Northern Lights Pizza vs Picky Eats
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.
Picky Eats
Easily remember your family's favorite dishes and restaurants. Share dining preferences with your circle to make ordering effortless and enjoy meals together without the guesswork.
- Save and rate restaurants
- Track and rate individual dishes
- Digitize menus with photos
- Remember family preferences
- View order history
- Create shared dining circles
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PickyEats helps your family remember what everyone actually loves to eat — so you stop guessing and start enjoying your favorite spots together. Create a Circle with your family or friends, and PickyEats becomes your shared memory for dining out: • Save Restaurants — Keep a running list of every place you've tried, rated, and loved • Track Every Dish — Rate individual menu items, not just restaurants, so you always know what to order again • Snap a Menu, Get Instant Digital Access — Take a photo of any menu and PickyEats extracts the dishes automatically • Remember Who Loves What — Every family member's ratings and preferences live in one place, so ordering for a picky eater is never a guessing game • Order History — See what you ordered last time, at every restaurant, whenever you want Perfect for families with picky eaters, groups who eat out often, or anyone who's ever stood at a counter wondering, "did I like this last time?" PickyEats Premium unlocks full access to your Circle's history and preferences for $1.99/month or $13.99/year, with a 14-day free trial — cancel anytime. Questions? Reach us at support@pickycode.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Picky Eats at 5.0 against Northern Lights Pizza's 4.5. Picky Eats also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 8 months). Northern Lights Pizza's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (166 vs 3). On price, monetization model, device support and iOS requirement 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. Picky Eats sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Northern Lights Pizza asks for nothing beyond the download.
Picky Eats holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Northern Lights Pizza has 166 ratings behind it against 3, 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 100% of Picky Eats's.
Northern Lights Pizza ships an update every 8 months, Picky Eats weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Northern Lights Pizza | Picky Eats |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (166 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 72.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 166 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NLP, LLC (Apps) | Picky Code, L.L.C. |
Customer experience
Northern Lights Pizza
Picky Eats
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
Picky Eats
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Northern Lights Pizza
No in-app purchases
Picky Eats
- PickyEats Premium — Monthly14 Days trial$1.991 Month
- PickyEats Premium — Annual14 Days trial$13.991 Year
Questions
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