Minecraft Education
73
Quality Score
Strong
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Minecraft Education is an iOS app from Mojang in the Education category, currently rated 4.0★ across 39,970 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 73: Strong (healthy traction). For a Education app, that means healthy traction. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$700K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$741K – $1141K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$886K – $1645K
per month
BIG tier
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
506 snapshots on record
Rating
4.0
Reviews
39,970 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$700K
Snapshots tracked
506
since Aug 2025
🤖Also on Android
$258/mo · 139K ratings · 4.1★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$155K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $115K – $210K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in under a month at current MRR
Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.
Where the money goes
| 🧱 MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship) | +$28K |
| 📱 5 unique screens × $4.5K | +$22K |
| 📦 Asset bundle (1375 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Education complexity ×1.20 | +$18K |
| ⚙ 8.0y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$48K |
Total estimate
$155K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$13.5M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $10.0M – $17.5M · 19× MRR multiple
💸
~87× return on build cost
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from ad-supported + age, rating quality, category demand, and user-base maturity. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-app-marketplace closed-deal medians. Full math + comparable deal list on /methodology.
How the multiple was built
| 📺 Ad-supported base | 15× MRR |
| 📅 8.0y proven track record | +20% |
| 🏷 Education category multiple | +6% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
2.4M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
265K
Daily active
79K
Synthetic estimate from ratings × category benchmarks. Calibrated against 2024-2026 mobile-attribution retention + DAU/MAU reports. Numbers are US-storefront-equivalent — true global audience can be 5-10× larger for international apps. Full math + source list on /methodology.
How we sized it
| 📲 Education engagement | ~85 installs / rating |
| 📅 8.0y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Education D30 retention | 18% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
30% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 55%
Also possible
React Native
Flutter
Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.
Signals we read
| 📦 App bundle size | 1375 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Education |
| 📦 Large iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) + assets |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-08-04 · 51 days ago
0 · Active
50 · At risk
100 · Abandoned
Heuristic risk score from time-since-last-update + ratings velocity proxy + Editor's Choice / curated featuring signals. Calibrated against 2024-2025 app-store ranking decay reports. Not a guarantee — a quiet app with a healthy codebase looks the same as an abandoned one until something breaks. Full math on /methodology.
Risk signals
| 📅 51 days since last update | Healthy release cadence |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$700K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$690K – $933K
12 months
$741K – $1.1M
24 months
$886K – $1.6M
Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Concerning · 54/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarksGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.9
Product Quality
8.0
Revenue Strength
5.8
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
5.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $280K - $1540K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.0★ across 39,970 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $12.6M-$22.4M.
Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.
Range:
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (39,970 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Mature app (8y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (22 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Good rating (4.0★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🆕 What's New · v1.26.32
Various bug fixes!
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Minecraft Education
- Developer
- Mojang
- Bundle ID
- com.mojang.minecraft-edu
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Education
- Content rating
- 9+
- Languages
- DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, NB, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV, ZH, TR, UK
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $700K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Education
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
Founder data not yet collected for this app.
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
📈Ratings growth42,524 ratings+9413% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter2 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline2 releases tracked
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
📝 About this app
THIS APP IS FOR SCHOOL AND ORGANIZATIONAL USE.
Minecraft Education is a game-based platform that inspires creative, inclusive learning through play. Explore blocky worlds that unlock new ways to tackle any subject or challenge.
Dive into subjects like reading, math, history, and coding with lessons and standardized curriculum designed for all types of learners. Or explore and build together in creative open worlds.
USE IT YOUR WAY… View full description on the official store →
Minecraft Education is a game-based platform that inspires creative, inclusive learning through play. Explore blocky worlds that unlock new ways to tackle any subject or challenge.
Dive into subjects like reading, math, history, and coding with lessons and standardized curriculum designed for all types of learners. Or explore and build together in creative open worlds.
USE IT YOUR WAY… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 1.3 GB🔞 9+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v1.26.32🔄 updated 1mo ago🌐 DA, NL, EN, FI, FR +17📂 Education💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2018 (8y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
12 EVENTS TRACKEDDetected changes in this app over its tracked lifetime — each event links cause (what changed) to effect (what moved). Sorted newest first.See full history →Version history →
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v1.21.133.2 → v1.26.32
→ 30 days after: reviews +1,435 high confidence
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.61 → 4.00 (improved 0.39★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +628 high confidence
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +628 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$53/mo · reviews +17 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$69/mo · reviews +22 medium · co-occurring
2025-10
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$279/mo · rating −0.06★ · reviews +86 high confidence
2025-09
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$196/mo · rating −0.21★ · reviews +61 high confidence
2025-08
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$205/mo · rating −1.20★ · reviews +63 low · multiple changes
2025-08
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.33 (improved 0.33★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$188/mo · rating −1.22★ · reviews +58 low · multiple changes
2025-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.50 → 3.00 (dropped 0.50★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$182/mo · rating −1.23★ · reviews +56 low · multiple changes
2025-08
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$179/mo · rating −1.18★ · reviews +55 low · multiple changes
2025-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.67 (dropped 1.33★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$179/mo · rating −1.18★ · reviews +55 low · multiple changes
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.07561★ | 17,075 | 4.07561★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 3.61434★ | 2,803 | 3.61434★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.13076★ | 11,311 | 4.13076★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 3.56184★ | 1,504 | 3.56184★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 3.81967★ | 1,098 | 3.81967★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 3.89451★ | 5,460 | 3.89451★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 3.76048★ | 1,837 | 3.76048★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 3.35329★ | 1,687 | 3.35329★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.0073★ | 42,593 | 4.0073★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Minecraft Education: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why high confidence: 39,970 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Minecraft Education make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Minecraft Education earns approximately $700K/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.
Is Minecraft Education profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $155K and monthly revenue $700K, Minecraft Education looks highly profitable — pays back its build investment in under a month at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Minecraft Education have?▴
Estimated audience: ~2.4M lifetime downloads, ~265K monthly active users, and ~79K daily active users. Derived from ratings count × category installs-per-rating × age decay. US-storefront-equivalent — global audience can be 5-10× larger for internationally-distributed apps.
What apps are like Minecraft Education?▴
Browse the full Education category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.
What is Minecraft Education built with?▴
Our heuristic places Minecraft Education on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 55%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is Minecraft Education still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (15% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Minecraft Education sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $13.5M (marketplace range $10.0M – $17.5M). Calculated as 19× monthly revenue using the standard multiple for the detected monetization model + adjustments for age, rating quality and category demand. Calibrated against 2024-2026 Flippa / Acquire.com / MicroAcquire closed-deal medians.
When was Minecraft Education last updated?▴
Minecraft Education last shipped a new version on 2026-08-04 — 1 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Minecraft Education?▴
Minecraft Education is published by Mojang on the Apple App Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.
What is Minecraft Education's BU Score?▴
Minecraft Education has a BU Score of 73/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.