Honkai: Star Rail vs Red's First Flight
Honkai: Star Rail
COGNOSPHERE PTE. LTD.
App Store
$1.17M/mo
~$13.99M/yr · 5.7M installs
VS
Red's First Flight
Rovio Entertainment Oyj
App Store
$221.9K/mo
~$2.66M/yr · 8.4M installs
Revenue winner
Honkai: Star Rail wins
+425% vs other
Installs winner
Red's First Flight wins
+47% vs other
MAU winner
Honkai: Star Rail wins
+2% vs other
Rating winner
Red's First Flight wins
+8% vs other
Why Honkai: Star Rail is winning
Top 3 reasons - backed by the public App Store / Play Store numbers.
- Honkai: Star Rail earns roughly 5× more per month than Red's First Flight - $1.17M vs $221.9K.
- Subscription model. Honkai: Star Rail runs a $9.99/mo subscription that compounds; Red's First Flight relies on one-shot IAP or ads.
- More monetization surfaces. Honkai: Star Rail 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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Honkai: Star Rail
vs
Red's First Flight
Monthly revenue (est.)?
$1.17M
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$221.9K
Annual revenue (est.)
$13.99M
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$2.66M
Lifetime installs (est.)
5.7M
▶
8.4M
Monthly active users (est.)?
1.1M
◀
1.1M
App Store rating
4.41★
▶
4.78★
Total ratings
52K
▶
76K
US grossing rank
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Cheapest monthly sub
$9.99
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No sub
IAP tiers detected
10 tiers
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0 tiers
- Category
- Games
- Price
- Free
- Released
- Apr 22, 2023
- Last updated
- Jun 11, 2026
- File size
- 3.18 GB
- Content rating
- 12+
- Version
- 4.3.1
- Languages
- English, French, German, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean +7 more
- Category
- Games
- Price
- USD0.99
- Released
- Mar 31, 2022
- Last updated
- Jun 19, 2023
- File size
- 229.0 MB
- Content rating
- 4+
- Version
- 1.3.1
- Languages
- Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian +8 more
Honkai: Star Rail trajectory
Red's First Flight trajectory
FAQ
Which makes more money, Honkai: Star Rail or Red's First Flight? v
Honkai: Star Rail earns about $1.17M per month, while Red's First Flight earns about $221.9K. That is a 5.3× revenue gap (~$943.6K more per month for Honkai: Star Rail). Annual revenue: Honkai: Star Rail ≈ $13.99M/year, Red's First Flight ≈ $2.66M/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 Red's First Flight? v
Red's First Flight leads with about 8.4M estimated downloads vs 5.7M for Honkai: Star Rail - a 1.5× gap. Honkai: Star Rail's App Store downloads are estimated from 52K ratings × the standard 1:75 ratio. Red's First Flight's App Store downloads are estimated from 76K ratings.
Are Honkai: Star Rail and Red's First Flight 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 Red's First Flight offer? v
Honkai: Star Rail: IAP range 10 tiers detected. Red's First Flight: no IAP detected on the public listing. Honkai: Star Rail runs a "Free game · whale-driven IAP economy (~$1.30/MAU)" monetization model; Red's First Flight runs "Paid app ($0.99)". 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 Red's First Flight? v
Red's First Flight edges ahead with ★ 4.8 vs ★ 4.4 (gap of 0.4 stars). Rating volume: Honkai: Star Rail 52K ratings, Red's First Flight 76K ratings. Higher rating volume = stronger ASO signal even when star averages are close.
How accurate are these Honkai: Star Rail vs Red's First Flight revenue estimates? v
Directional - typically within 2-3× of actual money earned for popular apps. The $1.17M for Honkai: Star Rail and $221.9K for Red's First Flight 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 Red's First Flight to a different App Store app? v
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