Comparison

Planet Craft vs Exploration Lite

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

Head to head
About

Planet Craft

Explore, survive, and create in an open-world block game. Mine resources, craft items, and build anything you can imagine, solo or with friends. Discover thousands of player-made worlds and engage in various game modes.

Highlights
  • Open world multiplayer
  • Survival and creative modes
  • Thousands of player-made worlds
  • Multi-crafting and building recipes
  • Redstone system
  • Adopt pets and tame animals
  • Enchanting system
Features
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Welcome to PlanetCraft — a survival and creative block-craft game. Mine resources, craft blocks, and build your own mini 3D world. Play solo or online with friends in an endless world of exploration and creation! FEATURES: ● Open world multiplayer with SURVIVAL and CREATIVE modes. Build and chat ● Thousands of fun MINI 3D WORLDS created by real players online for lite EXPLORATION ● Totally FREE ● MULTI-CRAFTING AND BUILDING recipes for blocks, items, tools, and armor for all your needs ● Wide variety of WEAPONS: bow, crossbow, snowball, splash potions, and more ● Friendly animals and hostile MOBS ● ADOPT PETS: wolves, ocelots, use spawn eggs, ride horses ● MINE & BUILD cube farms by growing different plants. Use bone meal to speed up the growth! ● An infinite cube planet makes exploration, survival, crafting, and building even more fun ● CLANS. Create your own clan or join an existing one. ● Explore WOODLAND MANSIONS full of chests with valuable loot — but beware of dangerous monsters ● Enchanting system: enhance armor, tools, and weapons, craft unique items ● REDSTONE SYSTEM: build any redstone circuits you can imagine ● 300+ themed SKINS ● 10+ predefined mini worlds to start CRAFTING AND BUILDING ● 3D HD cube graphics, 4+ texture packs, and cute sounds ● Password-protected parental control ● Play online via the internet or Wi-Fi, or offline GAME MODES: ► Global SURVIVAL MULTIPLAYER — mine resources, craft blocks, fight, and interact with real players in an open world ► CREATIVE MULTI-PLAYER (Rentable, Renewable) — build amazing 3D creations and explore thousands of player-made worlds ► SURVIVAL CRAFT & CREATIVE SINGLE PLAYER — enjoy the game offline at your own pace ► PRIVATE MAPS — customize your cube world with access control for map modifications MINI GAMES: start as a prop or hunter in Hide & Seek. HIGHLIGHTS: * Open-world gameplay * Amazing 3D buildings * Lite exploration * Crafting and building recipes * Friendly atmosphere * Multi-block craft, real-time chat * Lots of animals * Attacking hostile mobs * Free, fun, and easy to play * Different weapons and enchantments Join Planet Craft and start building your amazing mini world today!

About

Exploration Lite

Create and explore an infinite 3D world by building structures, mining resources, and transforming the terrain. This app offers a sandbox experience for imaginative construction and exploration.

Highlights
  • Infinite 3D environment
  • Build bases, castles, kingdoms
  • Mine resources
  • Destroy and transform terrain
  • Save world progress
  • Block crafting
Features
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Build a base, mine, castle, kingdom, empire or whatever you imagine on the infinite 3D environment! Enjoy endless world building games! Everybody loves building games that popular all around the world. Exploration Lite Free is an editor which allows you to move, delete, build craft, destroy, jump, save, building blocks and transforming the terrain in the 3D environment. Explorer and builders, play for free now!

Screenshots

Planet Craft4 screens
Exploration Lite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is chart position: Planet Craft at #149 against Exploration Lite's unranked. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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

Both are free to download. Planet Craft sells 11 one-off in-app purchases and Exploration Lite sells 19 one-off in-app purchases. 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 Planet Craft against 4.5 for Exploration Lite. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 62K and 23K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 59% of Planet Craft's written reviews are positive against 61% of Exploration Lite's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Planet Craft ships an update every 4 weeks, Exploration Lite every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on September 25, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 10 level
Planet Craft versus Exploration Lite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlanet CraftExploration Lite
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (62K ratings)4.5 (23K ratings)
Positive reviews58.5% of reviews61.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings62K — better23K
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#149 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size830 MB800 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPlaylabs LLCSolverLabs LLC

Customer experience

Planet Craft

All ratings62,101 ratings
Positive86.5%
Neutral5.2%
Negative8.2%
Written reviews1,148 reviews
Positive58.5%
Neutral11.3%
Negative30.1%

Exploration Lite

All ratings23,153 ratings
Positive86.6%
Neutral5.1%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews1,002 reviews
Positive61.2%
Neutral9.1%
Negative29.7%

User reviews

Planet Craft

From 62K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great recreation of Minecraft
  • 🆓 Free alternative to Minecraft
  • 👍 Fun to play with friends
  • 💬 Ability to chat with other players

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent glitches and bugs
  • 🔇 Lack of features compared to Minecraft
  • 🔍 Limited block/item variety
  • 🔥 Destructive player behavior (lava, TNT)
  • 🕰️ Private maps deleted after 50 days

Exploration Lite

From 23K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Good alternative for Minecraft
  • 👍 Blocky, fun, and creative
  • 👍 Awesome game
  • 👍 Great game
  • 👍 I love this game

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Laggy and crashes frequently
  • 🐛 Glitches and bugs
  • 🐛 Disappearing builds and maps
  • 🔒 Lack of moderation and inappropriate content
  • 💰 Too many ads and in-app purchases

Bugs and requests

Planet Craft

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Invisible blocks after placement
  • Inability to move or control character
  • Disappearing items and inventory issues
  • Freezing and crashes, especially in combat
  • Unreliable friend requests and multiplayer
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  • Glitches with water, lava, and fire behavior

Requested features

8 requests
  • Add spawn eggs in creative mode
  • Implement more biomes and terrain variety
  • Allow access to chests, crafting tables in creative
  • Add more items like redstone, armor, weapons
  • Introduce the Nether and End dimensions
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  • Implement taming and breeding of animals
  • Add a private server option for friends only
  • Improve performance and reduce lag

Exploration Lite

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Disconnection issues and inability to play in offline/single-player mode
  • Disappearing builds and maps
  • Glitches and bugs with block placement and interactions

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add beds, furniture, animals, and more interactive elements
  • Implement different realms like Nether and End
  • Add more blocks, items, and crafting options
  • Improve save/load functionality for builds
  • Implement better chat filtering and moderation

In-app purchases

11 purchases

Planet Craft

One-time11
  • Tiny Pack of Coins$0.99
  • Tiny Pack of Gems$0.99
  • Small Pack of Coins$2.99
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  • Planet Craft Money Pack$3.99
  • Big Pack of Gems$3.99
  • Planet Craft Chest of Coins$7.99
  • Bucket of Gems$7.99
  • Bank of Coins$16.99
  • Chest of Gems$20.99
  • Bank of Gems$41.99
  • Treasury of Coins$41.99
19 purchases

Exploration Lite

One-time19
  • Tiny Pack of Coins$0.99
  • Tiny Pack of Gems$0.99
  • Light Pack of Coins$1.99
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  • Small Pack of Coins$2.99
  • Big Pack of Coins$3.99
  • Medium Pack of Coins$3.99
  • Big Pack of Gems$3.99
  • Large Pack of Coins$4.99
  • Giant Pack of Coins$5.99
  • Huge Pack of Coins$6.99
  • Chest of Coins$7.99
  • Massive Pack of Coins$7.99
  • Bucket of Gems$7.99
  • Golden Chest of Coins$11.99
  • Bank of Coins$16.99
  • Chest of Gems$20.99
  • Treasury of Coins$41.99
  • Bank of Gems$41.99
  • Treasure of Gems$99.99

Questions

Is Planet Craft free?
Planet Craft is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Exploration Lite free?
Exploration Lite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Planet Craft or Exploration Lite?
Planet Craft and Exploration Lite are both rated 4.5 out of 5 on the App Store, from 62K and 23K ratings respectively.
Do Planet Craft or Exploration Lite have ads?
Both Planet Craft and Exploration Lite show ads.
Which is updated more often, Planet Craft or Exploration Lite?
Planet Craft ships an update every 4 weeks, and Exploration Lite every 6 weeks. Most recently, Planet Craft was updated on September 25, 2026 and Exploration Lite on September 25, 2026.

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