Match 3D vs Minecraft: Play with Friends!
Match 3D
Lion Studios Plus
App Store
$655.1K/mo
~$7.86M/yr · 145.5M installs
VS
Minecraft: Play with Friends!
Mojang
App Store
$22.89M/mo
~$274.72M/yr · 122.8M installs
Revenue winner
Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins
+3394% vs other
Installs winner
Match 3D wins
+18% vs other
MAU winner
Match 3D wins
+21% vs other
Rating winner
Match 3D wins
+6% vs other
Why Minecraft: Play with Friends! is winning
Top 2 reasons - backed by the public App Store / Play Store numbers.
- Minecraft: Play with Friends! earns roughly 35× more per month than Match 3D - $22.89M vs $655.1K.
- Aggressive pricing. Minecraft: Play with Friends! undercuts at $3.99/mo vs $9.99/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.
Match 3D
vs
Minecraft: Play with Friends!
Monthly revenue (est.)?
$655.1K
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$22.89M
Annual revenue (est.)
$7.86M
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$274.72M
Lifetime installs (est.)
145.5M
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122.8M
Monthly active users (est.)?
8.1M
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6.8M
App Store rating
4.79★
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4.51★
Total ratings
970K
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819K
US grossing rank
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Cheapest monthly sub
$9.99
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$3.99
IAP tiers detected
10 tiers
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10 tiers
- Category
- Games
- Price
- Free
- Released
- May 5, 2020
- Last updated
- Jun 20, 2026
- File size
- 951.0 MB
- Content rating
- 12+
- Version
- 1245.99.0
- Languages
- English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Chinese +2 more
- 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
Match 3D trajectory
Minecraft: Play with Friends! trajectory
FAQ
Which makes more money, Match 3D or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Minecraft: Play with Friends! earns about $22.89M per month, while Match 3D earns about $655.1K. That is a 34.9× revenue gap (~$22.24M more per month for Minecraft: Play with Friends!). Annual revenue: Match 3D ≈ $7.86M/year, Minecraft: Play with Friends! ≈ $274.72M/year. Estimates are derived from public App Store signals - grossing rank, scraped IAP tiers, ratings and category benchmarks.
Which has more downloads, Match 3D or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Match 3D leads with about 145.5M estimated downloads vs 122.8M for Minecraft: Play with Friends! - a 1.2× gap. Match 3D's App Store downloads are estimated from 970K ratings × the standard 1:75 ratio. Minecraft: Play with Friends!'s App Store downloads are estimated from 819K ratings.
Are Match 3D 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 Match 3D and Minecraft: Play with Friends! offer? v
Match 3D: IAP range 10 tiers detected. Minecraft: Play with Friends!: IAP range 10 tiers detected. Match 3D 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, Match 3D or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Match 3D edges ahead with ★ 4.8 vs ★ 4.5 (gap of 0.3 stars). Rating volume: Match 3D 970K ratings, Minecraft: Play with Friends! 819K ratings. Higher rating volume = stronger ASO signal even when star averages are close.
How accurate are these Match 3D vs Minecraft: Play with Friends! revenue estimates? v
Directional - typically within 2-3× of actual money earned for popular apps. The $655.1K for Match 3D and $22.89M 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 Match 3D or Minecraft: Play with Friends! to a different App Store app? v
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