Flipflop Solitaire+ vs Balatro+
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flipflop Solitaire+
This solitaire variant offers a unique twist on traditional gameplay, allowing flexible stacking rules and a focus on strategic knot-tying. Enjoy a relaxing yet challenging experience with customizable options and a vast number of solvable deals.
- Flexible stacking (up, down, or both)
- 100% solvable deals
- Play with 1-5 suits
- Track game statistics
- Customizable backgrounds and card schemes
- Ambient binaural audio
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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. ------WHATS IN THE “BOX”? - Play Flipflop Solitaire+ from 1-5 suits! - Track your best times, least moves, least undos, total wins, total plays, and more - Over 10,000 numbered deals for 1-5 suits - Over a hundred achievements - Change up your backgrounds, 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. -zach
Balatro+
This is a hypnotic card game that blends Solitaire and Poker mechanics with unique rule-bending twists. Players aim to beat challenging Boss Blinds by forming strong poker hands and discovering powerful Joker cards to create exciting combos and boost scores.
- Twist rules in new ways
- Beat Boss Blinds with poker hands
- Discover over 150 Jokers with special powers
- Create awesome combos
- Multiple game modes (Campaign, Challenge)
- Beautiful pixel art
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Welcome to the official Balatro+ mobile game! Hypnotic and endlessly satisfying, Balatro is a magical mix of card games like Solitaire and Poker, that lets you twist the rules in ways never seen before! Your goal is to beat the Boss Blinds by making strong poker hands. Find new Jokers that change the game and create awesome and exciting combos! Win enough chips to beat tricky bosses, and find hidden bonus hands and decks as you play. You’ll need all the help you can get to beat the big boss, win the final challenge, and win the game. Features: * Remastered controls for touch screen devices. * Each run is different: every pick-up, discard and joker can dramatically alter the course of your run. * Multiple game items: discover over 150 Jokers, each with special powers. Use them with different decks,upgrade cards and vouchers to boost your scores. * Different Game modes: Campaign mode and challenge mode for you to play. * Beautiful Pixel Art: Immerse yourself in the CRT fuzz and enjoy detailed, hand-crafted pixel art.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Balatro+ at 4.9 against Flipflop Solitaire+'s 4.0. Balatro+ also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 16 months) and review sentiment (82% vs 55%). 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.
Balatro+ holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Balatro+ has 63K ratings behind it against 136, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of Flipflop Solitaire+'s written reviews are positive against 82% of Balatro+'s.
Flipflop Solitaire+ ships an update every 16 months, Balatro+ every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 2, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flipflop Solitaire+ | Balatro+ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (136 ratings) | 4.9 (63K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.5% of reviews | 82.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 136 | 63K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 16 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 13.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 136 MB | 136 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Zach Gage | Playstack Ltd |
Customer experience
Flipflop Solitaire+
Balatro+
User reviews
Flipflop Solitaire+
From 136 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎮 Engaging and addictive gameplay mechanics
- 🧠 Challenging yet fair difficulty curve
- ✨ Clean, polished visual design
- 🎨 Customizable card color options
- 👂 Developer responsive to user feedback
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent app freezing and crashes
- 🐛 Auto-move feature moves cards suboptimally
- 🐛 Game statistics tracking is unreliable
- 🐛 iCloud sync broken or unreliable
- 🐛 Achievement tracking bugs
Balatro+
From 63K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Addictive gameplay
- 👍 Unique and creative spin on poker
- 🎨 Excellent visual style and music
- 💎 High replayability and depth
- 🕹️ Smooth mobile controls
Room to improve
- 🐛 Cloud save issues and data loss
- 🔇 Disables other audio playback
- 🔍 Small UI elements and text
- 🔁 Repetitive blind tags
Bugs and requests
Flipflop Solitaire+
Reported bugs
15 issues- App freezes on menu screen requiring force quit
- Game crashes entire iPad/tablet
- iCloud restore/sync freezes indefinitely
- Statistics not syncing between devices
- Win/loss counts incrementing incorrectly
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- Achievements stuck or not unlocking
- Card movement stops registering after rapid tapping
- King/Ace stacking bugs with auto-move
- Missing cards in deals
- Game freezes during gameplay
- Color palette update made suits visually indistinguishable
- Hint button creates circular card movements
- Display rendering issues on iPad Pro 12.9
- Haptic animation bug after using hint feature
- Numbered deck progress not syncing
Requested features
14 requests- Auto-complete button when all cards are sorted
- Ability to turn off auto-move feature
- Auto iCloud sync between devices
- Replay previous deals with different strategies
- Win percentage without undo tracking
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- Streak tracking and streak saver warning
- Manual color palette customization
- Revert to original card colors
- Settings menu for sound/haptics control
- Tutorial accessible from main menu
- MacBook version of the game
- Random deal option
- Ability to reset progress
- Improved hint algorithm
Balatro+
Reported bugs
2 issues- Freezing and crashing on some devices
- Unlocks and progress not tracking properly
Requested features
4 requests- Portrait mode option
- Ability to quickly deselect cards
- More accessibility options
- Syncing progress across devices
In-app purchases
Flipflop Solitaire+
No in-app purchases
Balatro+
No in-app purchases
Questions
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