Last updated on December 1st, 2025 at 10:29 pm
Flipflop Solitaire – Entertainment Game Review
Flipflop Solitaire is a Entertainment/Card/Puzzle game from STFJ LLC, first launched in 9th November 2017.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 704+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Flipflop Solitaire Stand Out
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
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Flipflop Solitaire is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 24th September 2025
Recent improvements include:
Good news everyone — we're sick of the ads too! No more bloated app size, random crashes, data collection, or inappropriate ads we can't disable. We've removed ads completely from this game.
We've also fixed Cloud save issues, and the game now attempts to recover old scores and times if possible. Also, we fixed and reset Best Time leaderboards for all modes.
Download & Availability
Flipflop Solitaire is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Flipflop Solitaire on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We love this game! The UI is very nice. But we do wish we could reset our scores.
Update: Thank you to the developer for the response. We can appreciate the situation, however we still have lost our purchases. We do not have X so there does not appear to be a way to make more direct contact to try to get our purchases restored. Im still left with a game we loved and miss but no ability to move forward unless we spend more money. Love this game but the new update has not only wiped our progress as others mentioned but also our purchases. We had expanded the game decks and now Im locked out. Hoping another repair update is coming soon.
Its very fun to play, but the app takes forever to launch. Theres also a few super obvious quality of life gameplay improvements that are missing. The sound design is amazing though.
The game is fun and very addictive. We have no problem paying a one time fee for use. The only thing Ive been experiencing is the game locks our tablet up and we have to do a hard reset. Whats up.
Same as other recent reviews. We opened our game one day and all our stats were off! On game Center we still have the number nine score worldwide in our particular niche but on the game the score is much much different like wiping out months of gaming, WTH, please fix.
The latest update for this app messes up all of the achievements youve earned. They are visible in game center, but not in the app itself. It also now takes at least 10 seconds to finish opening the app.
***Updated app two days ago and the last 8-9 months of games we played are just gone. Game center still shows our achievements but the game itself no longer does. Help! Have played this game for years and love it. We've been going for the table sort achievements but it doesn't seem to be recording them consistently. We completed the ExSingle Suit table sort first, and it appeared to record properly. Now have done the regular single suit a dozen times and it won't record. We don't want to attempt on more challenging suits if it's not going to count.
Very fun game with the buttery smooth interactions youd expect from Zach Gage. While we generally love the game, we do not love having our data wiped out, which has now happened twice. Its quite a shock to go from having won hundreds of games to none.
We have been playing this game for years. The game is great, but the recent update caused us to reset back about a year of playing. We had played through deck 1335 on single suit. Now shows only through 975. In addition, in May we purchased up deck 1441 deck now we only show through 1221 unlocked.
This is a fun and compelling solitaire game, but what makes it stand out is the numbered decks feature, allowing you to play against a friend or to try to beat your own score. Genius! We do have two quibbles, however, namely deck 71 in four card really does seem to be unbeatable. And, if you do not use X you cannot contact the developer. Overall, one of the best solitaire games out there and brilliant on a small screen.
Very engaging version of solitaire, but the timer starts before the deck is even dealt. This cuts 3 seconds off your time for each match making the timed achievements even harder to get. We know its a small detail, but its really unfair and annoying.
We've paid for the game on both iOS and Android, which shows how much we like it. However, a recent update on iOS restricts playing while in landscape mode, which is annoying as that's our preferred viewing on our iPad mini. Our case stands up in landscape mode, while we would have to hold our tablet to play in portrait mode. Could you please fix that? Thx.
Wasnt loading ads and couldnt play but most recent update fixed the issue.
Thank you for creating FlipFlop Solitaire! Though we are not much of a game player at all, we play it incessantly every day. Gives us stimulating game play which we love. Anytime Im waiting in line, in a waiting room or in between one thing or another, we play FlipFlop Solitaire! Keeps us occupied. Very well-designed and fun gameplay engagement. Our only wish is that they would come up with a landscape/iPad version. We would be in absolute FlipFlop heaven.
This is one of our favorite games. It is challenging but completely doable. We love how we go from not being able to think about completing a 4 suit to being able to do 1 and then another and another. Its also calming, which is so helpful when Im trying to relax and keep our mind on something. Love it.
We almost never leave reviews but had to for this game. We love Solitaire, and this has been our favorite Solitaire app so far :) its the only Solitaire app Ive actually paid for, because the dev deserves it.
Without a doubt, FlipFlop Solitaire is our favorite game! Completely love it and play often when we have and downtime. Hope you enjoy it as well.
If you really like solitaire, in all its varieties, this version is really worth playing. Its a very interesting remix of the game, infinitely replayable. We play it when we want to relax, Im bored, anxious, whatever. Its just fun, and makes you think just enough. To the people complaining about the price – we understand that mobile games are generally considered to be less-than, and not worth more than $1 to get rid of ads. Ive played many of Zach Gages games and they are are thoughtfully and beautifully made, with a lot of intention behind the design. This guy is an indie game developer, and paying him makes it easier for him to keep making new games or improving the ones you already like. We saw one review say theyd played over 2000 rounds of this game, but still thought $3 was ludicrous for a card game. We think that actually is an insanely good value for all the time theyve spent with it! All thats to say, consider changing the way you think about pricing and value for mobile games, and maybe get to know the makers a little better too.
Ive played more hours on this game across three devices and many years than we could ever guess. Im pretty sure this game single-handedly carried us through some tough times. Its simple to learn, designed well, and satisfies our need to have something to do while listening to podcasts. Ive paid for this game three times now and Ill keep doing it until it or we are dead.
We have spent an embarrassing number of hours entertained by this game! We like fun, but not mindless, pass times and this hits the mark. For iPad folks missing the landscape view (that will be restored soon), force close the game if open, switch your iPad to portrait, open the game, then rotate to landscape. This works on our iPad Pro.
We love FlipFlop! Have been playing it almost daily for years. Always fun. With this latest os update the game only orients in a vertical position on the iPad! That is how its always been on the iPhone but with the iPad, the game would switch to horizontal if the iPad was horizontal. And, no, we do not have the orientation on the iPad locked to vertical. So, it is the games orientation that seems locked to vertical on the iPad now. We have powered off the iPad completely and powered it back on. But nothing changed. Is there hope for it returning to an either vertical or horizontal orientation soon? Could not find a way to contact support without going into Twitter. Thanks.
We have automations etc turned off. We dont understand why this is so bad when we look at settings/battery. Is it mining bitcoin.
We love this app. We use it all the time. Our only gripe is theres no consistent landscape move for iPad. The app will rotate occasionally, but its hit or miss and theres no way to choose that option in setting as far as we can tell.
The game is super fun, but Ive found that particularly when playing fast (several of the achievements are speed based), the game glitches out. The only way to break the freeze is to restart the game, which results in a loss for some reason. Its too bad- we love the game otherwise.
This game is extremely fun for those who like solitaire and want to switch it up a bit. Its a creative twist on the classic game. That being said, here are a few of our complaints. 1) If you arent connected to the internet and able to watch ads, the app stops you from playing. We get that ads are where developers make their money, but games like solitaire are the ones people want to play on the road, on planes, etc where having connection isnt possible. It basically makes it so that we can only play the game at home because lets be honest, Im not using data that we pay for just to watch ads we dont want to see. 2) The app has been a bit glitchy lately and we see this stuff isnt getting fixed since the games been abandoned for over a year. Nothing too bad, but the sizing of the screen and border gets messed up, the menu buttons stop working until we restart the app, etc.
Love this game. But you need a full version of it (ad-free) for sale that doesnt require Apple Arcade. We love your games, but Im simply not willing to shell out $5/month indefinitely in order to play them.
This is a well designed game but our only issue is not being able to get landscape mode working.
Very fun and addicting game. Needs landscape mode for iPad Pro though. Wonder why that wasnt something already included.
Hello, we really like this game, enough that we finally paid to purchase the ad-free version. It works great on our iPad, but if we play on our iPhone, it stops us and says we need to connect to the Internet to view ads (we AM connected). Am we expected to buy the game for each device? So it works great on one device and is unplayable on another.
We have enjoyed the numbered decks game mode! However, if we restore a backup to our iPhone, initially it brings it over. However, once you quit out of the app and open it back up, for some reason it will either keep some progress or completely erase it. Also, landscape mode on iPad doesnt work. Please fix both of these issues.
Love this game, we really enjoy it. But why cant we rotate the screen when playing on our iPad.
We get that solitaire can be difficult. You want us to buy 200 more games but this has turned into a more of a puzzle and less of a game. It looks like there is one and only one way to win some games and that means it is not fun. If you are going to do this, give hints. There is a slider that is very difficult to see to turn the sound off. Thanks.
This is a fun game and we enjoy playing it. But lately we have been unable to exit the ads. They wont advance to a screen that can be closed. Life is too short to put up with that.
We do enjoy the game, but it feels like the non-AA version was never finished. Theres no tutorial – that we can find – and the rules arent intuitive. We learned how to play the basic game via Apple Arcade, (yours was the only game we kept after we canceled the subscription) but we dont understand the concept of opening 5-suit and above. Will we ever get full access, or will it always be something to be won? We dont understand how you earn any of the 5 points needed for 1 free-play – is it random? Score-based? We hate all your ads but we cant find an option to buy the game. (Not sure we would, but Id like to know the cost.). Finally, will you please include only those ads that let the user turn off the sound? We like to play while listening to podcasts, and it is really annoying to lose the sound when we win a hand. We understand that ads are where you get your revenue but they are very often repeats and we dont like being stuck listening to the same stupid music over and over again.
Game has been glitchy lately. The game will no longer play when holding iPad horizontal. Tried to report the issue elsewhere but had no luck. Am addicted to the game otherwise.
We played the Apple Arcade version every day. In fact we were paying for Apple Arcade exclusively for this game. Then we realized we could pay for this once and just use this version, but its real bad. Its so buggy and slow and looks to be abandoned. Oh well. He got our $3 so we guess thats the end of it.
Bought and paid for all the decks 2017-18, now it says they cant find our data in the cloud. Also, cant do landscape mode again. Love the game, went to college w/ the dev (probably doesnt know us, happy for his success). 5 star game is a bit buggy.
The card game is fine but the ads take over and can't be canceled unless you watch them all the way through. It would not let us get to the main screen to restore our purchase. SO FRUSTRATING.
Does not let you play unless an ad plays before, even when we have wifi they give us issues waiting for ad to load, Its insufferable Im just trying to play solitaire, GET A DIFFERENT APP UNLESS YOU ALWAYS HAVE WIFI.
Want to play on the plane or in the car on a road trip? You better have internet so you can load an ad before you can play. Completely unusable without internet. What a trash design. Dont bother with this one.
For the longest time, this was one of our favourite games. Then suddendly, landscape mode disappeared without a warning. This makes it effective unusable for us. We will not fiddle it out of the case just to awkwardly hold it while playing. Please bring landscape mode back for good and we will happily give back the 5 stars.
Not being able to play in landscape makes this useless on our ipad. Used to love it.
It was perfect the way it was. Its unplayable for us. So sorry to give up this game as it was one of our favorites.
First time we've encountered an an app requiring an internet connection solely to load ads. A message letting us know that an ad needed to be loaded with an internet connection popped up on the second day we tried to play a game. No where in your description or requirements is this need listed. If this had been made known to us beforehand, we never would have downloaded the app. Hopefully you will consider being more up front with your intentions as an app developer in the future. Instead you wasted our time by not disclosing this from the start. We hope this review is helpful for you Zach Gage to be more forthcoming with your design choices.
After a few games, you get the hang of it. Once you do, its a ton of fun. The creator took a classic and made another classic. Also, the ads arent in your face every second. We bought the the premium version to support the creator. Awesome game :).
Pretty much just been trying to go for fewest moves on single suit and our record is still 86. Very well designed however and incredibly good twist on regular old solitaire. Would highly recommend.
Latest version moves is not lined up after a game in our 11pm.
Pretty straightforward and fun, whether youve got a few minutes to kill or youre taking a dump, this is a great way to spend that time with a deal or two.
Nothing more zen then playing solitaire! This game updates the classic with some new rules which offer a greater range in difficulty level, depending on number of suits used. It has quickly become our evening ritual to play. Our only feedback to the developer is, while we dont mind the occasional advertisement, we wish they had a mute button like other games that rely on ads. Nothing more annoying then playing the game while listening to a podcast, then needing to manually pause the both the ad and the podcast at the same time.
Purchased the remove ads and the decks but had to replace our phone and now it is asking for us to pay again?? Great game but there should be a way to redeem purchases you already made. Besides that it is a great game highly recommend.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.6.1
- Size: 132.95 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: STFJ LLC
Last updated: 24th September 2025 | Genre: Entertainment, Card | Developer: STFJ LLC