning handwriting skills with a large percentage of their caseload.

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Leftie learning left to right. When my four year old took interest in writing she had difficulty replicating letters, I believe, due to her being left hand dominant. She consistently wrote the letters of her name backwards and sometimes flipped around. This app has changed all of that. She feels quite proud of herself when she completes a letter or number. It keeps her attention for a long time, motivates her to write/read more, and it's just fun all around. My two year old has taken to it as well and is not only recognizing words but increasing his writing skills. Amazing, I say!

A handwriting app my daughter with autism loves…finally!. My 10 yr old daughter with severe autism who is non verbal loves word and puzzle apps but until now, we couldn't find a handwriting app that interested her, one that she wanted to do, would pull up on her own without us prompting her. Her therapists and I are very excited that she loves this app so much! She opens it up on her own and is so engaged with it. I love how it progressively gets harder. We are trying to get her to slow down when trying to write and this makes her do so. Thanks for an engaging, fun way to learn to write letters and numbers!!!

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Not bad. This is good but slight glitches to fix The HWT H and the fact that the golden level glitch out on me as I was recording

My 2 Year Old’s Opinion - Obsessive Love. So I have a 2 year old who knows his letters (upper and lower case) and most of the phonics associated with it. Here’s the rub: I don’t think letter ID and sounds at 2 is important at all (I teach kindergarten so I have a skewed word-view). We worry WAY too much about literacy in this culture and start kids way too early. So whereas most parents would be pleased at how “smart” their kid is, I see it more as a scatter skill that brings him great joy. But hey… who am I to argue with a 2 year old?

Fantastic app..if I could change one thing.... This app is wonderful! My 3 year old boy loves learning and playing with this app! The visual reinforcement and prompting that it provides is well thought out and engaging. If I had one modification to make, it would be to have the 'curved letters' (such as c, d, g, etc...) be just a little more forgiving on accuracy. Even I sometimes have to trace them multiple times in order to accomplish the task. I agree that accuracy is important, however there could be just a little more wiggle room there! We don't want the kids getting so frustrated that they stop playing. Otherwise, love the app!

Superb educational app!. This is the only app I have paid for to date; I am in the education field and focus on free apps & lite versions, particularly educational ones. My 4 y/o kept coming back to this one even though I limit iPad use; this is an attention keeper in so many good ways! I have seen tremendous fine motor aptitude increase with practice. The star points, very cute graphics/sounds and variations in capital and lowercase letters, numbers and difficulties make this very adaptable to skill levels. Receives an A+!

Very good, one little problem. This is a great app. Very well designed and fun. My preschooler likes playing and learning with it. My only complaint is that the tolerance for tracing the letters is a bit too tight for my little guy. He traces a letter most of the way but then his finger inevitably wanders off the line just a tiny bit (but he's still basically on target) and the app makes him start over. This frustrates him and he ends up asking me to do it for him. Is there a way to set how "strict" the tracing is? Otherwise, excellent app, highly recommend.

Great game - but have suggestions.... My 3 year old daughter enjoys this game, but I find that she accidentally restarts the stages by accident with her arm when she holds the iPad independently. I suggest moving the level/stage buttons to the top. Additionally, I'd like some delay on the settings gear button so that she doesn't detour in there as often. I doubt these are unique concerns. The game, aside from those two requests, is amazing. I also have the HWT app and honestly prefer this one for her current level of development. I hope you can make these small edits soon to make this game even more fun for her as she progresses!

Great letter learning app. I'm really impressed with this app. Each letter is presented with three phases. Phase 1 the app does most of the writing of the letter. Phase 2 has your child "pulling" various lines/curves of the letter to complete it. Phase 3 briefly shows an outline of the letter & your child tries to write the letter initially with no help, though outlines & arrows appear if they get stuck. The letters are made of several different textures including bubbles, grass, train tracks & much more (around a dozen total). Their animations are very slick. The textures smoothly roll out but quickly fly back & bounce before fully retracting. The sound is also well done. Each letter has a voice intro with the letter, the sound it makes & a word that starts with the letter. After completing a letter you'll see a wild fireworks celebration. The sound was so well done my daughter always says "Daddy let's dance!" during the big finale. Overall an outstanding app, especially since it's only a few dollars. Highly recommended.

Letters misformed. The letters are slanted very strangely. It’s odd because we also had the other version of this same app, and it didn’t have that problem. Waste of $10 because I don’t want my son to learn the wrong way. Ugh!!!

Kinder Teacher Raves. I’m a kindergarten teacher, and was sold the first time I watched the trailer for this app. It is such a wonderful tool for those needing a little extra help with their letters. I love that it works on where to start (at the top!) when writing each letter. My only reason for not giving 5 stars is because I don’t like that the sound for the letter Ii is the long sound instead of short, the Xx sound is more of a Zz sound in xylophone, a couple letters have the “uh” sound attached like Dd (Duh) and Bb (Buh), the Oo doesn’t start at the top but rather off-center. It would be cool if it showed the letters and how they fit on lines spaces as well. Overall, it’s excellent, and I recommend it for parents to use at home, and small group, classroom work.

Fabulous!. Ok can I just say I'm loving this app. It is far superior to any my son has used. It keeps his attention and gets him to trace his letters and numbers. It also unknowingly helps influence a desire to work toward goals. I am way impressed! TY to whomever in A4cwsn mentioned it and I looked it up on a whim. Best ABC app out there, only thing I'd change is some of the sounds that are used to help describe the letters. Just so that early letter sound recognition can be heard while playing, not just objects that the letter begins the word of. Hope that makes sense and helps! Love it though it's fun and my son is always excited to play it when I suggest it.

Incredible app for learning letter formation!!!!. I recently purchased the "Letter School" app for my girls for our iPads, iPhones, and the girls iTouchs...........it is a FABULOUS app for little ones. I didn't purchase it to teach my girls their letters/sounds (although it will teach them that too if they don't know them), I purchased it to teach them correct letter formation when they write! Unfortunately handwriting is not taught very often anymore and kids are left to learn forming their letters on their own. Most kids naturally start their letters at the bottom when they should be starting them at the top. This app provides lots of practice and has awesome animation/graphics. My girls LOVE it!!! It was well worth the price in my opinion.

Best learning tool!. I am an occupational therapist in a school district. I utilize the Handwriting Without Tears program to teach handwriting to my students. I have downloaded many apps and this is the first one that provides the HWT letter formation. It's a great supplement to the program. The kids love the sounds and instant feedback it provides. I also love the fact that it grades itself when a child is struggling to trace or form the letter independently. I hope a cursive app is in the works because I will definitely buy that too!

Love this. I love this app for my 3 year old son. Because the last step has them write without tracing, although they will give help after a few unsuccessful tries, he and I are able to see that he really knows how to write the letter. I don't use this app as much for my 5 year old daughter because she knows how to write her letters, her issue is that she writes so fast, she doesn't take up the proper space for each letter. There is another app that I use for her that uses the 3 lines, so she can see where the letters need to stop and start. That would be my only improvement, to add lines, so the letters aren't just floating on the screen.

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Just crashes since last update. This app no longer works on iPad 3 with IOS 7, just crashes after clicking splash screen arrow.

Fun learning. My 4yr old son with ASD loves this app. Its such a fun way to learn how to write letters. He wants to trace the letters while improving his poor fine motor skills. I think its great.

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Fun learning. Both my 3 & 5 year old sons with ASD love & return to this app more that all of our other tracing apps. I love the different levels as both boys are able to enjoy at their own level - quite a challenge as one is quite "high functioning" so very hard to find things interesting enough for him, yet age appropriate & achievable for my other boy. Can't wait for more apps from you. Thanks.

Awesome for fine motor!. My 3 year old and 2 year old both love this game!

Engaging. Highly recommend this app. I like how it gives graded prompts when the children are writing the letters independently. Both my girls (4yrs old) love it.

Great educational app.. I love that this app is self corrective- the kids can't practice it wrong. How brilliant. Can we have a version for iPads so it can be used widely in the classroom??

Brilliant. Excellent app for teaching alphabet and writing skills. Great for 3-4 yr olds

Not working. Crashes - and I paid for the full version!

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Great app!. All the children that I work with love this app! Great for letter formation - I have them use a stylus so that they practice their pencil hold and then they make the letters with markers, chalk etc. on paper for additional reinforcement and learning.

Best App!!. Hands down, this is the best app I have downloaded for my preschooler. He wants to play it all the time!

Genius and simple. Kids love it, and I love it as well

One of the best apps we own. My three year old loves nothing better than to trace letters and numbers in Letter School, has totally helped his fine motor skills. I recommend it highly.

Exceptional. This app is a standout. I've bought over a hundred apps for my kids, and this is the most exceptional letter learning app to date.

Horrible app I want my money back. Horrible app and I want my money back, keeps popping up this answer to show you are a grown up then I answer and keeps asking the same question, annoying

"It's awesome!". My 5 and 7 year olds love this app. Thank you!

Letter school. My 4 year old loves this game! He's a very tactile learner so it's just perfect'

Amazing. Literally can't get my five-year to stop.

Fun. Has child's attention and reinforces esteem

Use to love this app. My daughter used this app non-stop loved all the graphics that would pop up after she finished the letters. Now it won't open on my phone when I hit the green arrow. Guess my little guy is out of luck and I paid for something that's useless on my phone.

Fantastic. Best educational app I've ever purchased. My 3 year old loves it.

Hate. Hate this app. I need a refund please. Thanks

Worth it!. Get it.

Great app. My son has autism and teaching him how to write letters was a challenge. This application is simple and interactive, he loves it and is quickly improving. Big thank you to the company for helping us with a well made app!

Great app. My 6 year old with autism loves this and my 8 year old also enjoys playing on it. We'll worth the money to help my son.

Wish it had one more thing. My son and I LOVE This app. I just wish there was a LEFT HANDED OPTION because it tells my son he is wrong when he's just writing letters the left handed way! Please change.

Best app to learn writing skills. Amazing app. It has helped my daughter tremendously with her writing and alphabet. It also keeps her engaged as opposed to a lot of other apps.

Awesome. This app is perfect. My almost 3 year old can draw his letters and numbers, and recognizes them. Highly recommend!

Great. I love this app! The only thing I would love to see is a cursive section. In the schools around here our kids learn cursive writing in grade one. An app that targets that would be wonderful!

SUPER 💥. Ce jeu est formidable. Très formateur. J'espère qu'il y aura une suite à ce jeu que mon garçon de 4 ans à adoré. Félicitation aux concepteurs bravo !!!

Great app!. Great app for little ones to learn their letters. My just turned four year old now knows his whole alphabet.

Crashes. I open up the app and click next and closes. Please fix.

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Best writing app. Of all the writing apps we've tried with our three yr old this is the best. Simple, intuitive, engaging, and elegant. It's the only one that has kept her attention. Has a good tolerance for how "on the line" she needs to stay. A good level for hinting and steps up nicely to writing on her own. Thanks!

Please update soon!!. As a teacher, this is one of my favorite apps to use with kids that are just learning how to form their letters and numbers. Unfortunately, several months ago the app stopped working. As soon as the intro song is finished, the app crashes. Every time. I have updated to the newest iOS, restarted my iPad, tried everything to get the app up and running...and it won't work. My kids miss using this app. Please release an update that fixes this bug! Once there is a fix that returns this paid app to a working app, I will change my review to what I wish I could give it - 5 stars. Thanks.

Nearly Brilliant, IMO. I don't usually write reviews, but this app deserves credit. The graphics and animations are beautiful and creative. The program is extremely nuanced but also intuitive, a very unique combination of traits. it is clear that the makers have an intimate understanding and are very caring of the ways children learn. BTW, our 3 year old loves it too.

Great App!. My son is 3.5 and will start working on writing letters next week in school. I happened to see someone that had this app and thought it woudl be great for him to practice on his own. He is actaully able to do the third level by himself on most letters and enjoys it. He absolutely LOVES this educational "game"!!!!

Best Letter Formation App!. I LOVE this app! My Kindergarten students use it every day. It can be customized to match our school's handwriting program and I can easily select the letters they need to work on, allowing me to differentiate instruction. I love that students work their way up to writing the letter independently and the app provides just the right amount of scaffolding for the student to feel successful.

Best ever. This letter app is amazing! I taught for 30 years and have never seen a child get so excited about writing letters. My 4 year old grandson was having difficulty with his fine motor skills, by the end of the first set of letters, he was writing. I love how it has different levels, different writing styles and it encourages the child to want to continue. I just can not say enough goods things about it.

This app has been one of my favorites.. I have always loved this app since I got it for my daughter who was 2 at the time. I'm pretty sure she learned to write her letter on this game. It has always worked great, but since the update and change of the icon it has been crashing every time my kids turn it on. They're disappointed and we'd love to have it back. My son is 3 and has learned to form his letters from the app as well. Please fix it!!!

excellent!. I am a 30 year veteran elementary school teacher. This is a fantastic app for teaching letter formation that is engaging and helpful. I recently used it with a third grader whose handwriting was horrible and within two days the child was writing with not just legible but very nice manuscript. I Just wish there was a cursive version as well. Very worth the money.

Letter school. This app is actually 2.00$ but its not a waste of money and annbrook my mom made that name. It also has cool things when you write!!! Mabye i should say this in a more realistic way i have app at school but i am on summer break and i have it at home oh i almost forgot when you trace it does cool stuff........buy app please!!!!!!!! And dont think annbrook think superchild

Worth the money. The graphics and animation are so fun, I'm not sure my kids realize they are learning :) I really like how my kids can try writing the letter/number and they will be given several tries and then arrows to guide them, if needed. This app seems well thought out with what is appealing to kids without being over the top. Hope the designers will create more apps!

Great app!. My four year old daughter has so much fun using this app to practice writing her letters. Very engaging and pretty of positive feedback for accurate work. I had considered other more expensive handwriting apps but I am very glad I chose this one. No complaints what so ever about letter school!

Perfect in so many ways.. My two year old enjoys this app a lot. It has the perfect blend of feedback and challenge. Today I looked down to discover he's learned to draw some of the letters at the third stage - where the app gives dots and the user draws the line between them. I love that he's motivated to do this. For him it's a game. Kudos to the design team.

Great!. My 29 month old son is learning letters. Bought this app on the ipad a few weeks ago and he couldn't focus long enough to realize he liked it. I got it back out yesterday and he has mastered O, P, and X. He loves it! He'll say "Again P" so I know it's helping with letter recognition.

Great app!. My son is 7 and has special needs- this app is the most fun of all the handwriting games we've tried. He's using a stylus on the ipad with this game now that we've been playing it for awhile. I wish it had the ability to turn off error sounds, and all sounds off, and step 1 only, step 2 only, step 3 only (my son figured out how to cheat.) Other than that it's perfect!

My 13 month old loves it.. My 13 month old loves it. He learned the alphabet, how to say the letters, how to form letters, and hand coordination all within the first week of playing. He loves the celebration animation. It would be great if it played even after he masters it. He was looking forward to it so I just reset the game often. Also the second stage animations could be a little faster.

Excellent Product. This is my 2.5 year old's favorite "game". Letting him play it on long airplane rides quickly translated into his being able to trace and sometimes replicate letters chalked on our driveway. He adores the stars when he gets a letter right. Thanks to this and the "Write My Name" app he can even chalk out some words of his own now. Great app!

Love it!. I love this app and I use it with many of the kids I work with in Pediatric OT. It keeps them engaged and inquisitive. It is near perfect. The only things I would suggest are to use more common names with some letters (Q for quilt instead of Quentin or M for monkey instead of monster), as well as repeating the letter sound on each of the 3 levels in order to reinforce letter recognition/sound assoc. This is still my favorite app for letter practice. Fantastic!

No Customer Support. My 2 year old granddaughter loves this app. But when I upgraded my iPad the app became frozen. It says "waiting" under the greyed app. I cannot uninstall it and reinstall it, and I can't purchase it again because it says I already purchased it. I contacted customer service but they did not respond. Great app until something goes wrong. Do not expect any help. Frustrating.

The best! Want more..... This is the best tracing app I've found by far! Bought my three year old a stylus & set her down with this app & she's got her letters down better in two days then she has with four months of preschool. Would love to see this developer come up with a shapes & cursive app....

Amazing. I love this app- I am mom to a 3 1/2 year old boy who is enthralled by this app! He woke this morning asking to play the letters game! It keeps his attention without all the crazy cartoon characters or any of that extra "stuff." it is simple to get going with for a child, I didn't have to do any "set up" or even demonstrate how to use the app. He just picked it up rig away. Simple, beautiful animations, all in all a super buy!!

Cursive?. My kids love this App! It's fun and educational with GREAT graphics. If you have a kid still learning the alphabet, do not hesitate for one second to introduce them to Letter School. My older child has forced me here to pressure the makers for a cursive version. The quality of Letter School has left her very unsatisfied with the cursive Apps options out there. Please. Third graders across America would be so grateful.

Grandchildren love it!. My three and four year old grandsons love the sights and sounds of this wonderful learning app. I am impressed that the app encourages "correct" letter writing, and practice. Teachers in most public schools don't have time to work with each student on handwriting so having kids use this app will be a win for everyone!

Excellent!. I have had this app since April 4 of this year and have already seen an improvement in my 3 year old daughters letter writing skills. So wonderful! She loves the game and I love that I can see which letters she had finished! I do have a suggestion though - add the option to write their own name!!

Teacher give LetterSchool an A+. My students with ASD are highly engaged with this app! It is interactive and I really love the three levels of progression that begins with modeling and encourages independence for each letter/ number. The formation of a few letters within the Zaner-Bloser are not inline with the way we introduce them at the primary center where I teach. This has been frustrating for my students as well as confusing. Only tip is to fix these few letters

Letter School. This is an exceptional app for teaching handwriting. I teach students with special needs. This app keeps their attention even when it's not their turn. The only reason I did not give five stars is all the vowels are short except for "u", and the "g" is a soft sound. Otherwise, it is a perfect app.

A+… But could use a testing section.. Both my 4 and 6 year olds are enthusiastic about using this App. It is especially good for hand/eye coordination. Would be nice if there were some type of test/grading section that could better track letter and number learning progress.

Fun and educational. My son loves loves loves this app. It has helped him learn to write letters IN THE WRITE ORDER. meaning, start an A from the top and do the left side first, then the right side then cross from left to right. I learned about this app because they are using it in the kindergarten classes here. They said they tried many apps and this was the only one that only allowed letters to be written in the right technique.

Simple, and highly efficient. This app is so simple in use that very young children discover by themselves how to use it without any help. This is definitely my favorite app for young children. They go on and on playing for ages, and their handwriting improves by leaps and bounds.

Skillfully made: Engages WIDE audience!. As a retired educator, I see the LetterSchool app to be of tremendous value both to teachers in a blended elementary classroom and to parents as they support their child's learning at home or while travelling. LetterSchool is of great value daily to me with autistic children in my nonprofit afterschool program. The creators of this app had an excellent vision for introducing small bits of instruction with plenty of practice. Every child I've worked with with autism LOVE this app ! This is truly a Must-Have app !

I’m so impressed by this app. This is not just one of the best letter teaching apps I’ve seen, but it might be one of the best educational apps I’ve ever used. It nudges the child in the right direction if they are confused. The rewards for doing a letter are fantastic. The way it gradually makes getting a letter correct more difficult with each iteration. I couldn’t be more impressed. Buy this for an example of a stellar app!

Perfect practice!!. As a teacher I LOVE how they use the model, guide and practice plan! My 3 year old niece LOVES this game!! She is already mastering writing and reading all her letters thanks to this app. She loves all the different animations and getting stars for her accomplishments and challenging her on level 2 is great! We sit forever playing this app. Super fun! :)

Amazing, beautiful. My four year old loves this app! He is learning to write so quickly with it. We use a stylus so he gets some practice holding a pen. Really beautiful graphics. We're waiting for something else from this developer. We couldn't be more pleased.

Crash fixed! Great app for handwriting. The app crashed on my ipad. Customer support gave me the advice to delete the app from my ipad an install it again. And it worked! My kids can’t stop playing this app! Definitely worth $4,99 and thumbs up for customer support.

Couple of bugs but great ap.. This is a great ap for both uppercase and lower case letters. It also has numbers. Lots of fun for my PreK daughter. Only complaint is a few of the themes on the second star level complete the letter automatically when you touch the start dot - the candy cane one, one with a beaded type bracelet, and the fuzzy worm to name a few. If they fix these few bugs it would be perfect.

Awesome!. My son has several apps where you trace letters but this has become his favorite. The animations are very engaging for kids and makes them want to keep going. I do wish there were more "levels" though. My son loves when you clear the blue screen and all of the stars go to the corner. We have to keep resetting it so he can see that again.

Awesome. I have tried many alphabet apps for my 4 year old. None kept her interest. This app keeps her interested all day if I let her. This is the best alphabet and number app out there out, for recognizing her letters an numbers and tracing them too. Outstanding app to the developers. Review only allows 5 stars but it's 10 stars for me, to keep my little one interesting in learning. Thank you....

Good app But.... Not worth $4.99. More like $1.99. Good for children learning to write and fun to look at but it's too easy. For the price should have levels once it's finish with writing letters and numbers it should encourage to write words. Or maybe asked how many is on the screen and you should be able to write to correct count. Well The free app was worth it. That's all. Just wish there's more to it.

Way more fun than paper/pencil tracing!. My son's occupational therapist told me about this app. My son is 5 & on the autism spectrum---he just loves the colors and sounds this app makes. There are 3 levels---for the easiest one, he barely has to swipe his finger or stylus to get the tracing completed.......there aren't any crazy sounds if he is incorrect.....it is worth the money!

Must have app!. I have spread the word that this is a must have app! My son brings his IPad to school and his teacher uses this app with him to help motivate and provide the repetition to learn his letters. He loves the mowing with the lawn mower and quickly found the letters and numbers that have this! Awesome!

Best app for letter formation. We've tried many apps for practicing letter formation for my 8 year old son with developmental delays, and this is by far the favorite. It is the most engaging for him which makes for getting enough practice to be useful. I love that the Handwriting Without Tears font is an option as that is the program used at his school and by his occupational therapist. My 4 year old who is typically developing also loves the app.

It does not disappoint!. The demo video impressed me, so I purchased it. But I thought to myself: I'm not sure if my 3 yr old son will go for this repetitiveness for each letter, even though that's what he needs. Well, I was WRONG. The first time he ever "played" this writing app, he practiced writing for 2 straight hours. And it has most things he loves, bubbles, trains, rocket ships, and he loves the fireworks after every letter/number.

Awesome!. This is a wonderful app for young children. It's engaging and also requires children to follow the appropriate paths of movement for proper letter formation. I use it a lot with my kindergarten students. The one problem is that is uses giraffe for the keyword for the letter g. It would be better to use a word with the hard g sound, such as goat, since this is the sound first taught to children (to distinguish from j). Using giraffe causes confusion. If this gets changed it will be practically perfect in every way!

OT who loves this app - could you add..... My students love this app and are learning to form letters while having fun. If I could, I would add 2 features - the option to name and keep multiple files (more than 3) and pre-writing practice (lines, curves, and shapes). Thanks for a fabulous product!

app has gotten too expensive. This is one of my all-time favorite apps for my students to practice handwriting. It is too bad that the price has been raised so much. This app was $1.99 last year. Now, at $5.99 it is too expensive for me to purchase for my classroom set of ipads. I wish that the price had not gone up so much. What a shame :(

Excellent quality. There are many letter tracing apps available, and I've downloaded a lot of them for my two year old. This is the first one I've found that isn't absolute garbage. I am extremely impressed with the level of quality and craftsmanship put into LetterSchool.

Great App - worth the price. My 2 year old (24 months) loves this app. It is great as it has visual stimulation for every "level" accomplished. I like how the app prompts the child if the child is stuck. Definitely worth the price. I wish there were more apps like this.

Awesome!. This app is soooo cool. I wasn't sure at first if just writing letters would be fun, but this app is so well put together with great graphics! I don't think this app will ever get old! My 2 year loves it. It is a little challenging for her to trace some of the letters, so she will get better at it as she gets older.

Hands down best letter/number app. This is by far the most well designed, clean, and creative app on the market for learning letters and numbers. My son has been enjoying it since he was 10 months old. It's by far the best app and worth every penny.

Love letter school <3. Letter school meets every requirement in my book! I am an OT, and this is my students favorite app and my number one choice! Teaching letter formation and getting kids motivated is difficult, and I pull out this app and the kids will work on their own and are excited to work!

Amazing!. My 4 year old has autism and every other handwriting app we've tried just couldn't motivate him. This one is so visually engaging that he can't put it down! Not only does he enjoy playing with it, he's practicing an extremely challenging skill and doesn't even realize it. He even grabs my hand to help guide him on the difficult letters instead of just giving up. We love this app!