Cytus vs Minecraft: Play with Friends!

Cytus

Rayark International Limited
App Store
$7.5K/mo
~$89.4K/yr · 140K 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 +307251% vs other
Installs winner Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins +87406% vs other
MAU winner Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins +23726% vs other
Rating winner Cytus wins +8% vs other

Why Minecraft: Play with Friends! is winning

Top 3 reasons - backed by the public App Store / Play Store numbers.

  1. Minecraft: Play with Friends! earns roughly 3074× more per month than Cytus - $22.90M vs $7.5K.
  2. Aggressive pricing. Minecraft: Play with Friends! undercuts at $3.99/mo vs $9.99/mo - converts a higher % of free users.
  3. Bigger install base. Minecraft: Play with Friends! has ~122.9M lifetime installs vs Cytus's ~140K - 875.1× the funnel top.

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Side-by-side metrics

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

Cytus
vs
Minecraft: Play with Friends!
Monthly revenue (est.)?
$7.5K
$22.90M
Annual revenue (est.)
$89.4K
$274.81M
Lifetime installs (est.)
140K
122.9M
Monthly active users (est.)?
28K
6.8M
App Store rating
4.85★
4.51★
Total ratings
2K
819K
US grossing rank
-
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-
Cheapest monthly sub
$9.99
$3.99
IAP tiers detected
10 tiers
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10 tiers

Cytus

Rayark International Limited
App Store
Category
Games
Price
USD1.99
Released
Jan 12, 2012
Last updated
Nov 28, 2025
File size
1.31 GB
Content rating
4+
Version
10.1.8
Languages
Arabic, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean +7 more
View full Cytus report →

Minecraft: Play with Friends!

Mojang
App Store
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
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FAQ

Which makes more money, Cytus or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Minecraft: Play with Friends! earns about $22.90M per month, while Cytus earns about $7.5K. That is a 3073.5× revenue gap (~$22.89M more per month for Minecraft: Play with Friends!). Annual revenue: Cytus ≈ $89.4K/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, Cytus or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Minecraft: Play with Friends! leads with about 122.9M estimated downloads vs 140K for Cytus - a 875.1× gap. Cytus's App Store downloads are estimated from 2K ratings × the standard 1:75 ratio. Minecraft: Play with Friends!'s App Store downloads are estimated from 819K ratings.
Are Cytus 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 Cytus and Minecraft: Play with Friends! offer? v
Cytus: IAP range 10 tiers detected. Minecraft: Play with Friends!: IAP range 10 tiers detected. Cytus runs a "Paid app ($1.99)" 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, Cytus or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Cytus edges ahead with ★ 4.9 vs ★ 4.5 (gap of 0.3 stars). Rating volume: Cytus 2K ratings, Minecraft: Play with Friends! 819K ratings. Higher rating volume = stronger ASO signal even when star averages are close.
How accurate are these Cytus vs Minecraft: Play with Friends! revenue estimates? v
Directional - typically within 2-3× of actual money earned for popular apps. The $7.5K for Cytus 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 Cytus or Minecraft: Play with Friends! to a different App Store app? v
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