My Classic vs Split Flap
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
My Classic
Experience a classic gaming console with retro button controls and a unique user interface. Enjoy built-in mini-games, a music player, a stylized camera, and customizable themes for a nostalgic digital experience.
- Classic Game Boy appearance
- Retro button operation
- Built-in mini-game
- Music player
- Stylized camera
- Multiple themes
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Recreate the classic Game Boy appearance Retro button operation, bringing a unique user experience Built-in mini-game, music player, stylized camera, and multiple themes available for selection. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Split Flap
Transform your devices into a retro message board with authentic flip animations and sound. Display custom messages, live feeds like weather and stocks, and schedule content. Offers a premium upgrade for advanced formatting and scheduling.
- Authentic split-flap flip animation
- Customizable messages with line breaks
- Live weather and stock feeds
- Multiple display themes
- Message scheduling
- Cross-platform support
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Turn any screen into a beautiful signage display. Split-Flap Board recreates the mechanical charm of airport departure boards — then goes further with LED matrices, retro marquees, glowing neon, and cinematic text crawls. Write a message, pick a style, and watch it come to life. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Type any message and watch it flip, glow, scroll, or reveal itself character by character • Build playlists that rotate through your messages automatically • Schedule messages to appear at the right time of day • Add live feeds — time, weather, news, and stock prices update themselves • Use it on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV DISPLAY STYLES • Split-Flap — the classic Solari board, in basic and sepia variants (free) • LED Dot Matrix — crisp pixel displays with animated reveals (free) • Cyberpunk Neon — glowing borders that pulse, chase, blink, and hum • Retro Marquee — warm theater bulbs in any color you like • Galaxy Crawl — cinematic perspective scrolling • Word Matrix — dramatic letter-by-letter reveals, in light or dark • Background Image — your own photos behind animated text MADE FOR REAL PLACES Shop hours and daily specials. The Wi-Fi password for guests. A welcome message by the door. A birthday surprise on the TV. A countdown to your next trip. A dashboard on a spare iPad. However you use it, it looks the part. WORKS OFFLINE, STAYS PRIVATE No account. No sign-in. No ads, no tracking, no analytics. Your messages stay on your device. Live feeds only reach the internet when you switch them on. FOR POWER USERS Turn on the built-in local REST API and drive the board from another device on your Wi-Fi — a home server, a shortcut, a script. PREMIUM — ONE PURCHASE, YOURS FOREVER The Split-Flap and LED themes — and all core editing — are free. A single one-time purchase, never a subscription, unlocks every premium theme, unlimited playlists, Fullscreen mode, and the REST API. Buy once, use it on all your devices.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Split Flap at Free against My Classic's $2.99. Split Flap also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.7) and review sentiment (100% vs 58%). My Classic's advantage is ratings volume (412 vs 1) and chart position (#60 vs unranked). On update cadence, ads, 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
Split Flap is free to download; My Classic costs $2.99 up front. My Classic sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $5.99 per year and Split Flap sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Split Flap holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: My Classic has 412 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 58% of My Classic's written reviews are positive against 100% of Split Flap's.
My Classic ships an update monthly, Split Flap every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | My Classic | Split Flap |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.7 (412 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 58.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 412 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #60 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 74 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Raster Field Co., Ltd. | Gregory Dolder |
Customer experience
My Classic
Split Flap
Bugs and requests
My Classic
Reported bugs
4 issues- Covers not loading properly
- Cheat code not working as expected
- Camera mode crashes the app
- Playlists not maintaining their original order
Requested features
5 requests- Add support for more music services (Spotify, YouTube Music, etc.)
- Implement playlist shuffling and song scrubbing
- Add more iPod theme options (different generations, colors, etc.)
- Improve scrolling speed and momentum for large music libraries
- Integrate a clock/time display in the iPod interface
Split Flap
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
My Classic
- My Classic Pro7 Days trial$5.991 Year
Split Flap
- Premium Features2 variants$0.99









