Grand Theft Auto III vs Minecraft: Play with Friends!
Grand Theft Auto III
Rockstar Games
App Store
$167.4K/mo
~$2.01M/yr · 1.3M installs
VS
Minecraft: Play with Friends!
Mojang
App Store
$22.61M/mo
~$271.34M/yr · 121.3M installs
Revenue winner
Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins
+13411% vs other
Installs winner
Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins
+9545% vs other
MAU winner
Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins
+4012% vs other
Rating winner
Grand Theft Auto III wins
+2% vs other
Why Minecraft: Play with Friends! is winning
Top 4 reasons - backed by the public App Store / Play Store numbers.
- Minecraft: Play with Friends! earns roughly 135× more per month than Grand Theft Auto III - $22.61M vs $167.4K.
- Subscription model. Minecraft: Play with Friends! runs a $3.99/mo subscription that compounds; Grand Theft Auto III relies on one-shot IAP or ads.
- Bigger install base. Minecraft: Play with Friends! has ~121.3M lifetime installs vs Grand Theft Auto III's ~1.3M - 96.5× the funnel top.
- More monetization surfaces. Minecraft: Play with Friends! runs 10 IAP tiers vs 0 - more chances to convert users at the right price.
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Side-by-side metrics
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Grand Theft Auto III
vs
Minecraft: Play with Friends!
Monthly revenue (est.)?
$167.4K
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$22.61M
Annual revenue (est.)
$2.01M
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$271.34M
Lifetime installs (est.)
1.3M
▶
121.3M
Monthly active users (est.)?
162K
▶
6.7M
App Store rating
4.58★
◀
4.51★
Total ratings
11K
▶
809K
US grossing rank
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Cheapest monthly sub
No sub
▶
$3.99
IAP tiers detected
0 tiers
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10 tiers
- Category
- Games
- Price
- USD4.99
- Released
- Dec 15, 2011
- Last updated
- Jun 4, 2019
- File size
- 704.0 MB
- Content rating
- 17+
- Version
- 1.5
- Languages
- English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean +1 more
- Category
- Games
- Price
- USD6.99
- Released
- Nov 17, 2011
- Last updated
- May 5, 2026
- File size
- 1.18 GB
- Content rating
- 9+
- Version
- 26.20
- Languages
- Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German +16 more
Grand Theft Auto III trajectory
Minecraft: Play with Friends! trajectory
FAQ
Which makes more money, Grand Theft Auto III or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Minecraft: Play with Friends! earns about $22.61M per month, while Grand Theft Auto III earns about $167.4K. That is a 135.1× revenue gap (~$22.44M more per month for Minecraft: Play with Friends!). Annual revenue: Grand Theft Auto III ≈ $2.01M/year, Minecraft: Play with Friends! ≈ $271.34M/year. Estimates are derived from public App Store signals - grossing rank, scraped IAP tiers, ratings and category benchmarks.
Which has more downloads, Grand Theft Auto III or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Minecraft: Play with Friends! leads with about 121.3M estimated downloads vs 1.3M for Grand Theft Auto III - a 96.5× gap. Grand Theft Auto III's App Store downloads are estimated from 11K ratings × the standard 1:75 ratio. Minecraft: Play with Friends!'s App Store downloads are estimated from 809K ratings.
Are Grand Theft Auto III 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 Grand Theft Auto III and Minecraft: Play with Friends! offer? v
Grand Theft Auto III: no IAP detected on the public listing. Minecraft: Play with Friends!: IAP range 10 tiers detected. Grand Theft Auto III runs a "Paid app ($4.99)" 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, Grand Theft Auto III or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Grand Theft Auto III edges ahead with ★ 4.6 vs ★ 4.5 (gap of 0.1 stars). Rating volume: Grand Theft Auto III 11K ratings, Minecraft: Play with Friends! 809K ratings. Higher rating volume = stronger ASO signal even when star averages are close.
How accurate are these Grand Theft Auto III vs Minecraft: Play with Friends! revenue estimates? v
Directional - typically within 2-3× of actual money earned for popular apps. The $167.4K for Grand Theft Auto III and $22.61M 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 Grand Theft Auto III or Minecraft: Play with Friends! to a different App Store app? v
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