Design Home™: House Makeover vs SimCity BuildIt

Design Home™: House Makeover

Crowdstar LLC
App Store
$610.9K/mo
~$7.33M/yr · 77.1M installs
VS

SimCity BuildIt

Electronic Arts
App Store
$0/mo
~$0/yr · 8.9M installs
Revenue winner Design Home™: House Makeover wins +61094000% vs other
Installs winner Design Home™: House Makeover wins +768% vs other
MAU winner Design Home™: House Makeover wins +350% vs other
Rating winner Design Home™: House Makeover wins +12% vs other

Why Design Home™: House Makeover is winning

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

  1. Design Home™: House Makeover earns roughly 610940× more per month than SimCity BuildIt - $610.9K vs $0.
  2. Subscription model. Design Home™: House Makeover runs a $9.99/mo subscription that compounds; SimCity BuildIt relies on one-shot IAP or ads.
  3. Bigger install base. Design Home™: House Makeover has ~77.1M lifetime installs vs SimCity BuildIt's ~8.9M - 8.7× the funnel top.
  4. More monetization surfaces. Design Home™: House Makeover runs 9 IAP tiers vs 0 - 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.

Design Home™: House Makeover
vs
SimCity BuildIt
Monthly revenue (est.)?
$610.9K
$0
Annual revenue (est.)
$7.33M
$0
Lifetime installs (est.)
77.1M
8.9M
Monthly active users (est.)?
7.6M
1.7M
App Store rating
4.59★
4.11★
Total ratings
514K
81K
US grossing rank
-
=
-
Cheapest monthly sub
$9.99
No sub
IAP tiers detected
9 tiers
0 tiers

Design Home™: House Makeover

Crowdstar LLC
App Store
Category
Games
Price
Free
Released
Nov 15, 2016
Last updated
Apr 7, 2026
File size
348.8 MB
Content rating
4+
Version
1.131.036
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
Apr 28, 2026
File size
293.0 MB
Content rating
9+
Version
1.77.2
Languages
Arabic, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German +11 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 $610.9K per month, while SimCity BuildIt earns about $0. That is a ∞× revenue gap (~$610.9K more per month for Design Home™: House Makeover). Annual revenue: Design Home™: House Makeover ≈ $7.33M/year, SimCity BuildIt ≈ $0/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 77.1M estimated downloads vs 8.9M for SimCity BuildIt - a 8.7× gap. Design Home™: House Makeover's App Store downloads are estimated from 514K ratings × the standard 1:75 ratio. SimCity BuildIt's App Store downloads are estimated from 81K 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: no IAP detected on the public listing. Design Home™: House Makeover runs a "Free casual game · ads + tiny sub take (~$0.08/MAU)" monetization model; SimCity BuildIt runs "No App Store revenue (monetizes off-store)". 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 514K ratings, SimCity BuildIt 81K 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 $610.9K for Design Home™: House Makeover and $0 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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