FLIP FF vs AABC African Alphabets
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FLIP FF
Create and share upside-down text messages. Simply type your message and send it via text or social media platforms.
- Write upside-down messages
- Share via text
- Share on social media
- Simple text input
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Write your upside down message and share it by text or on socials. Just type in your text. Idea & Gfx: Francesco Fornara http://www.franforn.com
AABC African Alphabets
This utility provides smartphone keyboards for numerous African languages and scripts, respecting phonetic variations and standard keyboard orders. It functions systemwide and offline, ensuring broad accessibility for diverse linguistic needs.
- Keyboards for common African languages and scripts
- Phonetic character variants supported
- Standard QWERTY, QWERTZ, AZERTY layouts
- Systemwide and offline functionality
- Unicode character adoption
- Interactive development based on user feedback
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African Alphabets of the Bayreuth Cluster (AABC) provides smartphones with keyboards for all common African languages and scripts. The keyboard layouts take account of the particular phonetic character variants and the respective Latin QWERTY-, QWERTZ-, or AZERTY-order. All characters are subject to their respective definition by Unicode and their adequate adoption by the system. Each keyboard consists of four pages that can be reproduced by a keyboard view on the screen. All keyboards can be used systemwide as well as offline, too. It is indicated if individual fonts or characters may be supported differently (or not yet at all) by the operating system in use and therefore cannot (yet) be displayed by the app. For the necessary further development of the app the user is invited to communicate his comments to Dr Ulrich Rebstock (Ulrich.Rebstock@uni-bayreuth.de). This interactive set-up is intended to harmonize cultural authenticity with scientific control of implementation and adjustment of the keyboard layouts. This also includes the selection and integration of language transcriptions and scripts for which hitherto already existing, or newly generated keyboard layouts are to be adopted. The project is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany´s Excellence Strategy – EXC 2052/1 – 390713894. Idea and concept go back to Ulrich Rebstock who is also responsible for the implementation of the keyboards.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: AABC African Alphabets at 5.0 against FLIP FF's 3.7. AABC African Alphabets also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). FLIP FF's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price 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. FLIP FF sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. AABC African Alphabets asks for nothing beyond the download.
AABC African Alphabets holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
FLIP FF ships an update every 5 months, AABC African Alphabets every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FLIP FF | AABC African Alphabets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 56.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tripping Bit di Paolo Faccini | Franz Andreas Kogelmann |
Customer experience
FLIP FF
AABC African Alphabets
In-app purchases
FLIP FF
- Remove ADS$0.99
AABC African Alphabets
No in-app purchases
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