Northern Lights Pizza vs Bennigans
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Northern Lights Pizza
Order delicious pizzas, pastas, appetizers, desserts, and drinks for carryout or delivery. Customize your pizza with homemade dough, choice of sauces, and your favorite toppings. Browse the full menu and special offers directly from your iPhone.
- Browse full menu
- Place orders securely
- Carryout or delivery options
- Customizable pizza creations
- View special offers
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We offer a wide variety of pizza, pasta, appetizers, desserts & drinks for carryout or delivery! We start with our homemade pizza dough, choice of our zesty marinara or alfredo sauces and finally top your pizza creation with your favorite toppings. For full menu and special offers, please visit our website:www.northernlightspizza.com. We are locally owned and operated. We proudly serve the Des Moines, IA & Kansas City, MO areas. GREAT DEALS! GREAT MEALS! EVERYDAY!! Now you can browse our menu and securely place your order from your iPhone! Download and get started today! You will be prompted to opt-in or opt-out of push notifications upon the first app start up after download from Apple App Store to an iOS device. Once a selection has been made, any changes to push notifications preferences have to come from your device operating system settings.
Bennigans
Experience legendary Irish hospitality with a reinvented casual dining concept. Enjoy chef-driven dishes, innovative drinks, and memorable experiences. This neighborhood restaurant and tavern offers a high-energy atmosphere for meeting friends and relaxing.
- Exclusive mobile offers
- Loyalty rewards program
- Chef-driven food
- Innovative drinks
- Memorable dining experiences
- High-energy neighborhood atmosphere
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The story of our Legendary Irish Hospitality began over 40 years ago and continues today with new chapters that reflect Bennigan’s history while introducing a reinvented brand. We are redefining casual dining with chef-driven food, innovative drinks and memorable dining experiences for every guest, every meal, every day. A high-energy neighborhood restaurant and tavern, Bennigan’s is relentlessly focused on the people, food and experience that define it. Bennigan’s has always been a neighborhood favorite – not just for food and drinks, but as a place to meet friends and kick back for a while. That spirit lives on in everything we do, every single day. It’s the way Bennigan’s was created, and it’s the way our Legendary story continues. Download our app for exclusive mobile offers, loyalty rewards, and so much more!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Northern Lights Pizza at 73% against Bennigans's 33%. Northern Lights Pizza also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (166 vs 7). Bennigans's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 8 months) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Northern Lights Pizza holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Northern Lights Pizza has 166 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Northern Lights Pizza's written reviews are positive against 33% of Bennigans's.
Northern Lights Pizza ships an update every 8 months, Bennigans every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Northern Lights Pizza | Bennigans |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (166 ratings) — better | 4.0 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 72.7% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 166 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NLP, LLC (Apps) | Legendary Restaurant Brands |
Customer experience
Northern Lights Pizza
Bennigans
Bugs and requests
Northern Lights Pizza
Reported bugs
11 issues- App sends orders to wrong location
- App cancels orders and erases cart
- App/website does not allow half toppings
- Cannot create a password, shows error
- App is orphaned and does not work
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- App cannot find user's address (Google Maps error)
- App won't let user use saved credit card, shows error
- Email confirmation time estimate is way off
- App does not allow card transactions
- App crashes and UI is very buggy
- Trouble ordering plain breadsticks, pull down menu issue
Requested features
4 requests- Option to add more sides of marinara sauce
- Ability to do half toppings
- More options to edit an order
- Build your own slammich feature
Bennigans
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Northern Lights Pizza
No in-app purchases
Bennigans
No in-app purchases
Questions
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