Comparison

Synonym Match vs Flipflop Solitaire

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

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About

Synonym Match

An interactive matching game designed to enhance vocabulary, reading, and spelling skills for all ages. Players reveal pairs of words with similar meanings, offering adjustable difficulty and multiple game boards for engaging play.

Highlights
  • Interactive matching gameplay
  • Vocabulary development
  • Adjustable difficulty levels
  • Multiple game board options
  • Single or multiplayer modes
  • Suitable for all ages
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**Here’s a new twist on an old game** Synonym MATCH is an interactive, educational, fun match game for school age children, adults and lifelong learners. The object of the game is to reveal pairs of Synonyms by turning over the cards. Synonyms are words with similar meanings. HIGHLIGHTS: * Choose from three levels of difficulty. * Choice of four different game boards. * The game can be enjoyed by up to four players at a time on the same device or you can play on your own. Playing this game is the perfect way to increase vocabulary development, reading, spelling and concentration. This is a great family game! There are no complicated rules. Just start playing!! This app has been carefully designed by an experienced educator and can be used at home or in the classroom.

About

Flipflop Solitaire

This card game offers a unique solitaire experience with flexible stacking rules, allowing you to build sequences up, down, or both ways. Enjoy a challenging yet relaxing brain teaser with all deals being solvable.

Highlights
  • Flexible stacking rules (up, down, or both)
  • All deals are solvable
  • Single suit stack restriction
  • Track game statistics
  • Unlockable content
  • Ambient background audio
Features
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From the creator of Sage Solitaire, comes a new Solitaire variant that breaks all the rules! 100% of deals are solvable! Like its footwear namesake — Flipflop Solitaire is unrestrictive, creating a new game for fans of spider, klondike and other traditional Solitaires. In Flipflop you can stack down, up, or even both ways on a single stack! Need to stack an 8 on a 7, or a club on a spade? No problem! - but - Be careful, you can only move a stack of a single suit! It's fun and freeing, but still challenging and captivating. It's Flipflops for your brain. ------WHAT CRITICS ARE SAYING "I'm in love with it already"..."Once you start, it's hard to stop playing." - App Advice "Truly special" — Game of the Week - Touch Arcade "Surprisingly absolutely brilliant" - Cult of Mac "A perfect diversion with just the right amount of challenge, delight, and depth to make it a must-have iOS game." - Mac Stories "A Breath of Fresh Air" - Gamezebo ------WHATS IN THE “BOX”? - Play Flipflop Solitaire from 1-4 suits for free! - Unlock 5 Suit, and 1 Suit Extended with a single in-app-purchase of $2.99 - Track your best times, least moves, least undos, total wins, total plays, and more - Unlock over 1000 numbered deals for 1-5 suits via in-app-purchase - Over a hundred achievements - Unlockable backgrounds, alternate card and card back color schemes - Natural ambient binaural background audio - A strong sense of relaxation ------A WORD FROM THE DEVELOPER Flipflop Solitaire is sort of a sequel to Sage Solitaire in the sense that it's my second crack at the design problem of making a Solitaire game that feels like it was designed for your phone and not for a table. To be honest this is how I wish everyone approached sequels. Usually a sequel takes the solution to a problem and duplicates it. This is why our expectations of game sequels are often more-of-the-same-but-better. I'd rather see more sequels that brought a renewed level of surprise and novelty, and I'm hoping that's what you find in Flipflop Solitaire. While Sage was all about trying to capture the feeling of a tight, easy to play, tough to win, zen solitaire game, Flipflop is about knots. In a typical Solitaire game, like Klondike, you're taking a knot of cards and untying it into sequences. Then you reverse those sequences into clean ordered stacks. In Flipflop you take your knot of cards and tie it into other, hopefully better knots. Then you untie those knots into the final ordered stacks. Having so much control over the way your intermediary knots are constructed led to a lot more depth than I expected. I hope you enjoy this game as much as I've enjoyed discovering it. -zach

Screenshots

Synonym Match4 screens
Flipflop Solitaire4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Flipflop Solitaire at Free against Synonym Match's $1.99. Flipflop Solitaire also leads on rating (4.0 vs 3.4) and update cadence (monthly vs every 38 months). Synonym Match's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 18) and ads (none vs shown). On 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

Flipflop Solitaire is free to download; Synonym Match costs $1.99 up front. Flipflop Solitaire sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Synonym Match asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Flipflop Solitaire holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flipflop Solitaire has 712 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 73% of Synonym Match's written reviews are positive against 53% of Flipflop Solitaire's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Synonym Match ships an update every 38 months, Flipflop Solitaire monthly. Both last shipped on October 15, 2026.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Synonym Match versus Flipflop Solitaire: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSynonym MatchFlipflop Solitaire
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating3.4 (8 ratings)4.0 (712 ratings) — better
Positive reviews73.1% of reviews — better53.0% of reviews
Number of ratings8712 — better
Update frequencyEvery 38 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB133 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWinning Words LLCZach Gage

Customer experience

Synonym Match

All ratings8 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral12.5%
Negative37.5%
Written reviews26 reviews
Positive73.1%
Neutral7.7%
Negative19.2%

Flipflop Solitaire

All ratings712 ratings
Positive73.7%
Neutral7.3%
Negative19.0%
Written reviews298 reviews
Positive53.0%
Neutral17.4%
Negative29.5%

Bugs and requests

Synonym Match

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Flipflop Solitaire

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Freezing on game completion
  • Crashing on iOS 12
  • Cards not flipping/disappearing
  • Undo issues
  • Leaderboard/achievements not working properly

Requested features

4 requests
  • Reset scores/stats
  • Landscape mode for iPad
  • Difficulty modes with card recycling
  • Tutorial replay option

In-app purchases

None

Synonym Match

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Flipflop Solitaire

One-time2
  • 200 More Deals17 variants$1.99
  • Full Game Unlock$2.99

Questions

Is Synonym Match free?
Synonym Match costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Flipflop Solitaire free?
Flipflop Solitaire is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Synonym Match or Flipflop Solitaire?
Flipflop Solitaire is rated higher. Synonym Match averages 3.4 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while Flipflop Solitaire averages 4.0 from 712 ratings.
Do Synonym Match or Flipflop Solitaire have ads?
Flipflop Solitaire shows ads; Synonym Match does not.
Which is updated more often, Synonym Match or Flipflop Solitaire?
Synonym Match ships an update every 38 months, and Flipflop Solitaire monthly. Most recently, Synonym Match was updated on October 15, 2026 and Flipflop Solitaire on October 15, 2026.

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