Comparison

Little Lost Penguin vs Flipping

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

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About

Little Lost Penguin

Guide a hungry penguin home through icy challenges. This accessible game emphasizes watching and waiting for the opportune moment to progress, fostering language development and observation skills with clear graphics.

Highlights
  • Single switch accessibility
  • Touch anywhere control
  • Develops observation skills
  • Promotes language development
  • Clear, bright graphics
  • Teaches patience and timing
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Help the hungry little penguin find his way home. An easy to play touch and single switch accessible game involving watching and waiting for the right moment to overcome the obstacles including a killer whale, the polar bear and other chilly dangers. Involves watching and waiting with lots of opportunities for discussion and language development. Easy to use with bright clear graphics to make the “right moment” for interaction clear. • Accessible using single switch or touch anywhere on the screen. • Helps users to watch and wait for the right moment to interact. • Learn to watch and wait. • Works with all currently available iPad switch interfaces.

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 Little Lost Penguin's $5.99. Little Lost Penguin'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; Little Lost Penguin costs $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Little Lost Penguin versus Flipping: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLittle Lost PenguinFlipping
Price$5.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 27 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS6.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB55 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperInclusive Technology LtdSensory App House Ltd

In-app purchases

None

Little Lost Penguin

No in-app purchases

None

Flipping

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Little Lost Penguin free?
Little Lost Penguin costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Flipping free?
Flipping is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Little Lost Penguin or Flipping have ads?
Neither Little Lost Penguin nor Flipping shows ads.

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