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Grocery delivery apps

  1. Market

    Installs
    492.9M

    Across 13 of 14 apps we could match.

    • Uber Eats: 295,232,469 installs
    • DoorDash: 90,831,497 installs
    • Grubhub: 34,663,168 installs
    • Postmates: 16,063,550 installs
    • Safeway Deals & Delivery: 11,333,784 installs
    • Instacart Shopper: 11,216,672 installs
    • Gopuff: 8,404,321 installs
    • ALDI Grocery Pickup & Delivery: 6,413,920 installs
    • instashop: 6,079,459 installs
    • Spark Driver: 5,363,903 installs
    • Shipt: 3,797,155 installs
    • Drive and Shop with Shipt: 3,160,734 installs
    • FreshDirect: 324,504 installs
    • 60% leader share. Uber Eats, by Google Play installs, across the 13 of 14 apps we could match
    • 14 of 14 recently updated. Updated in the 30 days before 2026-10-05

  2. Competition

    1. DoorDash28 Sep23.3M ratings
    2. Uber Eats28 Sep10.8M ratings
    3. Instacart29 Sep4.8M ratings
    4. Grubhub28 Sep4.7M ratings
    5. Postmates29 Sep2.1M ratings
    6. Instacart Shopper30 Sep1.6M ratings
    7. Safeway Deals & Delivery29 Sep1.3M ratings
    8. Spark Driver30 Sep307k ratings
    9. Gopuff28 Sep263k ratings
    10. Drive and Shop with Shipt14 Sep230k ratings
    11. Shipt8 Sep136k ratings
    12. ALDI Grocery Pickup & Delivery30 Sep112k ratings
    13. FreshDirect2 Oct30k ratings
    14. instashop29 Sep15k ratings

  3. Reviews

    What 13,257 reviews talk about, every star counted.

    1. Billing+10.9%14 of 14 apps
    2. Support+6.8%14 of 14 apps
    3. Accuracy+0.7%14 of 14 apps
    4. Content+0.1%9 of 14 apps
    5. Sync & data−0.2%7 of 14 apps
    6. Limits & caps−0.4%13 of 14 apps
    7. Ads−0.8%11 of 14 apps
    8. UX−1.8%14 of 14 apps
    9. Wishlist−1.9%14 of 14 apps
    10. Performance−3.9%14 of 14 apps
    11. Login & auth−5.3%14 of 14 apps
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  4. Searches

    Position in Apple’s suggestions
    1510
    010203041
    Countries
    With
    Without

  5. Traffic

    Google Ads, United States, 10 September 2026.

  6. Your test

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Is there a market for a new grocery delivery app?

14 apps compete here. They hold 492,885,136 installs on Google Play, counted across the 13 we could match. We hold 13,257 of their App Store reviews. Those are counts, not a verdict. The page shows what is unfixed, not whether to build.

What do people search for when they want a grocery delivery app?

We scan 41 App Store storefronts. Typing Grocery delivery apps completes to “asap: food & grocery delivery” in 37 of them. Then “beelivery: grocery delivery” in 37, “baqaala grocery delivery” in 35. These are Apple’s own suggestions. They show what gets typed, not how often.

What do users complain about most in grocery delivery apps?

1. Billing: in 14 of 14 apps, 32.6% of reviews (21.7% in Food & Drink apps); 2. Support: in 14 of 14 apps, 15.1% of reviews (8.3% in Food & Drink apps); 3. Accuracy: in 14 of 14 apps, 1.9% of reviews (1.2% in Food & Drink apps); 4. Content: in 9 of 14 apps, 0.3% of reviews (0.2% in Food & Drink apps). Counted from 13,257 reviews of every star on the 2026-10-05 snapshot, never estimated.

Cited: What RevenueCat measures across subscription apps

Their report has no category matching Grocery delivery apps apps, so only all-category figures are shown. A near-match would be a guess.

  • the median app barely grows; the tails are extreme

    median MRR +5.3% YoY · top decile +306% · bottom decile contracting

  • the launch flood vs the incumbency moat

    ~2,000 → 14,700+ new subscription apps per month (Jan 2022 → Jan 2026), yet pre-2020 apps still hold 69% of subscription revenue

  • even top categories take over 100 days to reach $10k revenue

    >100 days to the first $10k

RevenueCat, State of Subscription Apps 2026, 115,000+ apps · $16B+ tracked revenue · >1B transactions. Published industry figures, shown for context; App Imp’s own numbers are counted from reviews and never mixed with these.

How this is counted

We count the reviews we hold again every week. Nothing is guessed. A topic is found by the words a review uses, so the same review always lands in the same place. Every star counts. A share is the part of all reviews here that mention a topic. We compare it with the same share across 598 Food & Drink apps, the group most of these apps are in. A topic is a gap when at least 20 reviews mention it, at least half the apps have it, and it comes up at least 1.15 times as often as usual. A problem in one app is that app’s bug. A problem in every app is nobody’s gap. This market has no full report yet, so the per-app notes are absent rather than estimated.