Comparison

Minecraft vs Addons + Mods for Minecraft PE

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Minecraft

Explore an infinite open world where you can build, craft, and survive. Gather resources, face challenges, and create anything imaginable, alone or with friends. Customize your experience with add-ons and join millions of players on community servers.

Highlights
  • Open-world building and crafting
  • Survival and Creative modes
  • Multiplayer and cross-platform play
  • Infinite procedurally generated worlds
  • Marketplace for add-ons and cosmetics
  • Community servers and private Realms
Features
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Dive into an open world of building, crafting and survival. Gather resources, survive the night, and build whatever you can imagine one block at a time. Explore and craft your way through a completely open world where you can play with friends, build a city, start a farm, mine deep into the ground, face mysterious enemies, or just experiment to the limits of your imagination! The possibilities are endless. Embark on an epic adventure and play with friends, building from the ground up. Build and expand in Creative mode, where you can craft from unlimited resources. Survive the night, face intense battles, craft tools, and fend off danger in Survival mode. With seamless cross-platform and multiplayer gameplay on Minecraft: Bedrock Edition, you can adventure solo or with friends, and discover an infinite, randomly generated world filled with blocks to mine, biomes to explore, and mobs to befriend (or battle)! In Minecraft, the world is yours to shape! CREATE YOUR WORLD • Build anything from the ground up • Craft from special resources and tools to create brand new structures and landscapes • Explore an endless open world full of different biomes and creatures • Minecraft Marketplace – Get creator-made add-ons, thrilling worlds, and stylish cosmetics on Minecraft Marketplace • Connect with millions of players on community servers, or subscribe to Realms Plus to cross-play with up to 10 friends on your own private server • Slash commands – Tweak how the game plays: you can change the weather, summon mobs, change the time of day, and more • Add-ons – Customize your experience even further with add-ons! If you're more tech-inclined, you can modify your game to create new resource packs MULTIPLAYER ONLINE GAMES • Join free massive multiplayer servers and play with thousands of others • Multiplayer servers allow you to play with up to 4 players online with a free Xbox Live account • Build, battle and explore other realms. With Realms and Realms Plus, you can play with up to 10 friends cross-platform, anytime, anywhere on Realms, your own private server that we host for you • With Realms Plus, get instant access to over 150 Marketplace items with new additions each month. Share with friends on your own private Realms server* • Connect and play with players across the world, wherever they are, and join in on MMO battles for survival in other worlds • Discover gigantic community-run worlds, compete in unique mini-games and socialize in lobbies full of fellow Minecrafters SUPPORT: https://www.minecraft.net/help LEARN MORE: https://www.minecraft.net/ Here are the links to our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions: Privacy Policy: https://www.minecraft.net/privacy/gdpr Terms and Conditions: https://account.mojang.com/terms MINIMUM RECOMMENDED SPECIFICATION To check the requirements for your device visit: https://help.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/4409172223501 *Realms & Realms Plus: Try a free 30-day trial in-app. Minecraft may request the following optional permissions, which require your consent. You can continue to use Minecraft without granting these permissions; however, some features may be limited or unavailable. For more information, please see below: • Local Network: To find other devices on the same Wi‑Fi network for multiplayer gameplay. • App Tracking: To deliver personalized ads and improve application experience

About

Addons + Mods for Minecraft PE

Discover and install over 1000 add-ons, skins, mods, maps, seeds, and textures for Minecraft Pocket Edition. Easily enhance your gameplay with a vast collection of curated and tested content, updated regularly.

Highlights
  • Over 1000 add-ons, skins, mods, maps, seeds, and textures
  • Easy one-touch installation
  • Manual installation instructions available
  • Regular updates with new content
  • Tested and curated add-ons
  • Skins for character customization
  • Diverse maps for exploration and survival
Features
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More than 1000 add ons, skins, mods, maps, seeds and textures for Minecraft Pocket Edition with easy installation process and regular updates! Download and install addons for Minecraft MCPE in one touch or use the manual installation instructions. Only the best and most popular add-ons for Minecraft PE SKINS Skins for Minecraft PE will turn your character into a famous superhero, celebrity or movie hero! A huge number of shapes are available for you. MAPS Maps are a great opportunity to explore many new places! Survive on the Skyblock map for Minecraft, fight with monsters on the Horror map or fall on Dropper maps for Minecraft PE. MODS Latest mods for MCPE diversify the game and add to it what you were so lacking! Use in Minecraft a toolbox mod to make your life easer or tnt mods to blow everything. There are many famous mods: pixelmon mod, dragons, dinosaurs, unicorns etc. TEXTURES This content makes the world in Minecraft even brighter and more colorful! Our collection of textures will help to show your creativity to the maximum. ADD ONS Want to add lucky block mod to Minecraft? Nothing is easier! Just a couple of taps and here their are. KEY FEATURES • All Add-Ons fully tested • Compilation of the best and unique Add-Ons available. • Will be updated constantly with more items. DISCLAIMER: This is not official Minecraft product. Not approved by or associated with Mojang Ab.

Screenshots

Minecraft4 screens
Addons + Mods for Minecraft PE4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Addons + Mods for Minecraft PE at Free against Minecraft's $6.99. Addons + Mods for Minecraft PE also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). Minecraft's advantage is review sentiment (77% vs 41%) and ads (none vs shown). On rating, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Addons + Mods for Minecraft PE is free to download; Minecraft costs $6.99 up front. Minecraft sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Addons + Mods for Minecraft PE sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Minecraft against 4.6 for Addons + Mods for Minecraft PE. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Minecraft has 837K ratings behind it against 18K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 77% of Minecraft's written reviews are positive against 41% of Addons + Mods for Minecraft PE's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Minecraft ships an update fortnightly, Addons + Mods for Minecraft PE every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on September 24, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Minecraft versus Addons + Mods for Minecraft PE: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMinecraftAddons + Mods for Minecraft PE
Price$6.99Free — better
Rating4.5 (837K ratings)4.6 (18K ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.9% of reviews — better41.2% of reviews
Number of ratings837K — better18K
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#1 — better#51
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1.2 GB91 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperMojangAppcaster Technologies CO. L.L.C S.O.C

Customer experience

Minecraft

All ratings836,838 ratings
Positive87.4%
Neutral3.5%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews12,232 reviews
Positive76.9%
Neutral6.8%
Negative16.3%

Addons + Mods for Minecraft PE

All ratings18,151 ratings
Positive88.4%
Neutral3.5%
Negative8.1%
Written reviews537 reviews
Positive41.2%
Neutral6.3%
Negative52.5%

User reviews

Minecraft

From 837K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🤩 Amazing game
  • 👍 Endless creativity
  • 🎮 Engaging gameplay
  • 🌳 Peaceful survival mode
  • 🔥 Exciting updates

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and glitches
  • ⚠️ Complicated controls and UI
  • 💰 Expensive in-app purchases
  • 🔌 Performance issues on older devices
  • 🤖 Unwanted account requirements

Addons + Mods for Minecraft PE

From 18K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Smooth performance
  • 💡 Variety of mods and add-ons
  • 👍 Customizable skins and textures
  • 🚀 Quick downloads

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Ads and paywall issues
  • 🐛 Compatibility and installation problems
  • 🐛 Glitches and bugs
  • 💰 Premium content too expensive

Bugs and requests

Minecraft

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Disappearing items and pets
  • Skin and texture pack issues
  • Frozen loading screens
  • Multiplayer connectivity problems
  • Redstone and command block glitches

Requested features

5 requests
  • More animal varieties
  • Furniture and home decor options
  • Vertical slabs and stairs
  • Customizable pet behaviors
  • New dimensions and bosses

Addons + Mods for Minecraft PE

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Ads not working
  • Mods and add-ons not functioning properly
  • Compatibility issues with Minecraft
  • Frequent crashes and freezes

Requested features

4 requests
  • More free content and fewer paywalls
  • Improved ad placement and frequency
  • Better instructions and support for installation
  • Optimization for older devices

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Minecraft

Subscriptions3
  • Realms Monthly Subscription: You + 2 Friends$3.991 Month
  • Realms Plus: You + 10 Friends$7.991 Month
  • Realms Plus:10 Friends w/trial1 Month trial$7.991 Month
One-time7
  • Minecraft Store Item 2$1.99
  • Minecraft Store Item 3$2.99
  • Minecraft Store Item 4$3.99
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  • Minecraft Store Item 5$4.99
  • Minecraft Store Item 6$5.99
  • Minecraft Store Item 8$7.99
  • Minecraft Store Item 10$9.99
4 purchases

Addons + Mods for Minecraft PE

Subscriptions4
  • Mods & Skins for Minecraft PE3 Days trial$9.997 Days
  • Mods & Skins for Minecraft PE$9.997 Days
  • Maps & Addons for Minecraft PE$15.491 Month
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  • Premium Addons for Minecraft$78.991 Year

Questions

Is Minecraft free?
Minecraft costs $6.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Addons + Mods for Minecraft PE free?
Addons + Mods for Minecraft PE is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Minecraft or Addons + Mods for Minecraft PE?
Addons + Mods for Minecraft PE is rated higher. Minecraft averages 4.5 out of 5 from 837K ratings, while Addons + Mods for Minecraft PE averages 4.6 from 18K ratings.
Do Minecraft or Addons + Mods for Minecraft PE have ads?
Addons + Mods for Minecraft PE shows ads; Minecraft does not.
Which is updated more often, Minecraft or Addons + Mods for Minecraft PE?
Minecraft ships an update fortnightly, and Addons + Mods for Minecraft PE every 5 weeks. Most recently, Minecraft was updated on September 24, 2026 and Addons + Mods for Minecraft PE on September 24, 2026.
Which is more popular, Minecraft or Addons + Mods for Minecraft PE?
Minecraft currently peaks at #1 in the App Store charts, and Addons + Mods for Minecraft PE at #51. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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