Comparison

Memory Match vs Paper Mahjong

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

Head to head
About

Memory Match

Sharpen your mind with this memory game. Flip cards to find matching pairs, testing your recall and concentration. Offers customizable levels, competitive modes, and daily hints to enhance your brain training experience.

Highlights
  • Constructor mode for custom levels
  • Competitive modes: best score, best time
  • Multiple game rules (attempts, time)
  • iCloud progress saving
  • Achievements and Game Center records
  • Free daily hints
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Memory - find a pair, a memory development game for children and adults. You must remember the location of the cards and find all the matching pictures. Rules: Up to 16 pairs of cards are placed on the playing field. Each turn you need to turn over two (or three) cards. If they match, they disappear from the playing field. If not, the open cards are turned face down, and the turn starts again. The goal of the game is to find pairs. Features: ∙ constructor mode, customize the level for yourself ∙ competitive modes: best score, best time ∙ several game rules: no restrictions, for attempts, for time, mix ∙ saving progress in iCloud ∙ achievements and records from Game Center ∙ free hints every day Competitive modes: Challenge mode is a competitive mode in which you need to score points for completing random levels. The more levels in a row you pass and the fewer mistakes you make, the more points you get per level. Classic mode - complete 10 levels in this mode and you can take part in the competition for the best time. In this mode, you need to complete levels as quickly as possible. For a while - in this mode you need to score as many points as possible in a limited time. With successful completion of the level, you will receive additional time. LICENSED APPLICATION END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Paper Mahjong

Features
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A mahjong solitaire that quietly teaches you a language. You can start from nothing at all. No alphabet, no script, nothing to memorise first - one tile shows a picture, its partner shows the word, and matching the two is the whole lesson. Three to five new words arrive each round, tucked in among ones you have already met, so a first session feels like a game rather than the first day of a class. Every word can be read aloud in your phone's own voice, so you hear it as well as see it. And it goes as far as you want to take it: from your very first word up to university-level vocabulary, or the whole JLPT ladder if you are here for Japanese. No quiz. No typing. No streak to protect. Just tiles, the way you would play solitaire on a quiet afternoon - except the words stay with you. HOW IT WORKS Boards are dealt from the words you are studying. Miss a word and it comes back sooner. Get it right three times running and it steps back to make room for something new. That is the whole system: spaced repetition, hidden inside a tile game. Nothing to schedule, nothing to configure. WORDS THAT GROW UP A new word arrives with its reading printed above it and its picture beside it. Once you know it, the reading quietly disappears. Later the tile turns face-down for a beat before it shows itself, so you have to remember rather than read. Later still it may arrive scrambled for you to piece together. Recognise, recall, rebuild - the word gets harder as you get better, and easier again the moment you slip. 20 LANGUAGES, ONE GAME Japanese, English, Korean, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Polish, Turkish, Thai, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Chinese and Russian. Each one carries over 8,500 words of its own, bundled in the app. Switch whenever you like - every language keeps its own progress, so a month of Spanish is still waiting when you come back from Japanese. BOARDS THAT GROW WITH YOU Your first board is 36 tiles. As your vocabulary grows the boards grow with it - 72, 108, 144, all the way to 432. Hints and shuffles are there for when a board gets tight. CHOOSE WHAT YOU STUDY First Words for the very beginning. The school ladder, from elementary to university. JLPT N5 through N1 for Japanese. The 500, 1,000 and 2,000 most common words. Or pick a scene and learn the words you would actually need there - a restaurant, a hospital, an airport, an office, a phone call. YOUR WORD COLLECTION Every word you have met is kept, sorted by topic, in your own collection. Words you have cleared nine times turn gold. You can see what is still new, what is in review, and what has gone solid - and read back the whole list any time, in any language you have studied. READING HELP WHERE IT IS NEEDED Japanese prints furigana above the kanji. Chinese prints pinyin. Turn it on always, off entirely, or leave it on Auto and let it fade as each word settles. 1,000 CLASSIC LEVELS When you just want mahjong, Play mode has 1,000 hand-laid levels waiting, with no studying attached. All of them are free. QUIET BY DESIGN No streaks. No daily guilt. No leaderboards. No account to make, no email to hand over, nothing to sign up for. No banner ads and no pop-ups - the only ads are short videos you choose to watch to refill a hint, and you can ignore them forever. Everything works offline: the words, the pictures, the boards, the whole 8,500. On a plane, on a train, in a waiting room with no signal. FREE AND PRO Free gives you the tile game, 1,000 levels, the starter study tracks, five scene packs and the full word collection. Paper Mahjong Pro is one payment, once, for the advanced study tracks, all 42 scene packs, JLPT N4 through N1, the full statistics record, and skill refills without watching anything. No subscription, and it works on every device signed in to your account. Play it the way you would play solitaire: a few minutes at a time, for as long as you like. The words come with you.

Screenshots

Memory Match4 screens
Paper Mahjong4 screens

Verdict

The call

Memory Match and Paper Mahjong are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Memory Match sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and Paper Mahjong sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Memory Match versus Paper Mahjong: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMemory MatchPaper Mahjong
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (14 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings14 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size164 MB134 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGennady PucherevinKiattisak Kalkumnerd

In-app purchases

14 purchases

Memory Match

Subscriptions3
  • Memory Premium - 1 Week$0.997 Days
  • Memory Premium - 1 Month$3.991 Month
  • Memory Premium - 1 Year$19.991 Year
One-time11
  • Hints$0.99
  • Boosts$0.99
  • Time$0.99
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  • Coin Pack 1$0.99
  • Donation$1.99
  • Coin Pack 2$1.99
  • Triple Pack$1.99
  • Coin Pack 3$2.99
  • Remove Ads$4.99
  • Coin Pack 4$4.99
  • Coin Pack 5$9.99
1 purchases

Paper Mahjong

One-time1
  • Paper Mahjong Pro$19.99

Questions

Is Memory Match free?
Memory Match is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Paper Mahjong free?
Paper Mahjong is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Memory Match or Paper Mahjong have ads?
Both Memory Match and Paper Mahjong show ads.

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