§ blog — food delivery
Top 15 food delivery apps in the UK and USA (2026 update).
We re-checked every app on this list in 2026 — dropped the one that got folded into another platform, kept the ones still worth downloading, and added the one new name worth knowing.
§ the short answer
What are the best food delivery apps in 2026?
The best food delivery apps in 2026 are the ones still standing after two years of consolidation — not necessarily the newest ones. Of the 15 apps we listed for the UK and USA in 2023, 14 are still active and worth downloading. We dropped one that no longer exists on its own, and added the one new name worth knowing.
▼ key takeaways
14 of the original 15 apps are still operating in 2026; only Postmates is gone, fully absorbed into Uber Eats.
We added Wonder, Marc Lore's food-hall delivery platform, which now also owns Grubhub after a $650 million acquisition.
The biggest change isn't a new app — it's who owns the old ones. DoorDash now owns Deliveroo. Wonder now owns Grubhub.
You don't need to download all 15. Pick two or three based on where you live and what you're ordering, and drop the rest.
// why this update happened
Why does a list of food delivery apps need a 2026 update at all? Because the market moved more in the past eighteen months than it did in the five years before that. Just Eat Takeaway.com sold Grubhub to Wonder Group, the food-hall startup founded by Marc Lore, for an enterprise value of $650 million in a deal that closed in January 2025. Then DoorDash completed its acquisition of Deliveroo on October 2, 2025, folding one of the UK's most recognized delivery brands into the largest US delivery company. Uber had already finished absorbing Postmates into Uber Eats by 2023, which is why Postmates doesn't get its own entry here anymore — it's a line item on your Uber Eats receipt now, not a separate app. None of this changes what you actually do as a customer: open an app, pick a restaurant, wait for the delivery. It changes which apps are worth having on your phone.
§ at a glance
The 15 apps compared at a glance.
| App | Country | Best for | Downloads | 2026 note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grubhub | USA | National chains + local restaurants | 100M+ | Now owned by Wonder Group |
| DoorDash | USA | Widest restaurant network | 100M+ | Acquired Deliveroo, Oct 2025 |
| Uber Eats | USA | Largest overall selection | 500M+ | Absorbed Postmates |
| Seamless | USA | NYC-focused ordering | 10M+ | Relaunched as its own brand, 2025 |
| Instacart | USA | Grocery + restaurant delivery | 10M+ | Expanding into prepared meals |
| Caviar | USA | Upscale/premium restaurants | 1M+ | Still active — DoorDash's premium tier |
| ChowNow | USA | Restaurant-branded ordering | 1M+ | Active — B2B ordering focus |
| Delivery.com | USA | Restaurants + retail + alcohol | 1M+ | Active — 3M+ users |
| GoPuff | USA | Convenience-store items | 5M+ | Active — 500+ cities |
| Wonder | USA | Chef-driven food halls | New for 2026 | Now also owns Grubhub |
| Just Eat | UK | Wide restaurant marketplace | 10M+ | Active |
| Deliveroo | UK | Real-time delivery tracking | 50M+ | Acquired by DoorDash, Oct 2025 |
| FoodHub | UK | Local independent restaurants | 1M+ | Active |
| Gousto | UK | Meal-kit subscription | 1M+ | Active |
| Domino's | UK | Pizza, direct from the brand | 10M+ | Active |
§ usa — ten apps
Food delivery apps in the USA.
- 01
Grubhub
Grubhub connects you with national chains and local restaurants across the US, with real-time order tracking built into the app. The bigger story in 2026 isn't the app itself — it's the ownership. Just Eat Takeaway.com sold Grubhub to Wonder Group for a $650 million enterprise value, a deal that closed in January 2025. Wonder also revived Grubhub's old NYC sub-brand, Seamless, as a standalone app the same year. If you already use Grubhub, nothing changes about how you order; the ownership shuffle happens behind the scenes.
- 02
DoorDash
DoorDash still runs the largest restaurant network of any US app, and it got significantly larger in 2025 after completing its acquisition of Deliveroo — the UK delivery brand — on October 2, 2025. That deal makes DoorDash one of the only delivery companies with real scale on both sides of the Atlantic. For US customers, day-to-day ordering hasn't changed; the acquisition is a business-strategy story more than a product one, at least for now.
- 03
Uber Eats
Uber Eats offers the broadest restaurant selection of any app on this list, and it’s the one that absorbed a former competitor. Uber finished folding Postmates into Uber Eats by 2023 — if you still see "Postmates" on a bank statement, it’s billing through Uber Eats or Uber One now, not a separate service. That’s also why Postmates doesn’t get its own entry on this list anymore.
- 04
Seamless
Seamless is the NYC-focused app that Grubhub built its early reputation on, and after a few quiet years it's back as its own brand. Wonder relaunched Seamless with new branding and a lower-fee promise in April 2025. If you order almost exclusively within New York City, Seamless is worth a second look even if you'd written it off.
- 05
Instacart
Instacart started as a grocery-delivery app, and groceries are still what it does best, but it also partners with local restaurants in a growing number of markets. Instacart has been testing prepared-meal and restaurant delivery features as an extension of its grocery business, so the line between “grocery app” and “food delivery app” keeps blurring here.
- 06
Caviar
Caviar is the smallest app on this list by download count, and that's by design. It sticks to higher-end, independent restaurants instead of fast food, and DoorDash — which owns it — now positions Caviar as a Michelin-affiliated delivery partner for that premium tier. The app is still actively maintained; its current version updates every few days. If you want a curated restaurant list instead of “everything nearby,” Caviar is worth keeping.
- 07
ChowNow
ChowNow isn't really a browse-and-order marketplace the way Grubhub or DoorDash are. It's a white-label ordering platform that lets individual restaurants run their own branded app and website, usually with lower commission fees than the big marketplaces charge. You'll encounter ChowNow as “Order Now” buttons on restaurant websites more often than as a standalone app you'd open to browse.
- 08
Delivery.com
Delivery.com covers more than food — it also handles laundry pickup, convenience-store items, and alcohol delivery in the markets it serves, and it's one of the few apps on this list that lets you order alcohol directly. It still reports more than 3 million users and over 19,000 local businesses on the platform, with no flat delivery fee on most orders (individual restaurants can still set their own).
- 09
GoPuff
GoPuff isn't a restaurant app at all — it's convenience-store delivery, stocking snacks, drinks, and household basics from its own local warehouses rather than routing through a restaurant kitchen. It now operates in 500-plus cities, suburbs, and towns across the US, which makes it a reasonable companion app alongside a restaurant-delivery app rather than a replacement for one.
- 10
Wonder — new for 2026
Wonder is the one genuinely new name on this list, and it earned its spot by growing fast and by acquiring Grubhub. Founded by former Walmart e-commerce chief Marc Lore, Wonder runs chef-driven food halls — think Bobby Flay or José Andrés recipes — with delivery, takeout, and dine-in from the same local location. As of February 2026, Wonder operates 110-plus locations across the US Northeast, with a public goal of reaching 400 locations by the end of 2027. It's not everywhere yet, but where it exists, it's worth trying — and now that it owns Grubhub too, it's not a small startup anymore.
§ uk — five apps
Food delivery apps in the UK.
- 11
Just Eat
Just Eat remains one of the widest restaurant marketplaces in the UK, connecting you to a large network of partner restaurants across the country. It's a straightforward marketplace app: browse, order, track. Nothing about its core experience changed materially for 2026, which — after a year of acquisitions elsewhere in this list — is its own kind of good news for loyal users.
- 12
Deliveroo
Deliveroo built its reputation on real-time delivery tracking and a rider network that covers most UK cities, and it's now owned by DoorDash after a deal that closed on October 2, 2025. The Deliveroo brand and app continue operating in the UK and across Europe under the new ownership — DoorDash has only wound down Deliveroo operations in a handful of smaller international markets (Qatar, Singapore, Japan, and Uzbekistan), not the UK. If you're a UK user, the app you know is still the app you'll open.
- 13
FoodHub
FoodHub focuses on connecting customers with local, independent restaurants rather than national chains, and it continues to integrate with restaurant-side ordering tools like ChowNow for businesses that want to manage multiple platforms from one place. It's a solid pick if you'd rather support neighborhood restaurants than the same handful of chains every other app pushes to the top.
- 14
Gousto
Gousto is the outlier on this list — it's a meal-kit subscription, not an on-demand delivery app. You get pre-portioned ingredients and recipe cards delivered on a schedule, and you cook the meal yourself rather than having a finished dish show up at your door. It's a different category of “food delivery” worth knowing about if you're trying to cook more but shop less.
- 15
Domino's
Domino's is still exactly what it's always been: pizza, ordered directly from the brand, with its own delivery fleet in most UK markets rather than a third-party courier. If pizza is the order, going direct to Domino's usually beats routing through a marketplace app, since you're not paying a marketplace's service fee on top of the menu price.
§ why now
Why did the delivery-app market consolidate in 2025?
Delivery apps consolidated in 2025 because most of them were still losing money on a per-order basis, and scale is the only lever that fixes that. Buying a competitor's restaurant network, delivery fleet, and customer base is faster and cheaper than building all three from scratch in a new country or city.
Look at the two biggest deals of the past two years and the pattern is the same. Wonder bought Grubhub for $650 million specifically to get Grubhub's restaurant relationships and its revived Seamless brand in New York, rather than compete against them. DoorDash bought Deliveroo for a reported $3.9 billion specifically to get a foothold in the UK and Europe it didn't already have, rather than spend years building restaurant partnerships from zero in dozens of new cities. Global online food delivery revenue is forecast to reach $284.73 billion in 2026 and grow to $468.51 billion by 2031, according to Mordor Intelligence — a big enough market that owning distribution in more countries matters more than owning a clever app. For you as a customer, the apps mostly still work the way they always did. The company that owns the receipt just changed.
§ frequently · asked
Five questions,
straight answers.
01Is Postmates still a real app in 2026?
No. Uber finished merging Postmates into Uber Eats by 2023. If you have an old Postmates account, it's now billing and operating through Uber Eats or Uber One — there's no separate Postmates app left to download.
02Is Deliveroo still available in the UK now that DoorDash owns it?
Yes. DoorDash completed its acquisition of Deliveroo on October 2, 2025, but the Deliveroo app and brand continue operating in the UK and across Europe under the new ownership. DoorDash has only wound down Deliveroo in a few smaller markets outside the UK, such as Qatar and Singapore.
03What's the newest food delivery app worth downloading?
Wonder, Marc Lore’s chef-driven food-hall platform, is the newest addition to this list. It now operates 110-plus US Northeast locations as of February 2026 and, after acquiring Grubhub, has real staying power rather than being a short-lived startup experiment.
04Why did Grubhub get sold to a company called Wonder?
Just Eat Takeaway.com, which had owned Grubhub since 2021, sold it to Wonder Group for a $650 million enterprise value in a deal that closed in January 2025. Just Eat Takeaway.com wanted to focus on markets outside the US; Wonder wanted Grubhub's restaurant network and its Seamless brand.
05How do I pick between these apps instead of downloading all 15?
Start with restaurant selection in your specific neighborhood, since coverage varies block by block more than app to app. After that, pick one marketplace app (Grubhub, DoorDash, Uber Eats, or Just Eat/Deliveroo in the UK) and one specialty app that matches how you actually eat — GoPuff for convenience items, Gousto if you want to cook, Caviar if you want a curated restaurant list.
— next issue · your app —
Thinking about building a food delivery app of your own?
Every app on this list started as someone's bet that delivery could work better than the last version of it. Wonder bet that food halls plus delivery beats a delivery app alone. DoorDash bet that owning Deliveroo beats competing with it. If you're evaluating whether to build a branded ordering app for your own restaurant group, a dark-kitchen platform, or delivery logistics software for a new market, that's engineering work we do at Syndell — not just advice on a slide deck.
We've built on-demand and delivery software for clients across ecommerce, logistics, and hospitality, and clients rate that work Clutch: 5.0/5 and Google: 4.9/5. One Clutch-verified client, Nicole Powell of Branding Marketing Firm, put it simply: “They go above and beyond and focus on what's fair, which I highly appreciate.” That's the kind of accountability we bring to a delivery-app build too — 13 Clutch-verified reviews, and we'd rather earn a 14th than oversell you on features you don't need yet.
If your app idea needs AI features — smart order routing, demand forecasting, or a support assistant — that's inside our AI consulting practice too; we won't bolt on AI you don't need just because it's trendy.
// about the author
Rohit Changani
Rohit Changani is a WordPress, Shopify, Full Stack, and React Native expert. With extensive experience in these technologies, he delivers outstanding web and mobile applications that exceed expectations. Rohit's expertise and dedication make him a trusted partner to bring your ideas to life and enhance your online presence.
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