Minecraft: Play with Friends! vs Pokémon GO
Minecraft: Play with Friends!
Mojang
App Store
$22.90M/mo
~$274.75M/yr · 122.8M installs
VS
Pokémon GO
Niantic, Inc.
App Store
$10.00M/mo
~$120.00M/yr · 96.5M installs
Revenue winner
Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins
+129% vs other
Installs winner
Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins
+27% vs other
MAU winner
Pokémon GO wins
+36% vs other
Rating winner
Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins
+13% 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 2× more per month than Pokémon GO - $22.90M vs $10.00M.
- Subscription model. Minecraft: Play with Friends! runs a $3.99/mo subscription that compounds; Pokémon GO relies on one-shot IAP or ads.
- Better app store reviews. Minecraft: Play with Friends! sits at 4.51★ vs 4.00★ - store algorithms reward higher-rated apps with more impressions.
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Side-by-side metrics
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Minecraft: Play with Friends!
vs
Pokémon GO
Monthly revenue (est.)?
$22.90M
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$10.00M
Annual revenue (est.)
$274.75M
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$120.00M
Lifetime installs (est.)
122.8M
◀
96.5M
Monthly active users (est.)?
6.8M
▶
9.2M
App Store rating
4.51★
◀
4.00★
Total ratings
819K
◀
643K
US grossing rank
-
▶
#44
Cheapest monthly sub
$3.99
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No sub
IAP tiers detected
10 tiers
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10 tiers
- 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
- Category
- Games
- Price
- Free
- Released
- Jul 7, 2016
- Last updated
- Jun 30, 2026
- File size
- 403.6 MB
- Content rating
- 9+
- Version
- 0.417.1
- Languages
- English, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian +8 more
Minecraft: Play with Friends! trajectory
Pokémon GO trajectory
FAQ
Which makes more money, Minecraft: Play with Friends! or Pokémon GO? v
Minecraft: Play with Friends! earns about $22.90M per month, while Pokémon GO earns about $10.00M. That is a 2.3× revenue gap (~$12.90M more per month for Minecraft: Play with Friends!). Annual revenue: Minecraft: Play with Friends! ≈ $274.75M/year, Pokémon GO ≈ $120.00M/year. Estimates are derived from public App Store signals - grossing rank, scraped IAP tiers, ratings and category benchmarks.
Which has more downloads, Minecraft: Play with Friends! or Pokémon GO? v
Minecraft: Play with Friends! leads with about 122.8M estimated downloads vs 96.5M for Pokémon GO - a 1.3× gap. Minecraft: Play with Friends!'s App Store downloads are estimated from 819K ratings × the standard 1:75 ratio. Pokémon GO's App Store downloads are estimated from 643K ratings.
Are Minecraft: Play with Friends! and Pokémon GO 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 Minecraft: Play with Friends! and Pokémon GO offer? v
Minecraft: Play with Friends!: IAP range 10 tiers detected. Pokémon GO: IAP range 10 tiers detected. Minecraft: Play with Friends! runs a "Paid app ($6.99)" monetization model; Pokémon GO runs "Pokémon GO · calibrated to ground-truth (~$10.0M/mo on App Store)". Scraped tier prices and detected subscription pricing drive the bulk of the per-app revenue estimate above.
Which has better ratings, Minecraft: Play with Friends! or Pokémon GO? v
Minecraft: Play with Friends! edges ahead with ★ 4.5 vs ★ 4.0 (gap of 0.5 stars). Rating volume: Minecraft: Play with Friends! 819K ratings, Pokémon GO 643K ratings. Higher rating volume = stronger ASO signal even when star averages are close.
How accurate are these Minecraft: Play with Friends! vs Pokémon GO revenue estimates? v
Directional - typically within 2-3× of actual money earned for popular apps. The $22.90M for Minecraft: Play with Friends! and $10.00M for Pokémon GO 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 Minecraft: Play with Friends! or Pokémon GO to a different App Store app? v
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