Everyday

Review by eFreeware

The most distinctive thing about Everyday is that it folds a food-ordering app, a contactless wallet and a loyalty card into one place for the meals you eat on a normal working day. It is built around a food service you already have access to, rather than around restaurants you pick from a city map, and that shapes everything else about it.

With over 100,000 installs and a 4.7 average from 5,278 ratings, it has clearly found an audience among people who eat at the same place often enough to want the routine handled on their phone.

If you buy lunch, snacks or drinks at a participating site and would rather not queue for them, this is the kind of app worth keeping on the home screen. If you mostly eat at home or pick a different spot every day, the appeal will be thinner.

Ordering ahead so the queue stops mattering

The core job here is timing. You choose what you want and when you want it, then decide whether to collect it or have it brought to you. That is a small set of decisions, and it is the right one for a midday break that has a fixed length.

What I like about framing it as a time slot rather than an open order is that it turns lunch into something you can plan around a meeting. Instead of walking over and hoping the counter is quiet, you decide in advance and the food is waiting. The developer's pitch is that this gets you back to your day sooner, and the structure of the app does support that idea.

Delivery is offered alongside pickup, which matters if you work somewhere with a long walk between your desk and the food service. Neither option changes what is on the menu; it just changes how it reaches you.

Paying and carrying your memberships without a wallet

Everyday handles contactless payment, and it also manages your memberships in the same place. For anyone who has juggled a staff card, a meal card and a phone at a till, consolidating that into one app is the practical draw.

The app is simple, and the value is obvious: fewer things to remember and less fumbling at the counter. I would expect the payment side to be the part people use most, since it applies to every purchase rather than only the ones ordered in advance.

Because the app is free with no ads and no purchases attached, there is no obvious friction between you and that payment step. Whatever memberships you hold through the service live alongside it rather than in a separate card.

Points, offers and knowing what is in the dish

The loyalty side is straightforward in concept: eligible purchases earn points, and the app surfaces exclusive offers and promotions on featured items. It is a rewards layer rather than a separate program, so the benefit accumulates from the meals you were going to buy anyway.

The other half of this section is information. Dishes are labeled as healthy, vegan or vegetarian, and you can highlight allergens, which is the sort of detail that decides whether someone can use a food service at all. Being able to see that before ordering, rather than asking at the counter, is the part I would value most.

The full menu is available in the app, from entrees through drinks to snacks, and the developer says you will be among the first to hear about new additions. Between the labels, the offers and the menu, the app is trying to be the single place you check before deciding what to eat.

What it takes to get going

This is not an app you sign into from anywhere and start ordering from a catalog of local restaurants.

Meeting rooms are handled alongside meals, which suggests the app sits inside a broader workplace or venue service rather than standing alone. If your site uses that service, the app is the front end for it; if it does not, there is nothing here to order.

The most recent update is described only as bug fixes and improvements, so there is no new feature to learn for this version.

Who gets the most from it

The clearest fit is someone who eats at the same participating location several times a week and wants the transaction to take as little time as possible. Ordering ahead, paying contactlessly and collecting points all compound when they are part of a routine rather than a one-off.

It also suits people with dietary requirements to track. Vegan, vegetarian and healthy labels plus allergen highlighting mean the app can answer the question that would otherwise need a conversation at the counter, and that is worth more than the convenience features to some users.

The loyalty angle rewards frequency, so regulars see more from it than occasional visitors. Anyone whose meals come from a service that does not use Everyday will find little to do here, and that is a matter of where you eat rather than anything the app gets wrong.

A practical pick for regulars at a participating site

Everyday is a tidy, focused app for a specific setting: a food service you use often enough that ordering, paying and collecting points are worth putting on your phone. It does those jobs without ads or purchases getting in the way, and the dish labels give it a usefulness beyond convenience.

The limits are the same as its strengths. It is tied to a participating service, so it is not a general restaurant-ordering tool, and the rewards only build if you keep coming back. Judged as what it is built for, it looks well suited to the daily lunch crowd at a workplace or venue that runs on it.

If that describes your situation, I would install it and set it up before the next busy lunch period. If your meals come from somewhere outside that arrangement, the app has nothing to offer you.

What's new in version 2.35.27

Bug fixes and improvements.