Piano ٞ vs YouTube Music
Piano ٞ
Impala Studios
App Store
$200.2K/mo
~$2.40M/yr · 25.0M installs
VS
YouTube Music
Google
App Store
$17.98M/mo
~$215.73M/yr · 257.4M installs
Revenue winner
YouTube Music wins
+8879% vs other
Installs winner
YouTube Music wins
+929% vs other
MAU winner
YouTube Music wins
+124% vs other
Rating winner
YouTube Music wins
+5% vs other
Why YouTube Music is winning
Top 4 reasons - backed by the public App Store / Play Store numbers.
- YouTube Music earns roughly 90× more per month than Piano ٞ - $17.98M vs $200.2K.
- Premium pricing. YouTube Music charges $15.99/mo vs Piano ٞ's $5.99/mo - higher ARPU per converted user.
- Bigger install base. YouTube Music has ~257.4M lifetime installs vs Piano ٞ's ~25.0M - 10.3× the funnel top.
- Charts placement. YouTube Music ranks #13 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.
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Monthly revenue (est.)?
$200.2K
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$17.98M
Annual revenue (est.)
$2.40M
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$215.73M
Lifetime installs (est.)
25.0M
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257.4M
Monthly active users (est.)?
7.9M
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17.8M
App Store rating
4.55★
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4.77★
Total ratings
167K
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1.5M
US grossing rank
-
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#13
Cheapest monthly sub
$5.99
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$15.99
IAP tiers detected
7 tiers
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5 tiers
- Category
- Music
- Price
- Free
- Released
- Sep 2, 2016
- Last updated
- Jul 1, 2026
- File size
- 137.5 MB
- Content rating
- 4+
- Version
- 2.20.3
- Languages
- Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch +24 more
- Category
- Music
- Price
- Free
- Released
- Nov 12, 2015
- Last updated
- Jun 29, 2026
- File size
- 267.1 MB
- Content rating
- 12+
- Version
- 9.26
- Languages
- AF, SQ, AM, Arabic, HY, AZ +66 more
Piano ٞ trajectory
YouTube Music trajectory
FAQ
Which makes more money, Piano ٞ or YouTube Music? v
YouTube Music earns about $17.98M per month, while Piano ٞ earns about $200.2K. That is a 89.8× revenue gap (~$17.78M more per month for YouTube Music). Annual revenue: Piano ٞ ≈ $2.40M/year, YouTube Music ≈ $215.73M/year. Estimates are derived from public App Store signals - grossing rank, scraped IAP tiers, ratings and category benchmarks.
Which has more downloads, Piano ٞ or YouTube Music? v
YouTube Music leads with about 257.4M estimated downloads vs 25.0M for Piano ٞ - a 10.3× gap. Piano ٞ's App Store downloads are estimated from 167K ratings × the standard 1:75 ratio. YouTube Music's App Store downloads are estimated from 1.5M ratings.
Are Piano ٞ and YouTube Music in the same App Store category and competing for the same money? v
Yes - both apps sit in the Music 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 Piano ٞ and YouTube Music offer? v
Piano ٞ: IAP range 7 tiers detected. YouTube Music: IAP range 5 tiers detected. Piano ٞ runs a "Free casual game · ads + tiny sub take (~$0.08/MAU)" monetization model; YouTube Music runs "Subscription (~$15.99/mo) · calibrated by US grossing rank #13". Scraped tier prices and detected subscription pricing drive the bulk of the per-app revenue estimate above.
Which has better ratings, Piano ٞ or YouTube Music? v
YouTube Music edges ahead with ★ 4.8 vs ★ 4.6 (gap of 0.2 stars). Rating volume: Piano ٞ 167K ratings, YouTube Music 1.5M ratings. Higher rating volume = stronger ASO signal even when star averages are close.
How accurate are these Piano ٞ vs YouTube Music revenue estimates? v
Directional - typically within 2-3× of actual money earned for popular apps. The $200.2K for Piano ٞ and $17.98M for YouTube Music are derived from App Store grossing rank, scraped IAP tiers, ratings volume and category benchmarks (Music) - 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 Piano ٞ or YouTube Music to a different App Store app? v
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