Lucky Defense! vs Minecraft: Play with Friends!
Lucky Defense!
111%
App Store
$72.4K/mo
~$869.1K/yr · 1.3M installs
VS
Minecraft: Play with Friends!
Mojang
App Store
$22.59M/mo
~$271.07M/yr · 121.2M installs
Revenue winner
Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins
+31091% vs other
Installs winner
Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins
+9556% vs other
MAU winner
Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins
+9459% vs other
Rating winner
Lucky Defense! wins
+3% vs other
Why Minecraft: Play with Friends! is winning
Top 3 reasons - backed by the public App Store / Play Store numbers.
- Minecraft: Play with Friends! earns roughly 312× more per month than Lucky Defense! - $22.59M vs $72.4K.
- Aggressive pricing. Minecraft: Play with Friends! undercuts at $3.99/mo vs $8.99/mo - converts a higher % of free users.
- Bigger install base. Minecraft: Play with Friends! has ~121.2M lifetime installs vs Lucky Defense!'s ~1.3M - 96.6× the funnel top.
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Side-by-side metrics
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Lucky Defense!
vs
Minecraft: Play with Friends!
Monthly revenue (est.)?
$72.4K
▶
$22.59M
Annual revenue (est.)
$869.1K
▶
$271.07M
Lifetime installs (est.)
1.3M
▶
121.2M
Monthly active users (est.)?
250K
▶
23.9M
App Store rating
4.62★
◀
4.50★
Total ratings
11K
▶
808K
US grossing rank
-
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-
Cheapest monthly sub
$8.99
◀
$3.99
IAP tiers detected
10 tiers
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10 tiers
- Category
- Games
- Price
- Free
- Released
- May 26, 2024
- Last updated
- May 1, 2026
- File size
- 1.38 GB
- Content rating
- 12+
- Version
- 1.8.18
- Languages
- English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Chinese +2 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
Lucky Defense! trajectory
Minecraft: Play with Friends! trajectory
FAQ
Which makes more money, Lucky Defense! or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Minecraft: Play with Friends! earns about $22.59M per month, while Lucky Defense! earns about $72.4K. That is a 311.9× revenue gap (~$22.52M more per month for Minecraft: Play with Friends!). Annual revenue: Lucky Defense! ≈ $869.1K/year, Minecraft: Play with Friends! ≈ $271.07M/year. Estimates are derived from public App Store signals - grossing rank, scraped IAP tiers, ratings and category benchmarks.
Which has more downloads, Lucky Defense! or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Minecraft: Play with Friends! leads with about 121.2M estimated downloads vs 1.3M for Lucky Defense! - a 96.6× gap. Lucky Defense!'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 808K ratings.
Are Lucky Defense! 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 Lucky Defense! and Minecraft: Play with Friends! offer? v
Lucky Defense!: IAP range 10 tiers detected. Minecraft: Play with Friends!: IAP range 10 tiers detected. Lucky Defense! runs a "Subscription (~$8.99/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, Lucky Defense! or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Lucky Defense! edges ahead with ★ 4.6 vs ★ 4.5 (gap of 0.1 stars). Rating volume: Lucky Defense! 11K ratings, Minecraft: Play with Friends! 808K ratings. Higher rating volume = stronger ASO signal even when star averages are close.
How accurate are these Lucky Defense! vs Minecraft: Play with Friends! revenue estimates? v
Directional - typically within 2-3× of actual money earned for popular apps. The $72.4K for Lucky Defense! and $22.59M 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 Lucky Defense! or Minecraft: Play with Friends! to a different App Store app? v
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