Plants vs. Zombies™

Name: Plants vs. Zombies™
Rating: 3.668505 (5703476 reviews)
Author: ELECTRONIC ARTS

ELECTRONIC ARTS

★ 3.7 (5,703,476 ratings)

⬇ 500,000,000+ downloads

Est. actual: 650,153,965

Style: Strategy

Free

Released: Nov 13, 2014

IAP: $0.99 - $7.99 per item

Contains ads

Rated: Everyone 10+

Mechanics Tower defense

Signals

5 this week · 3 positive All of this week's signals →

📈Last 7 days +669K installs — 27% faster than the week before (+527K) · 86K/day since Sep 17
🏆Among Strategy games top 1% by installs gained this week (10492 peers growing)
⭐Rating steady at ★ 3.67 since Sep 17
🛠Updates quiet · updated 86 days ago
🍎App Store ★ 4.81 on 943K ratings · +1.3K ratings this week · on iOS since Nov 13 Plants vs. Zombies™ ↗

Installs since launch

+4,287,447 installs · -13,927 ratings since Sep 17

Reviews · last 30 days

★ 2.88137 reviews · 39% five-star · 46% one-star

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Ads 33%Fun / relaxing 29%

3.18.0 ★ 2.8 (77)3.16.0 ★ 3.7 (3)

★ bought the game for $5 before it was free. wish that credit would go to removing the ads that were added in when it became free. · 2 found helpful

★ Too many ADS, the game crashes every time I finish a level ADS would overload the game causing it to crash and make me repeat the level twice or thrice!! I am dumbfounded by this experience! the older versions were be… · 2 found helpful

★★ The number of ads is insane. I downloaded it because I remember really enjoying the game. But an ad after each level and then again before playing the next level is crazy. Then there are the ads to get things while yo… · 2 found helpful

SDKs in the app · version 3.18.0, analysed Sep 28, 2026

Ad mediationAppLovin MAX ironSource / Unity LevelPlay
Ad networkAppLovin SDK BidMachine DT Exchange (Fyber)Google Mobile Ads (AdMob) 24.9.0 Liftoff Monetize (Vungle) 7.7.0 Meta Audience Network 6.21.0 Mintegral Tapjoy Unity Ads 4.16.6
AnalyticsFirebase Analytics 23.2.0
ConsentGoogle User Messaging Platform 3.2.0
Crash reportingFirebase Crashlytics
Engagement & messagingFirebase Cloud Messaging 25.0.2
Game servicesPlay Games Services 21.0.0
PaymentsPlay Billing Library 8.0.0
PerformanceFirebase Performance Monitoring
Remote configFirebase Remote Config 23.1.0
Social & loginGoogle Sign-In 20.7.0

9 mediation adapters

Adapters connect a mediation SDK to an ad network. An adapter alone does not mean the network’s own SDK is bundled.

AppLovin MAX adapter → UnityAdsironSource/LevelPlay adapter → unityads 5.5.0ironSource/LevelPlay adapter → vungle 5.2.0ironSource/LevelPlay adapter → vungle 5.2.0ironSource/LevelPlay adapter → vungle 5.1.0ironSource/LevelPlay adapter → vungle 5.3.0ironSource/LevelPlay adapter → vungle 5.7.0ironSource/LevelPlay adapter → vungle 5.5.0ironSource/LevelPlay adapter → yandex 5.5.0

Found by static analysis of the app package; bundled is not the same as active. All SDKs →

Update history

3.18.0 Aug 13, 2026 · seen Sep 18, 2026

Greetings zombie zappers! We’ve made some behind-the-scenes improvements to enhance your zombie-battling fun.

Only the current version so far — new entries appear as the game ships updates.

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Plants vs. Zombies™ is a strategy game by ELECTRONIC ARTS with 500,000,000+ downloads (about 650M estimated). +669K installs in the last 7 days. Rated 3.7 from 5.7M ratings. Released Nov 13, 2014. Install growth, rank history, SDKs and ad networks.

From the store listing: “This game includes optional in-game purchases of virtual currency that can be used to acquire virtual in-game items. Get ready to soil your plants as a mob of fun-loving zombies is about to invade your home. Use your arsenal of 49 zombie-zapping plants — Peashooters, Wall-nuts, Cherry bombs and more — to mulchify 26…”