Cursive: Learn Cursive vs Letterpaths

Cursive: Learn Cursive is an app for practicing handwriting by tracing cursive letters and words, or entering custom words to practice. It offers uppercase and lowercase letter exercises with animated stroke order. Practice covers English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese, with more than 100 included words per language, including words with accent marks. Users can display typed text in cursive and add, sort, or delete custom words; those words are shared across the cursive languages. Writing controls include example text size and style, pen or eraser, pen thickness and color, and zoom settings. Dark mode and theme colors are also available. Word search opens in an external browser, and users can change the search button to a share button. The app is listed for Android, iOS, and macOS. Android and iOS downloads are listed as free; Google Play identifies ads and in-app purchases, and Apple lists in-app purchases. Google Play says the app may collect location, app activity, and two other data types; its safety information says data is encrypted in transit and cannot be deleted.

Letterpaths is a free handwriting practice resource linked to the UK primary school curriculum. It provides worksheet generators for cursive, joined, print, and pre-cursive writing, with custom word practice for words, names, and spellings. Print and pre-cursive sheets can show guide lines, stroke order, arrows, and numbered starting points. Tracing activities include guided modes with plain, snake, and rollercoaster skins, plus freehand tracing using grey word shapes and checkpoints. The tools run on the web and on iOS and Android; the apps can open in a browser or be installed for a full-screen tablet or phone experience. Cursive worksheets encode their settings in the page URL, allowing links to be copied for saving or sharing. The associated cursive font works on the web and in Microsoft Word or Apple Keynote. Letterpaths also links to a public TypeScript library that generates handwriting geometry data for other applications to render.