Backyard Baseball '01 vs Minecraft: Play with Friends!
Backyard Baseball '01
Playground Productions LLC
App Store
$4.4K/mo
~$52.4K/yr · 33K installs
VS
Minecraft: Play with Friends!
Mojang
App Store
$22.89M/mo
~$274.72M/yr · 122.8M installs
Revenue winner
Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins
+523891% vs other
Installs winner
Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins
+373944% vs other
MAU winner
Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins
+109913% vs other
Rating winner
Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins
+18% vs other
Why Minecraft: Play with Friends! is winning
Top 4 reasons - backed by the public App Store / Play Store numbers.
- Minecraft: Play with Friends! earns roughly 5240× more per month than Backyard Baseball '01 - $22.89M vs $4.4K.
- Subscription model. Minecraft: Play with Friends! runs a $3.99/mo subscription that compounds; Backyard Baseball '01 relies on one-shot IAP or ads.
- Bigger install base. Minecraft: Play with Friends! has ~122.8M lifetime installs vs Backyard Baseball '01's ~33K - 3740.4× the funnel top.
- More monetization surfaces. Minecraft: Play with Friends! runs 10 IAP tiers vs 0 - more chances to convert users at the right price.
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Side-by-side metrics
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Backyard Baseball '01
vs
Minecraft: Play with Friends!
Monthly revenue (est.)?
$4.4K
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$22.89M
Annual revenue (est.)
$52.4K
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$274.72M
Lifetime installs (est.)
33K
▶
122.8M
Monthly active users (est.)?
6K
▶
6.8M
App Store rating
3.80★
▶
4.51★
Total ratings
597
▶
819K
US grossing rank
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Cheapest monthly sub
No sub
▶
$3.99
IAP tiers detected
0 tiers
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10 tiers
- Category
- Games
- Price
- USD4.99
- Released
- Jul 8, 2025
- Last updated
- Sep 26, 2025
- File size
- 358.7 MB
- Content rating
- 4+
- Version
- 1.4.31
- Languages
- English
- Category
- Games
- Price
- USD6.99
- Released
- Nov 17, 2011
- Last updated
- Jun 25, 2026
- File size
- 1.32 GB
- Content rating
- 9+
- Version
- 26.32
- Languages
- Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German +16 more
Backyard Baseball '01 trajectory
Minecraft: Play with Friends! trajectory
FAQ
Which makes more money, Backyard Baseball '01 or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Minecraft: Play with Friends! earns about $22.89M per month, while Backyard Baseball '01 earns about $4.4K. That is a 5239.9× revenue gap (~$22.89M more per month for Minecraft: Play with Friends!). Annual revenue: Backyard Baseball '01 ≈ $52.4K/year, Minecraft: Play with Friends! ≈ $274.72M/year. Estimates are derived from public App Store signals - grossing rank, scraped IAP tiers, ratings and category benchmarks.
Which has more downloads, Backyard Baseball '01 or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Minecraft: Play with Friends! leads with about 122.8M estimated downloads vs 33K for Backyard Baseball '01 - a 3740.4× gap. Backyard Baseball '01's App Store downloads are estimated from 597 ratings × the standard 1:75 ratio. Minecraft: Play with Friends!'s App Store downloads are estimated from 819K ratings.
Are Backyard Baseball '01 and Minecraft: Play with Friends! in the same App Store category and competing for the same money? v
Yes - both apps sit in the Games category, which means they compete directly for the same paying users and category-level wallet share. Direct competitors, head-to-head.
What in-app purchases and subscription pricing do Backyard Baseball '01 and Minecraft: Play with Friends! offer? v
Backyard Baseball '01: no IAP detected on the public listing. Minecraft: Play with Friends!: IAP range 10 tiers detected. Backyard Baseball '01 runs a "Paid app ($4.99)" monetization model; Minecraft: Play with Friends! runs "Paid app ($6.99)". Scraped tier prices and detected subscription pricing drive the bulk of the per-app revenue estimate above.
Which has better ratings, Backyard Baseball '01 or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Minecraft: Play with Friends! edges ahead with ★ 4.5 vs ★ 3.8 (gap of 0.7 stars). Rating volume: Backyard Baseball '01 597 ratings, Minecraft: Play with Friends! 819K ratings. Higher rating volume = stronger ASO signal even when star averages are close.
How accurate are these Backyard Baseball '01 vs Minecraft: Play with Friends! revenue estimates? v
Directional - typically within 2-3× of actual money earned for popular apps. The $4.4K for Backyard Baseball '01 and $22.89M for Minecraft: Play with Friends! are derived from App Store grossing rank, scraped IAP tiers, ratings volume and category benchmarks (Games) - net of the 15-30% Apple/Google store cut. Real revenue depends on country mix, retention, refunds and ad fill rate, none of which Apple or Google publish.
How do I compare Backyard Baseball '01 or Minecraft: Play with Friends! to a different App Store app? v
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