Comparison

Reversi HD! vs Backtalk

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Reversi HD!

Engage in a classic strategy board game on your device. Outmaneuver your opponent by strategically placing pieces to control the board. Enjoy single-player against a smart AI or challenge a friend.

Highlights
  • 1 player and 2 player gameplay
  • Challenging computer opponent
  • Great graphics and sound effects
  • Configurable player names
  • Score tracking
  • Undo function
  • Automatic save
Features
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Take the classic strategy game Reversi with you wherever you go with Reversi Free HD. Place your pieces carefully and defeat your opponent in this back and forth battle. Reversi Free HD supports both 1 player and 2 player gameplay, so you can play against friends or test your skills against a challenging computer opponent. Reversi Free HD offers a host of exciting features, including: • Great graphics and exciting sound effects • Configurable player names and score tracking • Outstanding AI engine with configurable difficulty level • Undo function • Automatic save when you get a phone call or exit the application Download Reversi Free HD today and put your mind to the test! Reversi Free HD is supported by unobtrusive banner advertising.

About

Backtalk

This party game challenges players to mimic backwards sounds. Record a word or tune, hear it played in reverse, and then try to copy it. The closest imitation wins, with various game modes for different group sizes and play styles.

Highlights
  • Play words or hum tunes backwards
  • Record and mimic reversed sounds
  • Robot judge scores attempts
  • Multiple game modes (Classic, Echo Chain, Decoder)
  • Team play options
  • Shareable highlight reels
Features
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Say a word into one phone. Backtalk plays it BACKWARDS. Everyone else records their best copy of that noise, Backtalk flips the attempts back around, and out comes the original word, slightly haunted. Closest copy wins the round. Backtalk is a pass-and-play party game: one phone · 2–12 friends. No accounts, no internet, no ads, no in-app purchases. HOW A ROUND GOES 1. A word is spun for whoever is up (or say your own, or hum a tune). Five seconds, tops. 2. The room hears it backwards. 3. Each friend listens, copies the backwards sound, and passes the phone. 4. The reveal plays every copy flipped back, one at a time, with live reactions. Then the room decides. THE ROOM DECIDES Blind vote: every copy plays as Mystery 1, 2, 3. Everyone votes on one screen, the names drop after, a tie goes to the robot. Or the person who said the word picks by ear, or asks the robot. FIVE WAYS TO PLAY - CLASSIC (2 to 6, teams to 12). The original loop. Closest copy takes the point. - ECHO CHAIN (3 to 6). Telephone, backwards. Each link only hears the previous one, through the earpiece; only the person who said the word knows it until the reveal. - DECODER (2 to 6, teams to 12). Type the secret first. Each friend copies it, hears their own attempt flipped back in private, and types a guess. Closest copy scores; a cracked code is worth double. - SUDDEN DEATH (3 to 6). Elimination: the clock shrinks every round, 5 seconds down to 2, one copy goes home, last one standing wins. - DUEL (exactly 2). The robot says a word backwards. You both copy it. The robot scores both. First to 3. TEAMS Two sides, 4 to 12 players: Fire vs Ice, Cats vs Dogs, Night vs Day or Pizza vs Taco. One side says the word, the other copies, the robot judges, the copying side banks its best two. Team podium, Team MVP, a tiebreaker when banks are level. HUM IT Pick the Tunes deck and hum instead: Happy Birthday, a nursery rhyme, anything. The room copies the backwards hum; the robot judges by ear only and never transcribes a hum. THE ROBOT JUDGE (ON YOUR DEVICE) Ask the robot and it listens to every attempt on your phone, scores each from 0 to 100, and proposes a winner. It is Apple's on-device speech recognition plus the app's own sound comparison: no AI service, no internet, nothing sent anywhere. A second opinion the person who said the word can overrule; the referee in Teams and Duel. With speech recognition off, or on a hum, it judges by ear. HIGHLIGHTS, REPLAY, KEEP, SEND - Before the podium, a short reel: top score, crowd favourite, the robot's funniest mishearing. Skip any time. - Replay any copy as a chipmunk, a bear, in slow motion or as a robot. - Keep the clips the room loved. Share one as a short video, or the whole reel, through the iOS share sheet. Always your choice; switch it off in Settings. - Guess it: a video of up to 15 seconds plays the backwards noise, counts down 3, 2, 1, then reveals the word. The group chat plays along. - Crew stats on this phone only: wins, streaks and titles for the names you play with. MADE FOR THE COUCH, AND THE TABLE - Pass-the-phone screens in each player's colour and a big button saying whose turn it is. - Any emoji as your avatar, twelve colours, confetti, and a proper podium. - Table mode on iPad: lay it flat and both sides of the table can read it. - Quick games by default, one more round, rematch in one tap, Dark mode for sleepovers, and house rules: Blind vote, Fast turns and Speed round (2.5 seconds tops, every clock). YOUR VOICE STAYS YOURS Backtalk records only while someone is recording a take, keeps game clips in a temporary folder, and deletes them when the game ends. Clips you tap Keep on stay in the app's own folder, out of your backups, until you delete them. Duel's voice is the one built into your device, reading the game's own words. No accounts, no analytics, no servers, no network requests, no AI service. Nothing leaves your phone unless you share it. Find out who can talk backwards.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Backtalk at 5.0 against Reversi HD!'s 4.5. Backtalk also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and review sentiment (100% vs 81%). Reversi HD!'s advantage is ratings volume (56 vs 1) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Backtalk holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Reversi HD! has 56 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 81% of Reversi HD!'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Backtalk's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Reversi HD! versus Backtalk: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReversi HD!Backtalk
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (56 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews81.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings56 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 14 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS7.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOptime Software LLCPANSL LLC

Customer experience

Reversi HD!

All ratings55 ratings
Positive89.1%
Neutral3.6%
Negative7.3%
Written reviews198 reviews
Positive81.3%
Neutral6.6%
Negative12.1%

Backtalk

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Reversi HD!

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • App crashes on startup or when starting games
  • Crashes in two-player mode
  • Game freezes during gameplay
  • Slow performance and lag
  • Crashes after iOS 8 update
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  • Incompatibility with iPad 2 and original iPad mini
  • Crash reporting not resulting in fixes

Requested features

10 requests
  • Better and clearer rules explanation/tutorial
  • Online multiplayer support
  • Bluetooth/WiFi local multiplayer
  • GameCenter integration
  • Piece color customization
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  • Alternating starter option
  • Visual indicator for pass moves
  • Improved difficulty balancing
  • Ad removal option
  • Go game version of the app

Backtalk

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Reversi HD!

No in-app purchases

None

Backtalk

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Reversi HD! free?
Reversi HD! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Backtalk free?
Backtalk is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Reversi HD! or Backtalk?
Backtalk is rated higher. Reversi HD! averages 4.5 out of 5 from 56 ratings, while Backtalk averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Reversi HD! or Backtalk have ads?
Neither Reversi HD! nor Backtalk shows ads.

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