Flip vs Low Vision Simulator
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!
Low Vision Simulator
Experience simulated visual impairments like blur, glare, and tunnel vision. This tool helps users understand and share low vision conditions, even capturing photos and videos during simulations. It offers remote control for adjusting effects while previewing.
- Simulates blur, glare, tunnel vision, central scotoma, nystagmus
- Reproduces complex visual situations
- Shareable low-vision settings
- Capture photos and videos during simulation
- Remote device connection for effect adjustment
- Supports iPhone and iPad
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This application simulates symptoms of low vision vision. It can reproduce blur, glare, tunnel vision, central scotoma and nystagmus. It can also simulate complex situations such as glare and tunnel vision at the same time. It allows users to share their low-vision settings and take photos and videos during the simulation. Additionally, it can connect remotely to another device to adjust the effects while previewing the simulation.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Flip at 5.0 against Low Vision Simulator's 3.3. Low Vision Simulator's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 7 months) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Flip holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.
Flip ships an update every 7 months, Low Vision Simulator monthly. The most recent releases landed on June 20, 2026 and August 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flip | Low Vision Simulator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 3.3 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | American Printing House for the Blind (APH) | Yasushi Nakano |
Customer experience
Flip
Low Vision Simulator
In-app purchases
Flip
No in-app purchases
Low Vision Simulator
No in-app purchases
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