Comparison

Flip Unit vs Hear the Light

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 12 conversion categories
  • Apple Watch app and complications
  • iPhone home screen widgets
  • Offline conversion (except currency)
  • No ads or tracking
  • iCloud sync
Features
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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.

About

Hear the Light

This app transforms light into sound, enabling users to "hear" brightness and locate light sources. It's designed for individuals with vision loss, offering features like color recognition and vibration feedback.

Highlights
  • Light to sound conversion
  • Detects small indicator lights
  • Fast response time
  • Vibration feedback
  • Color recognition
  • Adjustable sensitivity
  • VoiceOver accessibility
Features
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Hear the Light turns light into sound, so you can "hear" where brightness is around you. It was designed from the ground up for people with vision loss. Point your device's back camera in any direction and listen to a tone that rises as the light gets stronger. This makes it easy to find a window, check whether a lamp is on, or tell if a device has an indicator light lit. What makes it stand out: It detects even very small device lights — such as the LED on a router, a TV on standby, or a charger. Of all the apps of this kind we have tested, it is the only one that reliably picks them up. For very faint lights, the room should be dark so they stand out from any other lighting. Extremely fast response: the tone changes instantly as you move the device, noticeably faster than other similar apps. Features: Vibration feedback with variable intensity, independent of sound: use sound, vibration, or both together. Ideal if you have trouble hearing. (Vibration requires an iPhone.) Colour recognition: hear the basic colour of a small light, for example red, green or blue. It is a helpful guide, with best results in a dark room, close to the light. Two sound modes: continuous tone or pulses. Three sensitivity levels, affecting both the sound and the vibration. Light intensity shown in lux (estimate), spoken aloud with a single tap. Built-in user guide. Fully accessible with VoiceOver. Two languages, Greek and English, adapting automatically to your device's language. Privacy first: It does not collect any personal data. No internet connection required. No advertising, no tracking. The camera is used only to measure light — it does not take or store photos. Note: the lux reading and the colour recognition are estimates based on the device's camera and may not always be exact.

Screenshots

Flip Unit4 screens
Hear the Light4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Hear the Light at every 3 days against Flip Unit's monthly. Flip Unit's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Flip Unit holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flip Unit ships an update monthly, Hear the Light every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Flip Unit versus Hear the Light: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlip UnitHear the Light
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better4.7 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings6 — better3
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSIRAJ SALIMStelios Platsis

Customer experience

Flip Unit

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Hear the Light

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Flip Unit

No in-app purchases

None

Hear the Light

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Flip Unit free?
Flip Unit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hear the Light free?
Hear the Light is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Flip Unit or Hear the Light?
Flip Unit is rated higher. Flip Unit averages 5.0 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Hear the Light averages 4.7 from 3 ratings.
Do Flip Unit or Hear the Light have ads?
Neither Flip Unit nor Hear the Light shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Flip Unit or Hear the Light?
Flip Unit ships an update monthly, and Hear the Light every 3 days. Most recently, Flip Unit was updated on October 31, 2026 and Hear the Light on October 31, 2026.

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