Split Flap vs ScanHawk
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
ScanHawk
This app scans QR codes and checks destination links for safety before you open them. It provides clear explanations for why a link is deemed safe, suspicious, or dangerous, helping to prevent phishing scams.
- QR code scanning
- Link destination analysis
- Safety verdict (Safe, Suspicious, Dangerous)
- AI-powered risk explanation
- Blocks dangerous links
- Scan history
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Every QR code hides a link — and you can't see where it goes until it's too late. QR-code phishing (sometimes called "quishing") is one of the fastest-growing scams: fake parking meters, bogus restaurant menus, phony delivery notices — all leading to pages built to steal your passwords and payment details. ScanHawk checks the destination BEFORE you open it. Point your camera at any QR code and ScanHawk tells you whether it's SAFE, SUSPICIOUS, or DANGEROUS — with a clear, plain-English explanation of why. HOW IT WORKS • Scan any QR code with your camera, or paste and share a link straight into the app. • ScanHawk follows the link to its true destination, checks it against live threat intelligence and an AI reasoning engine, and returns a verdict in seconds. • Safe links open normally. Dangerous ones are blocked with a warning — ScanHawk never opens a risky link automatically. WHY SCANHAWK • Catches look-alike domains, punycode spoofs, hidden-destination tricks, malicious redirects, and known-bad sites. • AI-powered analysis explains the real risk in plain language, not just a score. • Report a bad code or link in one tap. • Scan history to review what you've checked. • No account. No sign-up. No ads. • Privacy-first: your camera images never leave your device — only the decoded link is checked. FREE — ALL OF IT No ads. No account. No sign-up. Nothing to buy to stay protected. Stay one scan ahead of the scammers. Get ScanHawk.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ScanHawk at none against Split Flap's 2. ScanHawk also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 4 weeks) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Split Flap sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ScanHawk asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Split Flap against 5.0 for ScanHawk. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ScanHawk has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Split Flap ships an update every 4 weeks, ScanHawk every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Split Flap | ScanHawk |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gregory Dolder | TwentyPin, Inc. |
Customer experience
Split Flap
ScanHawk
In-app purchases
Split Flap
- Premium Features2 variants$0.99
ScanHawk
No in-app purchases









