Comparison

Five Little Aliens vs Flipping

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

Head to head
About

Five Little Aliens

An interactive educational app designed to teach numbers one through five through a song and engaging activities. It features clear visuals, high-quality voiceovers, and supports touch or switch input for counting and number recognition.

Highlights
  • Interactive counting song
  • Number recognition activities
  • Touch and switch compatibility
  • Clear graphics and voiceover
  • Errorless learning activities
Features
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Learn the numbers from one to five with this easy to learn counting song. The song and animation stop at the end of each verse and you can use a switch or touch the screen to play the next verse. Clear graphics, which include the numbers and words to sing along with and high quality voice over to encourage correct pronunciation of the number names. The follow-up activities give lots of opportunities to see numbers and hear number names. • Counting up – touch the screen or press a switch to count up to five. • Count along number line – errorless activity using touch or switch to count to five with clear visual and auditory feedback for numbers and number names. • This set of activities is an enjoyable way to help a child become familiar with numbers from one to five. • Works with touch or single or two switch scanning. • Use a switch with any currently available iPad switch interface.

About

Flipping

Features
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Flipping is an accessible picture-puzzle game designed for visual assessment and visual training, with a special focus on children and adults who have low vision, cerebral or cortical visual impairment (CVI), or other special educational needs. A picture is divided into a grid and one or more cells are flipped upside-down or mirrored. The player spots the "wrong" cell and taps it to flip it back, rebuilding the whole image. When every cell is restored, a fun animation celebrates the success. The game is built around three principles that make it useful both as a visual-skills workout and as an assessment tool: • LARGE, HIGH-CONTRAST IMAGES — Every picture fills the screen. Bold colours, clean outlines and clearly recognisable subjects (animals, vehicles, flowers, shapes and patterns) give low-vision users something obvious to look at and react to. There are no distracting backgrounds. • GRADED DIFFICULTY — Three levels let you match the task to the learner's current ability: – Level 1: a 2×2 grid with a single flipped cell (easiest). – Level 2: a 3×3 grid with two flipped cells. – Level 3: a 4×4 grid with three flipped cells. The simple progression makes Flipping useful for tracking visual discrimination skills over time. • FULL ACCESSIBILITY OPTIONS — Use touch, a single switch (auto-scan), or two switches. Turn sound on or off, adjust the volume, add a settle-time delay between puzzles so the learner can take in each completed picture, and set the auto-scan speed to suit the user. Nine activity categories are built in: Animals, Mix, Transport, Animals Full, Mix Full, Transport Full, Pattern, Colour and Shape. Each category has its own set of reward animations to celebrate success. Flipping also supports using your OWN pictures — tap the camera button to load family photos or any image from the device, so the activity can be personal and motivating. This makes it easy for teachers, therapists and parents to create material tailored to a specific learner. Flipping is landscape-only on both iPhone and iPad, so the picture fills the whole screen for maximum visual impact.

Screenshots

Flipping4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Flipping at Free against Five Little Aliens's $3.99. Five Little Aliens's advantage is iOS requirement (6.0 vs 16.0). On 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

Flipping is free to download; Five Little Aliens costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Five Little Aliens versus Flipping: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFive Little AliensFlipping
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 15 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS6.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB55 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperInclusive Technology LtdSensory App House Ltd

In-app purchases

None

Five Little Aliens

No in-app purchases

None

Flipping

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Five Little Aliens free?
Five Little Aliens costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Flipping free?
Flipping is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Five Little Aliens or Flipping have ads?
Neither Five Little Aliens nor Flipping shows ads.

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