FreeEats vs The HungreeApp
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FreeEats
This app helps college students reduce food waste by connecting them to free, leftover food on campus. Users can easily find and share real-time information about available food, receive notifications, and help contribute to a more sustainable campus environment.
- Find free leftover food on campus
- Share real-time food availability
- Receive notifications for new food posts
- Check-in to claimed food servings
- Reduce food waste on campus
- Invite friends to join
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The solution to reduce leftover food waste on your college campus has finally arrived! With FreeEats you can easily find and share real-time info on free, leftover food on your campus that would otherwise end up in the trash. The process is a piece of (leftover) cake: 1. Log-in with your college email address to see free food posts from others at your school. 2. Using the Free Food Form, quickly post free food that is leftover from events, club activities, students moving out or any other social situations. 3. Turn on notifications to receive an alert when someone has posted free food on campus. 4. Check-in to recent free food posts to indicate that you are on the way to grab a serving. 5. Receive free food and help reduce food waste! FreeEats works best with more people, so be sure to invite friends to join in on the free food sharing. Cheers to free food!
The HungreeApp
This app connects individuals and businesses to share surplus food, reducing waste and combating food insecurity. Easily list or find free meals in your local community or private groups. It's a simple platform for a sustainable future.
- List surplus food
- Find free meals nearby
- Create private food sharing groups
- Track food donations
- Switch between provider and receiver roles
- Filter by public/private or certified providers
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The HungreeApp is the only zero-waste solution allowing you to easily and safely find food nearby or list food, as a restaurant/food business or an individual. Visit www.thehungreeapp.com for more information. The HungreeApp provides for safe distribution of FREE food and meals in a simple, sleek, and streamlined platform. The platform helps users (individuals, restaurants, cafeterias, sporting arenas, etc.) Find Food. Ditch Waste. Create Community! For example, a restaurant as a Certified Hungree Provider can easily listing their excess food items, as they play their part in helping to address food security issues and waste and pollution, that affects our global population. As an individual, you can join/list meals to just within your private HungreeApp "village" only (a group of private individuals) like your housing community or university/work group or your friends and family. The HungreeApp allows you choose your mode as a provider (offering food) or a hungree (receiving food). You can switch between these roles right on the same app. Also, the platform helps you keep track of your donations and efforts to contribute towards ... 1. Eliminating the billions of tons of edible waste rapidly increasing in ever-growing landfills, 2. Reducing the effects of carbon emissions and negative environmental pollutants. 3. Supporting, building, and growing local communities. 4. Assisting in easy tracking and record keeping of your meal donations. 5. Reducing the negative impact of skyrocketing food costs due to universally recognized and identified inefficiencies of global food consumption practices. 6. Reducing the impact of food waste estimated to cost humanity a staggering $1 Trillion per year. Sounds like an impossible task? Not with The HungreeApp. Now it is simple and easy to both manage and track food/meal requests, item pick up, donations, and more! USING THE HUNGREEAPP to find food (Hungree mode) 1. Browse meal listings in your area. Feel free to filter public/private villages or choose Certified Hungree Providers only! 2. After your request is accepted, receive a location and collect your meal after entering your pickup code. 3. It's that simple. USING THE HUNGREEAPP to list food (Provider mode) 1. Describe and list your meal in just a few steps (Hungrees do NOT get your location until you accept their request). 2. Provide a pickup code when your approved Hungree arrives at your location. 3. It's that simple. Using The HungreeApp, we can work together as humanity and eliminate all edible waste. No more trashing food while we complain of food security in our communities. Join us in setting the score straight --- Landfills 0 | Humanity 1 ... all with one solution... The HungreeApp! All Terms and Conditions and other policies can be found at www.thehungreeapp.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FreeEats at none against The HungreeApp's 2. FreeEats also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.1). The HungreeApp's advantage is ratings volume (278 vs 11). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. The HungreeApp sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. FreeEats asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for FreeEats against 4.9 for The HungreeApp. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The HungreeApp has 278 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
FreeEats ships an update every 5 days, The HungreeApp every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FreeEats | The HungreeApp |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (11 ratings) — better | 4.9 (278 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 | 278 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 93 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FreeEats LLC | Hungree LLC (Apps) |
Customer experience
FreeEats
The HungreeApp
Bugs and requests
FreeEats
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
The HungreeApp
Requested features
1 request- Wider adoption
In-app purchases
FreeEats
No in-app purchases
The HungreeApp
- HungreePlus Monthly$0.991 Month
- HungreePlus Yearly$9.991 Year








