Zen Pipe vs Flipflop Solitaire
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Zen Pipe
A simple yet addictive puzzle game where players rotate pipes to connect them. Enjoy an endless stream of randomly generated levels on all your devices for a relaxing gaming experience.
- Simple pipe rotation puzzles
- Addictive gameplay
- Infinite levels
- Randomly generated levels
- Universal device support
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Want to play a relaxing puzzle game? Don't look further; Zen Pipe is the game you were looking for. The rules are simple (you rotate the pipes to their correct position) but terribly addictive. You’ll be coming back for more, your money guaranty (wait a minute… the game is FREE). - Simple and relaxing puzzle game. - Infinite and randomly generated levels. - Universal (works on all your devices).
Flipflop Solitaire
This card game offers a unique solitaire experience with flexible stacking rules, allowing you to build sequences up, down, or both ways. Enjoy a challenging yet relaxing brain teaser with all deals being solvable.
- Flexible stacking rules (up, down, or both)
- All deals are solvable
- Single suit stack restriction
- Track game statistics
- Unlockable content
- Ambient background 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. ------WHAT CRITICS ARE SAYING "I'm in love with it already"..."Once you start, it's hard to stop playing." - App Advice "Truly special" — Game of the Week - Touch Arcade "Surprisingly absolutely brilliant" - Cult of Mac "A perfect diversion with just the right amount of challenge, delight, and depth to make it a must-have iOS game." - Mac Stories "A Breath of Fresh Air" - Gamezebo ------WHATS IN THE “BOX”? - Play Flipflop Solitaire from 1-4 suits for free! - Unlock 5 Suit, and 1 Suit Extended with a single in-app-purchase of $2.99 - Track your best times, least moves, least undos, total wins, total plays, and more - Unlock over 1000 numbered deals for 1-5 suits via in-app-purchase - Over a hundred achievements - Unlockable backgrounds, alternate 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. I hope you enjoy this game as much as I've enjoyed discovering it. -zach
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Flipflop Solitaire at 4.0 against Zen Pipe's 3.3. Flipflop Solitaire also leads on ratings volume (712 vs 10). Zen Pipe's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (79% vs 53%). On price, update cadence, 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. Zen Pipe sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Flipflop Solitaire sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Flipflop Solitaire holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flipflop Solitaire has 712 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 79% of Zen Pipe's written reviews are positive against 53% of Flipflop Solitaire's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Zen Pipe ships an update every 2 months, Flipflop Solitaire monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Zen Pipe | Flipflop Solitaire |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (10 ratings) | 4.0 (712 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.6% of reviews — better | 53.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 712 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 133 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ovogame | Zach Gage |
Customer experience
Zen Pipe
Flipflop Solitaire
Bugs and requests
Zen Pipe
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Flipflop Solitaire
Reported bugs
5 issues- Freezing on game completion
- Crashing on iOS 12
- Cards not flipping/disappearing
- Undo issues
- Leaderboard/achievements not working properly
Requested features
4 requests- Reset scores/stats
- Landscape mode for iPad
- Difficulty modes with card recycling
- Tutorial replay option
In-app purchases
Zen Pipe
- No Ads!$1.99
Flipflop Solitaire
- 200 More Deals17 variants$1.99
- Full Game Unlock$2.99
Questions
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