Writing Apps for Kids
Here’s a list of great writing apps that help children along every step of the writing process.
Scribble Cards
App Info Price: Overview Kids can learn how to write their letters and numbers with Scribble Cards. This very simple app basically offers what the name suggests, cards on which kids can “scribble” and practice early writing skills. With just a little guidance, kids can become pros at writing their letters and numbers. Features include: …
Story Starters Pro
Story Starters Pro offers a nearly limitless supply of stimulating prompts to set writing off on the right foot. Everyone from students of all ages to professional writers will benefit from the material that this app has to offer.
Document Writer for Microsoft Office- Word & PDF
Document Writer for Microsoft Office: Word and PDF is a high-quality app that allows users to view and manipulate an array of file types on their IOS device, and to move those files to various devices with relative ease.
Neurotale
Neurotale helps writers advance their stories by suggesting lines from public domain novels.
An Adventure of Our Own
An Adventure of Our Own offers a unique adventure story that encourages kids to communicate with one another.
Mighty Colossus Storybook
Mighty Colossus Storybook is a powerful, yet flexible system for creating digital storybooks using built-in characters, backgrounds, and props, or user-generated artwork, pictures, and other content.
Trace It, Try It
Trace It, Try It gives kids multiple opportunities to learn how to form their letters, numbers, and three-letter words while still having fun.
LetterSchool Cursive Writing
LetterSchool Cursive Writing teaches kids to write in cursive through fun animations and repeated practice opportunities.
Create Storytime
Create Storytime is a fun and child-friendly app that will encourage creative writing in a rather structured way. Children can create professional-looking ebooks featuring their own ideas, but some may find it too limiting for extended play.
Lipa Theater: Story Maker
Kids become directors as they create and narrate their own animated stories.
Crazy Cursive Letters
Introduce kids to cursive writing through three different activities, and reinforce phonics and spelling skills at the same time.
SpellNow Year 2 Challenge
Second grade students can study 40 different spelling lists and learn over 400 spelling words through a series of fun spelling activities.
EDNA
EDNA is a practical and easy-to-use mind mapping system that is perfect for middle and high school students who need to organize essays, reports, and other longer pieces of writing because it easily converts graphic idea webs into traditional outlines that make writing a breeze.
Sticker Story – The storybook creativity kit for kids
Sticker Story-the Storybook Creativity Kit for Kids is a fun and creative way to nurture self-expression and story-telling in children from preschool through middle elementary grades.
2015 Edition: Best Apps for Back to School – 7th Grade
The seventh grade year is often a year of big changes-changing classes, new teachers, and higher educational expectations. It’s also time to begin planning ahead for high school challenges. These recommended apps will help your student learn and grow with the best. iBiome-Wetlands iBiome-Wetland is a hands-on, experiential look at three types of wetlands. Players …
2015 Edition: Best Apps for Back to School – 5th Grade
The apps we’ve chosen for our reviewed and recommended list for 5th grade include basic fraction concepts, searchable math video tutorials, visual and written creativity while creating professional-looking books and word analysis practice covering multiple concepts. Slice Fractions Slice Fractions offers a wordless, hands-on walk through basic fraction concepts such as the meaning of the …
2015 Edition: Best Apps for Back to School – 4th Grade
There are so many great educational apps in the App Store for elementary school-aged children, we couldn’t narrow it down to our top 5 reviewed and recommended apps for 4th grade. Our list covers apps for encouraging creative writing and self-expression, text and visual design, scientific inquiry and observation, spelling, coding for kids and even …
Best Apps for Back to School – 3rd Grade
Finding just the right apps for your elementary-age child can be time consuming. Our list of reviewed and recommended apps for 3rd grade can make finding the right app for your child easier. The apps featured focus on a number of important areas, including building language skills, developing reading and comprehension skills, practicing writing skills, …
Book Creator for iPad
Book Creator for iPad is a fantastic tool to encourage authors and illustrators of all ages and abilities to express themselves and share their work with family, friends and even the world if they wish.
Word Creativity Kit – The Creative Writing Tool for Kids
The Word Creativity Kit provides a unique system to explore the interplay between text and visual design that will stimulate artistic creativity as well as creative writing and self-expression.
Train Your Hand
Train Your Hand is a great early learning app that provides players with practice at tracing various lines and shapes to prep them for writing. Great for young children and fun too!
ABC Learn and Trace Letters
Unique descriptions help kids learn new ways to make their letters.
Word Creativity Kit – Play with the language
The Word Creativity Kit provides a unique system to explore the interplay between text and visual design that will stimulate creativity as well as creative writing.
Free App Friday – May 2nd, 2014
Welcome to 1st Free App Friday post of May. Most apps are listed on our sister site, FreeAppFriday.com. If we’ve reviewed and recommend the app we list it below. Enjoy! view all FREE APP FRIDAY apps Free App Friday Picks The following app/s have been found interesting by the BestAppsForKids.com team AND are free …
The Right Word
The Right Word offers several types and levels of practice with a huge list of word pairs and groups that many people find confusing. It includes a handy reference tool, and offers practice with various fill-in activities that force the user to use context clues to answer correctly.
Gappy Learns Writing
Gappy Learns Writing is a high quality app for early learners to practice writing and tracing their letters and have fun while they learn.
iTrace — handwriting for kids
Whether using their fingers or a stylus, kids can learn to write by tracing letters, numbers, words, and even their own names.
Exotic Pet Puzzler
Exotic Pet Puzzler is a creative educational app that will teach children how to write their letters, work on their alphabet, and spell through a variety of fun activities.
Free App Friday – Oct 04, 2013
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Free App Friday – Sep 27, 2013
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Write About This
Write About This is an outstanding app for teaching and practicing writing skills. It’s great for a very wide range of ages and abilities, and will provide hours and hours of productive practice.
abc Pocket Phonics
Pocket Phonics offers practical, effective practice with letter sounds and with blending sounds into words. It is a fine tool for teaching beginning reading students.
StoryBook Maker
Storybook Maker is an app with endless possibilities, a great price, and tons of content and features.
Preschool Playground Pro HD – ABC Edition
Learn to identify and write letters of the alphabet through numerous fun activities.
Writing Magic Letters:: Kids Learn to Write
More than just letter tracing, Writing Magic Letters, requires children to use their problem solving skills during the game portion of the app. App includes only lower case letters.
Little Writer
Little Writer is a fun and positive way to help younger children learn and understand correct letter, number, and basic shape formations.
Creative Book Builder
This is an app that provides kids & adults with powerful tools for serious book creation, and does it very nicely. The productivity is well worth the $3.99 cost.
kids apps SHAKE-A-PHRASE
Shake-a-Phrase is a best app because it gives children inspiration to start writing, plus quizzes them on verbs, nouns and adjectives.
giveaway MONTESSORI CROSSWORDS
A huge thanks to Pierre from L’Escapadou for giving us promo codes to the wonderful app Montessori Crosswords.
kids apps ALPHABYTES
This is a best app for kids because it teaches toddlers, preschoolers – and even some kindergartners about the alphabet by tracing, interacting and playing with letters and words.