Kick the Buddy vs Minecraft: Play with Friends!

Kick the Buddy

Playgendary Limited
App Store
$787.8K/mo
~$9.45M/yr · 177.6M installs
VS

Minecraft: Play with Friends!

Mojang
App Store
$22.90M/mo
~$274.85M/yr · 122.9M installs
Revenue winner Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins +2807% vs other
Installs winner Kick the Buddy wins +45% vs other
MAU winner Kick the Buddy wins +45% vs other
Rating winner Kick the Buddy wins +2% vs other

Why Minecraft: Play with Friends! is winning

Top 2 reasons - backed by the public App Store / Play Store numbers.

  1. Minecraft: Play with Friends! earns roughly 29× more per month than Kick the Buddy - $22.90M vs $787.8K.
  2. Aggressive pricing. Minecraft: Play with Friends! undercuts at $3.99/mo vs $19.99/mo - converts a higher % of free users.

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Side-by-side metrics

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

Kick the Buddy
vs
Minecraft: Play with Friends!
Monthly revenue (est.)?
$787.8K
$22.90M
Annual revenue (est.)
$9.45M
$274.85M
Lifetime installs (est.)
177.6M
122.9M
Monthly active users (est.)?
9.8M
6.8M
App Store rating
4.58★
4.51★
Total ratings
1.0M
819K
US grossing rank
-
=
-
Cheapest monthly sub
$19.99
$3.99
IAP tiers detected
10 tiers
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10 tiers

Kick the Buddy

Playgendary Limited
App Store
Category
Games
Price
Free
Released
Nov 2, 2017
Last updated
Jun 24, 2026
File size
343.0 MB
Content rating
12+
Version
2.6.1
Languages
English
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Minecraft: Play with Friends!

Mojang
App Store
Category
Games
Price
USD6.99
Released
Nov 17, 2011
Last updated
Jun 25, 2026
File size
1.32 GB
Content rating
9+
Version
26.32
Languages
Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German +16 more
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FAQ

Which makes more money, Kick the Buddy or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Minecraft: Play with Friends! earns about $22.90M per month, while Kick the Buddy earns about $787.8K. That is a 29.1× revenue gap (~$22.12M more per month for Minecraft: Play with Friends!). Annual revenue: Kick the Buddy ≈ $9.45M/year, Minecraft: Play with Friends! ≈ $274.85M/year. Estimates are derived from public App Store signals - grossing rank, scraped IAP tiers, ratings and category benchmarks.
Which has more downloads, Kick the Buddy or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Kick the Buddy leads with about 177.6M estimated downloads vs 122.9M for Minecraft: Play with Friends! - a 1.4× gap. Kick the Buddy's App Store downloads are estimated from 1.0M ratings × the standard 1:75 ratio. Minecraft: Play with Friends!'s App Store downloads are estimated from 819K ratings.
Are Kick the Buddy 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 Kick the Buddy and Minecraft: Play with Friends! offer? v
Kick the Buddy: IAP range 10 tiers detected. Minecraft: Play with Friends!: IAP range 10 tiers detected. Kick the Buddy runs a "Free casual game · ads + tiny sub take (~$0.08/MAU)" 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, Kick the Buddy or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Kick the Buddy edges ahead with ★ 4.6 vs ★ 4.5 (gap of 0.1 stars). Rating volume: Kick the Buddy 1.0M ratings, Minecraft: Play with Friends! 819K ratings. Higher rating volume = stronger ASO signal even when star averages are close.
How accurate are these Kick the Buddy vs Minecraft: Play with Friends! revenue estimates? v
Directional - typically within 2-3× of actual money earned for popular apps. The $787.8K for Kick the Buddy and $22.90M 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 Kick the Buddy or Minecraft: Play with Friends! to a different App Store app? v
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