Mahjong School is an educational game for learning Japanese Riichi Mahjong, featuring interactive tutorials and an offline AI practice mode.
Product velocity
Maintenance
Daily rank 🇺🇸
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Sentiment
3.6
9 reviews
Nemesis
Fragmented field
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire the app to master complex Riichi scoring rules in a low-stakes environment, but technical instability during gameplay prevents the app from delivering on this promise.
For Beginners and intermediate players interested in learning or practicing Japanese Riichi Mahjong.
What does it look like?
Key features
Dialogue-based character sessions teaching Riichi rules to reduce entry barriers.
Utility for calculating FU and point values for specific hand conditions.
Four-player matches against AI opponents to enable practice without network dependency.
How much does it cost?
The app is free and ad-supported with no visible in-app purchases or subscription tiers.
Velocity
Maintenance developmentperformanceShow more...
Mahjong School is currently in a maintenance phase, shipping approximately 0.25 releases per week. The development trend is stable but limited to minor technical adjustments, as evidenced by the latest release which focused solely on a specific bug fix. There is no evidence of live operations or new feature development in the provided history. The app has not received a major feature update in the analyzed window.
Who built it?
User Sentiment
What do users think recently?
Fresh user feedback skews upset.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Application freezes immediately upon user interaction during the initial tile movement phase of gameplay
2 of 2 recent reviews analyzed · limited sample
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Competitive landscape for Mahjong School
How's the Games market?
Mahjong School maintains a low-scale presence with 9 total ratings. The lack of recent feature updates suggests a maintenance-only posture that limits its ability to capture market share from more active social Mahjong titles.
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Key takeaways for Mahjong School
Where is it heading?
The educational Mahjong market is consolidating around apps that offer both learning tools and stable social play. Mahjong School's technical instability and lack of feature development leave it exposed to churn, so the app will likely lose its remaining user base to more stable competitors unless the core gameplay loop is stabilized.
- Persistent freezing on core gameplay loops during the first tile move prevents users from completing a single match, leading to immediate churn.
- Recent updates focus exclusively on minor bug fixes, indicating the app is in maintenance mode rather than active growth.
The SWOT
- Interactive tutorial dialogue reduces the steep learning curve of Riichi Mahjong
- Integration of a structured progression system could convert casual learners into daily active users
Next best moves
Rebuild the tile-interaction input handler because users report the app freezes during the first move → restore core gameplay loop
The counter-intuitive read
The app's lack of social features is a…
Read the full takeSince the last report: The app remains in a maintenance state with persistent technical issues, but the competitive analysis has pivoted to frame its lack of social features as a potential differentiator.
Bottom line
Mahjong School offers a functional learning path for Riichi Mahjong, but the persistent freezing on core gameplay loops undermines its utility, so the team must prioritize stability fixes before attempting any feature expansion.
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- [1] App Store, source
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