Mugg & Bean vs WeChow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mugg & Bean
This app rewards your purchases with beans that can be spent on future orders. Link a bank card for fast, contactless payments and order ahead for convenient collection. Enjoy exclusive benefits like coffee subscriptions.
- Earn and spend reward beans
- Link bank card for contactless payments
- Order ahead for collection
- Coffee subscription savings
- Quick and safe payments
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GET MORE WITH THE MUGG & BEAN LOYALTY APP 1. Earn reward Beans & spend them any time 2. Link your bank card to make quick, safe & contactless payments 3. Order ahead & collect conveniently 4. Get your Coffee Subscription & save
WeChow
Discover local restaurants and home-based food businesses. Browse diverse cuisines, filter by location or dish, and easily place orders for delivery or pickup. Receive SMS updates on your order status.
- Restaurant and home industry listings
- Cuisine and location filtering
- Search by menu item
- Order customization
- Delivery and pickup options
- SMS order updates
- User feedback system
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WeChow is a South African services provider connecting food enthusiasts with a range of restaurant & home industry options to select from. WeChow promises subscribers multiple cuisines and flavors to pick from and enjoy good quality yummy food in a convenient way. WeChow has separate section for Home Industry and Restaurants allowing users more options to pick and order from. At WeChow, our subscribers come first. Given this, we have madeWeChow simple, localized, convenient and easy to use.If you already know what you want to order, type your search menu and WeChow will show up all the options/choices that are available in your area. For better results, WeChow recommends users to provide the area they are in either by typing the location or letting GPS find their location.If you want to locate a restaurant or a home industry you want to order from, WeChow has convenient option at home screen to go to desired section. WeChow also allows you to search or filter your choice of suppliers based on cuisines. After you identify the dish of your choice from selected supplier, simply select the quantity and place them in your cart. Once you have finalized your choices and told any customizations you need, WeChow is ready to place your order with the supplier. WeChow validates your mobile number using SMS code, let’s you choose the mode of delivery and enter your delivery address. Post this, subscriber places his order with the supplier. WeChowkeeps you updated by sending a SMS update on your verified mobile as orders are processed. WeChow team and our suppliers are constantly striving to improve their services are open to feedback. We invite our subscribers to provide feedback each time they use WeChow. The valuable comments from our subscribers helps us to understand what we could have done better and ensure a better experience next time. To provide a quality experience to our subscribers, WeChow requests for some personal information. The information shared by subscribers is kept safe and secure with us. Our team makes sure that subscriber information is kept safe and shared with suppliers on need to know basis only. Currently, WeChow only offers CoDP (Cash on Delivery or Pick-up). We will have an option of paying through credit/debit card in future. WeChow has a built in ad-function. The ads/videos/links shared in our app are provided by our sponsors and shared as-is by us. WeChow doesn’t check or take responsible for quality of information shared in the ad. WeChow verifies that no virus or malwares are installed as part of the ads/videos/links shared by us. WeChow doesn’t take any responsibility for the 3rd party websites that may be accessed by clicking on these links or applications installed using these ads/videos
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Mugg & Bean at 68% against WeChow's 9%. Mugg & Bean also leads on rating (4.8 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (74 vs 1). WeChow's advantage is monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.4). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Mugg & Bean holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mugg & Bean has 74 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 68% of Mugg & Bean's written reviews are positive against 9% of WeChow's.
Mugg & Bean ships an update every 5 weeks, WeChow monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mugg & Bean | WeChow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (74 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 67.9% of reviews — better | 9.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 74 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 101 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yoyo SA (PTY) Ltd | Lamin IT (PTY) LTD |
Customer experience
Mugg & Bean
WeChow
Bugs and requests
Mugg & Bean
Reported bugs
18 issues- App not connecting to server
- Subscription not working after 1 Oct
- Order rejected without item stock info
- App not updating accordingly
- Subscription option does nothing
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- Loading card fails multiple times
- App link error during payment
- Cannot login or change password
- OTP not received
- Cannot delete card from app
- App support link leads to 'Not Found'
- Pickup functionality does not allow branch selection
- App and store stole rewards
- Menu option shows 'page not found'
- Transaction declined when trying to leave tips
- Error message on manual tip entry
- Cents not accommodated in manual tip entry
- Link error during payment, paid twice
Requested features
30 requests- Fix app for subscription
- Return money for non-working subscription
- Improve app for seamless subscription
- Fix app or return money
- Fix subscription function
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- Fix app for subscription purchase
- Improve communication on rejected orders
- Stop unwanted text messages
- Stop selling user details
- Improve app for loading cards
- Add more combo options
- Add more sandwich options
- Add app deals for new menu items
- Improve app for login issues
- Improve app for password changes
- Allow loading multiple cards
- Improve app for low vision users
- Adjust font size in app
- Make app less noisy for business meetings
- Fix pickup functionality
- Improve app management
- Fix app for rewards collection
- Clarify free coffee offer
- Improve app for card linking
- Fix app for deleting cards
- Improve app support link
- Fix menu page not found error
- Allow leaving tips in app
- Fix manual tip entry bug
- Allow cents in manual tip entry
WeChow
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Mugg & Bean
No in-app purchases
WeChow
No in-app purchases







