Minecraft: Play with Friends!
Explore, build, craft together
Your score
Strong. 7 of 43 checks need attention.
Minecraft: Play with Friends!
Games · US
- Discoverability77.9
Top 5 for 1 of 6 terms · 99% of characters
- First impression83.9
icon 100, shot 1 58, subtitle 100 of 100
- Credibility87.7
4.5★ from 835k ratings
- Clarity92.9
6 of 6 viewers described it correctly
- Competitiveness75.8
Picked 2 of 2 shelf runs · 62nd pct
Working
- Your app name uses 29 of 30 characters. That's a good use of the highest-weighted field you have.
- You have a subtitle. Good, most indie apps don't.
Not working
- Your name or subtitle contains "minecraft". Apple's guidelines forbid packing metadata with other apps' names or trademarks, and Apple can change or reject the listing over it. Take it out.
- You're covering 7 of the 9 additional languages the United States storefront supports. Each missing one is another 30-character name, 30-character subtitle and 100-character keyword field: 320 indexable characters you're leaving on the table in the same storefront, without translating your app. Missing: Arabic, Vietnamese.
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The shelf
2 of 3 simulated users picked a rival off this row.
Search results · US · Games
They were asked to find: “You want something to play in the twenty minutes you spend on the bus.”
- You1
Minecraft: Play with Friends!
Explore, build, craft together
4.5835K ratings$6.99In-App Purchases
Skeptical Researcher passed: “I'm not checking screenshots until I've ruled out everything else, and Minecraft costs $6.99 when I have free options that rate higher on review count.”
- 2
All Out: Play with Friends
Play favorite games together
4.611K ratingsGetIn-App Purchases
- 3
Play Together: Friends & Party
Decorate, Connect, Play Games!
4.571K ratingsGetIn-App Purchases
- 4
House Party: Play Friends
Fun Game Night
1.01 ratingsGetIn-App Purchases
- 5
Crafty Lands: Build & Craft
3D Sandbox: Build Online
4.514K ratingsGetIn-App Purchases
Your taps
Where the taps went
- Minecraft: Play with Friends!you3/6
- Play Together: Friends & Party2/6
- All Out: Play with Friends1/6
Fix these first
5 changes, in order of impact.
Competitor brand names in metadata
Your name or subtitle contains "minecraft". Apple's guidelines forbid packing metadata with other apps' names or trademarks, and Apple can change or reject the listing over it. Take it out. Remove other companies' brand names from your metadata. This is a rejection risk, not just wasted characters.
visibilityApple-documentedScreenshot orientation
+5–15% est.Every screenshot is landscape. A landscape set shows roughly one thumbnail on the search card where a portrait set shows three. You're competing for the same attention with a third of the surface. Lead with portrait screenshots. A portrait set shows about three thumbnails on the search card, landscape shows one.
conversionStrong evidencePreview video is the weakest part of your listing
Preview video scores 0/100. Weakest: no preview video, while 3 of 5 benchmark rivals ship one; a good one measures +20–35% and watchers are ~3× likelier to install. What the review actually saw: no preview video, while 3 of 5 benchmark rivals ship one; a good one measures +20–35% and watchers are ~3× likelier to install.
conversionOur proposalCross-index locales unused
You're covering 7 of the 9 additional languages the United States storefront supports. Each missing one is another 30-character name, 30-character subtitle and 100-character keyword field: 320 indexable characters you're leaving on the table in the same storefront, without translating your app. Missing: Arabic, Vietnamese. Add metadata in your storefront's additional supported languages. Each one is another 160 indexable characters (30 name + 30 subtitle + 100 keywords) in the same storefront.
visibilityIndustry consensusApp preview video
+10–20% est.No preview video, so your first three screenshots carry the search card alone. Roughly 90% of even top-1,000 apps have never tested a video, so a decent one is still an unclaimed lever, as long as the poster frame stands on its own. Test one 15–30s preview whose poster frame stands on its own. A weak poster frame evicts a screenshot and is worse than no video.
conversionStrong evidence
What simulated users said
1 of 6 would tap your card; 1 of 6 would install.
Skeptical Researcher
38, product manager · reads the one-stars first (the control persona)
“The rating is clean, the count is massive, and I'm not seeing any complaints staring back at me from the card, so I'd open it.”
- The card
- would tap
- The page
- would install
Skeptical Researcher
38, product manager · reads the one-stars first (the control persona)
“I need to see the 1-star reviews before I commit six dollars and a gigabyte and a half.”
- The card
- would not tap
- The page
- would install
Deal-Driven Gamer
22, mid-core player · hunts the monetisation model
“Why is it $6.99 and also has in-app purchases — what am I actually paying for here?”
- The card
- would not tap
- The page
- would not install
Deal-Driven Gamer
22, mid-core player · hunts the monetisation model
“I can see it's the real deal and the art style is solid, but I'm not burning that much storage on a maybe.”
- The card
- would not tap
- The page
- would not install
Impulse Scroller
19, student · installs several apps a week, deletes most of them
“I'm not dropping seven dollars on something I've never tried, especially when there's probably a free version somewhere.”
- The card
- would not tap
- The page
- did not open it
Impulse Scroller
19, student · installs several apps a week, deletes most of them
“The icon and screenshots look fine but I'm not dropping money on something I haven't tried.”
- The card
- would not tap
- The page
- did not open it