I expect lite versions to have in-app purchases at times, but this is extreme! Bombards you with full screen ads left and right, if the child does not know to wait and taps the screen, the ad takes you to the app store for other apps with $20 in app purchases; makes it very difficult to evaluate game play to see if full purchase would be worth it- there are a number of ways to use ads and in-app purchases without doing this. The fun sound effects and sparkles while writing are great, but paint is not smooth like shown in the screenshots- it skips a lot more and requires a lot of effort to get a continuous smooth line. Words and letters are all uppercase. There are other handwriting apps that do this better. The pachinko style game is fun, but everything else get can be easily found elsewhere for way less in the long run, IMO.