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Head-to-head

Planet Craft vs Minecraft

Planet Craft 4.5★ · Free + IAP 60
Winner Minecraft
Minecraft 4.5★ · $6.99 85

Minecraft is the superior choice for a stable and feature-rich block-building experience, despite its price, while Planet Craft offers a free alternative with significant drawbacks.

Full reviews: Planet Craft · Minecraft

Minecraft, though a paid app, offers a more stable and creative experience with fewer bugs and better core gameplay, despite some recent update issues. Planet Craft, a free alternative, struggles with numerous bugs, intrusive ads, and a less polished multiplayer experience, making it a challenging choice for serious players.

Head to head

Features and Content edge: MinecraftR2R4R5R8
Planet Craft Planet Craft is praised for its resemblance to Minecraft and Terraria, offering mini-games and multiplayer R2R11. However, users frequently request core features like beds, furniture, single-player mode, mods, and the ability to create custom skins and private maps that last forever R4R8. Some also desire better PVP and more diverse mobs R5.
Minecraft Minecraft is celebrated for its extensive features, including building houses, getting pets, playing survival, and fostering creativity . Users enjoy the variety of mods and the multiplayer experience . However, some users express disappointment with missing updates for specific blocks like wool stairs and slabs, and a desire for more animal species and easier ways to get minecoins without paying .
Ease of Use and Controls edge: MinecraftR3R4R5R14
Planet Craft Users report issues with tiny, unchangeable controls and difficulty understanding how to play R3R4R14. Some experience problems with block placement, where one tap places two blocks . There are also requests for controller support R5.
Minecraft Minecraft generally offers a good user experience, but some recent updates have caused issues with scrolling and tapping items, requiring double-taps for actions . There are also requests for controller support R66R97.
Reliability and Performance tieR11R22R23R29
Planet Craft Planet Craft is frequently criticized for being laggy, glitchy, and prone to disconnections R11R23R31R34. Users report losing items after reconnecting, maps getting deleted, and the game not allowing them to play at all due to glitches R11R29R34. Some also mention issues with reporting abusive players not working R22.
Minecraft Minecraft also faces significant reliability issues, with users reporting constant glitches, freezing, and being kicked out of the game . Players have lost worlds and progress after uninstalling or due to corruption . Update issues prevent some from accessing new content or even playing .
Price and Value edge: MinecraftR4R8R16R31
Planet Craft Planet Craft is a free game, which is a major draw for many users R8. However, this comes with frequent and intrusive ads, which users find annoying and sometimes inappropriate R4R16R31. Some users mention that ads can be removed with gems, which can be earned or purchased .
Minecraft Minecraft is a paid app, costing $6.99 . While some users find the price high for the features, many feel it's worth it for the creative freedom and extensive gameplay . The paid nature means fewer complaints about ads compared to Planet Craft.
Multiplayer and Community edge: MinecraftR7R15R19R22
Planet Craft Planet Craft offers multiplayer and mini-games, which some users enjoy . However, the community is often described as toxic, with players cussing, being mean, killing others, and asking for inappropriate things R7R15R19R22. There are also complaints about too many mobs in survival multiplayer at night .
Minecraft Minecraft's multiplayer is generally well-regarded, allowing friends to play together and fostering creativity . However, some users report issues with joining friends' worlds, getting kicked from servers, and encountering hackers in minigames .
Pick Planet Craft if

You are looking for a free, Minecraft-like experience and are willing to tolerate frequent ads, potential lag, and a less polished multiplayer community R8R11.

Pick Minecraft if

You prioritize a more stable, feature-rich, and creative block-building game and are willing to pay the $6.99 price tag .

Evidence note: Reviews for Planet Craft are heavily skewed towards negative experiences, often highlighting issues common with free-to-play games, such as intrusive ads and performance problems. Minecraft's reviews, while also mentioning bugs, generally reflect a more satisfied user base, likely due to the paid nature attracting users with higher expectations for quality.

Frequently asked

Is Planet Craft a good free alternative to Minecraft?
Planet Craft is a free alternative that mimics Minecraft, but users report significant issues including intrusive ads, frequent lag, glitches, and a problematic multiplayer community, making it a challenging experience compared to the paid Minecraft R4R11R31R51.
Does Minecraft have controller support on mobile?
Users have requested controller support for Minecraft on mobile, indicating it may not be fully implemented or consistently functional R66R97.
Are there many bugs in Planet Craft and Minecraft?
Both games have reported bugs; Planet Craft users frequently mention lag, disconnections, deleted maps, and unresponsive controls R11R29R31R34, while Minecraft users experience constant glitches, freezing, being kicked from games, and issues with updates and lost progress .

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

  1. [R2] Planet Craft 5/5 · US ALTER VERSION OF MINECRAFT I LOVE IT!!!: This is the alter ego of Minecraft! LOVE IT.
  2. [R4] Planet Craft 2/5 · US Flip this whatever this is: The controls are tiny af and there’s no way to change it. The red gems are impossible to get. The random ad blocks, frick them. Why are there like several dozen zombies in one group like bruh. Where are ur brain cells ppl, how are you going to add phantoms, bad mobs that appear when you don’t get sleep, and when there are no beds!?!?!?!? Add single player and make it to
  3. [R5] Planet Craft 5/5 · US I want a easy way to play: What if you the planet craft team add this to Xbox and ps5 and add controller support, including Bluetooth controller support for mobile other than that. This game is pretty good. 10 out of 10 I have played a lot. It is very good Also, what if we added like better PVP like cool down PVP
  4. [R8] Planet Craft 4/5 · US OMG: This game is the best and also there’s no in our purchases. They they say they are you don’t even have to pay for anything only if you want free money oh yeah but also. I can’t stop playing it. I play nonstop every day so you should try this game over and out. Oh yeah, one more thing can you please add beds and furniture!!😡🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🙏🙏🙏🥺🙏🙏🙏
  5. [R3] Planet Craft 3/5 · US Planet craft: Really fun games but I didn’t get how to play this.
  6. [R14] Planet Craft 5/5 · US The game is good, but please make it so you can change the joystick size and it will be awesome: Awesome · translated
  7. [R11] Planet Craft 5/5 · US Good but one thing: I love this game. It reminds me of my two favorite games: Minecraft and Terraria. The game design is amazing and some events in there are cool too. But it is sometimes way too laggy and if I reconnect in the middle of mansion raid, I lose every single thing! Plz developers fix this. But overall, this game is good and I recommend downloading it.
  8. [R22] Planet Craft 2/5 · US Need to do something about cusers: Someone started cussing at me and when I reported him it didn’t even do anything
  9. [R23] Planet Craft 4/5 · US I hate it!!!!!🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬: Cussing,being mean, glitchy that I can’t even play it!
  10. [R29] Planet Craft 4/5 · US I would rate it 5 stars but…: my map that I worked days on got deleted. It took days and the weird system deleted it even though players went in it every 4 or so days. My user is Colton and Vien roleplays and I’ve played this game for 6 years. Love this game. Thank you.
  11. [R16] Planet Craft 1/5 · US No ads today: Remove ads for free
  12. [R31] Planet Craft 1/5 · US I HATE IT: Why does it always have to say “disconnected” or “check your internet” it literally has the ads pop up on the top which does NOT SHOW UP IN THE PICTURES! It’s graphics are bad and WHAT HAPPENED TO THE AVATARS?! I have to jump to get off a block, can’t mine in survival, and the avatars look super bad. I’m done with this game.
  13. [R7] Planet Craft 1/5 · US A game: I don’t like this game because TNT can kill your animals and also I think that when you feed the pet I want it to immediately be yours and you can’t kill them and they can’t die because of lava or other players. I have had too many pets that have died from the one player called direptor.
  14. [R15] Planet Craft 3/5 · US Planet Craft is pretty good: Plan a craft you get killed by everything even lava monsters people one that kill you
  15. [R19] Planet Craft 1/5 · US I hate this game: The people keep killing me when I have good stuff and stop saying that I trying to swim in lava I fall in to lava not swim in it.
  16. [R51] Planet Craft 3/5 · GB Good but too much adds: This game is great but far too much adds there are add blocks everywhere and inappropriate adds but it is fun people just ruin your houses
  17. [R66] Minecraft 3/5 · US Support!: Controller support plz
  18. [R97] Minecraft 1/5 · US Touchscreen only 👎👎👎: Needs to be controller compatible
  19. [R34] Planet Craft 1/5 · US WAY TOO GLITCHY: I had just gotten the game and it glitched and wouldn’t even let me play.

Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store