Flip vs EDA PLAY TOM
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!
EDA PLAY TOM
This app offers interactive farm and forest adventures designed to train visual and fine motor skills. It's specifically tailored for children with visual impairments, including CVI, and those with motor skill challenges, providing engaging activities with simple controls and rewarding animations.
- Interactive animal adventures on farm and forest
- Tailored for children with special needs
- Training of visual skills with bright colors
- Attractive sound design and animations
- White frame to demarcate work surface
- Skills section for progress tracking
- Simulator of visual disorders for adults
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For the training of vision and fine motor skills; developed for children with visual and multiple disorders. Tailor-made for children with central visual impairment (CVI). Explore the adventure with animals on the farm and in the forest! It is so simple that even children with limited fine motor skills can control the game. Suitable both for children with visual disorders and for children with severe fine and gross motor skills impairments. KEY FEATURES THE ADVENTURE WITH ANIMALS ON THE FARM AND IN THE FOREST - Let's explore tasks with animals, groom the horse, feed the sheep. - Touch and find out what's hiding in the forest. TAILOR-MADE FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS - Children can touch the iPad display anywhere or just slap it – and they are rewarded with an interesting sound and animation of an animal. TRAINING OF VISUAL SKILLS - Bright colors, simple pictures, simple scenes - Images set against a black background. ATTRACTIVE SOUND DESIGN AND ANIMATIONS - Interesting sound and animations capture visual attention. WHITE FRAME can be set to distinctively demarcate the work surface of the tablet display. The SKILLS SECTION records the work of the child with the app. The SIMULATOR OF VISUAL DISORDERS enables adults to better understand how complicated the world is for children with visual disorders. The app was developed in cooperation with low vision specialists and experts in the field of early intervention. The authorship of the EDA PLAY TOM app belongs to the non-profit organization EDA cz, z.ú. and to the digital studio Sugar And Ketchup. The project is carried out with the support of the Czech Radio Foundation (Nadační fond Českého rozhlasu) from the Firefly (Světluška) fund, the ČEZ Foundation, and Dow. For more information go to www.edaplay.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: EDA PLAY TOM at every 2 months against Flip's every 7 months. EDA PLAY TOM also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.0). Flip's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Flip against 5.0 for EDA PLAY TOM. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Flip ships an update every 7 months, EDA PLAY TOM every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on June 20, 2026 and July 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flip | EDA PLAY TOM |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | American Printing House for the Blind (APH) | EDA cz, z. u. |
Customer experience
Flip
EDA PLAY TOM
In-app purchases
Flip
No in-app purchases
EDA PLAY TOM
No in-app purchases
