Flip vs Light Box for Low Vision
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flip
Explore a wide range of facial expressions by customizing eyebrows, eyes, and mouths. This app offers various hairstyles and eyewear options, making it a fun tool for learning about emotions. It's designed for children aged 5 and up, including those with low vision, autism, or language delays.
- Customizable facial features (eyebrows, eyes, mouth)
- Variety of hairstyles
- Eyewear options
- Hundreds of expression combinations
- Designed for low-vision users
- Beneficial for autism and language delays
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The Flip-Over Faces app is where a child can casually explore facial expressions within a fun and versatile context. You can generate hundreds of facial expressions by changing eyebrow position, eye direction, and mouth type. In addition multiple hair styles and eyewear options are available. This app is especially designed for students with low-vision and a cognitive level of aged 5 years of age and older. Students with autism and language delays may also benefit from this app. Sighted students and adults are invited to enjoy the app as well!
Light Box for Low Vision
This app offers a digital alternative to expensive light boxes for children with visual impairments. It displays various colors and patterns to aid in learning and engagement, allowing parents to provide feedback for future feature development.
- Digital light box simulation
- Display of various colors
- Display of various patterns
- Interactive learning tool
- Parent feedback integration
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For parents of children with visual impairments, you may have been told to use a light box. This device and associated films are rather expensive. This simple app allows you to work with your clild in the same way that a light box does: displaying various colors and patterns. Please provide feedback as to what colors, patterns, and other features are beneficial for your child and we will do our best to add them.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Flip at none against Light Box for Low Vision's 3. Light Box for Low Vision's advantage is update cadence (every 11 days vs every 7 months) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, rating, ads 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
Both are free to download. Light Box for Low Vision sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Flip asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Flip against 5.0 for Light Box for Low Vision. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Light Box for Low Vision has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Flip ships an update every 7 months, Light Box for Low Vision every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on June 20, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flip | Light Box for Low Vision |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | American Printing House for the Blind (APH) | ANDREW SARTORIUS |
Customer experience
Flip
Light Box for Low Vision
In-app purchases
Flip
No in-app purchases
Light Box for Low Vision
- $0.99$0.99
- $2.99$2.99
- $5.99$5.99
Questions
Is Flip free?
Is Light Box for Low Vision free?
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