Minecraft: Play with Friends! vs Royal Match
Minecraft: Play with Friends!
Mojang
App Store
$22.61M/mo
~$271.34M/yr · 121.3M installs
VS
Royal Match
Dream Games
App Store
$39.95M/mo
~$479.39M/yr · 618.6M installs
Revenue winner
Royal Match wins
+77% vs other
Installs winner
Royal Match wins
+410% vs other
MAU winner
Royal Match wins
+48% vs other
Rating winner
Royal Match wins
+4% vs other
Why Royal Match is winning
Top 4 reasons - backed by the public App Store / Play Store numbers.
- Royal Match earns roughly 2× more per month than Minecraft: Play with Friends! - $39.95M vs $22.61M.
- Premium pricing. Royal Match charges $9.99/mo vs Minecraft: Play with Friends!'s $3.99/mo - higher ARPU per converted user.
- Bigger install base. Royal Match has ~618.6M lifetime installs vs Minecraft: Play with Friends!'s ~121.3M - 5.1× the funnel top.
- Charts placement. Royal Match ranks #6 on the US grossing chart (the other app is unranked) - chart placement is a self-reinforcing flywheel.
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Side-by-side metrics
Bars scale to whichever app is bigger on that row. Green = winner.
Minecraft: Play with Friends!
vs
Royal Match
Monthly revenue (est.)?
$22.61M
▶
$39.95M
Annual revenue (est.)
$271.34M
▶
$479.39M
Lifetime installs (est.)
121.3M
▶
618.6M
Monthly active users (est.)?
6.7M
▶
9.9M
App Store rating
4.51★
▶
4.69★
Total ratings
809K
▶
3.6M
US grossing rank
-
▶
#6
Cheapest monthly sub
$3.99
▶
$9.99
IAP tiers detected
10 tiers
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10 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
- Feb 25, 2021
- Last updated
- Apr 28, 2026
- File size
- 301.8 MB
- Content rating
- 12+
- Version
- 35908
- Languages
- Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese +5 more
Minecraft: Play with Friends! trajectory
Royal Match trajectory
FAQ
Which makes more money, Minecraft: Play with Friends! or Royal Match? v
Royal Match earns about $39.95M per month, while Minecraft: Play with Friends! earns about $22.61M. That is a 1.8× revenue gap (~$17.34M more per month for Royal Match). Annual revenue: Minecraft: Play with Friends! ≈ $271.34M/year, Royal Match ≈ $479.39M/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 Royal Match? v
Royal Match leads with about 618.6M estimated downloads vs 121.3M for Minecraft: Play with Friends! - a 5.1× gap. Minecraft: Play with Friends!'s App Store downloads are estimated from 809K ratings × the standard 1:75 ratio. Royal Match's App Store downloads are estimated from 3.6M ratings.
Are Minecraft: Play with Friends! and Royal Match 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 Royal Match offer? v
Minecraft: Play with Friends!: IAP range 10 tiers detected. Royal Match: IAP range 10 tiers detected. Minecraft: Play with Friends! runs a "Paid app ($6.99)" monetization model; Royal Match runs "Free casual game · ads + tiny sub take (~$0.08/MAU) · calibrated by US grossing rank #6". 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 Royal Match? v
Royal Match edges ahead with ★ 4.7 vs ★ 4.5 (gap of 0.2 stars). Rating volume: Minecraft: Play with Friends! 809K ratings, Royal Match 3.6M ratings. Higher rating volume = stronger ASO signal even when star averages are close.
How accurate are these Minecraft: Play with Friends! vs Royal Match revenue estimates? v
Directional - typically within 2-3× of actual money earned for popular apps. The $22.61M for Minecraft: Play with Friends! and $39.95M for Royal Match 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 Royal Match to a different App Store app? v
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