Glovo, Uber Eats and Just Eat compared for restaurant choice, groceries, live tracking, loyalty rewards and the real cost of fees.
Ordering dinner from the phone is now frictionless, browse, pay and watch the courier move on a map, but the three leading apps make different bets. One is a restaurant marketplace polished to the standard of its ride-hailing parent. One treats the phone as a button for almost anything, from groceries to pharmacy runs. One is the long-established local player, leaning on thousands of independent restaurants, cash payment and a loyalty scheme that turns repeat orders into free food. Fees, coverage and what can actually be ordered differ enough that many households keep all three. The 3 apps in this guide are the ones worth comparing on every order.
Glovo goes beyond restaurants with groceries, pharmacy and an anything-category errand service, wide city coverage and live tracking.
It is the most versatile of the three: alongside restaurant food, the app brings supermarket shopping, pharmacy items, gifts and near-arbitrary errands through its anything category, with live tracking showing the courier's exact position and coverage across a large number of Spanish cities. For staying home without planning ahead, it has the broadest catalogue. Convenience is priced in. Delivery and service fees inflate the total, in-app prices can exceed in-store shelf prices, and whether a restaurant or shop is available at all depends heavily on the exact address.
Uber Eats brings a huge restaurant range and the polished, fast experience of its parent app, with live courier tracking and frequent promos.
Backed by Uber's logistics and payments, it is among the most widely used delivery apps in the world, and the polish shows: reliable search and ratings, real-time courier tracking, frequent promotional offers and a familiar interface for anyone already using Uber. For ordering from favourite restaurants quickly it is the smoothest experience of the three. Its scope is deliberately narrower than Glovo's, centred on food with fewer errand categories, delivery and service fees still apply, and listed prices sometimes run above what the restaurant charges in person.
Just Eat is the established local marketplace, with thousands of restaurants, Stamp Cards rewards and cash payment at many venues.
One of the longest-running delivery services in Spain, it lists thousands of local restaurants, many of which deliver with their own riders rather than platform couriers, which changes both the fee structure and who controls the timing. Its Stamp Cards scheme rewards repeat orders at the same place with a free order, and unusually for the sector, cash remains an option at plenty of venues. Groceries, pharmacy and the broader errand catalogue that Glovo offers are largely absent, delivery times depend on the individual restaurant, and fees vary venue by venue rather than following one flat rule.
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Questions & answers
Which is the best food delivery app?
It depends on the order. Glovo is the most versatile, covering groceries, pharmacy and general errands across many cities. Uber Eats offers one of the widest restaurant selections and the most polished app. Just Eat is the longest-established locally and rewards loyalty with free orders while still accepting cash at many venues. The sensible approach is keeping several installed and comparing both the menu price and the delivered total each time, since leadership changes by cuisine and postcode.
How can I pay less in delivery fees?
Subscriptions such as Glovo Prime and Uber One remove or reduce delivery fees for a monthly charge and pay back quickly if you order often. Ordering from restaurants nearby lowers the distance-based fee, grouping items past the minimum order avoids surcharges, and promo codes and seasonal offers appear constantly and are always worth checking before checkout. Pickup orders skip delivery fees entirely where the restaurant allows them.
Are app prices higher than restaurant prices?
Often, yes. Many restaurants set slightly higher prices on delivery platforms to offset the commission they pay, and delivery plus service fees are then added on top, so the same meal can cost markedly more eaten at home. For many people the convenience still justifies it. To soften the gap, look for restaurants that price equally across channels, use pickup to remove the delivery fee, and reserve delivery for nights it is genuinely worth paying for.
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