Flipper vs Water Reflection
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flipper
Easily transform your photos with a variety of mirror effects. Select images from your library or camera, choose from dozens of unique reflection styles, and fine-tune the positioning and size with intuitive gestures. Save and share your creative mirror images to social media.
- Apply mirror effects to photos
- Choose from 36 unique mirroring styles
- Adjust mirror image position and size with gestures
- Save and share to social media
- Select photos from camera roll or take new ones
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Choose photo from your camera roll or take a photo, and automatically turn it into a photo with mirror effects. Pick the effect you like best, then edit it to make it your own. Flipper's smooth, intuitive process gives you complete creative control. Tap to select style of mirror, scroll to positioning, pinch to zoom in or out. You're the editor, change the look of your regular photos to convey a mood or theme. FEATURES * Select photo from your albums or take a photo, and automatically turn it into a photo with mirror effects. * Pick one of the 36 unique mirroring effects. * Enlarge, Shrink, Move, and use gestures to make mirror images. * Save your layouts to your camera roll and share them seamlessly to Instagram or other networks. * Download and start creating mirror photo immediately.
Water Reflection
Easily add realistic water reflection effects to your photos. Choose between horizontal or vertical reflections with adjustable ripples. Enhance your images further with drawing, saturation adjustments, and filter effects.
- Realistic water reflection effects
- Horizontal and vertical reflection options
- Adjustable water ripple
- Photo editing tools
- Save edited pictures
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Great realistic water reflection effects on your photos! This is an easy-to-use app to create realistic water reflection of your photos. Features include: 1. Create water reflection of your photos, from either Gallery or Camera. 2. Both horizontal mirror and vertical reflection are supported with water ripple. 3. Water ripple is adjustable. 4. Multiple photo editing options. You are provided with useful and quick manipulations of your photos, such as drawing, saturation adjustment, filter effects, etc. 5. Save pictures from inside the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Water Reflection at none against Flipper's 1. Flipper's advantage is review sentiment (52% vs 20%) and rating (4.6 vs 4.2). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Flipper sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Water Reflection asks for nothing beyond the download.
Flipper holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flipper has 8.2K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 52% of Flipper's written reviews are positive against 20% of Water Reflection's.
Flipper ships an update every 2 months, Water Reflection every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flipper | Water Reflection |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (8.2K ratings) — better | 4.2 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 52.1% of reviews — better | 20.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8.2K — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 10 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aleksandr Romanchev | Dumpling Sandwich Software Inc. |
Customer experience
Flipper
Water Reflection
Bugs and requests
Flipper
Reported bugs
3 issues- Inability to delete pictures after editing
- Incompatibility with iOS 13
- Ads still shown after purchasing premium
Requested features
4 requests- Add random mirror function
- Support more aspect ratios
- Improve image quality and resolution
- Allow landscape mode
Water Reflection
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Flipper
- Premium Version$1.99
Water Reflection
No in-app purchases
