Comparison

Flipflop Solitaire vs MineSweeper Zero

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

Head to head
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

About

MineSweeper Zero

Features
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You will never have to guess. In most minesweeper games there comes a moment near the end where two squares are left and there is no way to know which one is the mine. The game ends on luck instead of skill. Minesweeper Zero does not create those boards. ■ Every board is solvable by logic Each board is solved end to end by a solver before you ever see it. If it needs a guess even once, the board is thrown away and a new one is generated. Only boards that pass make it to your screen. No 50/50s. ■ Difficulty means reasoning required, not mines added Easy, Medium and Hard are not defined by how many mines were added. They are defined by what kind of reasoning it takes to finish. Boards of the same difficulty actually feel about equally hard. ■ Nine combinations Three difficulties × three board sizes. Every board is generated fresh, so you never solve the same one twice. ■ Controls built for thumbs · Tap to reveal, hold to flag — or swap the two · A ring fills while you hold, and nothing commits until you lift. Slide off the board to cancel · Choose how long the hold takes — Fast, Default or Slow — and try it right there in Settings · Tap a revealed number to open its neighbours at once ■ No ads, no tracking, no account No banners. No full-screen interruptions. No "watch a video to continue." No sign-up, no sign-in, no email. ■ No internet required, at all On a plane or underground, it behaves exactly the same. The app makes no network connections, so nothing about you leaves your device. Your records stay on your iPhone. ■ Buy once, done No subscription. No in-app purchases. You will never hit a paywall for hints. Future updates are included. ■ Stuck? A hint plays one move for you It does not just uncover a random safe square. It finds a square that logic already decides right now, and plays it. There is no limit on hints — but a game played with hints does not go on the best-time board. ■ Your records Best times and clear rates per difficulty and size, filterable by the last 7 or 30 days. Best times count only games finished without hints. ■ Also Dark mode · iPhone and iPad · Autosave and resume · Haptics · Auto-pause Zero means nothing but the puzzle. Zero ads, zero tracking, zero accounts, zero network. Sudoku Zero, built on the same principle, is also on the App Store.

Screenshots

Flipflop Solitaire4 screens
MineSweeper Zero4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Flipflop Solitaire at Free against MineSweeper Zero's $4.99. Flipflop Solitaire also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.6). MineSweeper Zero's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 18) and ads (none vs shown). On 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

Flipflop Solitaire is free to download; MineSweeper Zero costs $4.99 up front. Flipflop Solitaire sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. MineSweeper Zero asks for nothing beyond the download.

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Flipflop Solitaire versus MineSweeper Zero: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlipflop SolitaireMineSweeper Zero
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating4.0 (712 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews53.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings712 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size133 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZach GageByungil Park

Bugs and 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

MineSweeper Zero

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Flipflop Solitaire

One-time2
  • 200 More Deals17 variants$1.99
  • Full Game Unlock$2.99
None

MineSweeper Zero

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Flipflop Solitaire free?
Flipflop Solitaire is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MineSweeper Zero free?
MineSweeper Zero costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Flipflop Solitaire or MineSweeper Zero have ads?
Flipflop Solitaire shows ads; MineSweeper Zero does not.

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