Comparison

ioio vs Flipflop Solitaire

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

ioio

Experience a minimalistic take on the classic card game. This app offers a clean interface and soothing soundtrack for a relaxing puzzle-solving experience. Enjoy handcrafted puzzles with no ads or random elements, ensuring every game is solvable.

Highlights
  • 48 free handcrafted puzzles
  • No ads
  • Solvable puzzles
  • Simple rules
  • Minimalistic graphics
  • Soothing soundtrack
Features
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ioio is a minimalistic solitaire game. It celebrates the simple joy of stacking and arranging. Inspired by the classic game of Solitaire, ioio twists the formula to make a fresh and clean approach. Calming and easy to pick up, you will soon find yourself deep in concentration to perfect each puzzle. Features: • Play 48 free handcrafted puzzles • No ads • No random, everything is solvable • Simple rules, lots of possibilities • Enjoy the minimal and soothing soundtrack • Clean interface and minimalistic graphics • 48 additional puzzles can be bought in game

About

Flipflop Solitaire

This card game offers a unique solitaire experience with flexible stacking rules, allowing you to build sequences up, down, or both ways. Enjoy a challenging yet relaxing brain teaser with all deals being solvable.

Highlights
  • Flexible stacking rules (up, down, or both)
  • All deals are solvable
  • Single suit stack restriction
  • Track game statistics
  • Unlockable content
  • Ambient background audio
Features
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From the creator of Sage Solitaire, comes a new Solitaire variant that breaks all the rules! 100% of deals are solvable! Like its footwear namesake — Flipflop Solitaire is unrestrictive, creating a new game for fans of spider, klondike and other traditional Solitaires. In Flipflop you can stack down, up, or even both ways on a single stack! Need to stack an 8 on a 7, or a club on a spade? No problem! - but - Be careful, you can only move a stack of a single suit! It's fun and freeing, but still challenging and captivating. It's Flipflops for your brain. ------WHAT CRITICS ARE SAYING "I'm in love with it already"..."Once you start, it's hard to stop playing." - App Advice "Truly special" — Game of the Week - Touch Arcade "Surprisingly absolutely brilliant" - Cult of Mac "A perfect diversion with just the right amount of challenge, delight, and depth to make it a must-have iOS game." - Mac Stories "A Breath of Fresh Air" - Gamezebo ------WHATS IN THE “BOX”? - Play Flipflop Solitaire from 1-4 suits for free! - Unlock 5 Suit, and 1 Suit Extended with a single in-app-purchase of $2.99 - Track your best times, least moves, least undos, total wins, total plays, and more - Unlock over 1000 numbered deals for 1-5 suits via in-app-purchase - Over a hundred achievements - Unlockable backgrounds, alternate card and card back color schemes - Natural ambient binaural background audio - A strong sense of relaxation ------A WORD FROM THE DEVELOPER Flipflop Solitaire is sort of a sequel to Sage Solitaire in the sense that it's my second crack at the design problem of making a Solitaire game that feels like it was designed for your phone and not for a table. To be honest this is how I wish everyone approached sequels. Usually a sequel takes the solution to a problem and duplicates it. This is why our expectations of game sequels are often more-of-the-same-but-better. I'd rather see more sequels that brought a renewed level of surprise and novelty, and I'm hoping that's what you find in Flipflop Solitaire. While Sage was all about trying to capture the feeling of a tight, easy to play, tough to win, zen solitaire game, Flipflop is about knots. In a typical Solitaire game, like Klondike, you're taking a knot of cards and untying it into sequences. Then you reverse those sequences into clean ordered stacks. In Flipflop you take your knot of cards and tie it into other, hopefully better knots. Then you untie those knots into the final ordered stacks. Having so much control over the way your intermediary knots are constructed led to a lot more depth than I expected. I hope you enjoy this game as much as I've enjoyed discovering it. -zach

Screenshots

ioio4 screens
Flipflop Solitaire4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: ioio at 4.8 against Flipflop Solitaire's 4.0. ioio also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (83% vs 53%). Flipflop Solitaire's advantage is ratings volume (712 vs 25). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. ioio sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Flipflop Solitaire sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ioio holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flipflop Solitaire has 712 ratings behind it against 25, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of ioio's written reviews are positive against 53% of Flipflop Solitaire's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ioio ships an update every 4 days, Flipflop Solitaire monthly. Both last shipped on October 15, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
ioio versus Flipflop Solitaire: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterioioFlipflop Solitaire
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (25 ratings) — better4.0 (712 ratings)
Positive reviews82.7% of reviews — better53.0% of reviews
Number of ratings25712 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterMonthly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size103 MB133 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAsger StrandbyZach Gage

Customer experience

ioio

All ratings25 ratings
Positive92.0%
Neutral8.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews52 reviews
Positive82.7%
Neutral17.3%
Negative0.0%

Flipflop Solitaire

All ratings712 ratings
Positive73.7%
Neutral7.3%
Negative19.0%
Written reviews298 reviews
Positive53.0%
Neutral17.4%
Negative29.5%

Bugs and requests

ioio

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Flipflop Solitaire

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Freezing on game completion
  • Crashing on iOS 12
  • Cards not flipping/disappearing
  • Undo issues
  • Leaderboard/achievements not working properly

Requested features

4 requests
  • Reset scores/stats
  • Landscape mode for iPad
  • Difficulty modes with card recycling
  • Tutorial replay option

In-app purchases

6 purchases

ioio

One-time6
  • Mini Pledge$0.99
  • Unlock Night World page 1$0.99
  • Unlock Night World page 2$0.99
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  • Unlock Night World page 3$0.99
  • Medium Pledge$2.99
  • Maximum Pledge$4.99
2 purchases

Flipflop Solitaire

One-time2
  • 200 More Deals17 variants$1.99
  • Full Game Unlock$2.99

Questions

Is ioio free?
ioio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Flipflop Solitaire free?
Flipflop Solitaire is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ioio or Flipflop Solitaire?
ioio is rated higher. ioio averages 4.8 out of 5 from 25 ratings, while Flipflop Solitaire averages 4.0 from 712 ratings.
Do ioio or Flipflop Solitaire have ads?
Flipflop Solitaire shows ads; ioio does not.
Which is updated more often, ioio or Flipflop Solitaire?
ioio ships an update every 4 days, and Flipflop Solitaire monthly. Most recently, ioio was updated on October 15, 2026 and Flipflop Solitaire on October 15, 2026.

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