Deliveroo: Food & Shopping

Review by eFreeware

Some evenings nobody wants to cook, and the fridge has nothing in it worth assembling. The same problem shows up at other times: a birthday needs flowers, a recipe needs one missing ingredient, or a household item runs out at the worst moment. Delivery apps exist to close that gap between wanting something and having it, and Deliveroo is one of the larger names doing that work.

Deliveroo is published by Deliveroo and sits in the Food & Drink category. It is free to download, carries no ads, and offers no in-app purchases, which keeps the app itself out of the way of the ordering. The service has been on the store since May 2016 and has passed 10 million installs, with a 4.6 average across more than 1.4 million ratings. The developer's pitch is broad: takeout, groceries and retail items, all handled through one app.

One app for meals, groceries and errands

The core of the app is a catalog of nearby places that deliver. On the restaurant side that means both well-known chains and smaller local kitchens, so a craving for sushi, pizza, burgers, Indian or Chinese food can be met without opening several different services. The developer lists names such as KFC, McDonald's, Burger King, Subway, Nando's, Wagamama, Popeyes, Papa John's, Wingstop, Pizza Express, Five Guys, Dishoom, Taco Bell and Starbucks among the options, alongside thousands of independent spots.

Groceries are the second pillar. Supermarkets including Waitrose, ASDA, Morrisons, M&S, Sainsbury's, Co-Op, Amazon Fresh, Whole Foods, Spar, One Stop, Iceland and Majestic Wine are covered, and the developer backs that side of the service with a Freshness Promise. For anyone who has ever planned a dinner around a single missing item, having a full supermarket shop delivered is the more useful half of the app.

There is a third category beyond food. Beauty products, flowers, gifts and DIY supplies appear through retailers such as Boots, Healf, Not On The High Street, B&Q, Screwfix, Accessorize and The Perfume Shop. That widens the app from a dinner tool into something closer to a general errand service, which is where its value starts to compound for a household.

Tracking, timing and the ordering flow

Every order can be followed live from the kitchen to the doorstep, which removes the guesswork about when to be ready. That matters more than it sounds: a delivery you cannot time is a delivery you cannot plan around, whether you are feeding children before bedtime or stepping out for a few minutes.

Orders can be placed for right now or scheduled for later. The scheduling option is the one that changes how the app fits into a week. A grocery slot booked for a quiet morning, or a meal timed to land when guests arrive, is a different kind of convenience from an impulse order placed in the moment.

The developer also points to deals available through the app. Between the restaurant catalog, the supermarket list and the retail names, the app is designed so that most routine errands can be handled in the same place rather than spread across separate services.

What Deliveroo Plus membership adds

Deliveroo Plus is the membership layer. The headline benefit is a £0 delivery fee on orders, and members also get exclusive offers and member-only deals, along with monthly rewards the developer describes as helping money go further. Discounted service fees are part of the package as well.

There is a distinction worth catching: the 10% back on restaurant orders over £30 applies to Plus Gold members only. Anyone weighing membership should read the tiers carefully rather than assuming every advertised perk applies at every level.

Membership is the main place where money enters the picture beyond the cost of the food itself. The app is free and carries no ads or in-app purchases, and whether a membership pays off depends entirely on how often you order and how large those orders tend to be.

What the app needs from you

This is a delivery service, so it depends on being in a covered area with participating restaurants, supermarkets and retailers nearby. The catalog is local by nature, which means the experience in a large city and the experience elsewhere can look quite different even though the app is the same.

Ordering also means paying for the goods and the delivery, and the membership terms sit on top of that. Terms and conditions apply, and the full details are on the company's website, which is the sensible place to check before committing to a membership.

The app was last updated on October 6, 2026, without a listed set of changes. For a service like this, that kind of quiet update is normal; the catalog and the delivery network matter more than version notes.

Who gets the most from it

The app is built for people who want meals and shopping brought to them rather than collected. That covers busy households, anyone cooking less often than they used to, and people who would rather pay for the convenience than spend an evening in a supermarket.

It also suits anyone who values having several needs met in one place. Ordering dinner, restocking the fridge and picking up a gift from the same app is a meaningfully different proposition from juggling a restaurant app, a grocery app and a trip to the shops.

The membership math is the deciding factor for regular users. Someone ordering often enough to make the £0 delivery fee worthwhile will get more from Plus than an occasional user who orders a few times a year and would rather pay as they go.

A delivery app that earns its space

Deliveroo covers more ground than most delivery apps: restaurant takeout, supermarket groceries and non-food retail in one place, with live tracking and the option to schedule ahead. The free download, absence of ads and lack of in-app purchases keep the app itself clean.

The trade-offs are the obvious ones for a delivery service: it depends on where you live and what delivers there, and the membership only makes sense if you order often enough to justify it.

If you want meals, groceries and everyday essentials brought to your door and you live somewhere with good coverage, this is a straightforward install. If you rarely order in and prefer to shop yourself, the app will sit unused, and the membership would be money spent for nothing.