Honkai: Star Rail vs Minecraft: Play with Friends!

Honkai: Star Rail

COGNOSPHERE PTE. LTD.
App Store
$298.2K/mo
~$3.58M/yr · 5.7M 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 +7483% vs other
Installs winner Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins +2042% vs other
MAU winner Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins +501% vs other
Rating winner Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins +2% vs other

Why Minecraft: Play with Friends! is winning

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

  1. Minecraft: Play with Friends! earns roughly 76× more per month than Honkai: Star Rail - $22.61M vs $298.2K.
  2. Aggressive pricing. Minecraft: Play with Friends! undercuts at $3.99/mo vs $9.99/mo - converts a higher % of free users.
  3. Bigger install base. Minecraft: Play with Friends! has ~121.3M lifetime installs vs Honkai: Star Rail's ~5.7M - 21.4× the funnel top.

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Side-by-side metrics

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

Honkai: Star Rail
vs
Minecraft: Play with Friends!
Monthly revenue (est.)?
$298.2K
$22.61M
Annual revenue (est.)
$3.58M
$271.34M
Lifetime installs (est.)
5.7M
121.3M
Monthly active users (est.)?
1.1M
6.7M
App Store rating
4.41★
4.51★
Total ratings
51K
809K
US grossing rank
-
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Cheapest monthly sub
$9.99
$3.99
IAP tiers detected
10 tiers
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10 tiers

Honkai: Star Rail

COGNOSPHERE PTE. LTD.
App Store
Category
Games
Price
Free
Released
Apr 22, 2023
Last updated
Apr 21, 2026
File size
3.60 GB
Content rating
12+
Version
4.2.0
Languages
English, French, German, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean +7 more
View full Honkai: Star Rail report →

Minecraft: Play with Friends!

Mojang
App Store
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
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FAQ

Which makes more money, Honkai: Star Rail or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Minecraft: Play with Friends! earns about $22.61M per month, while Honkai: Star Rail earns about $298.2K. That is a 75.8× revenue gap (~$22.31M more per month for Minecraft: Play with Friends!). Annual revenue: Honkai: Star Rail ≈ $3.58M/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, Honkai: Star Rail or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Minecraft: Play with Friends! leads with about 121.3M estimated downloads vs 5.7M for Honkai: Star Rail - a 21.4× gap. Honkai: Star Rail's App Store downloads are estimated from 51K ratings × the standard 1:75 ratio. Minecraft: Play with Friends!'s App Store downloads are estimated from 809K ratings.
Are Honkai: Star Rail 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 Honkai: Star Rail and Minecraft: Play with Friends! offer? v
Honkai: Star Rail: IAP range 10 tiers detected. Minecraft: Play with Friends!: IAP range 10 tiers detected. Honkai: Star Rail runs a "Subscription (~$8.33/mo)" 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, Honkai: Star Rail or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Minecraft: Play with Friends! edges ahead with ★ 4.5 vs ★ 4.4 (gap of 0.1 stars). Rating volume: Honkai: Star Rail 51K ratings, Minecraft: Play with Friends! 809K ratings. Higher rating volume = stronger ASO signal even when star averages are close.
How accurate are these Honkai: Star Rail vs Minecraft: Play with Friends! revenue estimates? v
Directional - typically within 2-3× of actual money earned for popular apps. The $298.2K for Honkai: Star Rail 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 Honkai: Star Rail or Minecraft: Play with Friends! to a different App Store app? v
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