Bam Good Time vs TileTime: Which Mahjong Club Platform Should You Run On?

For most of the last two years, if you ran an American Mahjong club and wanted software for it, the honest answer was that your options were thin. That changed in 2026. TileTime launched publicly, and it is the first product to aim squarely at the same job Bam Good Time does: helping the person who organizes the games stop running their club out of a group text and a spreadsheet.

So this is a real comparison, not the usual "these solve different problems" piece. They solve a lot of the same problems.

Full disclosure: we built Bam Good Time. We are going to be straight about where TileTime is genuinely stronger, because if you pick the wrong platform you will move your whole roster twice, and nobody wins that.

Every price and platform claim below was checked against both products' own listings on September 7, 2026.

What Is TileTime?

TileTime is a mobile app for American Mahjong players, instructors, and organizers, built by Tile Time App LLC. It shipped publicly in 2026 and is available on both the App Store and Google Play.

For organizers, it covers creating League Play, Open Play, and tournaments; RSVPs and waitlists; accepting event payments; in-app chat with your players; table assignment and check-in; round management during an event; and a dashboard with attendance, revenue, and no-show tracking.

It runs on iPhone and Android. TileTime's site states a web version is in development but not yet available.

What Is Bam Good Time?

Bam Good Time is a club management platform for in-person mahjong. It handles event creation and registration, automatic waitlists, table and seating assignment, payment collection through Stripe, member rosters, leagues and series, tournaments with automatic pairings, and player ratings.

Each club also gets its own public website, which is the part that tends to matter more than organizers expect. Your events, your registration, your branding, at your own address, linkable from anywhere.

It is web-first, with native apps for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and an installable Android app on Google Play that runs the full site in a shell.

Feature Comparison

Where TileTime Wins

It costs materially less

This is the clearest difference and we are not going to talk around it. TileTime Professional is $14.99/month against Bam Good Time Pro at $49/month. Annually it is $149.99 against $525. If your club needs the organizer feature set and price is the deciding factor, TileTime is the cheaper product and it is not close.

A natively built Android app

Both platforms are installable from Google Play. The difference is how. TileTime's Android app is built natively. Ours wraps the full Bam Good Time site in an installable shell, which means Android users get every web feature the moment we ship it, but not the small polish advantages a native build brings. For most clubs this difference is minor. If native feel on Android matters to you specifically, TileTime has the edge.

Phone-first by design

If your club is small, local, and lives entirely on phones, a mobile-only product is not a limitation, it is a simpler tool. There is no web dashboard to ignore.

Where Bam Good Time Wins

Your club gets a real website

Every Bam Good Time club has a public site with its own address. Members register from a link, not from an app store download. Prospective members find you, see your schedule, and sign up without installing anything.

This is the single biggest structural difference between the two platforms today. TileTime has no web version yet, so every person you want at your table needs to install an app first. For an established club with a waiting list, that is fine. For a club trying to grow, an install requirement in front of a first-time visitor is a real cost.

Payments on the free tier

Bam Good Time includes Stripe Connect payment collection on every tier, including free. You can run a paid event without paying us anything. On TileTime, payment collection sits on the Professional tier, and their site noted payment processing going live in September 2026, so it is new.

Depth for clubs that run year-round

Leagues and series, venue mode, AI-assisted table assignment, event add-ons at checkout, player profiles and ratings, and custom branding are built for organizers whose calendar never really stops. If you run one event a month, you will not touch most of it. If you run leagues alongside weekly open play and an annual tournament, this is what the price difference is for.

A Mac app

If you do your club admin sitting at a desk, there is a real Mac app. Building an event on a laptop with a keyboard is a different experience from building it on a phone.

It has been doing this a while

Bam Good Time has been running real clubs, real money, and real rosters for long enough to have hit the ugly edge cases: refunds, waitlist promotions, a member in two clubs at once, a tournament round that has to be redone. TileTime launched this year. That is not a knock on their product, it is just what time buys.

Pricing, Verified

Both platforms bill the organizer, not each player, which is the right model for a club and worth noting because per-player pricing is common elsewhere in mahjong software.

The comparison that actually matters is what the organizer tier includes. Bam Good Time Pro is unlimited events and unlimited players with leagues, tournaments, venue mode, and custom branding. TileTime Professional is unlimited events with tournaments, scoring, leaderboards, and a full organizer dashboard. Read both feature lists against what your club does in a year, not against the monthly number.

Who Should Use Which

Use TileTime if: price is the deciding factor, your club is phone-first, a native Android app matters to your members, or you want the lightest possible tool for a small regular game.

Use Bam Good Time if: you want a public club website people can find and register from without installing anything, you need payment collection without paying for a tier, you run leagues or year-round programming, you do admin on a computer, or you are trying to grow rather than maintain.

Try both if: you are genuinely unsure. Both have real free tiers. Run one actual event on each, with real members, before you move a roster. Do not run both permanently, though. Two calendars and two rosters is worse than either platform alone.

The Honest Summary

TileTime is a credible product and the first real competition in this category. It is cheaper, it is on Android natively, and for a phone-first club it will do the job.

Bam Good Time is the more complete platform, and the gap is widest exactly where clubs grow: a public website, payments without a paywall, leagues, and desktop admin. If your club is a fixed group of friends, pay less. If your club is trying to become something, the website alone is worth the difference.

Either way, running your club out of a spreadsheet and a group text is the option we would both tell you to leave behind.

Create a free club on Bam Good Time and see how it fits before you commit to anything.