Mugg & Bean vs Dinnerbox
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
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
The clearest difference is update cadence: Mugg & Bean at every 5 weeks against Dinnerbox's every 6 months. Dinnerbox's advantage is monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and review sentiment (79% vs 68%). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Mugg & Bean against 4.7 for Dinnerbox. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 71 and 36 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 68% of Mugg & Bean's written reviews are positive against 79% of Dinnerbox's.
Mugg & Bean ships an update every 5 weeks, Dinnerbox every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mugg & Bean | Dinnerbox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (71 ratings) — better | 4.7 (36 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 67.9% of reviews | 78.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 71 — better | 36 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 101 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yoyo SA (PTY) Ltd | Sean Dunn |
Customer experience
Mugg & Bean
Dinnerbox
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
Dinnerbox
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Mugg & Bean
No in-app purchases
Dinnerbox
No in-app purchases
