Mahjong! vs Tempo64
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mahjong!
Engage in a traditional tile-matching game against AI or friends. Aim to form sets and a pair to win rounds, with customizable scoring rules and tile options. Enjoy realistic gameplay with intuitive controls and multiplayer chat.
- Play against AI or up to 3 friends/network players
- Real-time voice and text chat in multiplayer
- Customizable scoring rules and minimum point values
- Optional flower and season tiles
- Intuitive tile dragging and sorting
- Adjustable game speed and sound
- Customizable backgrounds and tile colors
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Traditional Mahjong game in which you play against 3 other players - sole against all computer players, or play with one to three other friends or network players via Game Center. Seats not filled by friends or network players are played by the computer. You may exchange group text messages and voice chats while in the multiplayer game. Each player is dealt 13 tiles in a hand. The players take turns to draw a tile and discard one. The goal is to make 4 sets and 1 pair. Declare a win by tapping on a received tile or tapping/dragging on discarded tile that completes the hand of 14 tiles. The default mode will auto prompt you when a set or a winning hand can be formed with a tile drawn or discarded. Hands formed must be of some minimum point value (0-3) in order to win the round. A zero base point would allow chicken hand. The default is 0 base point, but can be customized. If the base point is set to greater than zero, an attempt to steal a discard that does not produce the minimum points to win will be preempted by another player's claim for pung, for example. Falsely declaring a win when the hand does not meet the base point will be penalized. The claim on a discard to form a hand with enough points to win has priority over other attempts to form kong, punt, or chow. Refer to wikipedia for a detailed description of the suite and scoring system of the game. As few reviewers noted, this game offers realistic play. Drag a tile out to discard it. You will be prompted to make a choice to pung, declare a win, etc, or drag a tile discarded by another player to claim it. Tap any tile on your hand to declare a win if not using auto prompt mode. You can move and rearrange the tiles at will. To have them sorted automatically, do a horizontal swipe above your hand. You can adjust the game speed and sound. You can also control that hands be of some minimum point value (0-3) in order to win the round. A zero base point would allow chicken hand. You can choose to play flower and season tiles. Choose "Align discarded tiles" to line discarded tiles neatly, else discarded tiles are spin and placed randomly. You can change the the color of the background and tiles, or use a picture as the game background. Multitask switching on supported iOS. Game is paused when you switch away from the App and automatically resumed when you return. Resume button is used to resume game saved if App is terminated (or for older iOS without multitask support). The players bank will be shown at the start of the game. To see the bank during the game, tap on the player's name. Your name in the game is taken from the Game Center alias and can be customized in the Game Center app. If you did not login to Game Center,the name is determined from the following sources (if used) in order: your name used for iCloud, other email, the name on your iPad/iPhone/iTouch. You may customize the names of the computer players.
Tempo64
Transform your chess games into engaging short videos for social media. Add custom sound effects, cinematic clips, and AI-generated captions to make your content stand out. Play, train with puzzles, or analyze existing games.
- Create short chess game videos
- Add custom sound effects to moves
- Analyze and train with chess puzzles
- Play against computer or friends
- Import games from other platforms
- AI-generated captions and headlines
- Customizable video pacing and visuals
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Make a chess video in 30 seconds. Play a chess game inside Tempo64, or paste a game you've already played somewhere else, and the app turns it into a video ready for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, or Twitter — vertical for Shorts or widescreen for long-form. The sounds are what make it. Every check, capture, and checkmate gets its own sound effect — punchy, dramatic, sometimes goofy on purpose. Castling crashes. Captures chomp. Checkmate gets the slow, deep ring-out. Pick your favorites from a menu of ten. TRAIN WITH PUZZLES Solve the Puzzle of the Day or play an endless queue of tactics from Lichess's database. The difficulty adjusts to your level — your Elo rating updates after every puzzle. Solve a position you like? Turn it into a video on the spot. PLAY WITHOUT LEAVING THE APP - Play against the computer. Five difficulty levels, from Easy to Brutal. It "thinks" for a few seconds before each move so it feels like a real opponent, not an instant calculator. - Pass the phone to a friend. Two humans, one board. The board flips between turns so whoever's playing always sees their pieces at the bottom. - Play online with a friend. Create a game, share the 6-letter code, your friend types it in. No accounts. Free. ALREADY HAVE A GAME YOU PLAYED? Paste a chess.com link and Tempo64 looks up your moves automatically. Lichess works too. MAKE IT YOURS - Six board looks. Ten sound effects you can mix and match. Five pacing speeds so quiet stretches don't drag. - A "climax teaser" plays your most dramatic move first — so people scrolling stop to watch. - Big captures (a knight taking a queen, that kind of moment) splice in short cinematic clips with their own audio. (Studio.) - Record a voice reaction on any move and Tempo64 weaves it in over the board. - Studio subscribers can film a face-cam reaction that floats over the board in a little circle bubble. CAPTIONS WRITTEN FOR YOU Apple Intelligence (the AI built into your iPhone) suggests a punchy headline and a short caption for your post. Don't like it? Tap Regenerate. Copy. Post. KNOW HOW GOOD YOUR MOVES WERE Tempo64 grades every move you played using the world's strongest chess engine. Brilliant moves and blunders each get their own dramatic sound effect in your video. A small bar at the side of the board fills up to show who's winning. GAME REVIEW Tap the chart icon on any game. Walk every move on an interactive board, see a best-move arrow from the engine, and trace the advantage curve on a scrollable sparkline. Blunders are flagged — jump straight to where things went wrong. Free: one review per day. Studio: unlimited. WIDGETS Add a Tempo64 widget to your home screen. Small shows your daily puzzle streak. Medium adds today's board position. Large shows the full board so you can actually see the pieces. Streak updates every time you solve a puzzle. YOUR GAME HISTORY Every game you play against a bot and every puzzle you solve saves automatically to your library. Come back an hour later or a week later, tap the entry, and turn it into a video. Your last 30 days of games and last 30 puzzles are always there. Two tabs keep everything organized: Games & Puzzles on one side, rendered Videos on the other. STUDIO (PREMIUM) - Remove the Tempo64 watermark from every video - Unlimited face-cam commentary (free users get one clip per game) - Unlimited voice commentary (free users get one clip per game) - Unlimited Game Review (free users get one per day) - Unlimited puzzles (free users get 5 per day) - Hints for both players in bot games and pass-and-play - A gold app icon Monthly or yearly. Cancel any time in Settings. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Everything happens on your phone. Your videos, your voice clips, your captions — none of it goes through a server we run. Online multiplayer uses Apple's iCloud to sync moves between you and your friend. No tracking. No analytics. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Tempo64 at 100% against Mahjong!'s 17%. Tempo64 also leads on price (Free vs $1.99) and rating (5.0 vs 2.5). Mahjong!'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and chart position (#187 vs unranked). On 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
Tempo64 is free to download; Mahjong! costs $1.99 up front. Tempo64 sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Mahjong! asks for nothing beyond the download.
Tempo64 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mahjong! has 31 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 17% of Mahjong!'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Tempo64's.
Mahjong! ships an update every 4 months, Tempo64 every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mahjong! | Tempo64 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.5 (31 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 16.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Best chart rank | #187 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 209 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | POK | Chuma Steve Okoro |
Customer experience
Mahjong!
Tempo64
Bugs and requests
Mahjong!
Reported bugs
7 issues- Game asking to declare winner when dealing needed tile
- Inconsistent behavior when claiming discarded tiles
- Frequently showing winning hand but then saying lost
- Next player not able to claim discarded tile
- Game crashing when drawing last tile
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- Tiles not flipping over so player can't see what they have
- Scoring not accurate, sometimes treating pongs as chicken hands
Requested features
7 requests- Pause and save solo games
- Ability to rearrange tiles in hand
- Indicator for current round
- Undo button
- Ability to see all discarded tiles
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- Option to play against other players online
- Detailed instructions on gameplay and scoring
Tempo64
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Mahjong!
No in-app purchases
Tempo64
- Tempo64 Studio (Monthly)$4.991 Month
- Tempo64 Studio (Yearly)$29.991 Year









