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Here is a comprehensive list of writing apps thanks to the University of Michigan:
WRITING:
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Alpha Writer helps you learn to read, write, and spell phonetically. Learn language basics, build skills to help you write your own story, and share your story via email when you’re done.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 7.0 or later.
AppWriter is comprised of text-to-speech software, context based word suggestions, and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology to help with reading and writing.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 6.0 or later.
Create your own picture books, cookbooks, and more using the iPad. You can share them with friends, read them in iBooks, and even submit them to the iBookstore.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
This app provides a set of therapeutic hand exercises to improve fine motor skills and handwriting readiness in children and adults.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
Dragon Dictation is a voice recognition app that allows the user to see the text generated through speaking instead of typing. It can be used with popular social networking applications.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 3.1.3 or later.
This learning game can help children develop stronger reading and writing skills. Players have to correctly identify parts of speech to rescue their friends from the grammar dragon’s castle.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.1 or later.
This app is a great brainstorming tool. It helps you visually organize ideas quickly and easily and allows you to share them with others.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 7.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Idea Sketch lets you easily draw a diagram (mind map, concept map, or flow chart), convert it to a text outline, and vice versa. It can be used to brainstorm new ideas, illustrate concepts, make lists and outlines, plan presentations, create organizational charts, and more.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
iWordQ helps struggling readers and writers through text-to-speech capabilities, text highlighting, and much more.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Using a structured game format, iWriteWords teaches handwriting skills.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
Letter Tracing makes handwriting easier. You can trace letters (with and without app assistance) or free write, all while training your hand/eye coordination. The Dyslexie font is used throughout the app to help with readability.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.1 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Montessori Crosswords can help you develop reading, writing, and spelling skills. Build words from a set of 320 word-image-audio-phonics combinations using a phonics-enabled movable alphabet.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.1 or later.
Notetaker HD handles all of your handwritten notes, diagrams, and drawings in one place. You can annotate PDF files, shrink text to fit on the screen, and customize how your notes are organized.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 7.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app allows you to create, edit, and view documents. It automatically zooms in on text while you type and zooms back out when you’re done, so it makes writing and editing easy.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
PaperPort Notes uses Dragon Dictate power to act as a digital note-taking tool. You can use it to combine documents, web content, audio, and typed text as well as handwritten notes into a single document.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.1 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Create your own audio photo books with Pictello. Pages can include an image, a few lines of text, and recorded audio or text-to-speech content. When you’re finished, you can share your story through iTunes.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
This app is designed for elementary aged children. Through sentence building activities, it explains how to correctly use prepositions and how they can change the meaning of a sentence.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.2 or later.
Through lessons and easy tracing games, Read&Write helps you learn phonics, read, write, and pronounce different letters and letter combinations.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.1 or later.
Sentence Builder can help you learn how to build grammatically correct sentences. It includes 100 distinct pictures to build sentences around.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
Hear your emails, articles, and other online texts read aloud to you by simply copying and pasting the text into the app. Then, create audio files from the spoken text that you can save or email.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 7.0 or later.
This powerful app can not only help improve spelling, but it has word prediction and auto-completion features, text-to-speech with word highlighting, a built-in dictionary, and much more.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
Stories2Learn allows you to create personalized stories using photos, text, and audio that can help improve literacy as well as social skills.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
Story Builder is designed to help you improve paragraph formation, integration of ideas, and higher level language such as inferences. The app aims to improve auditory processing by using audio clips.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
Create your very own electronic storybook with this fun app. Simply write some text, illustrate by drawing on the screen or upload photographs from existing albums, record sounds into your story, and lay out all the elements.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Talk to Me speaks words as you type them, and the words appear on every screen, no matter what you’re doing! There are many customizable features, including size of text and speed of reading.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app can help you practice and improve your typing skills.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.1 or later.
Writing Machine shows how one picture and one word go together, how to read text from left to right, and how to tell words from letters.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.1 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app uses word prediction and has a sophisticated spelling error model to help you focus on the content of your writing. Typ-O is able to identify the most common spelling mistakes and will often suggest words.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
WordSort is a fun game for learning and understanding the parts of speech. There are three levels of the game as well as different difficulty settings for every learner.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 6.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app presents learning in small bites with complementary and mutually reinforcing parts including a list of commonly confused words pairs, an incisive explanation, a quote, and a quiz.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
Writing Prompts helps make writing more fun. It provides a variety of scene elements, words, sketches, colors, genres, and writing types, allowing you to make your writing more imaginative.