Circus Cafe vs Dinnerbox
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Circus Cafe
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Dinnerbox
Order pre-cooked frozen meals delivered to your door in South Africa. Choose from various meal box sizes and earn loyalty points for discounts on future purchases. Enjoy healthy, sustainable meals without preservatives, MSG, or stabilizers.
- Pre-cooked frozen meal delivery
- Multiple meal box sizes
- DinnerDosh loyalty points
- 15% discount redemption
- No preservatives, MSG, or stabilizers
- Sustainable ingredients
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Dinnerbox delivers pre-cooked frozen meals to your door within South Africa. Most meals can be ordered in Kids, 10, 20 and 30 meal boxes. Enjoy earning DinnerDosh loyalty points with every purchase and redeem 15% discount after reaching your points redemption target. Meals are delivered frozen within 4-5 working days, freeing you up to enjoy more time to enjoy life. With great taste comes great responsibility and our ingredients contribute substantially to what defines Dinnerbox. It is one of our passions! We are a team of entrepreneurs, restauranteurs and chefs who are passionate about food, ingredients, sustainability and; giving you more time to do the things you love! The Dinnerbox was born from our love of cooking and an insatiable appetite to provide our customers with convenient, healthy and sustainable meals. So much so that we do not use preservatives, stabilisers or MSG in any of our meals.
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Verdict
Circus Cafe and Dinnerbox are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
Circus Cafe ships an update every 9 months, Dinnerbox every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on May 19, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Circus Cafe | Dinnerbox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.7 (36 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 78.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 36 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 6 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Carl Heinz Conradie | Sean Dunn |
In-app purchases
Circus Cafe
No in-app purchases
Dinnerbox
No in-app purchases
