Heads Up! vs Minecraft: Play with Friends!
Heads Up!
Warner Bros.
App Store
$2.25M/mo
~$27.00M/yr · 42.4M 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
+905% vs other
Installs winner
Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins
+186% vs other
MAU winner
Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins
+4% vs other
Rating winner
Heads Up! wins
+6% 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 10× more per month than Heads Up! - $22.61M vs $2.25M.
- Subscription model. Minecraft: Play with Friends! runs a $3.99/mo subscription that compounds; Heads Up! relies on one-shot IAP or ads.
- Bigger install base. Minecraft: Play with Friends! has ~121.3M lifetime installs vs Heads Up!'s ~42.4M - 2.9× the funnel top.
- More monetization surfaces. Minecraft: Play with Friends! runs 10 IAP tiers vs 7 - more chances to convert users at the right price.
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Side-by-side metrics
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Heads Up!
vs
Minecraft: Play with Friends!
Monthly revenue (est.)?
$2.25M
▶
$22.61M
Annual revenue (est.)
$27.00M
▶
$271.34M
Lifetime installs (est.)
42.4M
▶
121.3M
Monthly active users (est.)?
6.4M
▶
6.7M
App Store rating
4.78★
◀
4.51★
Total ratings
283K
▶
809K
US grossing rank
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Cheapest monthly sub
No sub
▶
$3.99
IAP tiers detected
7 tiers
▶
10 tiers
- Category
- Games
- Price
- USD1.99
- Released
- May 2, 2013
- Last updated
- May 1, 2026
- File size
- 95.8 MB
- Content rating
- 12+
- Version
- 5.1.133
- Languages
- English
- 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
Heads Up! trajectory
Minecraft: Play with Friends! trajectory
FAQ
Which makes more money, Heads Up! or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Minecraft: Play with Friends! earns about $22.61M per month, while Heads Up! earns about $2.25M. That is a 10.1× revenue gap (~$20.36M more per month for Minecraft: Play with Friends!). Annual revenue: Heads Up! ≈ $27.00M/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, Heads Up! or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Minecraft: Play with Friends! leads with about 121.3M estimated downloads vs 42.4M for Heads Up! - a 2.9× gap. Heads Up!'s App Store downloads are estimated from 283K ratings × the standard 1:75 ratio. Minecraft: Play with Friends!'s App Store downloads are estimated from 809K ratings.
Are Heads Up! 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 Heads Up! and Minecraft: Play with Friends! offer? v
Heads Up!: IAP range 7 tiers detected. Minecraft: Play with Friends!: IAP range 10 tiers detected. Heads Up! 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, Heads Up! or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Heads Up! edges ahead with ★ 4.8 vs ★ 4.5 (gap of 0.3 stars). Rating volume: Heads Up! 283K ratings, Minecraft: Play with Friends! 809K ratings. Higher rating volume = stronger ASO signal even when star averages are close.
How accurate are these Heads Up! vs Minecraft: Play with Friends! revenue estimates? v
Directional - typically within 2-3× of actual money earned for popular apps. The $2.25M for Heads Up! 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 Heads Up! or Minecraft: Play with Friends! to a different App Store app? v
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