Chowking Ordering vs Silo!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chowking Ordering
Easily order your favorite Chinese dishes and dim sum for pick-up or delivery directly from your mobile device. Enjoy convenient access to a wide selection of popular menu items.
- Order for pick-up
- Order for delivery
- Browse dim sum and Chinese dishes
- Convenient mobile ordering
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Order ChowKing for Pick-up or Delivery. Get your favorite dim sum and Chinese dishes from the convenience of your phone.
Silo!
Discover fresh, homemade meals prepared by local home cooks. Browse and reserve limited batches of food, then pick them up directly. Support your neighbors and enjoy unique culinary creations.
- Discover local home-cooked meals
- Reserve portions before they sell out
- Simple QR code pickup verification
- Filter by cuisine, price, and distance
- Map view of nearby food drops
- Rate and review meals
- Home cooks can post drops and set prices
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Silo connects you with talented home cooks in your neighborhood who prepare and sell fresh, homemade meals legally, under California's AB 626 Microenterprise Home Kitchen Operations (MEHKO) law. Browse drops: limited batches of fresh food posted by your local home cooks. Reserve your portion, pick it up at the scheduled time, and enjoy a meal made with real care and craft, by a neighbor you can actually meet. FOR CUSTOMERS - Discover fresh drops from MEHKO-permitted home cooks near you - Reserve your portion before it sells out - Simple pickup with QR code verification at the drop window - Pickup-first means no delivery fees and no third-party drivers - Filter by cuisine, price, distance, or "open now" - Map view to see what's cooking nearby - Claim a seat at a cook-hosted group dinner - Rate and review your meals FOR HOME COOKS - Post your drops and set your own price - Manage orders from a clean supplier dashboard - Track potential revenue, earnings, and pickup countdowns at a glance - Upload your MEHKO permit and stay compliant - Get paid directly via Stripe Connect - Low fees: 5 to 10 percent on pickups, and your first few drops are free. You keep the rest. WHY PICKUP-FIRST Most food apps pile delivery fees and markups on customers, then squeeze cooks on margin, often taking 30 to 40 percent. Silo flips that. Customers pre-order, cooks only make what sold, and you pick up at a posted window. No drivers, no inflated prices, no food sitting in a thermal bag for 40 minutes. WHY MEHKO California's AB 626 lets home cooks legally sell food made in their own kitchens, with a county permit. Silo is built around that law. Every cook is verified with a valid permit before they can take orders. We follow AB 626 limits: no more than 30 meals per day, 90 per week, and $100,000 in annual sales per cook. Launching in Los Angeles. More neighborhoods soon. Privacy: https://www.silo.market/privacy Support: https://www.silo.market/support
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Silo! at 5.0 against Chowking Ordering's 4.3. Silo! also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 11 months). Chowking Ordering's advantage is ratings volume (15 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Silo! holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chowking Ordering has 15 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Chowking Ordering ships an update every 11 months, Silo! monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chowking Ordering | Silo! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (15 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Honeybee Foods Corporation | CALEB SPENCER NEWTON |
Customer experience
Chowking Ordering
Silo!
In-app purchases
Chowking Ordering
No in-app purchases
Silo!
No in-app purchases
Questions
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