Comparison

Typewriter Pro vs Flippy

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

Head to head
About

Typewriter Pro

Capture, preserve, and share your family's stories across generations in a beautiful book format. Transform written narratives into audiobooks with AI narration and organize them intelligently for easy access and sharing.

Highlights
  • Elegant book-style interface
  • AI audiobook generation
  • Multiple language support
  • Smart story organization
  • Family sharing and collaboration
  • Offline access
Features
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Typewriter helps you capture, preserve, and share your family's most precious stories across generations. PRESERVE YOUR FAMILY LEGACY Every family has stories worth remembering — grandma's recipes, grandpa's adventures, childhood memories, and traditions passed down through time. Typewriter gives these stories a permanent home. BEAUTIFUL BOOK FORMAT Your stories are organized into elegant chapters with stunning gold foil covers that shimmer as you move your device. It's not just storage — it's a family heirloom. AUDIOBOOK GENERATION Transform your written stories into professional audiobooks with premium AI narration. Listen to family stories in multiple voices while cooking, driving, or relaxing. MULTIPLE LANGUAGES Write and listen to stories in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish. Perfect for multilingual families. SMART ORGANIZATION Typewriter intelligently organizes your stories by theme, timeline, and people. Ask questions about your family history and get instant answers from your collected stories. SHARE WITH FAMILY Connect with family members and share stories privately. Build your family's narrative together, with contributions from multiple generations. KEY FEATURES • Elegant book-style interface with gold foil covers • AI-powered audiobook generation with premium voices • 9 languages supported • Smart story organization and search • Family sharing and collaboration • Offline access to your stories • Privacy-first design TRY BEFORE YOU SIGN UP Experience Typewriter as a guest for 24 hours — no account required. When you're ready, create a free account to keep your stories forever. Start preserving your family's legacy today. Every story matters.

About

Flippy

Transform your PDFs into interactive books with realistic page-turning animations and an AI voice that reads aloud. Understand complex texts with AI-powered explanations and summaries. Organize your library and track your reading progress.

Highlights
  • Realistic page-turning animations
  • AI-powered text-to-speech narration
  • AI-driven explanations and summaries
  • Automatic table of contents generation
  • Library organization with collections
  • 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

Typewriter Pro4 screens
Flippy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Typewriter Pro at none against Flippy's 6. Typewriter Pro also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Flippy's advantage is ratings volume (20 vs 1). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Typewriter Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Typewriter Pro holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flippy has 20 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Typewriter Pro versus Flippy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTypewriter ProFlippy
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.6 (20 ratings)
Positive reviews—0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings120 — better
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOneMemory SpaTrison Braithwaite

Customer experience

Typewriter Pro

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

Flippy

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

In-app purchases

None

Typewriter Pro

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

Flippy

Subscriptions4
  • Flippy Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Flippy Pro Monthly$6.991 Month
  • Flippy Premium Yearly$29.991 Year
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  • Flippy Pro Yearly$59.991 Year
One-time2
  • Boost$2.99
  • Bulk$9.99

Questions

Is Typewriter Pro free?
Typewriter Pro 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, Typewriter Pro or Flippy?
Typewriter Pro is rated higher. Typewriter Pro averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Flippy averages 4.6 from 20 ratings.
Do Typewriter Pro or Flippy have ads?
Flippy shows ads; Typewriter Pro does not.

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