Comparison

Skilltree vs Fl!P

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

Head to head
About

Skilltree

Transform your life into a game with a unique skill tree system. Build positive habits, boost confidence, improve focus, and achieve your goals with gamified progress tracking, rewards, and social competition.

Highlights
  • Real-life skill tree for self-development
  • Gamified or minimalist design modes
  • Effortless habit tracker with clear goals
  • Routines for habit building
  • Social features and leaderboards
  • Advanced analytics for engagement
  • Community support
Features
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Skilltree is a video game skill tree for real life that makes self-improvement easy. Start positive habits, feel more confident, improve your focus, achieve a new year's resolution, get fit, avoid burnout, or help manage ADHD. Skilltree gives you the COMPLETE guide to changing your life, starting from 1-minute goals all the way up to improving your relationships, building a business, quitting video games and social media, and improving your health. Turn your life into a game with levels, XP, rewards, and achievements, and compete with your friends for glory! Download Skilltree and level up IRL! FEATURING: - A real-life SKILL TREE, showing you exactly which mental and physical habits to accelerate your self-development - A unique, and stunning design in either a gamified or minimalist mode so you can get engaged or stay laser-focused - An effortless and fun habit tracker with clear goals that slowly increase in difficulty - Routines to help you stick to your new habits and build new habit loops - Social features, including a leaderboard to compete with your friends and motivate each other to succeed - Advanced analytics to make self-improvement addictive and engaging - Not another boring habit tracker. Skilltree was made to feel engaging and unique - A community of thousands of people improving themselves around the world Skills include: - Meditation: to increase your levels of mindfulness and hone your focus - Journaling: to express yourself, develop new ideas, develop gratitude and more, - Reading: to focus your attention and learn powerful wisdom from the world's greatest thinkers - Fitness: to increase your discipline and build a body you're confident and proud of - Nofap: (this one doesn't need explaining....) - Nutrition: eating healthily and planning your meals out - Cold showers: for pushing yourself to your limits - Screentime: reduce your social media use/video game use/screentime - Sleep: Improve your sleep quality and restfulness - Routines: Build new routines to make habits effortless - Relationships: Build stronger relationships and improve your social skills - Studying: Build good study habits and learn new techniques such as using flashcards - And so much more! Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Fl!P

This app uses motion tracking to help you stay focused by ensuring your phone is placed face down. Start a timer, flip your phone, and boost your productivity. Compete with others on leaderboards and build focus streaks.

Highlights
  • Motion tracking for focus
  • Face-down phone detection
  • Focus timer
  • Leaderboards and rankings
  • Focus streaks
  • Join user sessions
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Getting distracted by notifications popping up on your face up phone while working? Flip is a revolutionary productivity app that uses motion tracking to ensure your phone is physically placed face down to ensure your highest productivity. Start a timer, physically flip your phone, and stay focused. Compete with others, join building and club specific leaderboards, and represent your university. Challenge yourself to stay focused longer by building streaks to show off your rank, and climb the rankings. Make new friends by joining other flippers sessions! Perfect for students, professionals, or anyone looking to reclaim their attention. Will help anyone boost productivity. Just flip it and lock in!

Screenshots

Skilltree4 screens
Fl!P4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fl!P at none against Skilltree's 8. Fl!P also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Skilltree's advantage is ratings volume (285 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Skilltree sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Fl!P asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Fl!P holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Skilltree has 285 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Skilltree ships an update weekly, Fl!P every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Skilltree versus Fl!P: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSkilltreeFl!P
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (285 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews93.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings285 — better1
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size67 MB21 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperProject Skill TreeJex Pearce

Customer experience

Skilltree

All ratings286 ratings
Positive94.4%
Neutral2.4%
Negative3.1%
Written reviews310 reviews
Positive93.2%
Neutral3.2%
Negative3.5%

Fl!P

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Skilltree

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Randomly logged out of the app
  • Greyed out habits/tasks not functioning
  • Paid features still locked after purchase

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to customize skill tree
  • More flexibility in task/habit management
  • Integrations with other productivity apps
  • Leaderboards and social features

Fl!P

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Skilltree

Subscriptions3
  • Skilltree Premium7 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Skilltree Premium7 Days trial$24.996 Months
  • Skilltree Premium3 Days trial$49.991 Year
One-time5
  • 50 Tokens$0.99
  • 150 Tokens$1.99
  • 500 Tokens$4.99
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  • 2000 Tokens$14.99
  • 5000 Tokens$69.99
None

Fl!P

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Skilltree free?
Skilltree is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Fl!P free?
Fl!P is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Skilltree or Fl!P?
Fl!P is rated higher. Skilltree averages 4.7 out of 5 from 285 ratings, while Fl!P averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Skilltree or Fl!P have ads?
Neither Skilltree nor Fl!P shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Skilltree or Fl!P?
Skilltree ships an update weekly, and Fl!P every 4 days. Most recently, Skilltree was updated on October 23, 2026 and Fl!P on October 12, 2026.

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