8 Best Food Delivery Apps UK 2021 | Deliveroo, Just Eat and More

For those after a quick look, here is our Top 5:

1. Just Eat
2. Deliveroo
3. Uber Eats
4. Zomato
5. One Delivery

For a more in-depth look at the comprehensive top 8 selection, make sure to read on to learn more about the different food delivery apps available and understand how our ranking was determined.

1. Do You Want an App for Fast Food, Restaurant or Grocery Delivery Services
2. Consider the Number of Filters Available
3. Think About the Extra Features to Get the Most Out of Your Delivery

It might not be the best thing to eat every day, but fast food is perfect on a hangover, or to satisfy those not-so-healthy cravings. Some apps have a large focus on fast food, with the majority of their options fitting into this category. 

Fast food options will include meals like burgers, tacos, kebabs, pizzas or fish and chips. Generally, there will be a mixture of small businesses-like local fried chicken shops and big brands such as McDonald's or Pizza Hut.

Craving some healthy vegan pizza or veggie burger?

If you’re looking for food that feels a bit more like a treat rather than a guilt-trip, go for an app which has lots of restaurant options. Many restaurants now only offer deliveries through a food delivery app, so take advantage of that!

These often include popular chains like Franco Manca, Leon or Wagamamas, and will serve dishes like poke bowls, pizzas, salads, ramen and anything the cooks are dishing up on a regular basis. But if you're lucky, you'll find more obscure, one-off restaurants like Muriel's Kitchen, Alberts Delhi or The Richmond Hill Bakery.

Along with entire meals, warm and ready to devour, food delivery apps are also branching out into groceries. This is perfect for those times when you’ve just run out of milk, you need another bottle of wine at a gathering, or a recipe you’re making needs more butter than you have. 

These options usually aim to deliver your goods in under 30 minutes, by means of bicycle. Using supermarkets and small, corner shops, depending on the app in question, there’s the opportunity for quite a wide range of products available. You can also find wine merchants and alcohol shops listed on some!

It’s great when an app promotes that it has over 30,000 restaurant partners, but for us indecisive folk, 30,000 choices sounds like an absolute nightmare! If your food delivery app contains lots of filters, you can easily narrow down your search. 

If you have a favourite cuisine, such as Indian, Chinese or Italian, choose an app with cuisine filters – this is quite common amongst food delivery apps, so you shouldn’t have a problem.

For the more obscure filters, you'll usually need to look a bit deeper. Other categories you might want to filter could include healthy eating, vegetarian or vegan food, or gluten-free options.

Here are the best Indian, Chinese and Italian cookbooks to help you create your favourite cuisine at home.

Card payments are the go-to for ordering online. They provide you with contactless delivery, it becomes easy to pay the correct amount, and it’s much less hassle than sifting through your wallet, counting out change. But if you prefer to pay in cash, make sure the app offers this option. 

As for tips, if you don’t have a few coins left to give your super-speedy delivery person their hard-earned cash, see if they offer an option to tip by card along with your order. 

In most cases, you will need to foot the bill for the delivery. These fees are usually not made apparent until you reach the basket to complete your order. At just one or two pounds in most instances, it shouldn’t break the bank, but it is something to be aware of. 

If you’re keen to save some pennies, you can download an app which offers free delivery over a certain amount – this is more likely if there's more than one of you eating, as your total will almost always go over the minimum.

If you find an app which advertises free delivery, be aware that the company might have upped the cost per meal to cover this loss, which, depending on how much you have ordered, can cost significantly more than a flat-rate delivery fee.

Delivery apps either use cars, motorcycles, or bikes to deliver their goods, and each has its pitfalls and benefits. Food delivery companies like UberEats use their own cars, meaning that more often than not your food will arrive promptly so that it’s good to eat straight away!

The same cannot be said of companies that use bicycles. Of course, depending on how far away your chosen restaurant is, the GPS that the deliverers use, and the speed of their little legs, the food might arrive still hot, but we wouldn’t depend on it! The timings of these companies vary from between 30 minutes to occasionally over an hour. 

This ranking has been compiled by the writing team at mybest UK via careful evaluation of the points made in the buying guide and thorough research of each product and comparing multiple verified customer reviews across the EC sites used.

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Written and researched by Roxy Pratley