# MAJI Mahjong School — Taiwanese Mahjong with Friends > Taiwanese Mahjong with Friends (iPhone/iPad app by Boska Studio.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/maji-mahjong-school/id6776836264 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Boska Studio](https://appshunter.io/developer/369910044) - Category: Games, Education, Board, Family - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 18 MB - Languages: American English, Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan) - Released: 2026-07-22 - Data updated: 2026-10-13 ## What is MAJI Mahjong School? Mahjong School — gather your friends, deal a hand Friends in the room? Everyone plays from their own phone. Friends far away? Open an online room and send them the code. It's proper Taiwanese 16-tile mahjong — flowers, tai scoring, dealer streaks, rounds and winds, all of it. HOW TO START A TABLE — THREE STEPS 1. Tap "Host" — the first button on the main screen. Your room opens with a 4-character code on it, something like MJ7K 2. Tap "Invite Friends" — the code and a link go straight into Messages or LINE. Friends tap the link and they're seated; reading four characters out loud works just as well 3. Everyone here? Tap "Start" — still short a player? Hand the empty seats to the AI. One person is enough to fill a table Your friends only have to do one thing: open the app, tap "Join Online Room", and type those four characters. No account, no payment. THE CODE STAYS PUT • The room lives on a server, not inside your phone — close the app, step back to the lobby, come back in, and it's still the same code. Your friends arrive where you told them to • If someone drops mid-game, they come back to the same seat, the same hand and the same chips • Friends sitting next to you can also walk into the same room through Nearby, over Wi-Fi / Bluetooth NEW TO MAHJONG? START HERE • Characters suit printed with Arabic numerals, so tiles are easy to read • A tutorial that walks you from draw-and-discard to chow, pong and scoring • Ready-hand hints and live tai estimates; winnings are worked out for you PROPER TAIWANESE 16-TILE • Flowers and replacements, kong-on-kong, robbing a kong, last-tile wins • Dealer streak 2N+1, round and seat winds, East-only / half / full games • Stakes — set what a base and a tai are worth and see what the hand actually pays WHAT YOU BUILD OVER TIME • Levels and avatars — play to unlock combs, scarves and accessories, and build your own chicken • Hand Collection — special hands you've won are recorded: flush, big three dragons, all honors and more • Stats — win rate, deal-in rate, self-draws; watch yourself improve • Replay — still puzzling over that discard? Rewind the whole game and scrub to any hand • Cloud progress — switch phones or reinstall, and your level, nickname and avatar come back with you FREE AND PAID Hosting, joining by code, nearby play, solo play against the AI, stats and the tutorial are all free, with no account required. • Mahjong School Pro (one-time purchase, Family Sharing) — unlocks house rules: custom tai values and game length. If the host has Pro, the whole table plays by your house rules; nobody else has to buy anything Mahjong was always meant to be played with other people. Gather a table. Privacy Policy: https://maji.com.tw/mj/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Mahjong School Pro | $4.99 | one-time | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.7.4 — 2026-10-12 • Tapping a lobby announcement now opens what it is about; if you already have Pro, you will no longer see the purchase screen. • Auto-win / wait-for-self-draw no longer declares a kong that would break your ready hand. • When an online table plays on into the next round, the last hand of the previous round no longer spills into the new round's score. • In narrow windows (Mac, iPad Split View) the Pro page no longer cuts off text. ### 1.7.3 — 2026-10-05 • Mahjong School Pro is a one-time purchase again: pay once and custom tai values, full four-round games, unlimited replays, table stakes and unlimited Ask Maji are yours for good, with Family Sharing. • Existing subscribers are not affected: everything stays unlocked, and the subscription can still be managed from Settings. ### 1.7.2 — 2026-09-30 • The "Unseen tiles" panel now opens by itself at the end of every hand and shows every tile nobody drew — even when someone wins early, you can see where the fourth red dragon was hiding. It shows the last 16 by default; tap to see them all. • Fixed the hand occasionally being drawn twice after the deal. • Fixed a freeze (and forced quit) that could happen when returning from the background or bringing up the keyboard. • Replays now carry the original game number in the watermark, so a bug report can point at the exact hand. • Steadier online play: other players' chat no longer slows the table down. ### 1.7.1 — 2026-09-24 A fix release. • Survival mode is capped at three hearts again. Gaining a heart had no ceiling, so a good early run could stack up a dozen of them and become impossible to kill — the board was ranking early luck, not how long you lasted. Winning at full health no longer adds one. • Because the rule changed, the survival board starts over. Old scores were set without the cap and are not comparable. • The survival board reads "this week" rather than "today", which is what it has actually been for a while. • With a keyboard attached (iPad, Mac): the lobby and the claim buttons (pung, chow, win) can be driven from the keyboard. ### 1.7.0 — 2026-09-20 This release is about one thing: until now, the only way to get better was to play more hands. Now there is a puzzle waiting for you every day. • Daily puzzle — one hand a day, the same one for everyone. After you answer you see what everyone else discarded, what the best discard was, and why yours differs. Want more? Unlimited practice, with puzzles generated from real recorded hands rather than written by hand. • The first launch deals you in — no manual to read first. You learn as you play. Until you have finished a hand, the lobby stays out of your way; the rest appears once you have played. • Online games now end after a full round. They used to run on forever. You get a settlement, a window to decide whether to keep the table going, and a ledger that follows you across rounds. • Play with a keyboard or a controller — on Mac and on iPad with a keyboard attached: arrow keys to pick a tile, Space to discard, H/P/C/K for win, pung, chow and kong, Esc to pass, F1–F8 for emotes. Xbox and PlayStation controllers work too. • Hand-lettered tile faces — the characters, red dragon, green dragon and the four winds have all been redrawn. • The lobby has been rearranged — your avatar is now a floating identity key, the actions sit in one column, over an ink-wash background. • Stats on iPad and Mac is now a scrollable masonry layout; the Mac window keeps a fixed aspect ratio, so it no longer distorts when resized. Also fixed: a crash when pressing a number key at the table; a purchase bug where tapping "Restore Purchases" left you unable to buy anything afterwards (this affected a lot of people who were trying to pay — sorry); online guests not seeing the end-of-round card; spectator name tags landing on the wrong seat; the round wind stuck on East; a lobby animation that dragged the table down to 15fps; and a stray tile back flashing during the winning animation. "Restore Purchases" has moved into Settings. It used to sit directly under the buy button, where many people tapped it as if it were part of the flow — and tapping it was what broke the purchase. Thank you to everyone who sent a report. 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