Comparison

Bankeru vs Morabaraba

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

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Bankeru

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Bankeru is a friendly multiplayer gaming platform. It has unique and exciting games that users can play with their friends. With our revolutionary multiplayer gaming technology, we have made it super easy for users to enjoy games simultaneously.

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Morabaraba

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Morabaraba (Mlabalaba) — Twelve Men's Morris, the classic Southern African strategy game. One of Africa's oldest and most-loved board games, played for generations across Lesotho, South Africa and Botswana. Learn it in a minute, spend years getting good at it. Know Nine Men's Morris, Mill or Mühle? You already know the moves. Morabaraba is the same family of mill games, with diagonal lines on the board and twelve cows each instead of nine. PLAY ONLINE • Get matched with a real opponent, casual or ranked • Challenge a specific player, or host an open game anyone can join • Tournaments with a live bracket • A global leaderboard with ratings and country flags • Follow players, and see who is online • Chat rooms, direct messages and post-game discussion • Everyone plays in one pool, so there is always an opponent to meet PLAY OFFLINE • Seven levels of computer opponent, Easy through Master • Pass-and-play on one device • Watch two computer players fight it out • No connection needed — the whole single-player game works offline TWO RULE SETS • Traditional (South African) — the 24-point board, mills protected • Koti (Lesotho) — the 25-point board with the centre point and diagonals, plus the restrictive rules: you must form a mill when you can, you must block one when you can, a blocked player passes instead of losing, and no cow is safe inside a mill Or set the four rules yourself and play your house variant. THINGS TO COME BACK FOR • A new puzzle every day • Daily quests and a weekly challenge • Experience, levels, and a journey through every Southern African country, with a picture for every place • Achievements to collect MADE TO BE PLAYED • Move hints, threat warnings and confirm-before-you-move, all optional • Colour-blind mode that tells the herds apart by shape, not only colour • Seven sound themes, or none at all • Two piece sets: River Stones and Carved Bulls • Full statistics, and a replay of any finished game you can step through, scrub and share HOW TO PLAY Placing: take turns putting your twelve cows on the board, trying to line three up. Moving: once every cow is placed, slide one to a neighbouring point each turn. Flying: down to three cows, you can jump to any empty point. A mill is three of your cows in a line. Make one and you take one of theirs. Reduce your opponent to two cows, or leave them with nowhere to move, and you have won. MORE THAN A GAME Morabaraba is played on scratched boards and bottle tops across the region, and the vocabulary is part of it: your pieces are cows, a mill sends one of your opponent's to the kraal. The game carries its own history, and so does this app. Free to play, supported by ads.

Screenshots

Bankeru3 screens
Morabaraba4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Bankeru at none against Morabaraba's shown. Bankeru also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.6). Morabaraba's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). On price, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bankeru ships an update fortnightly, Morabaraba every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
Bankeru versus Morabaraba: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBankeruMorabaraba
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size159 MB32 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperHenok TaddesseItumeleng Victor Tlali

In-app purchases

None

Bankeru

No in-app purchases

None

Morabaraba

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bankeru free?
Bankeru is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Morabaraba free?
Morabaraba is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Bankeru or Morabaraba have ads?
Morabaraba shows ads; Bankeru does not.
Which is updated more often, Bankeru or Morabaraba?
Bankeru ships an update fortnightly, and Morabaraba every 3 days. Most recently, Bankeru was updated on November 3, 2026 and Morabaraba on November 5, 2026.

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