Comparison

scrolly vs Flippy

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

Head to head
About

scrolly

Transform your PDF reading with a delightful experience. Customize text size and themes, save your progress with bookmarks, and enjoy a unique vertical scrolling mode. Perfect for books, papers, articles, and textbooks.

Highlights
  • Customizable text size
  • Theme selection
  • Bookmark saving
  • Vertical snap-to-scroll
  • Read books, papers, articles, textbooks
Features
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replace your scrolling addiction with reading! this app displays PDFs in a beautiful reading experience where you can change the text size, choose a theme, and save bookmarks scroll through your book with a vertical snap-to-scroll use it to read books, scientific papers, articles, and textbooks easily!

About

Flippy

This app transforms digital books into interactive reading experiences. Enjoy realistic page turns, listen to any book with natural voices, and get AI-powered explanations for complex content. It also offers study tools like flashcards and quizzes.

Highlights
  • Realistic page flipping animation
  • AI-powered text-to-speech for any book
  • AI explanations and Q&A
  • Flashcards and quizzes from book content
  • Automatic table of contents generation
  • Offline reading and listening
Features
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Flippy turns your PDFs and EPUBs — even scanned books, manga and comics — into real, flippable books: pages curl under your finger, a natural voice reads every page aloud, and built-in AI explains anything you don't understand. REALISTIC PAGE FLIP Swipe anywhere and watch pages curl, fold and settle with real physics. Tap the edges to turn, or glide with the chapter scrubber. On iPad, two-page book mode turns pages over the spine like a real book, and on iPhone Duo the spine sits right on the fold. SCANNED BOOKS, NOW READABLE A PDF that is just pictures of pages — an old textbook, a scanned manga? Flippy recognizes the text on your device, so Read Aloud, selection, Define, AI and Contents work like on any other PDF. Latin-alphabet languages, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Arabic and Russian. LISTEN TO ANY BOOK (Premium) Any PDF or EPUB becomes an audiobook. 8 natural voices read in the language of the text. Lock-screen controls, screen-off listening, speed from 0.75x to 2x. Highlight while you listen; tap the chip to return to the voice. Page numbers and repeated headers are skipped. Hearing the words while you see them helps readers with dyslexia, low vision and ADHD. TAKE IT WITH YOU Download a chapter — or just the pages you pick — and listen offline like a podcast. Saved it in another voice? Flippy tells you and switches in a tap. UNDERSTAND ANYTHING (Premium) Highlight a confusing passage and tap the glowing orb for a clear explanation, right on the page. Ask about your book — or another book in your library, with page citations. The AI can see the page, too: ask about a chart, figure, table or comic panel, even one on another page. Or ask out loud and hear the answer back. STUDY SMARTER Turn any chapter into flashcards or a practice quiz, save study sets, get chapter summaries. Define any word in any language, hear it pronounced, and keep it in My Words with the book it came from. IN YOUR LANGUAGE Flippy speaks 18 languages, now including Japanese, and follows your device language. Arabic and Farsi get a full right-to-left interface. AI answers in the language you read in. SMARTER CONTENTS Every PDF gets a tap-to-jump table of contents, even without one: Flippy finds the chapters by itself right after you open the book. A Bible lists its 66 books, a scanned course every lesson. Plus instant text search. FREE CLOUD SYNC Sign in with Google — free for everyone — and your bookmarks, highlights, notes, reading positions, collections and reading stats follow you across devices. Your PDF and EPUB files are never uploaded. READING FEATURES • Import from files, URLs or Google Drive links; Collections, a Continue Reading card, progress and streaks • Bookmarks with notes; multi-color highlighting, drawing and annotation • Scroll mode — continuous vertical reading • Fullscreen with pinch-to-zoom • Two-page spreads on iPad — beautiful for manga, comics and sheet music (Right-To-Left supported) • Pure-black interface, easy on your eyes and battery; works offline FREE & PREMIUM Reading, highlighting, bookmarking and cloud sync are free, and your first week unlocks every Premium feature — no card, no account. Premium then adds read-aloud, AI explanations and summaries, offline audio, every highlight color, extra bookmarks and note export. Pro suits heavy listeners; one-time packs like the Boost add minutes and AI uses, no subscription needed. PRIVACY FIRST No ads. No selling your data. Your files are never uploaded, and highlights and notes stay on your device unless you choose Cloud Sync — free, optional, deletable any time. Read Aloud sends only the text it reads; AI sends your question, the relevant page text and pictures of the pages involved, so it can read charts and figures. Details in our privacy policy. Download Flippy and rediscover the pleasure of turning pages. Terms of Use: https://flippypdf.github.io/terms-of-use/ Privacy Policy: https://flippypdf.github.io/privacy-policy/

Screenshots

scrolly4 screens
Flippy4 screens

Verdict

The call

scrolly and Flippy both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 86% of scrolly's written reviews are positive against 0% of Flippy's. scrolly also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 7) and ads (none vs shown). Flippy's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Flippy sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. scrolly asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for scrolly against 4.6 for Flippy. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 20 and 20 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of scrolly's written reviews are positive against 0% of Flippy's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
scrolly versus Flippy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterscrollyFlippy
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (20 ratings) — better4.6 (20 ratings)
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2020
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developertotally important LLCTrison Braithwaite

Customer experience

scrolly

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%

Flippy

All ratings20 ratings
Positive85.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative5.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

scrolly

No in-app purchases

7 purchases

Flippy

Subscriptions4
  • Flippy Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Flippy Pro Monthly$8.991 Month
  • Flippy Premium Yearly$39.991 Year
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  • Flippy Pro Yearly$69.991 Year
One-time3
  • Boost$0.99
  • Plus$2.99
  • Bulk$6.99

Questions

Is scrolly free?
scrolly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Flippy free?
Flippy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, scrolly or Flippy?
scrolly is rated higher. scrolly averages 4.7 out of 5 from 20 ratings, while Flippy averages 4.6 from 20 ratings.
Do scrolly or Flippy have ads?
Flippy shows ads; scrolly does not.
Which is updated more often, scrolly or Flippy?
scrolly ships an update weekly, and Flippy weekly. Most recently, scrolly was updated on October 30, 2026 and Flippy on November 7, 2026.

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