Design Home™: House Makeover vs SimCity BuildIt

Design Home™: House Makeover

Crowdstar LLC
App Store
$612.4K/mo
~$7.35M/yr · 77.3M installs
VS

SimCity BuildIt

Electronic Arts
App Store
$508.1K/mo
~$6.10M/yr · 9.1M installs
Revenue winner Design Home™: House Makeover wins +21% vs other
Installs winner Design Home™: House Makeover wins +745% vs other
MAU winner Design Home™: House Makeover wins +338% vs other
Rating winner Design Home™: House Makeover wins +12% vs other

Why Design Home™: House Makeover is winning

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

  1. Premium pricing. Design Home™: House Makeover charges $9.99/mo vs SimCity BuildIt's $8.99/mo - higher ARPU per converted user.
  2. Bigger install base. Design Home™: House Makeover has ~77.3M lifetime installs vs SimCity BuildIt's ~9.1M - 8.5× the funnel top.
  3. Better app store reviews. Design Home™: House Makeover sits at 4.59★ vs 4.11★ - store algorithms reward higher-rated apps with more impressions.

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Side-by-side metrics

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

Design Home™: House Makeover
vs
SimCity BuildIt
Monthly revenue (est.)?
$612.4K
$508.1K
Annual revenue (est.)
$7.35M
$6.10M
Lifetime installs (est.)
77.3M
9.1M
Monthly active users (est.)?
7.6M
1.7M
App Store rating
4.59★
4.11★
Total ratings
515K
83K
US grossing rank
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Cheapest monthly sub
$9.99
$8.99
IAP tiers detected
9 tiers
10 tiers

Design Home™: House Makeover

Crowdstar LLC
App Store
Category
Games
Price
Free
Released
Nov 15, 2016
Last updated
Jun 8, 2026
File size
345.3 MB
Content rating
4+
Version
1.133.061
Languages
BR, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian +3 more
View full Design Home™: House Makeover report →

SimCity BuildIt

Electronic Arts
App Store
Category
Games
Price
Free
Released
Dec 17, 2014
Last updated
Jun 23, 2026
File size
311.1 MB
Content rating
9+
Version
1.79.1
Languages
Arabic, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German +12 more
View full SimCity BuildIt report →

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FAQ

Which makes more money, Design Home™: House Makeover or SimCity BuildIt? v
Design Home™: House Makeover earns about $612.4K per month, while SimCity BuildIt earns about $508.1K. That is a 1.2× revenue gap (~$104.3K more per month for Design Home™: House Makeover). Annual revenue: Design Home™: House Makeover ≈ $7.35M/year, SimCity BuildIt ≈ $6.10M/year. Estimates are derived from public App Store signals - grossing rank, scraped IAP tiers, ratings and category benchmarks.
Which has more downloads, Design Home™: House Makeover or SimCity BuildIt? v
Design Home™: House Makeover leads with about 77.3M estimated downloads vs 9.1M for SimCity BuildIt - a 8.5× gap. Design Home™: House Makeover's App Store downloads are estimated from 515K ratings × the standard 1:75 ratio. SimCity BuildIt's App Store downloads are estimated from 83K ratings.
Are Design Home™: House Makeover and SimCity BuildIt 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 Design Home™: House Makeover and SimCity BuildIt offer? v
Design Home™: House Makeover: IAP range 9 tiers detected. SimCity BuildIt: IAP range 10 tiers detected. Design Home™: House Makeover runs a "Free casual game · ads + tiny sub take (~$0.08/MAU)" monetization model; SimCity BuildIt runs "Subscription (~$8.99/mo)". Scraped tier prices and detected subscription pricing drive the bulk of the per-app revenue estimate above.
Which has better ratings, Design Home™: House Makeover or SimCity BuildIt? v
Design Home™: House Makeover edges ahead with ★ 4.6 vs ★ 4.1 (gap of 0.5 stars). Rating volume: Design Home™: House Makeover 515K ratings, SimCity BuildIt 83K ratings. Higher rating volume = stronger ASO signal even when star averages are close.
How accurate are these Design Home™: House Makeover vs SimCity BuildIt revenue estimates? v
Directional - typically within 2-3× of actual money earned for popular apps. The $612.4K for Design Home™: House Makeover and $508.1K for SimCity BuildIt 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 Design Home™: House Makeover or SimCity BuildIt to a different App Store app? v
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