Comparison

Sparrow Mahjong vs Panda Parade

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

Head to head
About

Sparrow Mahjong

Features
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Three mahjong traditions, each with its own rules engine and its own real scorer: Hong Kong Old Style, Chinese Official (MCR), and American with jokers and the Charleston. Four players, a full wall, and a score at the end you can check line by line. This is not mahjong solitaire. It's the four-player game. THREE COMPLETE RULE SYSTEMS • Hong Kong Old Style — 144 tiles, chow/pung/kong claims, faan scoring with the half-spicy payment table, sacred discard, kong robbing. Set the minimum at any hand, 1 faan, or the classic 3. • Chinese Official (MCR) — the full 81-fan competition table with the 8-point minimum, seven pairs, knitted straights, honors-and-knitted hands. • American — 152 tiles with eight jokers, the Charleston with blind passes, the courtesy pass across, exposures, joker exchanges, and a browsable card of 56 hand patterns. SCORING YOU CAN AUDIT Every hand ends in a receipt naming each pattern that paid and what it paid. Hong Kong and Chinese Official each carry a searchable card of every pattern the scorer can award, generated from the rules your table is actually using — so the limit hand prints your limit, and seven pairs appears only if you switched it on. A COACH, NOT A HINT BUTTON American's Recommended Hands ranks the card against your rack and the table. A hand whose last tiles are already in the discard pile ranks below one that's still alive; a joker can't fill a pair; a concealed hand can't be claimed into. Each suggestion shows how far off you are and what you're still short of. OPPONENTS THAT DON'T CHEAT Six bots across three difficulties, each with a temperament — call aggression, defensive discipline, hand ambition. Harder bots weigh more; none of them see more. Every decision is made from public information only: melds, discards, wall depth. Seat one, two, or three of them. PLAYABLE BY EAR Every tile says its name wherever it's drawn — rack, river, meld, receipt. The discard board tells you how deep the hand has got and what just landed, your turn and the table's calls are announced as they happen, and the rack carries a Discard action, so a hand can be played end to end with VoiceOver. Text follows your iOS text size all the way through the accessibility sizes. YOUR RECORD Hand win rate, self-draws, deal-in rate, net points, best hand, win streaks, favorite scoring patterns and a points-per-game chart — across all three traditions, drilling down from any game to any hand's receipt. Close the app mid-hand and it's waiting where you left it: same wall, same rack, same score. No ads, no accounts, no in-app purchases, and no network — it works on a plane.

About

Panda Parade

Engage in a relaxing puzzle adventure with a friendly panda in a bamboo forest. Enjoy three distinct mini-games, collect in-game items to customize your experience, and discover new backgrounds and scenes.

Highlights
  • Classic Number Game
  • Panda Pairs matching
  • Catch timing challenge
  • Collectible items
  • Customizable backgrounds
  • Relaxing bamboo forest setting
Features
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Welcome to Panda Parade, a cheerful puzzle adventure set in a beautiful bamboo forest! Join your panda friend and explore a collection of relaxing mini-games, each with its own simple rules and playful challenges. Complete puzzles, collect in-game items, and discover new ways to enjoy your time in the grove. 1:Three Ways to Play • Classic Number Game Watch the numbers appear, mark the matching tiles, and complete rows, columns, and diagonals. Fill your board and challenge yourself to complete every line! • Panda Pairs Find and match identical tiles to clear the board. Boards become larger as you progress, bringing new layouts and increasingly engaging matching challenges. • Catch Test your timing and focus in a playful catching challenge. Keep an eye on the action and see how many items you can collect. 2:Build Your Collection • Play through different challenges to collect in-game items and customize your experience. • Discover new backgrounds, unlock fresh scenes, and create your own favorite panda playground. 3:Simple to Play, Fun to Master • Easy-to-understand rules • Three casual game modes • Relaxing bamboo forest setting • Progressive puzzle challenges • Collectible backgrounds and scenes • Friendly panda-themed adventure • Designed for quick sessions or longer play Take a break, follow the panda, and enjoy a relaxing parade through the bamboo forest! Panda Parade — Play, Match, Explore.

Screenshots

Sparrow Mahjong4 screens
Panda Parade4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Panda Parade at 15.6 against Sparrow Mahjong's 17.0. On price, ads, 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.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Sparrow Mahjong versus Panda Parade: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSparrow MahjongPanda Parade
PriceFreeFree
Rating—2.8 (41 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—41 — better
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB176 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZACHARY BRUCE KOLODNYZiye Tech

In-app purchases

None

Sparrow Mahjong

No in-app purchases

None

Panda Parade

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sparrow Mahjong free?
Sparrow Mahjong is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Panda Parade free?
Panda Parade is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sparrow Mahjong or Panda Parade have ads?
Neither Sparrow Mahjong nor Panda Parade shows ads.

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