Handwriting practice for iPhone and iPad
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No. Children can practise with a finger on iPhone or iPad and get stroke-formation feedback. On iPad, an Apple Pencil that supports pressure adds honest pressure readings so the app can coach pressing too lightly or too heavily. Without one, pressure metrics are hidden from the score instead of penalising the child.
iPhone and iPad running iOS or iPadOS 17 or later. On iPhone the app runs in landscape, because the writing area needs the width. On iPad it scales from iPad mini to iPad Pro, and pressure feedback works with any Apple Pencil model that supports pressure.
For Latin letters, Inkla follows Zaner-Bloser-style handwriting families (c, o, a, d, g, q, then l, t, i…), which group letters by similar stroke motion to build motor memory efficiently. Hiragana, Chinese characters and Devanagari follow their own standard order. For Latin letters you can switch to strict alphabetical order in Settings if that fits your child better.
Each stroke is compared against the target letter's model path — direction, shape, and completion. On-device handwriting recognition also confirms the written letter matches the target. No images are sent off-device.
A progress strip shows mastered, current and upcoming letters for the language being practised, and a score card after each attempt shows how it went. The parent dashboard shows practice history, streaks and score trends, and can export a PDF summary when you choose.
No. Inkla is free to try for 7 days, then unlocks with a one-time in-app purchase. There is no subscription and no recurring fee.
Use Reset in Settings (it asks a grown-up first), or uninstall the app. All practice data is stored locally and is permanently deleted when the app is removed. There is nothing in the cloud to erase.
On your iPhone or iPad, in the app's private storage. Nothing is uploaded. Nothing is shared with Blue Flame Games or with third parties.