Handwriting Without Tears: Wet-Dry-Try Capital Letters & Numbers

This is horrible There is no room for error My son cries every time he tries to use it There are other handwriting apps out there that are so much better It isnt even worth the one star I had to give it     Horrible

The app is not very user friendly Adding each student is an in app purchase A student list allowing students to choose themselves would be great A student data reset button is placed right next to the done button during student log in which can instantly erase any usable student data if accidentally pressed Each of my students has erased their data at least once No separate teacher log in to view or compare student data No way to decrease font sizes for students in higher grades needing handwriting practice Even though HWT is recommended in our district their own app is not worth all the extra money they make you spend to use it Hopefully it improves soon        HWT makes me cry

Im an adult with a PhD and I often dont make the letters perfectly enough for this app It is frustrating even for older students impossible for younger ones Dont waste your money Buy sidewalk chalk and go outside     Entirely too exacting

This app couldve been great helping kids writing this app is for kids as soon as they miss a little bit you know when kids are at stage of learning it should be little fun and not frustrating and of course they miss a little as soon as they go off little bit which is normal the chalk eraser or Start all over leaving the child with a lot of disappointment and frustration so I dont know is this hand writing without or with tears it is so sad People gets rip off by these companies I wish the quality of their products was as good as their name I feel I threw away 8 bucks if you want your kids write without tears dont buy this app     Wasting of money

My students have a hard time putting the iPad away They want the next star I love that I can see their progress without standing over their shoulders Thank you for the updated Wet Dry Try App                 Awesome App

Needs to be more forgiving There are tears and frustration using this app Not fun at all for my son Just frustrating Dont waste your money     Much too hard for a child to learn

This app has been very helpful in teaching my daughter appropriate strokes since she tends to go the wrong direction However the other reviews are valid it can be frustrating To balance it out we only practice 3 letters at a time and only as long as shes enjoying it I also like the detailed reports that I am able to access outlining her progress Its worth the money to augment your childs education                 helpful useful for 4 12 yo righthander

This app really needs a variable sensitivity setting because the expectation is so high as to be almost unobtainable Im not advocating for sloppy handwriting but there is no room for even the slightest error on this app This a shame because far from encouraging my daughter to keep practicing it actively discourages her and makes writing a chore I would be great if the sensitivity could be adjusted based on the childs fine motor abilities        Too sensitive

This app has it all Capitals numbers and lowercase that integrate with all the other handson activities I use with my students The selfcorrecting is friendly and the graphics are incredible I love how HWT always develops products that are childfriendly developmental multisensory and most importantly truly teach                 Fantastic

Really wanted this app but had to delete immediately after purchase Locked up crashed my system had high hopes for it UPDATE Redownloaded the app and its now working fine Our just turned 5 year old is doing great and shes very happy with the positive support within the app Im so glad I decided to give this another go                 Working Great

This is a nice simulation of the real chalkboard Wet Dry Try activity which I have used before One of the features I like the most is that the app detects the different types of errors my kids are making and it gives unique verbal feedback for each type And now you can see a visual display of the childs errors and progress for a quick snapshot of what they need to work on most Great to see this app evolve Thanks HWT                 Great tool and nice improvements

I am very excited to see tried and true educational companies like Handwriting Without Tears putting energy into apps but this one needs some updates to make it accessible to students and efficient for teachers I have used it with ages 48 as well as myself and we have all been frustrated both with use and cost Please consider the following information 1 Provide additional levels of room for error in letter formation in the settings 2 If the sponge or towel cover up the original chalk letter too high then it is very frustrating to start to for the letter 2 Give a setting to keep the teacher model voice on with the corrective nagging teacher off 3 Keep the teacher scaffolding on for all three stars Or make it a setting 3 Provide at least four students in the initial purchase 699 is well above average price for an app I shouldnt have to buy another student for 399 Or three for 1199           Mrs

Awesome job adding the lowercase letters The LiveInsights analytical tool that can go with it is greatit keeps track of the important info and makes cool reports I can share with parents and colleagues                 Superb app

The app works well is good for beginning writers Please add cursive practice              Great handwriting practice app

My 5 year old grandson has excellent ipad skills in other games but this one was sooooo picky there were LOTS of tears I tried it myself and often had to try again Would not recommend to anyone Should have read reviews firstlooks like Im not the only one disappointed     Want a refund

I love how the Slate and Blackboard concepts are integrated to mesh with the other handson products my kids useThis app shows me which of my kids are struggling and with what lettersstrokes I dont need to look at their iPads I just log into my account                 What an app

This is a great app just like the program I agree that it is a little frustrating when set on the more difficult level The app needs more color better graphics variety and lessons like the books NEEDS to use incorporate the HWT verbal cues I absolutely love the feedback live insights portion but wish it was more reasonably priced Overall still a great app              Great app

We have several tracing apps for my daughter and this is by far the most difficult for her to use This is the only app that has caused her so much frustration and real tears Ironic for a program called handwriting without tears Even as an adult watching her use it I can tell she is touching and tracing correctly yet she will still get the try again messages that make her start over She really dislikes this app        So frustrating

I have been using this app with my 5yo son to help him learn how to write his letters and numbers I thought it was a great app at first He would sometimes get frustrated bc it could be a little finicky but it did force him to trace the letter correctly each time The main problem weve encountered is the motivational tool they use The app uses picture cards that the child earns by tracing the letter 9 times in 3 sets of 3 My son really liked going in each time and seeing all of the picture cards he had earned It was a visual measure of all he had accomplished However I cant tell you how many times this app has randomly reset itself and deleted all of my sons progress and picture cards He gets so upset when he opens the app and sees that all of his picture cards that he earned have just vanished What good is a reward if it can just repeatedly vanish on the kid at any time Customer service has been useless They havent even acknowledged my emails It happened yet AGAIN yesterday after my son had earned 15 picture cards He opened the app and it was like he had never used it before He was so upset So we are done with this app Save yourself and your child the time and frustration Do not buy this     Extraordinarily frustrating do not buy

My second grader still has many reversals and struggles to write as he seems unsure about direction the letters go I purchased this two weeks ago in addition to the workbook and it is very helpful I can see that he is gaining confidence in his writing and he is already beginning to use their method rather than his haphazard one I wish he had been started on this earlier because the method prevents reversals and many letters are built from the magic c hence cutting down on how many different strokes a child has to remember to write letters I highly recommend this app                 Awesome

We use the full HWT curriculum and recommend it highly This app is exactly like the program and makes practicing even more fun I hope there will be a cursive app forthcoming exactly like this one Its perfect                 Excellent

I used the previous versions of this app with my kindergarten students I am disappointed that I chose to do the update because now I have to by student licenses to use it with multiple kidsI dont have 399 per student to do that so I will no longer be able to use this app with my class     Too expensive for an entire class anymore

I have been using the updated app with my homeschooled first grader and he gets frustrated sometimes but the app does a great job at correcting stroke direction and reversals He completed the capitals in two weeks and is just as motivated about the numbers and lowercase letters I am hoping the cursive get added as well Thanks                 Best app for handwriting issues

I love the app it works well and is a great teaching tool However only being able to use it with one student unless you pay more for an already expensive app to add only 3 students makes it not worth it           Nice idea but

The updates are fantastic Ive used this with regular ed and special needs students and they absolutely love the activities and the motivating exercises So the kids are loving it and so am I because tracking their progress is a snap with the updated version Wonder what could be better Nothing if you ask me                 Exceptional activity

I purchased this app for the little boy I nanny who is Autistic Normally he only wants to play Thomas on the IPad now he is asking to play his letters No other educational app I have bought has intrigued him this much                 Amazing

My 4 year old was reduced to tears with this app Her pre school teaches this way and so we wanted to follow through Even the slightest finger lift or deviation from the line will cause a ding telling the child she did it wrong Extremely frustrating for her to use Even when I tried to help I found it to be way too sensitive for a toddler to use Waste of money     Leads to nothing but tears

As a former elementary school teacherI purchased this app to assist my special needs grandson with writing This app is very unforgiving of the smallest error After watching my grandson get frustrated to the point of tears I cannot recommend this app He is extremely intelligent and has had no trouble using other educational apps     Many tears

This app is good for a child practicing the form of the letters when the chalk board is not handy We own the handwriting without tears books and they work very well The only issue I have with this app is that it is very sensitive Your child has to make the line near perfect to keep it from starting over again I as an adult had a hard time keeping it with in the given space If you have a child with motor control problems this app will more than likely frustrate them I gave the app 3 stars because it has been helpful to my child who is 5 slow down when writing and carful let do her letters well It did however take a while getting there           A great app but issues

App is a fun activity to use in conjunction with the HWT program However in order to monitor more than one students progress you must pay an additional cost for each student and that provides you with a subscription that is only good for one year Not cost effective for those wanting to use the app to monitor multiple students progress Also although the error tolerance can be adjusted it is still too sensitive for those students with motor impairments        OTRL

I was so excited when they added the lower case letters to this app I love the HWT tears program and used it in my Prek classroom The Wet Dry Try is a wonderful way to reinforce how to correctly write a letter However when my 5 yr old uses this App I quickly noticed how frustrating it is for her even though she can write well and was trying so hard You must understand the following in order to see why this app is so frustrating to children The Program begins by writing the letter in white chalk The first step for the child is to use a wet sponge to erase the chalk creating a black letter and this is easy for her although if you dont do it absolutely perfect it makes you start over The second step for the child is to dry the board creates a gray line and this is a little more challenging because she need to see the original white letter under her black letter which is basically gone Try you use white chalk is nearly impossible for her because the board has not bee completely erased Instead she must look at a letter mess tiny shadow of a white letter black shadow of a letter and the gray letter The gray letter on the top now is misleading because if you try to go over top of it with your chalk the program will make you start over and say whoops The program wants your child to see the tiny shadow of the white line and go over that Until your child does this they will not get a star and move on to the next letter Ways to get around this problem Tell you child to only do wet and dry and that you get to do try if it seems like they are still having the same problem Another thing you can do is have the program show your child how to write the letter and then have your child write it on their own chalk board in shaving cream sand or with a crayon on paper If your child gets easily frustrated by being told they did something wrong even though they came very very very close to doing it right then this is not the app for your child           Improved but needs work

The name is not true to itself We had lots of tears The program is so precise that if the child lifts his finger even a quarter inch short of making the complete line he his told to do it over and after two tries the program starts over making the child feel like a failure I watched to see what the problem was and the childs hand can block the view of the letter completion The child can go outside the curved line when making a C but cant stop short when making an R           Grandparent

As a teacher I love handwriting without tears I wanted this app to be great It is too expensive for me to run with more then a couple of students I will stay with the non app version           Whis it was better

I love the new update and love the ability to track thru live insights exactly what is challenging for my students The new update really makes this a must have for teaching children correct letter formation and the ability to teach letters in a logical teaching order The best thing about the app is the ability to know via live insights exactly what the child is having difficulty with then target that during the teacher demonstration on the WDT slate This is the only app I know of that is fun for kids but provides actual grown up data Keep up the great work                 OTGuy

I use the HWT in my junior kindergarten class with great success The app is disappointing 1 even when set to the easiest level students struggle with rigid expectations and become frustrated 2 adding students to the single user app is very expensive too expensive to justify using in the classroom I will stick to the traditional wet dry try chalk board        Early Childhood classroom

Ive used this with my own children in my occupational therapy office as well as in a private kindergarten class Everyone is excited by this app I can track progress and prioritize lessons better while the children have fun                 Thanks

I love the App My only suggestion is that it not be so unforgiving Young kids get very discouraged very soon with it              Mom

I love the idea of being able to practice writing on the iPad I hate that it is so sensitive I as an adult have trouble staying on the line to satisfy the program For my four year old daughter who is just learning to trace and form letters this program is nearly impossible She cannot stay right on the line as the program requires then she has to start the letter all over again Eventually she just gives up and I dont really blame her For such an expensive app they need to fix this        Such a good idea Needs help

Love Handwriting Without Tears and adding an app is great but feel it was too expensive for what you get Add more activities           Ok

The first time I have felt compelled to write an app review It came recommended from an aide at school The app was a little cumbersome for me to use and much more so for my 5 year old who knows her letters The app is too sensitive and too hard to grab the writing utensils Wish I hadnt spent the 7 bucks for this app Go elsewhere     Handwriting with tears

Like other reviewers have mentioned it keeps on erasing the progress my 4 year old has made It is hard to keep your child motivated to earn the cards if whenever they work hard to get one it is erased Please fix this issue     Keeps on erasing progress

There is no option for children to learn strokes that left handed children use Also the letters are large so with a stylus pen children really only learn gross motor control and proper righty strokes Wish there were some smaller letters to practice on and lefty strokes right to left and clockwise It is still helping our lefty first grader who has trouble with handwriting           No lefty strokes or fine motor activities

Love this app however would love a cursive app too              OTR

Not worth the costtoo boring Not challenging at all     Boring

This app is helping my daughter how to write a letter correctly I love it                 Great

More great improvements to an already great educational app The best part is that its so easy to see which letters students need more work on without looking over their shoulders I just log into my account to see their work                 Left hand friendly and avatars

the sensitivity is a real bummer for this app we love HWT and found this app to be to frustrating to work with        tears over here

Perfect practice makes perfect This app allows some wiggle room while forming letters however if you go too much off course it will make you start that particular line or curve over again After 3 consecutive mistakes the app will show you how to perform the task again Having taught k5 gen ed and sp ed I can confidently say many children rush through tasks without truly THINKING about what they are doing This app wont let you do that I highly suggest sitting down with the child and assisting as needed hand over hand etc until they are comfortable with the methods I also dont feel this should be used for long periods of time if a child is struggling A few assisted minutes here and there will suffice and progress will be seen                 Great App

I love the sound effects that simulate the drag of dry and try I also like that lowercase and numbers were added It would be great to also have the cursive letters As a schoolbased OT I have more than just 4 students that need this app Unfortunately I can only tack 4 students with the regular app purchase I wish I could add as many students as I need to like I can in similarly priced fine motorwriting apps           Love it but

As a retired k teachers I am familiar with the HWT program and loved using it This version is discouraging I just installed it and tried it out and had to retry my 8 so many times I became frustrated Think with my grandson who will go to k in the fall ill stick to the chalkboard until hes very proficientseems to me learning this way would be disappointing Nana        Too touchy