Loopy Letters helps children practice US and UK handwriting on iPhone, iPad and Android, with a finger or with Apple Pencil on a compatible iPad. It is the English edition of Plumélio, which also teaches French cursive; on the App Store you find it as Loopy Letters in English and as Plumélio in French.
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Which handwriting does it teach?
By default the app follows the device language: US handwriting in English, UK handwriting in English with a UK region, and French cursive in French. Choose US handwriting, UK handwriting, Écriture française or Automatic during onboarding or in Settings → Handwriting and language. The app’s language follows the handwriting. It remembers the last style in each collection and keeps stars and the notebook separately for each.
US handwriting
Most US schools teach one of three families of handwriting styles, and the app has all three, each with its own print and cursive, on primary paper with a blue headline, a dashed midline and a red baseline:
- Traditional: upright ball-and-stick print, then slanted, looped, fully joined cursive.
- Slanted: slanted print with little tails, written in one move where it can, that turns into cursive by adding the joins.
- Vertical: upright, simple print that starts at the top, and upright, simplified cursive with few loops.
Pick your school’s style in Settings → Handwriting style, and switch between Print and Cursive at the top of the Home screen. Stars are kept separately for each. Programs may shape a few letters differently; follow your child’s teacher.
In cursive, dots and the crosses of t and x come after the whole word, and each style joins its own set of capitals to the next letter. For the UK models, choose the UK collection in Settings.
UK handwriting
The UK collection follows handwriting conventions used in England: Print, Selected joins and Joined, on four-line guides. Capitals remain separate. Settings offers alternative f, q and t forms; follow the model your child’s teacher uses. British-English words and speech accompany this collection. Schools in the other UK nations may teach different conventions.
French cursive
The French collection teaches the joined cursive of French schools on Seyès ruling, with accents, French words and French speech. In this collection the app is in French and is called Plumélio.
How does an exercise work?
Watch shows where to start and the direction and order of each stroke. In Trace, the child follows the model from the dot. In Write, the child tries without the model and earns stars for the shape, the start, the direction, the pencil lifts and a steady hand. Stars are a guide, not a grade; keep practicing on paper too.
What is free, and what does the purchase add?
Every handwriting includes free warm-ups, numbers, capitals A and M, and the first row of letter pairs or syllables. The US free set includes i, u, e, l, a, m and “mom”; the UK set includes c, o, a, d, m, u and “mum”; the French set includes i, u, e, l, a, m and “ami”. The one-time purchase Everything unlocks all three in full, including the child’s name and your own text. There is no subscription, and Family Sharing is supported.
To get the purchase back on a new device, tap a lock or Settings → Restore purchase, answer the question for grown-ups, then choose Restore purchase, using the same Apple Account. If the price does not load, check the connection. Exercises and the notebook work offline.
How do I practice my child’s name or my own text?
Enter the name in Settings → Child’s name, or add it in Words, where it appears first. In Words → Your own text you can type up to 20 characters, spaces included. In the US and UK collections only the letters A–Z and spaces can be written; names with accents, hyphens or apostrophes can be written in the French collection. Numbers are practiced in their own section.
Apple Pencil and left-handed writers
On a compatible iPad, turn on Settings → Apple Pencil only so only the Pencil tip writes and the palm can rest on the screen. Turn it off to write with a finger. Left-handed moves the controls to the other side so the hand does not cover them. You can also pick the paper size and switch sounds, read-aloud and Penny the Pencil on or off.
How do I see or reset progress?
Notebook shows the best attempts and how the writing improves. Settings → Reset progress deletes stars, history, stickers and notebook pages of the selected handwriting; the other collections, the name, recent texts and settings stay. Settings → Clear recent texts empties the list of recent texts. To delete all data on the device, delete the app. Apple backups are managed separately. See the privacy policy for details.
Is Loopy Letters on Android?
Yes. On Android, Loopy Letters is part of a single app on Google Play for phones and tablets with Android 8.0 or later. Besides US and UK handwriting, it includes the handwriting of other languages and countries: Czech, Slovak, Polish, French, Hungarian, Austrian, German, Italian and Spanish. Choose one during onboarding or in Settings → Handwriting and language; Automatic follows the device language. The handwriting sets the letters, words, voice and the app’s language, and each one keeps its own stars, notebook and stickers. French cursive needs Android 12 or later.
On Android, Google Play handles the one-time purchase Everything, which unlocks every handwriting in the app. On a new device, open Settings → Restore purchase, answer the question for grown-ups and use the same Google account. Google Play Family Library does not share in-app purchases. If a purchase is waiting for the payment to complete or for a parent’s approval in Google Family Link, everything unlocks on its own once it goes through.
On devices with a stylus, turn on Settings → Stylus only so a resting hand doesn’t draw lines; the option appears only when the device recognizes a stylus. Read-aloud uses the device’s text-to-speech; if a voice for the language is missing, install it in the Android settings.