Flip Unit vs Convert Currency Widget
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flip Unit
Easily convert units across 12 categories including cooking, currency, and distance. Access conversions on your iPhone, Apple Watch, and home screen widgets. This app offers a clean interface and works offline for most conversions.
- 12 conversion categories
- Apple Watch app and complications
- iPhone home screen widgets
- Offline conversion (except currency)
- No ads or tracking
- iCloud sync
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Flip Unit: The unit converter built for everyone. Convert across 12 categories — cooking, distance, temperature, weight, area, volume, currency, pressure, power, speed, data, and fuel consumption — on your iPhone, Apple Watch, home screen, and lock screen. All for free. No ads, no tracking, no account required. NEW IN VERSION 2.0 • Apple Watch app — full converter on your wrist with haptic feedback • 12 Apple Watch complications — one-tap access to any category right from your watch face • 7 widgets for iPhone — quick-launch any category from your home screen, plus live currency rates on home and lock screens • iCloud sync — preferences and history across your iPhones and iPads, invisibly • 5 new categories: Pressure, Power, Speed, Data Storage, Fuel Consumption • Background rate refresh — currency widgets stay up to date without opening the app CONVERSIONS INCLUDED • Area — square feet, meters, acres, hectares • Cooking — cups, ml, tablespoons, grams, with ingredient-specific weights for flour, sugar, rice, butter, and more • Currency — 162+ currencies with live rates • Data / Storage — KB, MB, GB, TB (decimal and binary) • Distance — miles, km, feet, meters • Fuel Consumption — MPG (US & UK), L/100km, km/L • Power — watts, kilowatts, horsepower • Pressure — PSI, bar, atmospheres, pascal • Speed — mph, km/h, knots, m/s • Temperature — Fahrenheit, Celsius, Kelvin • Volume — litres, gallons, pints, fluid ounces (US & Imperial) • Weight — lbs, kg, ounces, grams WHY FLIP UNIT? • Lightning fast • Remembers your last-used units per category, on every device • Clean, simple interface • Works offline (except currency rates) • No account required • No ads or tracking Perfect for cooking, travel, business, home improvement, and everyday use. ACCESSIBILITY FIRST Flip Unit is designed for blind and low-vision users from the ground up. Full VoiceOver support, haptic feedback on iPhone and Apple Watch, Reduce Motion awareness, Dynamic Type, and WCAG AA contrast.
Convert Currency Widget
Quickly convert currencies directly from your iPhone's Home Screen using customizable widgets. Choose live exchange rates or set your own fixed values for convenient financial tracking.
- Home Screen widget support (small, medium, large)
- Live exchange rates
- Manual fixed rate setting
- Numpad on large widget
- Standard and calculator layouts
- Broad currency list with flags
- Light/dark/system appearance
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Currency Convert Widget helps you switch between currencies quickly—right on your iPhone and from a Home Screen widget. WHY YOU’LL LIKE IT • Home Screen widget in small, medium, and large sizes • Live exchange rates when you want up-to-date conversions • Or set your own fixed rate when you prefer a manual benchmark • Large widget includes a numpad so you can change amounts without opening the app • Standard and calculator-style widget layouts • Broad currency list with clear country/region flags • Light, dark, or system appearance in the app • Optional app language separate from the device language PERFECT FOR Travel planning, online shopping in other currencies, quick mental checks before you pay, and keeping a simple FX pair one tap away. PRIVACY We don’t require an account. Your settings and amounts stay on your device and sync to the widget through iOS storage you control. Live rates are fetched over a secure connection from a public exchange-rate API when you choose live mode. Enjoy a focused converter without clutter—built for speed and your Home Screen.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Convert Currency Widget at daily against Flip Unit's monthly. Flip Unit's advantage is iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.1). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Flip Unit against 5.0 for Convert Currency Widget. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 3 respectively.
Flip Unit ships an update monthly, Convert Currency Widget daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flip Unit | Convert Currency Widget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 26.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SIRAJ SALIM | King Chun Kenny Chu |
In-app purchases
Flip Unit
No in-app purchases
Convert Currency Widget
No in-app purchases
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