Creative Writer - Fun! Easy! Write! - Ideas for Writing and Texting - Flow of Words, Poetry and Lyrics
By Dana Anderson,
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What’s It About?
To use CREATIVE WRITER - FUN! EASY! WRITE! - IDEAS FOR WRITING AND TEXTING - FLOW OF WORDS, POETRY AND LYRICS, first enable the app's keyboard on your phone. Choose it as your keyboard to use Creative Writer to write text messages (and communicate via social apps) or write within the app itself. Choose the desired vocabulary -- Classics, "You and Me," Song Lyrics, and more -- and begin choosing words. Tap on the word to see its meaning, synonyms, and more. Export what you've written by choosing share and which method you'd like to use to share your work. To change the font, background, and size of type, or to filter profanity, choose to use the "talking robot," and for more options, go to settings.
Is It Any Good?
With the in-app purchase features added, this app can be a fun and effective creative writing and vocabulary tool, but as a freebie, it's underwhelming. The free version of Creative Writer - Fun! Easy! Write! - Ideas for Writing and Texting - Flow of Words, Poetry and Lyrics is essentially a predictive text tool with some added words and meager options. With the paid features, it becomes a pretty terrific resource for word definitions, synonyms, related creative phrases, rhyming words, and more. The talking robot is just odd -- and a feature most users will likely want to skip. Also, since teens can take text from other sources and combine it into something new, parents will want to discuss plagiarism and using someone else's content fairly. Ultimately, perhaps the developer should just charge a premium price and provide all the features available via in-app purchase from the get-go. As it stands, if you download this app, be prepared to be underwhelmed -- or to pay for the essential features.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about how Creative Writer - Fun! Easy! Write! - Ideas for Writing and Texting - Flow of Words, Poetry and Lyrics offers words from different genres to help users write more creatively and accurately. How does vocabulary change the meaning of your message? Why is it important to choose your words carefully and match them to who you're speaking to and what message you're trying to convey?
This app provides a good opportunity to talk about plagiarism. What is the difference between using a word from a lyric in a text message to a friend and borrowing a whole lyric and claiming to have written it in a school paper?
When you put something in writing digitally, it is out there forever. Read Common Sense Media's 3 Kinds of Apps that Stir Up Drama in Schools and talk to your kid about using this app -- and their own self-selected words -- responsibly when sending or posting messages about or to others.
App Details
- Devices: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad
- Subjects: Language & Reading: vocabulary
- Skills: Creativity: combining knowledge, producing new content, Self-Direction: academic development, Communication: conveying messages effectively
- Pricing structure: Free (with optional in-app purchases from $.99-$3.99 for additional content)
- Release date: March 2, 2016
- Category: Education
- Publisher: Resonanca IT D.O.O.
- Version: 5.4
- Minimum software requirements: iOS 8.0 or later
- Last updated: February 13, 2020
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