Best of Us vs Minecraft: Play with Friends!

Best of Us

Hosted Games LLC
App Store
$152/mo
~$1.8K/yr · 1K installs
VS

Minecraft: Play with Friends!

Mojang
App Store
$22.59M/mo
~$271.07M/yr · 121.2M installs
Revenue winner Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins +14861229% vs other
Installs winner Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins +10098800% vs other
MAU winner Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins +10991520% vs other
Rating winner Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins +33% vs other

Why Minecraft: Play with Friends! is winning

Top 4 reasons - backed by the public App Store / Play Store numbers.

  1. Minecraft: Play with Friends! earns roughly 148613× more per month than Best of Us - $22.59M vs $152.
  2. Aggressive pricing. Minecraft: Play with Friends! undercuts at $3.99/mo vs $21.68/mo - converts a higher % of free users.
  3. Bigger install base. Minecraft: Play with Friends! has ~121.2M lifetime installs vs Best of Us's ~1K - 100989.0× the funnel top.
  4. More monetization surfaces. Minecraft: Play with Friends! runs 10 IAP tiers vs 1 - more chances to convert users at the right price.

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Side-by-side metrics

Bars scale to whichever app is bigger on that row. Green = winner.

Best of Us
vs
Minecraft: Play with Friends!
Monthly revenue (est.)?
$152
$22.59M
Annual revenue (est.)
$1.8K
$271.07M
Lifetime installs (est.)
1K
121.2M
Monthly active users (est.)?
217.2
23.9M
App Store rating
3.38★
4.50★
Total ratings
24
808K
US grossing rank
-
=
-
Cheapest monthly sub
$21.68
$3.99
IAP tiers detected
1 tiers
10 tiers

Best of Us

Hosted Games LLC
App Store
Category
Games
Price
Free
Released
Apr 21, 2016
Last updated
Jan 8, 2026
File size
26.0 MB
Content rating
12+
Version
1.0.8
Languages
English
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Minecraft: Play with Friends!

Mojang
App Store
Category
Games
Price
USD6.99
Released
Nov 17, 2011
Last updated
May 5, 2026
File size
1.18 GB
Content rating
9+
Version
26.20
Languages
Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German +16 more
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FAQ

Which makes more money, Best of Us or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Minecraft: Play with Friends! earns about $22.59M per month, while Best of Us earns about $152. That is a 148613.3× revenue gap (~$22.59M more per month for Minecraft: Play with Friends!). Annual revenue: Best of Us ≈ $1.8K/year, Minecraft: Play with Friends! ≈ $271.07M/year. Estimates are derived from public App Store signals - grossing rank, scraped IAP tiers, ratings and category benchmarks.
Which has more downloads, Best of Us or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Minecraft: Play with Friends! leads with about 121.2M estimated downloads vs 1K for Best of Us - a 100989.0× gap. Best of Us's App Store downloads are estimated from 24 ratings × the standard 1:75 ratio. Minecraft: Play with Friends!'s App Store downloads are estimated from 808K ratings.
Are Best of Us 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 Best of Us and Minecraft: Play with Friends! offer? v
Best of Us: IAP range 1 tiers detected. Minecraft: Play with Friends!: IAP range 10 tiers detected. Best of Us runs a "Subscription (~$21.68/mo)" 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, Best of Us or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Minecraft: Play with Friends! edges ahead with ★ 4.5 vs ★ 3.4 (gap of 1.1 stars). Rating volume: Best of Us 24 ratings, Minecraft: Play with Friends! 808K ratings. Higher rating volume = stronger ASO signal even when star averages are close.
How accurate are these Best of Us vs Minecraft: Play with Friends! revenue estimates? v
Directional - typically within 2-3× of actual money earned for popular apps. The $152 for Best of Us and $22.59M 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 Best of Us or Minecraft: Play with Friends! to a different App Store app? v
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