Comparison

American Mahjong Practice vs Speed Puzzle Timer

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Speed Puzzle Timer

Track your puzzle-solving times with a dedicated timer and log. Catalog your collection, record your progress with photos and notes, and analyze your performance with detailed stats. Share your achievements and challenge friends to beat your best times.

Highlights
  • Speed timer with countdown or immediate start
  • Puzzle catalog with barcode scanning
  • Track solve history, ratings, and notes
  • Compare solve times and personal records
  • Record solve videos and timelapses
  • Challenge friends with shared solve times
Features
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Puzzle Stats is built for speed puzzlers who want a focused timer, a clear puzzle catalog, and to see numbers and stats after every solve. TIME EVERY SOLVE Start a speed timer with a countdown or jump in immediately. Pause, resume, and finish with large, easy controls. Add one-tap markers while you work—flip complete, sorting milestones, or custom tags—so you can see where time went. YOUR PUZZLE COLLECTION Scan a barcode or search the bundled catalog to add puzzles fast. Keep box and completed photos, ratings, notes, and a full history of solves on each puzzle. Need to start now? Quick Timer gets you timing immediately—assign the puzzle later. COMPARE AND IMPROVE See how this run stacks up against your last, best, and average. Track trends and personal records by piece count. Pair and team solves keep partner names so you can look back at who you solved with. VIDEO AND TIMELAPSE Optionally record your solve—standard video or live timelapse—while the timer stays front and center. Save, share, or export when you’re done. CHALLENGE A FRIEND Share a completed time as a challenge link. Friends can open it, start the same puzzle setup, and try to beat you. Built for the table: tap quickly during the solve, rich details after.

Screenshots

American Mahjong Practice4 screens
Speed Puzzle Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: American Mahjong Practice at 23K against Speed Puzzle Timer's 1. American Mahjong Practice also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs fortnightly) and chart position (#37 vs unranked). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. American Mahjong Practice sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Speed Puzzle Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for American Mahjong Practice against 5.0 for Speed Puzzle Timer. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: American Mahjong Practice has 23K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 93% of American Mahjong Practice's written reviews are positive against 100% of Speed Puzzle Timer's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

American Mahjong Practice ships an update every 6 days, Speed Puzzle Timer fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
American Mahjong Practice versus Speed Puzzle Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAmerican Mahjong PracticeSpeed Puzzle Timer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (23K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews93.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings23K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#37 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEight Bam LLCJames Browning

Customer experience

American Mahjong Practice

All ratings22,695 ratings
Positive97.8%
Neutral1.5%
Negative0.7%
Written reviews442 reviews
Positive93.0%
Neutral2.9%
Negative4.1%

Speed Puzzle Timer

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Speed Puzzle Timer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

8 purchases

American Mahjong Practice

Subscriptions1
  • Monthly Access All Features$3.991 Month
One-time7
  • 2025 Hands. All Features$3.99
  • Hands 2024$3.99
  • 2024 Hands, All Features$3.99
Show 4 more
  • 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
1 purchases

Speed Puzzle Timer

One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$5.99

Questions

Is American Mahjong Practice free?
American Mahjong Practice is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Speed Puzzle Timer free?
Speed Puzzle Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, American Mahjong Practice or Speed Puzzle Timer?
Speed Puzzle Timer is rated higher. American Mahjong Practice averages 4.9 out of 5 from 23K ratings, while Speed Puzzle Timer averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do American Mahjong Practice or Speed Puzzle Timer have ads?
Neither American Mahjong Practice nor Speed Puzzle Timer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, American Mahjong Practice or Speed Puzzle Timer?
American Mahjong Practice ships an update every 6 days, and Speed Puzzle Timer fortnightly. Most recently, American Mahjong Practice was updated on October 27, 2026 and Speed Puzzle Timer on October 18, 2026.

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