Minecraft: Play with Friends! vs Roblox
Minecraft: Play with Friends!
Mojang
App Store
$22.61M/mo
~$271.34M/yr · 121.3M installs
VS
Roblox
Roblox Corporation
App Store
$5.34M/mo
~$64.13M/yr · 1.7B installs
Revenue winner
Minecraft: Play with Friends! wins
+323% vs other
Installs winner
Roblox wins
+1284% vs other
MAU winner
Roblox wins
+152% 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 4× more per month than Roblox - $22.61M vs $5.34M.
- 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.)?
$22.61M
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$5.34M
Annual revenue (est.)
$271.34M
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$64.13M
Lifetime installs (est.)
121.3M
▶
1.7B
Monthly active users (est.)?
6.7M
▶
16.8M
App Store rating
4.51★
▶
4.52★
Total ratings
809K
▶
18.7M
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
- May 5, 2026
- File size
- 1.18 GB
- Content rating
- 9+
- Version
- 26.20
- Languages
- Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German +16 more
- Category
- Games
- Price
- Free
- Released
- May 26, 2011
- Last updated
- May 7, 2026
- File size
- 220.7 MB
- Content rating
- 12+
- Version
- 2.720.1164
- 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 $22.61M per month, while Roblox earns about $5.34M. That is a 4.2× revenue gap (~$17.27M more per month for Minecraft: Play with Friends!). Annual revenue: Minecraft: Play with Friends! ≈ $271.34M/year, Roblox ≈ $64.13M/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 121.3M for Minecraft: Play with Friends! - a 13.8× gap. Minecraft: Play with Friends!'s App Store downloads are estimated from 809K ratings × the standard 1:75 ratio. Roblox's App Store downloads are estimated from 18.7M 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 "Subscription (~$9.99/mo)". 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! 809K ratings, Roblox 18.7M 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 $22.61M for Minecraft: Play with Friends! and $5.34M 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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