Design Home™: House Makeover vs The Sims™ FreePlay
Design Home™: House Makeover
Crowdstar LLC
App Store
$612.4K/mo
~$7.35M/yr · 77.3M installs
VS
The Sims™ FreePlay
Electronic Arts
App Store
$1.61M/mo
~$19.33M/yr · 67.8M installs
Revenue winner
The Sims™ FreePlay wins
+163% vs other
Installs winner
Design Home™: House Makeover wins
+14% vs other
MAU winner
Design Home™: House Makeover wins
+14% vs other
Rating winner
Design Home™: House Makeover wins
+0% vs other
Why The Sims™ FreePlay is winning
Top 3 reasons - backed by the public App Store / Play Store numbers.
- The Sims™ FreePlay earns roughly 3× more per month than Design Home™: House Makeover - $1.61M vs $612.4K.
- Premium pricing. The Sims™ FreePlay charges $21.68/mo vs Design Home™: House Makeover's $9.99/mo - higher ARPU per converted user.
- More monetization surfaces. The Sims™ FreePlay runs 10 IAP tiers vs 9 - 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
The Sims™ FreePlay
Monthly revenue (est.)?
$612.4K
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$1.61M
Annual revenue (est.)
$7.35M
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$19.33M
Lifetime installs (est.)
77.3M
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67.8M
Monthly active users (est.)?
7.6M
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6.7M
App Store rating
4.59★
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4.58★
Total ratings
515K
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452K
US grossing rank
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Cheapest monthly sub
$9.99
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$21.68
IAP tiers detected
9 tiers
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10 tiers
- 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
- Category
- Games
- Price
- Free
- Released
- Dec 15, 2011
- Last updated
- Jun 9, 2026
- File size
- 2.29 GB
- Content rating
- 12+
- Version
- 115.1.272564
- Languages
- Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese +6 more
Design Home™: House Makeover trajectory
The Sims™ FreePlay trajectory
FAQ
Which makes more money, Design Home™: House Makeover or The Sims™ FreePlay? v
The Sims™ FreePlay earns about $1.61M per month, while Design Home™: House Makeover earns about $612.4K. That is a 2.6× revenue gap (~$998.4K more per month for The Sims™ FreePlay). Annual revenue: Design Home™: House Makeover ≈ $7.35M/year, The Sims™ FreePlay ≈ $19.33M/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 The Sims™ FreePlay? v
Design Home™: House Makeover leads with about 77.3M estimated downloads vs 67.8M for The Sims™ FreePlay - a 1.1× gap. Design Home™: House Makeover's App Store downloads are estimated from 515K ratings × the standard 1:75 ratio. The Sims™ FreePlay's App Store downloads are estimated from 452K ratings.
Are Design Home™: House Makeover and The Sims™ FreePlay 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 The Sims™ FreePlay offer? v
Design Home™: House Makeover: IAP range 9 tiers detected. The Sims™ FreePlay: IAP range 10 tiers detected. Design Home™: House Makeover runs a "Free casual game · ads + tiny sub take (~$0.08/MAU)" monetization model; The Sims™ FreePlay runs "Free game · IAP-driven (8 packs + 2 sub, ~$0.30/MAU)". 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 The Sims™ FreePlay? v
Design Home™: House Makeover edges ahead with ★ 4.6 vs ★ 4.6 (gap of 0.0 stars). Rating volume: Design Home™: House Makeover 515K ratings, The Sims™ FreePlay 452K ratings. Higher rating volume = stronger ASO signal even when star averages are close.
How accurate are these Design Home™: House Makeover vs The Sims™ FreePlay revenue estimates? v
Directional - typically within 2-3× of actual money earned for popular apps. The $612.4K for Design Home™: House Makeover and $1.61M for The Sims™ FreePlay 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 The Sims™ FreePlay to a different App Store app? v
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