Best Food Delivery Services, Ranked
From coast-to-coast giants to scrappy regional runners, which delivery app actually earns your order? Vote up the services that nail selection, speed, and value.
What counts: Ranking blends restaurant/store selection, app reliability, delivery cost, and cultural staying power. Fees and ratings are approximate, rounded estimates meant for comparison, not exact pricing — actual costs vary by city, order size, and membership status.
Started as a scrappy Palo Alto delivery run and grew into the dominant US player by chasing suburbs and small towns competitors ignored. Its 2020 IPO and aggressive push into grocery and convenience turned it into more than a food app — it's now America's default delivery layer.
Avg. Delivery Fee: $3.99Selection/Coverage: 9/10App Experience: 8.5/10Founded: 2013
added by IJRin 4 rankingsDoorDash
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Piggybacked on Uber's existing driver network to scale into 6,000+ cities worldwide almost overnight. The 2020 acquisition of Postmates consolidated its US position, making it DoorDash's closest global rival.
Avg. Delivery Fee: $3.99Selection/Coverage: 8.5/10App Experience: 8.5/10Founded: 2014
added by IJRin 4 rankingsUber Eats
0The original online food-ordering pioneer that made 'order online instead of calling' normal in American cities. Losing ground to newer rivals through the 2020s, it's now a case study in first-mover advantage without staying power.
Avg. Delivery Fee: $3.99Selection/Coverage: 8/10App Experience: 7.5/10Founded: 2004
added by IJRin 4 rankingsGrubhub
0Built its empire on grocery delivery while others fought over restaurants, quietly becoming essential during the 2020 pandemic lockdowns. Its 2023 IPO validated a model rivals are now scrambling to copy.
Avg. Delivery Fee: $3.99Selection/Coverage: 8/10App Experience: 8/10Founded: 2012
added by IJRin 3 rankingsInstacart
0Pioneered the 'we'll deliver anything' concept back in 2011, years before competitors caught on. Uber bought it for $2.65B in 2020 and folded the brand into Uber Eats by 2021 — a pioneer that got absorbed by what it inspired.
Avg. Delivery Fee: $3.99Selection/Coverage: 7.5/10App Experience: 7/10Founded: 2011
added by IJRin 3 rankingsPostmates
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The orange-jacketed face of UK and European delivery, famous for its cycling couriers and gig-economy labor battles. A disastrous 2021 IPO didn't stop it from remaining a fixture of London and continental food culture.
Avg. Delivery Fee: $3Selection/Coverage: 8/10App Experience: 8/10Founded: 2013
added by IJRDeliveroo
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A European heavyweight that merged with Takeaway.com in 2020 to form Just Eat Takeaway, briefly owning Grubhub before offloading it in 2024. Its strength is depth in markets like the Netherlands and Germany that US apps barely touch.
Avg. Delivery Fee: $2.5Selection/Coverage: 7.5/10App Experience: 7/10Founded: 2001
added by IJRJust Eat
0India's delivery juggernaut, expanding from restaurant orders into Instamart's rapid grocery delivery to fend off Zomato. Its 2024 IPO cemented it as one of the subcontinent's defining consumer-tech success stories.
Avg. Delivery Fee: $1Selection/Coverage: 8.5/10App Experience: 8/10Founded: 2014
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0Started as a restaurant-review site before pivoting hard into delivery, then bought Uber Eats' India operations in 2020 to seal its rivalry with Swiggy. Its dual identity as review platform and delivery app keeps it uniquely sticky.
Avg. Delivery Fee: $1Selection/Coverage: 8/10App Experience: 7.5/10Founded: 2008
added by IJRZomato
0Reimagined delivery around convenience-store goods — snacks, drinks, alcohol — using its own micro-fulfillment warehouses instead of relying purely on restaurants. It's the app people open at 1am, not for dinner.
Avg. Delivery Fee: $1.95Selection/Coverage: 6.5/10App Experience: 7/10Founded: 2013
added by IJRin 4 rankingsGoPuff
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Leverages Amazon's logistics muscle and Prime membership base, folding in Whole Foods delivery to compete on convenience rather than restaurant variety. It wins on integration, not excitement.
Avg. Delivery Fee: $0Selection/Coverage: 7.5/10App Experience: 7.5/10Founded: 2007
added by IJRAmazon Fresh
0Bundled free delivery with fuel discounts and streaming perks to lure Prime members away from Amazon, launched in the middle of 2020's delivery boom. It's a value play more than a delivery-experience play.
Avg. Delivery Fee: $0Selection/Coverage: 7/10App Experience: 6.5/10Founded: 2020
added by IJRWalmart+
0NYC's original 'order lunch without calling' app from 1999, now essentially Grubhub's New York-flavored sub-brand after the 2013 merger. Nostalgic for old-school New Yorkers, redundant for everyone else.
Avg. Delivery Fee: $3.99Selection/Coverage: 7/10App Experience: 6.5/10Founded: 1999
added by IJRin 4 rankingsSeamless
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Built a premium, curated restaurant-delivery niche that DoorDash bought in 2019 and then quietly shut down in 2021, folding its restaurants into the main app. A cautionary tale of consolidation eating even successful boutique players.
Avg. Delivery Fee: $3.99Selection/Coverage: 7.5/10App Experience: 7/10Founded: 2012
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0Flipped the commission model by letting restaurants run white-label ordering apps instead of paying steep marketplace fees. Beloved by independent restaurant owners tired of DoorDash and Grubhub's cut, even if consumers rarely know the brand.
Avg. Delivery Fee: $2.99Selection/Coverage: 6/10App Experience: 6.5/10Founded: 2011
added by IJRChowNow
0A Texas-born 'runner' service that delivers literally anything, from tacos to prescriptions, built on hyper-local loyalty. H-E-B's grocery chain acquired it in 2018, cementing its identity as the Lone Star State's delivery app.
Avg. Delivery Fee: $3.99Selection/Coverage: 6/10App Experience: 6.5/10Founded: 2013
added by IJRFavor
0A Midwest-rooted platform that carved out territory in smaller cities the coastal giants overlooked. Lower fees and a smaller footprint make it a quiet favorite in college towns rather than a national contender.
Avg. Delivery Fee: $2.99Selection/Coverage: 6/10App Experience: 6/10Founded: 2010
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0One of the earliest online delivery startups, launched in 1998 covering food, laundry, and alcohol in New York before the app-era giants existed. It survives today as a niche option overshadowed by flashier competitors.
Avg. Delivery Fee: $2.99Selection/Coverage: 5.5/10App Experience: 5.5/10Founded: 1998
added by IJRdelivery.com
0A Louisiana-born app that rode a 2018 SPAC merger to a public listing, then struggled financially and rebranded as ASAP soon after. Its rise-and-stumble arc is the go-to cautionary tale about overextending a regional delivery brand.
Avg. Delivery Fee: $3Selection/Coverage: 5/10App Experience: 5.5/10Founded: 2013
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