Flipping is Hard Phone Skins and Covers Guide

How do you get phone skins in Flipping is Hard?

The studio says you unlock covers, charms, stickers and accessories from hidden loot, NPC challenges and redeem codes found around the world. Press Tab to open the Phone OS, which the official game page describes as mini-games, stats, checkpoints and skins. Steam tracks collecting 5, 25 and 80 skin packs, so at least 80 packs exist. No complete public list exists yet, so this page sticks to what the official sources say, what Steam lists and what one demo video tour shows.

What does the SKINS menu look like?

The screenshot below comes from a pre-launch full-game build: the label in its bottom-right corner reads FLIPPING IS HARD - CHILL - V2.3.001. The SKINS screen shows a live preview of your phone on the left and a grid of tiles on the right. The preview phone wears a mug charm that reads “I HATE MONDAYS”, which shows that charms hang from the phone.

The SKINS screen in a pre-launch build (corner label V2.3.001).

A row of icons above the grid switches categories. The icons look like phone bodies, a face, a charm, a sparkle, a hat, sunglasses, a backpack and a tie, plus three black round icons we could not make out. Key hints sit at both ends of the row; the one on the right reads E. One tile carries a yellow tick, which looks like the equipped skin, and many tiles carry yellow dots. The footage does not explain the dots or the pink, purple and green tile backgrounds, so we do not guess.

How do you open the Phone OS?

Press Tab during a run. The in-game HUD shows a small phone icon with a TAB label in the top-left corner, and the official page lists skins among the Phone OS features. See the controls and jump guide for the rest of the inputs.

Which Steam achievements track skins?

Steam does not say what a skin pack contains or where the packs are. For other collectibles, see the Golden Horse Coins and phone games guide. The Creator Hub also points players to the NPC challenges for rare cosmetics, and the NPC locations guide lists the challenges Steam tracks.

What do the demo’s E prompt and redeem screen show?

In many clips of the tour, the skin stands beside what looks like a paint pot and a phone case, with an E prompt above it, and several clips show a puff of smoke. Nothing on screen says what E does there, so we cannot tell whether it is a pickup, a preview or a customization stand. Treat it as what the footage shows, not as a confirmed rule.

The skin and props at 4:24. The “Crash Phone” label is the creator’s overlay.

In the demo, Redeem Code was an item on the pause menu, which listed Resume, Invite Friend, Settings, Redeem Code, Restart and Save and Exit (2:30). Enter the code, select Redeem, and the line “CODE REDEEMED SUCCESSFULLY” appears below the button.

The redeem screen at 2:50. The “Wireframe Phone” label is the creator’s overlay.

Which redeem codes unlock which skins?

The tour types five codes in full and shows the success line after each. The box displays every code in capitals; the table writes them as our redeem codes page does, so the video cannot tell you whether capitalization matters.

These are the creator’s labels. A player in the Steam codes thread says flippy_the_phone gives the Finn the Human skin, while the tour labels it Flippy The Phone, so do not assume the game’s own skin names match. The full list of codes, with their status, is on the redeem codes page.

What skin names does the demo tour show?

The tour is titled All skins in | Flipping is Hard| and how to get them and ends with an on-screen label reading “Comment if I missed any skins”, so it is explicitly incomplete. These are the creator’s labels in the order they appear:

Two labels match NPCs on our NPC locations guide: Ms Elephant Phone and the Plonk subtitle on Plank Phone. That fits the studio’s statement that NPC challenges unlock cosmetics, but the tour does not show a challenge being completed. The names may have changed at launch, and the full game has at least 80 packs.

What about charms?

The SKINS screenshot above shows a charm hanging from the preview phone. For unlocking, the sources are thin. In a speedrunner’s down-patch guide for an older demo build, going right at the very top of the climb led to a portal drop that gave one random charm out of four: a bone, a flower, a heart or a Flippy phone. To swap charms you had to climb back up and drop again, and you could get the same charm twice. He says the next patch removed it. Our sources do not say how charms unlock at launch, so treat the demo drop as history, not a farming route.

What else ties into skins?

• The Crowd Control streamer guide lists a “Change Skin” event that one integration says switches the phone to its next unlocked skin.
• The achievements and speedrun guide covers the rest of Steam’s list, including the challenge achievements.
• The multiplayer and Help Beam guide covers co-op lobbies if you want to show off your phone to friends.

Sources and credits

• Golden26dragon, All skins in | Flipping is Hard| and how to get them: the demo tour behind the skin labels, code pairings and the two video screenshots. Their overlay labels appear in those frames.
• ALittleTooSaucy, Flipping is Hard Demo: Downpatch and Charm Guide: the older-demo charm drop, from the transcript only.
• Steam community, Does anyone know codes? (checked 2026-10-18): player-posted codes and the Finn the Human and THE_SECRET_CODE comments.
• Elegant Horse Studios, official game page and Creator Hub: unlock sources, Phone OS features, the demo’s scope and the demo takedown date.
• Steam, Flipping is Hard achievements (checked 2026-10-18): skin pack achievements.