Food Delivery App Statistics (2026)
You may be looking for one number to put in a market slide: the number of people using food delivery apps. The evidence does not support a clean global total for restaurant-food-delivery-app users in 2026. The available measures track different things—app downloads, installs, delivery frequency, marketplace users, orders, and broad grocery-plus-meal spending.
The short answer: food delivery app statistics are strongest when each number stays attached to its definition. Global downloads grew sharply through 2025, U.S. weekly-use surveys vary with the question asked, and DoorDash’s disclosures show substantial platform scale without becoming a category-wide total.
Food delivery app statistics at a glance
40% download growth: Global Food Delivery app downloads rose 40% year over year in the first three quarters of 2025, according to Sensor Tower. This measures downloads, not people or orders.
Nearly 450 million downloads: Worldwide Food Delivery app downloads reached nearly 450 million in H1 2025; India’s downloads rose 147% year over year in the same period, Sensor Tower reported. These are acquisition events under the publisher’s taxonomy, not unique users.
More than 1.1 billion installs: Food Delivery Services apps were installed more than 1.1 billion times globally in 2025, according to Sensor Tower’s March 2026 Food & Drink snapshot. Its category includes activity adjacent to restaurant delivery, including quick commerce.
17% weekly delivery: In a YouGov poll fielded February 5–9, 2026, 17% of 2,179 U.S. adult citizens said they had food delivered at least weekly. The question covered delivery behavior, not restaurant-app use alone. Read YouGov’s results.
Three published app-use frequency bands: In a March 6–16, 2026 survey of 1,000 U.S. adults that excluded grocery delivery, Verasight reported 10.1% using apps such as DoorDash or Uber Eats a few times a week, 6.9% about once a week, and 1.7% every day. Verasight publishes the categories separately; it does not publish a combined weekly total.
56 million-plus marketplace MAUs: DoorDash reported more than 56 million monthly active users across its marketplaces in December 2025. The measure covers DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo marketplaces rather than global restaurant delivery. DoorDash’s 2025 Form 10-K defines the metric.
903 million quarterly orders: DoorDash reported 903 million total orders in Q4 2025, up 32% year over year, and $29.7 billion in Marketplace GOV, up 39%. These are company-reported marketplace metrics. Its SEC-filed earnings release carries the disclosure.
$1.4 trillion broad estimate: Statista estimates that global online-food-delivery revenue approached $1.4 trillion in 2025. This modelled estimate combines grocery and meal delivery, so it is not a restaurant food delivery app revenue total. Statista describes the scope.
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What each headline number actually measures
Statistic | Population and period | What it measures | What you can safely say |
40% growth | Global Food Delivery apps, first three quarters of 2025 | Year-over-year download growth | App acquisition accelerated through the period. |
Nearly 450 million | Global Food Delivery apps, H1 2025 | Downloads | Apps were downloaded at scale; the figure is not a people count. |
17% | 2,179 U.S. adult citizens, February 5–9, 2026 | Self-reported weekly-or-more delivery | Weekly delivery behavior was reported by 17% of this poll’s respondents. |
56 million-plus | DoorDash marketplaces, December 2025 | Monthly active users who completed an order | DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo had meaningful combined marketplace reach. |
903 million | DoorDash marketplaces, Q4 2025 | Total orders | DoorDash reported high quarterly transaction volume across its marketplaces. |
$1.4 trillion | Global online food delivery, 2025 | Statista’s broad revenue estimate | Grocery-plus-meal delivery was a very large estimated market. |
This distinction is more than terminology. An install can be a re-install. A monthly active user can be counted in a company’s marketplace definition. Marketplace GOV is the value of transactions moving through a marketplace, while company revenue is the portion the company recognizes. A survey response reflects the wording, respondent population, and field date of that survey.
Global food delivery app downloads kept rising in 2025
Downloads provide the clearest global growth signal in the current evidence. Sensor Tower reported that Food Delivery app downloads increased 40% year over year in the first three quarters of 2025, with nearly 450 million worldwide downloads in H1 2025. It also reported 147% year-over-year growth in India during that half-year and said Asia represented more than 55% of Food Delivery downloads in Q3 2025. Sensor Tower’s 2025 analysis attributes much of the acceleration to ultra-fast grocery delivery in India.
That last qualifier matters if you are using food delivery statistics to describe restaurant meals. The app-store category can include restaurant delivery, grocery delivery, and quick-commerce services. It is useful for tracking app acquisition across the category; it cannot establish how many unique people ordered restaurant food.
Sensor Tower’s later snapshot supplies a second scale measure: Food Delivery Services apps recorded more than 1.1 billion global installs in 2025. The same source highlights quick-commerce activity and reports installed penetration for Indian services such as Blinkit, Zepto, and BigBasket. Its 2026 snapshot therefore supports a broader food-and-drink app-install story, rather than a global count of restaurant delivery customers.
For an app operator, installs are an acquisition signal rather than proof of retained demand. If you need a separate framework for interpreting what happens after installation, see Quash’s guide to mobile app retention benchmarks, churn, and uninstalls. That context does not convert download data into food-order totals; it helps you avoid treating the two as the same metric.
How often do Americans use food delivery apps?
The newest U.S. sources answer related but different questions.
YouGov found that 17% of U.S. adult citizens had food delivered at least once a week in its February 2026 poll of 2,179 respondents. It also reported that 48% said they never had food delivered. YouGov’s poll report is a useful current frequency benchmark, but its delivery question is broader than app-only restaurant ordering.
Verasight asked a more app-specific question in March 2026 and excluded grocery delivery. Among its 1,000 U.S. adult respondents, 10.1% selected “a few times a week,” 6.9% selected “about once a week,” and 1.7% selected “every day” for apps such as DoorDash or Uber Eats. The Verasight survey page gives the response distribution, sample, dates, and question framing.
Do not add those three published categories and present the result as a Verasight statistic. The source did not publish that combined total. More importantly, a combined result would still describe a different population, question, and field period from YouGov’s 17% finding.
The National Restaurant Association offers a third, broader comparison point: 37% of adults ordered restaurant delivery weekly in its 2025 off-premises research. The association’s report page treats delivery alongside takeout and drive-thru behavior. Use it to discuss weekly restaurant delivery, not to claim that 37% of adults use food delivery apps every week.
DoorDash shows platform scale, not category size
A public-company filing is often more precise than a market roundup, provided you keep the company boundary intact.
DoorDash defined a monthly active user as an individual consumer account that completed an order on one of its marketplaces in the preceding month. It reported more than 56 million such users in December 2025 across DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo. The company also reported more than 35 million DashPass, Wolt+, and Deliveroo Plus members as of December 31, 2025; that membership total includes paid, trial, and partnership accounts. DoorDash’s Form 10-K is the primary source for both definitions.
For Q4 2025, DoorDash disclosed 903 million total orders, $29.7 billion in Marketplace GOV, $4.0 billion in revenue, and $213 million in GAAP net income. The company’s SEC-filed release also reported that DoorDash generated nearly $75 billion in sales for local merchants across more than 40 countries during 2025.
These are useful food delivery app statistics when your question is “how large is DoorDash’s marketplace operation?” They do not answer “how many people worldwide use restaurant delivery apps?” DoorDash’s marketplace extends across brands and includes categories beyond restaurant meals.
U.S. platform-share numbers are older than this report’s 2026 focus
No fetched primary source provides a clean, current 2026 cross-platform order-share series. The most specific verified comparison is Bloomberg Second Measure’s estimate for March 2024: DoorDash and Caviar represented 67% of observed U.S. consumer meal-delivery sales, and Uber Eats represented 23%.
Bloomberg Second Measure based the estimate on a panel of millions of U.S. debit- and credit-card consumers. Its methodology excludes some payment channels and corporate purchases, and it cannot fully distinguish meal delivery from grocery orders made through these services. Read the methodology and March 2024 results.
For another dated benchmark, YouGov Profiles reported in January 2025 that 28.2% of Americans used food-delivery services at least weekly. It reported consideration scores of 27.4% for DoorDash and 24.1% for Uber Eats using continuously collected rolling data. YouGov’s Profiles analysis uses “consideration,” which is neither order share nor revenue share.
The practical conclusion is straightforward: cite the 2024 panel estimate as historical observed-sales context, and do not relabel it as 2026 market share.
The global market-size figure has a broader scope than restaurant apps
Statista’s $1.4 trillion figure is easy to repeat and easy to mislabel. Its March 2026 overview says global online-food-delivery revenue approached that level in 2025 and identifies grocery delivery as the main growth engine. Statista’s market overview is a compiled, modelled estimate covering both grocery and meal delivery.
That makes it useful for a broad online-delivery market discussion. It does not support a claim that restaurant food delivery apps generated $1.4 trillion in revenue, and it should not be compared directly with DoorDash’s Marketplace GOV or revenue. Those figures differ in both scope and evidence type.
What the public record still does not measure cleanly
The evidence leaves several important questions open:
Global restaurant-app users: No verified source here provides a global unique-user count that excludes grocery delivery and quick commerce.
A 2026 restaurant-app market total: The available $1.4 trillion estimate is broader than restaurant apps, while company disclosures are company-specific.
Current cross-platform order share: The latest verified comparison in this evidence is a March 2024 card-panel estimate, not a 2026 ledger.
A comparable regional usage series: Global downloads are available, but comparable 2026 consumer-frequency data for Europe, Latin America, and Southeast Asia is not available in the sources cited here.
A current cross-platform fee or average-order-value series: No consistently defined primary series in this evidence supports either claim.
Naming these gaps prevents a common reporting error: filling them with a number that measures something nearby but different.
What the 2026 outlook supports
The evidence supports a directional outlook rather than a single forecast. App acquisition was strong through 2025, particularly in India and elsewhere in Asia. Sensor Tower’s March 2026 snapshot also observed that traditional delivery and restaurant apps were beginning to plateau in the United States while quick commerce and value-oriented food apps gained attention.
That is an observation about category dynamics, not a quantified projection for 2026. If you are evaluating a food delivery app opportunity, treat it as a prompt to segment the market: restaurant meals, grocery delivery, and quick commerce may share an app-store category while serving different customer behaviors and economics.
Methodology and source notes
This report prioritizes app-intelligence publisher analysis for app downloads, original survey publishers for consumer behavior, SEC filings for DoorDash’s company figures, and the National Restaurant Association for its own off-premises research. Statista is included only where labelled as a broad, modelled market estimate.
The report does not combine survey categories into a new statistic, reconstruct a global user total from installs and marketplace MAUs, or present a dated card-panel estimate as current market share. No first-party Quash data covers food delivery app usage, market size, downloads, or consumer behavior, so no Quash statistic or experiment result is included.
Conclusion
Use the number that answers your actual question. Downloads show that food delivery app acquisition remained strong through 2025. U.S. surveys provide useful frequency signals when you preserve their wording and scope. DoorDash’s filings establish the scale of one multi-brand marketplace, while the largest global revenue estimate includes grocery as well as meals.
If your decision concerns restaurant delivery specifically, do not settle for the biggest available number. Choose the measure whose population, period, and definition match the decision you need to make.
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