iTrace — handwriting for kids - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads - Apple App Store

Description

We designed iTrace over 5 years ago to teach children to write block and cursive letters and numbers. Our mission back then — and today — remains to make early childhood education productive and relaxed, natural at the same time.

While creating the app, we found out that children learn best when they repeat every exercise at least 3 times. In iTrace, a child traces each letter 3 times on every level out of 30 for each letter. Of course, every child learns at a different pace, so an app adjusts the number of levels to meet the needs of their individual student.

The app is ideal for homeschooling as well as classroom setting at Preschool, Pre-K, Kindergarten, and K1-K2 levels.

iTrace Key Features:
- Uppercase and lowercase letters
- Cursive and block letters
- Numbers 0 through 9
- Words: child's name, 350 preloaded words from the iTrace library and unlimited words that can be added by you
- Support of 3 different letter fonts: Zaner-Blosser, HWT (Handwriting Without Tears) and D'Nealian (with customized letters for each font!)
- Full support for both Left and Right handwriting orientation.
- 5 animated scenes that gather relevant words together to make learning fun with 50 animated objects (iPad only)
- History of each child's progress
- Unlimited children accounts
- Available at a reduced price with Volume Purchase Program for educational institutions

We created iTrace for kids:
- The app tracks and adjusts to your child's individual progress to keep their interest and to encourage progress
- To support how children learn writing skills, iTrace will replay exercises several times gradually increasing complexity and difficulty level (just like a game!)
- The app will reward progress with over 600 varying prizes for every completed exercise
- iTrace leverages context and animation to teach writing by encouraging children to select animated scenes composed of meaningfully combined objects

We created iTrace to help parents and teachers:
- The app tracks your child's progress on each individual letter and number to help them master handwriting and for adults to measure improvement
- iTrace supports easily switching to the Left-handed mode and to cursive letters.
- For offline practice, iTrace supports customization and printing of PDF worksheets on the paper.

We built iTrace to guard children’s privacy:
- No ads inside the app. We do not interrupt the learning process with anything unhelpful or irrelevant.
- No collection of personal data. We do not ask for any contact details except the first name of your student to personalize their experience.
- Purchases can only be made by adults from a part of the app that children cannot access.
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iTrace is appreciated by parents, schools, and media:

"With an engaging, kid-friendly interface and many options to customize and track children's progress, iTrace is a valuable app for parents, teachers and occupational therapists.",
Libby Curran, People Magazine's Teacher of the Year

Featured in the App Store's "Education" category under Best New Apps!

— TUAW: "The app is brightly illustrated and well designed, certain to appeal to young students. Meant for the core 3-7 age group, kids can learn to trace uppercase and lower-case letters, as well as numbers."

— Teachers With Apps: "This app is what every parent/teacher should have their children use to help learn proper letter formation. As a teacher, it helps fit handwriting into the school day so much easier!"

— 2Wired 2Tired: "…kids LOVE everything electronic. iTrace will make learning how to write letters, numbers, and words, both fun and interesting for your children.

— Mommy's Busy: "If you're looking for a fun, interactive way for your child to learn [...] you should consider trying iTrace."
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If you have any ideas or feedback that you would like to share, please contact us at [email protected]. We are sincerely interested in knowing more about your experience with iTrace.

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4.53 out of 5

94 ratings in United Kingdom

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Good little app but....

It’s got a lot going for it this app but it could just do with a few revisions. Great that you can write your own word and use your own pictures, but frustratingly you can’t have your child practice just your words, instead you just get a random mix. Having said that our little one loves it, and the progress he’s made has been fantastic to watch

Fun in a creative way

Easy to use for pre schooler

brilliant. must get

I don't review apps. being an app publisher and a father, it was appropriate to review the app. this is excellent. one of my sons. spent hours Learning with me with this. can't recommend this enough.

NP

Great, love the fact you can add your own words and pictures. LO instantly learnt to write her own name

Amazing!

This app, I don't know what to say, I guess simply amazing!! My two kids 3 and 4 couldn't get the writing down until i found this app. Now with this app it has made writing for them both fun and interesting. Sometimes I can't get them of the iPad because of this app. They are constantly in a battle to try and write the nicest and fit perfectly in the lines of the words, asking me to tell them which one's writing is the best. All I can say as a mother is that this app has helped me and my kids out a lot! Excelling them through English at school! Thank you for the great app please keep making more of these maybe one for maths!?

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