American Mahjong Practice vs Phrazle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
American Mahjong Practice
Practice American Mahjong with a large tile design optimized for mobile screens. Learn the 2026 card with suggested hands, validation tools, and progress tracking. Play offline solo against bots or with custom rules.
- Large tiles and font option
- 2026 card practice
- Suggested hands with overlap analysis
- Hand validation and corrections
- Progress tracking and stats
- Offline play
- Play against bots or solo
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The secret to great Mahjong? Play more games. Play every hand to completion and watch how tile choices create winning hands. Ready for a challenge? Play the daily challenge hand against other players, or enable opponent bots and compete. Try 2018 hands for free or purchase the monthly subscription or purchase 2026 hands one-time. The monthly subscription includes the new hands every year. The new Daily Challenge Hands and Leaderboard are included with the monthly subscription and 2026 hands one-time purchase. Mahjong Practice rethinks mahjong for mobile, with a design that takes full advantage of small screens. Play fun, quick games offline, anywhere, anytime. No internet connection needed. This is the best way to learn the 2026 card. Suggested Hands: All possible hand combinations are evaluated and sorted by the highest matching tile count. Play one of these hands or any hand you want. See the combinations of hands with the most overlapping tiles. Develop your strategies selecting hands. Large Tiles and Large Tile Font Option: Tiles are large. Enable the Large Tile Font option to make the tiles even easier to read. Hand Validations and Corrections: See the closest matching pattern when you declare an unknown pattern. Tips help beginning players. Hand Stats: Track hands completed and your progress on the NMJL card. Hand Filters: Select the sections you like to play the most. Hide sections to focus on any given section. Play the whole card. Play Against Bots or Solo: When playing solo, the opponent bots play valid patterns and exchange jokers but do not declare Mahjong. Play until you declare Mahjong or the wall is empty in solo mode. Go to Settings to enable bots that win to practice defense. Advanced Practice Features: Try different strategies with Replay and Undo. Enable Open Play to disable NMJL rules and play by your own House Rules. This is the Original American Mahjong App, 10 Years in the making. Contact support@eightbam.com for help at any time.
Phrazle
Engage in daily word-guessing challenges with this game. It offers practice modes and uses color-coded feedback on the keyboard to guide your guesses. Track your progress with lifetime statistics.
- Daily challenges
- Practice games
- Color-coded keyboard feedback
- Lifetime stats tracking
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Phrazle has tons of fun features: - Daily challenges - Practice games - Color coded keys on keyboard for right and wrong guesses - Lifetime stats tracking
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: American Mahjong Practice at 93% against Phrazle's 14%. American Mahjong Practice also leads on rating (4.9 vs 2.4) and ratings volume (23K vs 9). Phrazle's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads and device support 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. American Mahjong Practice sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Phrazle asks for nothing beyond the download.
American Mahjong Practice holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: American Mahjong Practice has 23K ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 93% of American Mahjong Practice's written reviews are positive against 14% of Phrazle's.
| Parameter | American Mahjong Practice | Phrazle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (23K ratings) — better | 2.4 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 93.0% of reviews — better | 14.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 23K — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #57 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Eight Bam LLC | Unwind Media, LLC |
Customer experience
American Mahjong Practice
Phrazle
Bugs and requests
American Mahjong Practice
Reported bugs
4 issues- Tile placement issues
- Incorrect win count tracking
- Upside down orientation
- Discarding issues
Requested features
4 requests- Multiplayer mode
- Ability to see other players' hands
- Option to hide suggested hands
- Ability to switch discard pile location
Phrazle
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
American Mahjong Practice
- Monthly Access All Features$3.991 Month
- 2025 Hands. All Features$3.99
- Hands 2024$3.99
- 2024 Hands, All Features$3.99
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- 2023 Hands, All Features$4.99
- 2022 Access All Features$6.99
- 2022 Access All Features B$6.99
- 2026 Hands, All Features$17.99
Phrazle
No in-app purchases
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