Comparison

Flippo vs Backtalk

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

Head to head
About

Flippo

This party game challenges players to guess phrases spoken backwards. Record a secret phrase, have a teammate mimic the reversed audio, and then flip their attempt back to see if it matches the original. It's a hilarious way to test listening skills and create memorable moments with friends and family.

Highlights
  • Record and reverse audio phrases
  • Team-based guessing gameplay
  • Multiple game modes (Simple, Advanced, Custom)
  • Adjustable target score and replays
  • Share funny clips
  • No account required
  • Offline audio processing
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Can you copy a phrase played backwards? Watching your friends try is the funny part, and Flippo makes a team game out of it. HOW TO PLAY 1. Record a secret phrase. 2. Flippo plays your voice backwards. 3. A teammate listens and copies the reversed sounds out loud. 4. Flippo flips their attempt back. If it was close, it sounds like your phrase, and the team has to guess what you said. Each correct guess is worth a point. Teams take turns, and the first to reach the target score wins. If the team misses, laugh and pass the phone. Good for house parties, game nights, family get-togethers and sleepovers, or any group that's tired of charades. FEATURES • Three modes: Simple (single words), Advanced (short phrases) and Custom, where you say whatever you like • As many teams as you need, each with a random name • Set the target score and how many times a recording can be replayed • Built-in rules and tips • Share your funniest clips, with or without the original recording • No account needed • Flippo never uploads your audio. It keeps a clip only when you save it. Free to play, with an optional one-time purchase to remove ads.

About

Backtalk

This party game challenges players to mimic backwards sounds. Record a word or tune, hear it played in reverse, and then try to copy it. The closest imitation wins, with various game modes for different group sizes and play styles.

Highlights
  • Play words or hum tunes backwards
  • Record and mimic reversed sounds
  • Robot judge scores attempts
  • Multiple game modes (Classic, Echo Chain, Decoder)
  • Team play options
  • Shareable highlight reels
Features
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Say a word into one phone. Backtalk plays it BACKWARDS. Everyone else records their best copy of that noise, Backtalk flips the attempts back around, and out comes the original word, slightly haunted. Closest copy wins the round. Backtalk is a pass-and-play party game: one phone · 2–12 friends. No accounts, no internet, no ads, no in-app purchases. HOW A ROUND GOES 1. A word is spun for whoever is up (or say your own, or hum a tune). Five seconds, tops. 2. The room hears it backwards. 3. Each friend listens, copies the backwards sound, and passes the phone. 4. The reveal plays every copy flipped back, one at a time, with live reactions. Then the room decides. THE ROOM DECIDES Blind vote: every copy plays as Mystery 1, 2, 3. Everyone votes on one screen, the names drop after, a tie goes to the robot. Or the person who said the word picks by ear, or asks the robot. FIVE WAYS TO PLAY - CLASSIC (2 to 6, teams to 12). The original loop. Closest copy takes the point. - ECHO CHAIN (3 to 6). Telephone, backwards. Each link only hears the previous one, through the earpiece; only the person who said the word knows it until the reveal. - DECODER (2 to 6, teams to 12). Type the secret first. Each friend copies it, hears their own attempt flipped back in private, and types a guess. Closest copy scores; a cracked code is worth double. - SUDDEN DEATH (3 to 6). Elimination: the clock shrinks every round, 5 seconds down to 2, one copy goes home, last one standing wins. - DUEL (exactly 2). The robot says a word backwards. You both copy it. The robot scores both. First to 3. TEAMS Two sides, 4 to 12 players: Fire vs Ice, Cats vs Dogs, Night vs Day or Pizza vs Taco. One side says the word, the other copies, the robot judges, the copying side banks its best two. Team podium, Team MVP, a tiebreaker when banks are level. HUM IT Pick the Tunes deck and hum instead: Happy Birthday, a nursery rhyme, anything. The room copies the backwards hum; the robot judges by ear only and never transcribes a hum. THE ROBOT JUDGE (ON YOUR DEVICE) Ask the robot and it listens to every attempt on your phone, scores each from 0 to 100, and proposes a winner. It is Apple's on-device speech recognition plus the app's own sound comparison: no AI service, no internet, nothing sent anywhere. A second opinion the person who said the word can overrule; the referee in Teams and Duel. With speech recognition off, or on a hum, it judges by ear. HIGHLIGHTS, REPLAY, KEEP, SEND - Before the podium, a short reel: top score, crowd favourite, the robot's funniest mishearing. Skip any time. - Replay any copy as a chipmunk, a bear, in slow motion or as a robot. - Keep the clips the room loved. Share one as a short video, or the whole reel, through the iOS share sheet. Always your choice; switch it off in Settings. - Guess it: a video of up to 15 seconds plays the backwards noise, counts down 3, 2, 1, then reveals the word. The group chat plays along. - Crew stats on this phone only: wins, streaks and titles for the names you play with. MADE FOR THE COUCH, AND THE TABLE - Pass-the-phone screens in each player's colour and a big button saying whose turn it is. - Any emoji as your avatar, twelve colours, confetti, and a proper podium. - Table mode on iPad: lay it flat and both sides of the table can read it. - Quick games by default, one more round, rematch in one tap, Dark mode for sleepovers, and house rules: Blind vote, Fast turns and Speed round (2.5 seconds tops, every clock). YOUR VOICE STAYS YOURS Backtalk records only while someone is recording a take, keeps game clips in a temporary folder, and deletes them when the game ends. Clips you tap Keep on stay in the app's own folder, out of your backups, until you delete them. Duel's voice is the one built into your device, reading the game's own words. No accounts, no analytics, no servers, no network requests, no AI service. Nothing leaves your phone unless you share it. Find out who can talk backwards.

Screenshots

Flippo4 screens
Backtalk4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Backtalk at none against Flippo's 2. Backtalk also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, rating, ratings volume and device support 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. Flippo sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Backtalk asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Flippo against 5.0 for Backtalk. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Flippo versus Backtalk: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlippoBacktalk
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size103 MB7 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperDenys AndriievskyiPANSL LLC

Customer experience

Flippo

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

Backtalk

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Flippo

One-time2
  • Movie Night Pack$1.99
  • Remove Ads$2.99
None

Backtalk

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Flippo free?
Flippo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Backtalk free?
Backtalk is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Flippo or Backtalk?
Flippo and Backtalk are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Flippo or Backtalk have ads?
Flippo shows ads; Backtalk does not.

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