Minecraft: Play with Friends! vs Roblox
Minecraft: Play with Friends!
Mojang
App Store
$22.90M/mo
~$274.81M/yr · 122.9M installs
VS
Roblox
Roblox Corporation
App Store
$10.00M/mo
~$120.00M/yr · 1.7B installs
Revenue winner
Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins
+129% vs other
Installs winner
Roblox wins
+1309% vs other
MAU winner
Roblox wins
+156% vs other
Rating winner
Roblox wins
+0% 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 Roblox - $22.90M vs $10.00M.
- Aggressive pricing. Minecraft: Play with Friends! undercuts at $3.99/mo vs $4.99/mo - converts a higher % of free users.
- More monetization surfaces. Minecraft: Play with Friends! runs 10 IAP tiers vs 4 - more chances to convert users at the right price.
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Side-by-side metrics
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Minecraft: Play with Friends!
vs
Roblox
Monthly revenue (est.)?
$22.90M
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$10.00M
Annual revenue (est.)
$274.81M
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$120.00M
Lifetime installs (est.)
122.9M
▶
1.7B
Monthly active users (est.)?
6.8M
▶
17.3M
App Store rating
4.51★
▶
4.52★
Total ratings
819K
▶
19.2M
US grossing rank
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Cheapest monthly sub
$3.99
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$4.99
IAP tiers detected
10 tiers
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4 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
- May 26, 2011
- Last updated
- Jun 29, 2026
- File size
- 236.8 MB
- Content rating
- 12+
- Version
- 2.727.1204
- Languages
- English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese +9 more
Minecraft: Play with Friends! trajectory
Roblox trajectory
FAQ
Which makes more money, Minecraft: Play with Friends! or Roblox? v
Minecraft: Play with Friends! earns about $22.90M per month, while Roblox 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! ≈ $274.81M/year, Roblox ≈ $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 Roblox? v
Roblox leads with about 1.7B estimated downloads vs 122.9M for Minecraft: Play with Friends! - a 14.1× gap. Minecraft: Play with Friends!'s App Store downloads are estimated from 819K ratings × the standard 1:75 ratio. Roblox's App Store downloads are estimated from 19.2M ratings.
Are Minecraft: Play with Friends! and Roblox 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 Roblox offer? v
Minecraft: Play with Friends!: IAP range 10 tiers detected. Roblox: IAP range 4 tiers detected. Minecraft: Play with Friends! runs a "Paid app ($6.99)" monetization model; Roblox runs "Roblox · 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 Roblox? v
Roblox edges ahead with ★ 4.5 vs ★ 4.5 (gap of 0.0 stars). Rating volume: Minecraft: Play with Friends! 819K ratings, Roblox 19.2M ratings. Higher rating volume = stronger ASO signal even when star averages are close.
How accurate are these Minecraft: Play with Friends! vs Roblox 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 Roblox 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 Roblox to a different App Store app? v
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