Mahjöng vs Pretty Good Solitaire Mini
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mahjöng
Experience a relaxing matching game with 500 challenging mahjong puzzles. Enjoy beautiful, realistic tiles and intuitive controls designed for fans of the classic game.
- 500 mahjong layouts
- Beautiful realistic tiles
- Intuitive controls
- Relaxing matching gameplay
- Challenging puzzles
Read full descriptionHide full description
Mahjong is the relaxing matching game, supplied with 500 layouts to explore, beautiful realistic tiles, intuitive controls, and all the features that fans of Mahjong have come to expect.
Pretty Good Solitaire Mini
Experience a vast collection of over 900 solitaire card games, including classics and unique inventions. Enjoy intuitive controls, beautiful card designs, and advanced features like full undo/redo and automatic saving. Perfect for serious solitaire enthusiasts.
- Over 900 solitaire games
- Intuitive drag-and-tap controls
- Beautiful, easy-to-see card designs
- Full undo and redo functionality
- Automatic game saving
- Dynamic card sizing
- Detailed game statistics
Read full descriptionHide full description
Pretty Good Solitaire is the premier solitaire game collection with 800 different solitaire card games (plus 100 bonus games, for a total of 900 games). Since 1995, Pretty Good Solitaire has been the choice of millions of solitaire players at Goodsol.com! Includes the popular games Klondike, FreeCell, Spider, Yukon, Scorpion, Pyramid, Cruel and more. Also includes many games invented for Pretty Good Solitaire, such as Demons and Thieves and Aces and Kings. Features: - Easy to play: just drag the cards or tap them to move them quickly. - Beautiful cards: designed to look like real cards but be easy to see. Use the special large suit card set or choose one of our other regular card sets. - Full Undo and Redo: undo any move or all your moves, and redo them. - Automatic Game Saving: saves your games when you leave and you can continue playing when you return. - AutoPlay/QuickMove: option can automatically play cards to the foundations for you. - Dynamic Card Sizing: pinch to make the cards smaller or spread to make them bigger. It automatically adjusts card size for portrait or landscape. - Tap and hold on a pile to get more information about what cards can be played there. - Tap the game name button to do a new game, play the next game number, or see your statistics. - Tap the Rules button to see the rules of each game. - Over 2 billion starting positions for each game. Game numbers compatible with the Mac and iPad versions. - Statistics for multiple players. Pretty Good Solitaire is the solitaire game for players who take solitaire seriously!
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Mahjöng at Free against Pretty Good Solitaire Mini's $1.99. Mahjöng also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 35 months) and ratings volume (68K vs 22). Pretty Good Solitaire Mini's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and review sentiment (100% vs 82%). On rating, 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
Mahjöng is free to download; Pretty Good Solitaire Mini costs $1.99 up front. Mahjöng sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Pretty Good Solitaire Mini asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Mahjöng against 4.7 for Pretty Good Solitaire Mini. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mahjöng has 68K ratings behind it against 22, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 82% of Mahjöng's written reviews are positive against 100% of Pretty Good Solitaire Mini's.
Mahjöng ships an update every 3 months, Pretty Good Solitaire Mini every 35 months. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mahjöng | Pretty Good Solitaire Mini |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (68K ratings) | 4.7 (22 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 82.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 68K — better | 22 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 35 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #151 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 140 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vintolo Ltd | Goodsol Development Inc. |
Customer experience
Mahjöng
Pretty Good Solitaire Mini
Bugs and requests
Mahjöng
Reported bugs
2 issues- Unwinnable levels
- Progress not saved across devices
Requested features
3 requests- Landscape mode option
- Ability to earn free shuffles/hints
- More level variety
Pretty Good Solitaire Mini
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Mahjöng
- 2 shuffles$1.99
- 8 hints$2.99
- 5 shuffles$3.99
Show 7 moreShow fewer
- 20 hints$4.99
- 8 shuffles$5.99
- 35 hints$7.99
- 15 shuffles$9.99
- 60 hints$9.99
- 40 Shuffles$19.99
- 100 shuffles$39.99
Pretty Good Solitaire Mini
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Mahjöng free?
Is Pretty Good Solitaire Mini free?
Which has better reviews, Mahjöng or Pretty Good Solitaire Mini?
Do Mahjöng or Pretty Good Solitaire Mini have ads?
Which is updated more often, Mahjöng or Pretty Good Solitaire Mini?
Other comparisons















