Candy Crush Saga vs Minecraft: Play with Friends!
Candy Crush Saga
King
App Store
$13.70M/mo
~$164.46M/yr · 671.4M installs
VS
Minecraft: Play with Friends!
Mojang
App Store
$22.90M/mo
~$274.81M/yr · 122.9M installs
Revenue winner
Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins
+67% vs other
Installs winner
Candy Crush Saga wins
+446% vs other
MAU winner
Candy Crush Saga wins
+59% vs other
Rating winner
Candy Crush Saga wins
+4% vs other
Why Minecraft: Play with Friends! is winning
Top 3 reasons - backed by the public App Store / Play Store numbers.
- Minecraft: Play with Friends! earns roughly 2× more per month than Candy Crush Saga - $22.90M vs $13.70M.
- Aggressive pricing. Minecraft: Play with Friends! undercuts at $3.99/mo vs $26.03/mo - converts a higher % of free users.
- More monetization surfaces. Minecraft: Play with Friends! runs 10 IAP tiers vs 8 - 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.
Candy Crush Saga
vs
Minecraft: Play with Friends!
Monthly revenue (est.)?
$13.70M
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$22.90M
Annual revenue (est.)
$164.46M
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$274.81M
Lifetime installs (est.)
671.4M
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122.9M
Monthly active users (est.)?
10.7M
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6.8M
App Store rating
4.71★
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4.51★
Total ratings
3.9M
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819K
US grossing rank
#16
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Cheapest monthly sub
$26.03
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$3.99
IAP tiers detected
8 tiers
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10 tiers
- Category
- Games
- Price
- Free
- Released
- Nov 14, 2012
- Last updated
- Jul 1, 2026
- File size
- 326.8 MB
- Content rating
- 12+
- Version
- 1.331.0.1
- Languages
- Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch +23 more
- 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
Candy Crush Saga trajectory
Minecraft: Play with Friends! trajectory
FAQ
Which makes more money, Candy Crush Saga or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Minecraft: Play with Friends! earns about $22.90M per month, while Candy Crush Saga earns about $13.70M. That is a 1.7× revenue gap (~$9.20M more per month for Minecraft: Play with Friends!). Annual revenue: Candy Crush Saga ≈ $164.46M/year, Minecraft: Play with Friends! ≈ $274.81M/year. Estimates are derived from public App Store signals - grossing rank, scraped IAP tiers, ratings and category benchmarks.
Which has more downloads, Candy Crush Saga or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Candy Crush Saga leads with about 671.4M estimated downloads vs 122.9M for Minecraft: Play with Friends! - a 5.5× gap. Candy Crush Saga's App Store downloads are estimated from 3.9M ratings × the standard 1:75 ratio. Minecraft: Play with Friends!'s App Store downloads are estimated from 819K ratings.
Are Candy Crush Saga 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 Candy Crush Saga and Minecraft: Play with Friends! offer? v
Candy Crush Saga: IAP range 8 tiers detected. Minecraft: Play with Friends!: IAP range 10 tiers detected. Candy Crush Saga runs a "Free casual game · ads + tiny sub take (~$0.08/MAU) · calibrated by US grossing rank #16" 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, Candy Crush Saga or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Candy Crush Saga edges ahead with ★ 4.7 vs ★ 4.5 (gap of 0.2 stars). Rating volume: Candy Crush Saga 3.9M ratings, Minecraft: Play with Friends! 819K ratings. Higher rating volume = stronger ASO signal even when star averages are close.
How accurate are these Candy Crush Saga vs Minecraft: Play with Friends! revenue estimates? v
Directional - typically within 2-3× of actual money earned for popular apps. The $13.70M for Candy Crush Saga and $22.90M 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 Candy Crush Saga or Minecraft: Play with Friends! to a different App Store app? v
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