Bolt
Estonia
EU
Bolt is a mobility platform from Estonia. Markus Villig founded the company in 2013 in Tallinn as Taxify, aged 19. According to the company page, Bolt serves more than 200 million customers...
European Food Delivery Apps
Deliveroo
United Kingdom
Non-European Parent Company
Deliveroo is a delivery platform headquartered in London. Will Shu founded it in 2013 after noticing how few good London restaurants delivered, and he worked as the first rider himself. According to...
foodora
Germany
EU
foodora is a food and grocery delivery brand of the Berlin-based Delivery Hero group. It started in Munich in 2014 as Volo and was bought by Delivery Hero in 2015. Today the...
Glovo
Spain
EU
Glovo is a Spanish on-demand delivery app headquartered in Barcelona. Oscar Pierre and Sacha Michaud founded it in 2015. It delivers restaurant meals, groceries, pharmacy items and goods from high street stores,...
Just Eat Takeaway.com
Netherlands
EU
Non-European Parent Company
Just Eat Takeaway.com (JET) is a food delivery marketplace headquartered in Amsterdam. Takeaway.com started in the Netherlands in 2000 under founder Jitse Groen and merged in 2020 with Just Eat, a Danish...
Lieferando
Germany
EU
Non-European Parent Company
Lieferando is the German food delivery platform of Just Eat Takeaway.com. It was founded in Berlin in 2009 by Christoph Gerber, Kai Hansen and Jörg Gerbig, taken over by Takeaway.com in 2014...
Wolt
Finland
EU
Non-European Parent Company
Wolt is a delivery platform from Helsinki. Miki Kuusi and five co-founders started it in October 2014, and it grew from Finland into more than 20 countries across Europe, the Caucasus and...
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Submit SuggestionEuropean food delivery apps bring restaurant meals, groceries and everyday goods from local businesses to the door. They are the European options next to the American Uber Eats. Most of the well-known apps were founded in Europe, but several now belong to groups from outside Europe, so the table below shows who owns what.
European food delivery apps compared
| App | Home base | Owner | Active in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Just Eat Takeaway.com | Netherlands | Prosus, majority-owned by Naspers (South Africa), marked | 14 countries |
| Lieferando | Germany | Same group, marked | Germany, Austria |
| Glovo | Spain | Delivery Hero (Germany), takeover by Uber pending | Southern and Eastern Europe, Africa, Central Asia |
| foodora | Germany | Delivery Hero, takeover by Uber pending | Sweden, Norway, Austria, Czechia, Hungary |
| Wolt | Finland | DoorDash (USA), marked | More than 20 countries |
| Deliveroo | United Kingdom | DoorDash (USA) since October 2025, marked | UK, Ireland, France, Belgium, Italy |
| Bolt (Bolt Food) | Estonia | Independent, venture-funded | Many European cities |
Who is still independent?
Only Bolt Food, part of the ride-hailing company Bolt, has no large outside owner. Just Eat Takeaway.com and Lieferando went to Prosus in 2025, and Wolt and Deliveroo to DoorDash. On 16 July 2026 Delivery Hero, the owner of Glovo and foodora, announced a takeover offer by Uber at 41.50 euros per share. Completion is expected in the second half of 2027, and parts of the business are meant to go to the New York investment firm SSW Partners. Until closing both brands are listed without a notice.
Choosing an app
Availability decides: the apps differ from street to street, so the address check in each app is the first test. Delivery fees, service fees and minimum order values are set per market and change often, so they are not compared here. Anyone who wants the fees to reach the restaurant can often order directly from the restaurant's own website or phone line.
What Europe does not have
There is no large independent pan-European delivery platform. The independent apps are national or regional, and the larger ones are owned from abroad or about to be.