Letterschool App Reviews

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!!!

Mission accomplished - kids are learning! and the Tracing feels like PLay - so well done :)

Crashes after pressing the green arrow. This is unacceptable since we paid for this app! Prior to this problem, my daughter age 5 loved this app and it has improved her handwriting and love of it immensely. Very disappointed, please fix this and I will change my review accordingly.

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

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 :(

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!!

The app works great and helps my kids recognize letters. They think it is fun!

We love this app but it doesn't open!

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!

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.

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.

My kids know their letters but don't necessarily know how to write the letters. This app is great and a fun way to teach them the correct steps on creating a letter

This is our favorite letter game but now it won't work. It crashes at opening every time!

My kids love this app but it hasn't worked for weeks now. Please fix it! I will change my rating when it works again.

Simply awesome.

3 year old loves the app! But, would be nice if it would say what the letter is. Also, could be a little lenient about the tracing. She gets a little frustrated after trying a few times. Other than that great for her to practice!

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.

Works well on iPhone 6. Kids enjoy using the app!

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.

Downloaded two versions of this; none have sound on iPhone. Followed the steps for troubleshooting still no sound. Emailed company twice and no response! I want my money back!!

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.

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

Was an awesome app but now it keeps crashing. Very frustrating! When it's working I'd give it a five but obviously I gave it a one because you can't do anything now.

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.

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.

My students and clients love Lettersçhool. When provided with other occupational therapy techniques, I am seeing huge gains for many students.

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.

Crashes. Can't swipe to change caps to lowercase to numbers without it crashing.

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.

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.

It draws most of the letter for for the kid so he's not learning how to do it , and app has no sound at all so my son doesn't even know what he's looking at.

When the whole point is learning letters/numbers by tracing, leave it to this game to have completely missed the mark. It actually traces it for you. Your kid needn't bother! So stupid and I'm so angry to be out $4.99. I WILL get my money back if it's the last thing I do as it's a matter of principal!

This app is really awesome. Very fun way learn to write letters and numbers. Try with free version and then go ahead to buy full version. Worth to buy full version

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!

Game does not get past the opening screen. When go button is pressed the game closes. Please fix as my children love this app!! Update: After a delete and re download the app works great and the kids love it.

Love this app so much. Is there a cursive version anywhere????

What a great app! My youngest kid can’t stop playing this game - especially the lawn mower animation is appreciated! Hope to see more apps of this developer!

This needs to be updated, will no longer load after last OS update. My 3 year old played it everyday until it stopped working. It has been over a month, so long enough for developer to fix.

The app is great.

I got this app for my oldest 2+ years ago since his school was using it. He loves it, I love it. As long as it’s on my iPhone. Now his little brother wants to use it, so I put it on my Nook. With rotating locked, the screen will flip nonstop, frustrating us. Please fix this bug before I delete it!

I like this app, the only Hong I don't like is that the 2nd time you write each letter it's very touchy. Sometimes I can't even write the letter correctly. This is frustrating for my preschool because he really tries to write the word but it keeps making him start over, even though he is doing his best

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.

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 kids love this app, but it crashes every time we try to open it. iOS is up to date. Please fix!! I HATE that I spent money on this, and we can't even use it. Unacceptable.

I just purchased this app for my toddler; it’s so much fun to see how he enjoys playing with this app. Really well done!!!

This was a fantastic app up until recently it crashes every single time we open it. After doing all of the basic troubleshooting, still doesn't work. Deleting the app and getting something else. Very sad since we have had it for so long.

This app is great at helping our 5 year-old to recognize letters and develop fine motor skills to write them out.

Excellent app for me working with children in this school, but it stopped opening about 9 months ago. Whenever I open it, it closes down (crash) and I do not see a way of getting a refund or making them aware of the problem. So I have to give 1 star.

My grandsons love this app. But it stopped working months ago. It crashes as soon as we touch the screen when the music stops. I operate it on iPad Air 2, if that matters. Finally deleted it to stop the tears and tantrums. Hope it gets fixed soon. Was great while it worked!