Outback Steakhouse

Review by eFreeware

Outback Steakhouse is a free app from Outback Steakhouse of Florida, LLC, and it exists to handle the parts of a restaurant visit that do not need a table: ordering food to go, keeping track of loyalty rewards and finding a nearby location. It has been on Google Play since September 2015 and now sits above a million installs with a 4.8 average across roughly 26,000 ratings.

The main reason to consider it is convenience for repeat customers. If Outback is already somewhere you order from, the app puts reordering, rewards and pickup in one place instead of making you re-enter the same meal each time. It is free, carries no ads and offers no in-app purchases, so there is nothing to buy inside it beyond the food itself. The developer describes it as the quickest mobile route to the menu, and for someone who orders the same few dishes regularly, that framing holds up.

Ordering to go, from customization to pickup

The feature the developer leads with is mobile order and pay. You build a to-go order in the app, customizing items as you go, then choose how you want to receive it: Curbside Takeaway, where you pick the food up yourself, or Delivery to your address. That covers the two situations most people actually face, picking something up on the way home or having it brought to them.

The developer says the app encrypts financial information and that no card details are kept on Outback Steakhouse servers, which is the kind of detail I like to see stated plainly rather than buried.

The app works at participating Outback Steakhouse locations. That wording matters if you live near a franchise that has not opted in, so it is worth checking that your usual restaurant appears before you plan an order around it.

Saved orders and the Dine Rewards program

The second half of the app is about repetition. Previous orders are kept in the app so you can view them and reorder quickly, which is the feature I would expect to matter most to anyone with a standing Friday order. Rather than rebuilding a meal with sides and preferences each time, you pull up what you had and adjust from there.

Dine Rewards, the loyalty program, is built into the app. Inside it you can create an account, connect it, follow your rewards and put them toward a mobile order. The developer frames this as getting rewarded for purchases and then spending those rewards without leaving the app.

Location search rounds out the set. GPS is used to nudge you when you are searching for a location. It is a small thing, but the kind of small thing that decides whether an app gets opened or abandoned.

What the app asks of you

The requirements here are modest. The download is free, there are no ads and no in-app purchases, and the app is rated for Everyone. The app is free, so the only money involved is what you spend on food.

Two conditions are worth knowing before you commit. First, ordering depends on your restaurant participating in the program. Second, continued GPS use in the background can noticeably reduce battery life, so if you leave location services running for the app, expect that to show up in your daily charge.

On the loyalty side, Dine Rewards requires signing up and linking an account before purchases can be tracked and rewards applied. That is a normal arrangement for a restaurant program.

Getting the most out of it

The app rewards a little setup. Signing up for Dine Rewards and linking the account early means purchases start accumulating from your first order rather than from whenever you get around to it.

For anyone who orders the same meal repeatedly, saving that order is the obvious time-saver.

The September 2026 update was limited to security updates. If you have not opened it in a while, updating before your next order is a sensible habit. Keep in mind that the app is a companion to the restaurant, not a replacement for it: it handles ordering, rewards and location search, and the cooking still happens in the kitchen.

A straightforward pick for regular Outback customers

The Outback Steakhouse app does a narrow set of jobs and does them without clutter. Ordering for curbside pickup or delivery, saving past orders, tracking Dine Rewards and finding a location are the whole of it, and that focus is a strength for an app you open with one task in mind. A 4.8 average from around 26,000 ratings and more than a million installs suggest that approach has landed well with its users.

It suits people who already order from Outback with some regularity, especially those who want their loyalty balance and their checkout in the same place. If you order once a year, the saved-order and rewards features will not have much to work with, though the app costs nothing to keep around for the occasional delivery. The GPS battery note and the participating-locations condition are the two things I would keep in mind before relying on it.

For a free, ad-free restaurant app, the trade-offs are minor and clearly stated. I would install it if Outback is part of your routine, and treat it as a convenience layer rather than something that changes what the restaurant offers.

What's new in version 5.19.1

G’day, mate! Your Outback Steakhouse app just got a ripper update: • Security updates