Manic Marble vs Flipbook
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Manic Marble
Guide a marble through challenging 3D levels using your device's motion controls. Tilt and turn to navigate obstacles and beat the clock to unlock new stages. Experience vibrant graphics and an original soundtrack.
- Guide marble through 3D levels
- Tilt and turn controls
- Dodge moving obstacles
- Unlock levels by beating par time
- 3D graphics and physics
- Original soundtrack
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The original Manic Marble is back - with all levels totally free! (If you want even more levels - check out Manic Marble 4- also free!) Guide your marble through six crazy 3D levels, each with its own unique theme. Fly over jumps and dodge moving obstacles by tilting and turning your iPhone. Complete your current level in less than the "par" time to unlock the next one. Features: -Powerful 3D graphics and physics engine provided by SIO2 Interactive -Intuitive accelerometer-based control system -Original soundtrack by Nothing Labs
Flipbook
Easily create animated flipbooks and movies with drawing and painting tools. Print your creations to assemble physical flipbooks. Includes tutorials and lesson plans for kids, parents, and teachers.
- Draw, paint, and animate easily
- Create cartoon characters and shape animations
- Printable flipbooks in PDF format
- Intuitive controls and tutorials
- Stylus integration (e.g., Apple Pencil)
- Lesson plans for parents and teachers
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Flipbook:Animate is an easy way for kids to create animation flipbooks and movies. Draw,paint and animate easily in this app designed specifically for kids. Create flipbooks and movies of cartoon characters,paintings or just doodle simple animations of shapes. Each animated movie can be printed out physically and assembled by hand to make a flipbook. *Print out your flipbooks,using the common PDF format *Intuitive controls and tons of tutorials *Integrates well with styluses like Ipad Pencil and Note *Features lesson plans for parents and teachers to create fun arts and crafts projects Flipbook:Animate is created by Appy Monkeys , the award winning studio behind Blox 3D,Animate Me and Draw 3D Junior which have collectively been downloaded more than 3 million times globally and been featured by Apple and Google.Our apps have won awards from Children's Tech review and have been featured by Purdue University in their STEAM/STEM guide for parents.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Manic Marble at 71% against Flipbook's 13%. Manic Marble also leads on price (Free vs $2.99) and rating (4.2 vs 2.3). Flipbook's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 12.0). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Manic Marble is free to download; Flipbook costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Manic Marble holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 10 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Manic Marble's written reviews are positive against 13% of Flipbook's.
Manic Marble ships an update every 4 months, Flipbook every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Manic Marble | Flipbook |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.2 (11 ratings) — better | 2.3 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 71.0% of reviews — better | 12.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 137 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rich Olson | Arjun Gupte |
Customer experience
Manic Marble
Flipbook
Bugs and requests
Manic Marble
Reported bugs
15 issues- Controls not sensitive enough
- Controls too sensitive
- Steering sensitivity needs improvement
- Hard to steer on sharp turns
- Doesn't turn when needed
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- Fall is too long
- Weird fart music on levels 3 & 6
- Music on levels 3 and 7 are farting sounds
- Can't get past level one
- Controls are slugish and badly implemented
- Menus and method of getting to levels are terrible
- Graphics can be confusing
- Difficult to differentiate between ramp and obstacle
- Time restraint makes it frustrating
- Game ends abruptly in free version
Requested features
14 requests- More levels
- New themes
- Map maker
- Option to listen to own music
- Reset button
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- Optional time restraint
- Update existing app instead of new version
- Better background graphics
- Ability to change marble designs
- Increase par on each level
- Add break or reverse option
- Better graphics
- Different color marbles with different capabilities
- Expand on current app instead of new app
Flipbook
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Manic Marble
No in-app purchases
Flipbook
No in-app purchases
