Merge Dragons! vs Minecraft: Play with Friends!
Merge Dragons!
Gram Games
App Store
$4.06M/mo
~$48.66M/yr · 62.8M 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
+457% vs other
Installs winner
Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins
+93% vs other
MAU winner
Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins
+90% vs other
Rating winner
Merge Dragons! wins
+5% 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 6× more per month than Merge Dragons! - $22.59M vs $4.06M.
- Aggressive pricing. Minecraft: Play with Friends! undercuts at $3.99/mo vs $9.99/mo - converts a higher % of free users.
- Bigger install base. Minecraft: Play with Friends! has ~121.2M lifetime installs vs Merge Dragons!'s ~62.8M - 1.9× the funnel top.
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Side-by-side metrics
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Merge Dragons!
vs
Minecraft: Play with Friends!
Monthly revenue (est.)?
$4.06M
▶
$22.59M
Annual revenue (est.)
$48.66M
▶
$271.07M
Lifetime installs (est.)
62.8M
▶
121.2M
Monthly active users (est.)?
12.6M
▶
23.9M
App Store rating
4.71★
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4.50★
Total ratings
419K
▶
808K
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
- Jun 28, 2017
- Last updated
- Apr 28, 2026
- File size
- 378.2 MB
- Content rating
- 9+
- Version
- 13.5.0
- Languages
- Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese +7 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
Merge Dragons! trajectory
Minecraft: Play with Friends! trajectory
FAQ
Which makes more money, Merge Dragons! or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Minecraft: Play with Friends! earns about $22.59M per month, while Merge Dragons! earns about $4.06M. That is a 5.6× revenue gap (~$18.53M more per month for Minecraft: Play with Friends!). Annual revenue: Merge Dragons! ≈ $48.66M/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, Merge Dragons! or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Minecraft: Play with Friends! leads with about 121.2M estimated downloads vs 62.8M for Merge Dragons! - a 1.9× gap. Merge Dragons!'s App Store downloads are estimated from 419K ratings × the standard 1:75 ratio. Minecraft: Play with Friends!'s App Store downloads are estimated from 808K ratings.
Are Merge Dragons! 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 Merge Dragons! and Minecraft: Play with Friends! offer? v
Merge Dragons!: IAP range 10 tiers detected. Minecraft: Play with Friends!: IAP range 10 tiers detected. Merge Dragons! runs a "Subscription (~$9.99/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, Merge Dragons! or Minecraft: Play with Friends!? v
Merge Dragons! edges ahead with ★ 4.7 vs ★ 4.5 (gap of 0.2 stars). Rating volume: Merge Dragons! 419K ratings, Minecraft: Play with Friends! 808K ratings. Higher rating volume = stronger ASO signal even when star averages are close.
How accurate are these Merge Dragons! vs Minecraft: Play with Friends! revenue estimates? v
Directional - typically within 2-3× of actual money earned for popular apps. The $4.06M for Merge Dragons! 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 Merge Dragons! or Minecraft: Play with Friends! to a different App Store app? v
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