Best Fiends - Match 3 Puzzles vs Candy Crush Saga
Best Fiends - Match 3 Puzzles
Playtika LTD
App Store
$370.7K/mo
~$4.45M/yr · 46.3M installs
VS
Candy Crush Saga
King
App Store
$17.74M/mo
~$212.92M/yr · 665.1M installs
Revenue winner
Candy Crush Saga wins
+4687% vs other
Installs winner
Candy Crush Saga wins
+1336% vs other
MAU winner
Candy Crush Saga wins
+52% vs other
Rating winner
Best Fiends - Match 3 Puzzles wins
+2% vs other
Why Candy Crush Saga is winning
Top 4 reasons - backed by the public App Store / Play Store numbers.
- Candy Crush Saga earns roughly 48× more per month than Best Fiends - Match 3 Puzzles - $17.74M vs $370.7K.
- Premium pricing. Candy Crush Saga charges $26.03/mo vs Best Fiends - Match 3 Puzzles's $1.99/mo - higher ARPU per converted user.
- Bigger install base. Candy Crush Saga has ~665.1M lifetime installs vs Best Fiends - Match 3 Puzzles's ~46.3M - 14.4× the funnel top.
- Charts placement. Candy Crush Saga ranks #12 on the US grossing chart (the other app is unranked) - chart placement is a self-reinforcing flywheel.
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Side-by-side metrics
Bars scale to whichever app is bigger on that row. Green = winner.
Best Fiends - Match 3 Puzzles
vs
Candy Crush Saga
Monthly revenue (est.)?
$370.7K
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$17.74M
Annual revenue (est.)
$4.45M
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$212.92M
Lifetime installs (est.)
46.3M
▶
665.1M
Monthly active users (est.)?
7.0M
▶
10.6M
App Store rating
4.82★
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4.71★
Total ratings
309K
▶
3.9M
US grossing rank
-
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#12
Cheapest monthly sub
$1.99
▶
$26.03
IAP tiers detected
9 tiers
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8 tiers
- Category
- Games
- Price
- Free
- Released
- Oct 9, 2014
- Last updated
- May 5, 2026
- File size
- 947.2 MB
- Content rating
- 4+
- Version
- 18.5.0
- Languages
- English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese +3 more
- Category
- Games
- Price
- Free
- Released
- Nov 14, 2012
- Last updated
- May 6, 2026
- File size
- 313.6 MB
- Content rating
- 12+
- Version
- 1.327.0.1
- Languages
- Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch +23 more
Best Fiends - Match 3 Puzzles trajectory
Candy Crush Saga trajectory
FAQ
Which makes more money, Best Fiends - Match 3 Puzzles or Candy Crush Saga? v
Candy Crush Saga earns about $17.74M per month, while Best Fiends - Match 3 Puzzles earns about $370.7K. That is a 47.9× revenue gap (~$17.37M more per month for Candy Crush Saga). Annual revenue: Best Fiends - Match 3 Puzzles ≈ $4.45M/year, Candy Crush Saga ≈ $212.92M/year. Estimates are derived from public App Store signals - grossing rank, scraped IAP tiers, ratings and category benchmarks.
Which has more downloads, Best Fiends - Match 3 Puzzles or Candy Crush Saga? v
Candy Crush Saga leads with about 665.1M estimated downloads vs 46.3M for Best Fiends - Match 3 Puzzles - a 14.4× gap. Best Fiends - Match 3 Puzzles's App Store downloads are estimated from 309K ratings × the standard 1:75 ratio. Candy Crush Saga's App Store downloads are estimated from 3.9M ratings.
Are Best Fiends - Match 3 Puzzles and Candy Crush Saga 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 Best Fiends - Match 3 Puzzles and Candy Crush Saga offer? v
Best Fiends - Match 3 Puzzles: IAP range 9 tiers detected. Candy Crush Saga: IAP range 8 tiers detected. Best Fiends - Match 3 Puzzles runs a "Free casual game · ads + tiny sub take (~$0.08/MAU)" monetization model; Candy Crush Saga runs "Free casual game · ads + tiny sub take (~$0.08/MAU) · calibrated by US grossing rank #12". Scraped tier prices and detected subscription pricing drive the bulk of the per-app revenue estimate above.
Which has better ratings, Best Fiends - Match 3 Puzzles or Candy Crush Saga? v
Best Fiends - Match 3 Puzzles edges ahead with ★ 4.8 vs ★ 4.7 (gap of 0.1 stars). Rating volume: Best Fiends - Match 3 Puzzles 309K ratings, Candy Crush Saga 3.9M ratings. Higher rating volume = stronger ASO signal even when star averages are close.
How accurate are these Best Fiends - Match 3 Puzzles vs Candy Crush Saga revenue estimates? v
Directional - typically within 2-3× of actual money earned for popular apps. The $370.7K for Best Fiends - Match 3 Puzzles and $17.74M for Candy Crush Saga 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 Best Fiends - Match 3 Puzzles or Candy Crush Saga to a different App Store app? v
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