Delivery App Builder to Create Your Food or Grocery Delivery App

Three steps. Describe the delivery app you want (food, grocery or courier, and the features you need) and the builder generates a working version. Customise it in the drag-and-drop editor: menu or catalog, delivery area and fees, driver settings, payments, push notifications. Then preview it on a real device and publish to both stores. A first version takes an hour or two; the stores’ review takes days.

On Appy Pie, building and previewing is free. On-demand delivery is a premium feature, so publishing starts at $36 per app a month on the Gold plan for Google Play, with iOS on the $60 Platinum plan, plus Google’s one-time $25 and Apple’s $99 a year. Delivery-specific platforms such as Hyperzod run about $200 a month across their ordering, merchant and driver apps and Ordering.co starts at $399 a month. The cost guides on this search put a custom build between $20,000 and $300,000 depending on scope. The cost section on this page lays out all four routes.

You can build, customise and preview it free with no card. Publishing to Google Play or the App Store, removing Appy Pie branding and the store fees are paid. That is true of every builder; no one gives you a store-listed app for nothing.

Sort out the business side first: which area you deliver to, who drives (your staff or contractors), and what you charge per delivery. Then build the app around those rules: set the delivery zone and fees, add the menu, connect Stripe or PayPal, assign drivers in the admin panel, and put a link to the app on your website, receipts and social profiles. Start with the customers you already have; the app’s job is to move their orders off third-party commissions.

The big marketplaces spent years and billions of dollars before turning a profit, because they have to recruit both restaurants and drivers and subsidise both sides. A single business’s own delivery app has different economics: you already have the customers and the kitchen, so the app’s return is the 15 to 30 percent commission you stop paying a marketplace on each order. Memorial Tacos, below, put that at about $2,000 a month.

If you mean an app to work for as a driver, that is not what this page is about. If you mean an app for your own business to take orders through, the answer is one where you keep the margin: your own branded app with your own drivers, which is what this builder creates. It pays when you already have demand and are currently handing a commission to a marketplace.

Partly. You can build the customer side (browse, order, track, pay) and the operations side (driver assignment, GPS tracking, delivery rules) for one business or a small fleet. You cannot build a multi-city marketplace that matches thousands of independent restaurants with thousands of gig drivers and runs dynamic pricing; that is custom software with a large team behind it. Most owners searching for a DoorDash-like app want their own ordering channel, and that part this builder does.

Yes. The catalog holds products with categories, photos and prices, customers add items to a cart and check out, and the delivery rules set the zone and fee. Use scheduled delivery windows if you deliver on set days. If you sell online as well as deliver, the ecommerce app builder covers the storefront side in more depth.

Yes, for a courier service that takes bookings and dispatches its own drivers: pickup and drop-off addresses, driver assignment, live tracking on a map, card payment or invoicing. What it does not include is multi-stop route optimisation, barcode scanning or proof-of-delivery photos; if your operation depends on those, a logistics platform is the right tool and this page says so in its limits section.

Yes, from one build. The Gold plan ($36 per app a month) publishes to Google Play; the Platinum plan ($60 per app a month) adds iOS and App Store publishing. A delivery app does not publish on Basic, because on-demand delivery is a premium feature. Drivers and customers can be on either platform.

Three options. Build it yourself on a no-code builder like this one in a day, which suits a single business or a small fleet with standard ordering and dispatch. Subscribe to a delivery-specific platform such as Hyperzod or Ordering.co, which cost more per month but ship a dedicated driver app and marketplace features. Or hire an agency for a bespoke build, which the cost guides put at $20,000 to $300,000 and several months. Match the route to how unusual your workflow is.

A software agency or a freelance developer builds custom logistics software: route optimisation, multi-stop planning, barcode scanning, integration with your warehouse or ERP. Expect $20,000 to $300,000 and three to nine months, and budget for maintenance after launch. If what you actually need is customers ordering from you and your own drivers delivering, a builder does that for under $100 a month and you find out in a week whether it works.

Yes. Menu items, prices, delivery zones, fees and drivers are edited in the dashboard and go live in the app without a new store submission. Design changes and new features are published as an app update, which the stores review again; Apple says about 90 percent of submissions are reviewed within 24 hours.