Duffl vs The Bites App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Duffl
This app provides rapid delivery of snacks, drinks, and household essentials to college campuses. Order items and receive them within 10 minutes, delivered by fellow students. It aims to be the most convenient store for students.
- 10-minute delivery
- Snack and drink delivery
- Household goods delivery
- Student-powered delivery
- Community support
- Referral discounts
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Welcome to a new era of convenience. Duffl delivers snacks, drinks, and household goods in college communities in 10 minutes. Dying for a bag of chips? Maybe an impromptu Yerba Mate? How about that NyQuil when you just don’t want to leave? Duffl is the world’s most convenient store, and we’ve got your back. Order through the app, dance for 10 minutes, and a fellow student will drop your bag at your door. You can shop at Duffl and support your community at: UCLA USC UC Berkeley University of Alabama Florida State University University of Central Florida Boise State University More coming soon! What does Duffl sell? Anything a successful college student might need: snacks, chips, ice cream, fruit, toilet paper, notebooks, toothpaste, and much more. We carry some awesome new brands like Dream Pops, Milk Bar, Guyaki, Simulate Nuggs, Oatly, Snaklins, and others you might not have heard of yet. We promise we also carry all your favorite brands too! We’ve got Takis, Cheetos, Ben & Jerry’s, M&Ms, Celcius, Amy’s, Tide, DayQuil, and so many more for you to choose from. How much does Duffl cost? No hidden fees, no surge pricing, no price-gouging. Our small delivery fee helps us offer a competitive wage to our student workforce, and helps us invest more into empowering the community. Get free Duffl cash! After you place your first order, we’ll send you a custom discount code that you can share with your friends. When they use your discount code at checkout, they’ll get $5 off their first two orders and we’ll drop $10 Duffl Cash into your account, it’s our way of saying “you’re amazing!” Discounts & Promos?! If you’re a top customer, we’ll add you to our “Thank You Thursday” list where we say thank you by texting you cool promos and big discounts. There’s no limit to how many times you can be on the list, so try to be a top customer every week! Get involved with Duffl! We’re hiring students for roles in every community: Admirals to manage and grow the campus store; Captains to pick, pack, and batch our bags; Racers to deliver bags via electric scooters; Supply Sergeants to help keep our store organized; Content Cadets to run the community Instagram page; Squad Members to help us with marketing activations in each community; and Social Media Special Ops to help promote Duffl on Instagram and TikTok. Do any of these sound like a good fit for you? Please apply today! Learn more at jobs.duffl.com.
The Bites App
Discover local dishes through a personalized, scrollable feed of real food at nearby restaurants. Rate your meals to build a taste profile and see what friends and locals recommend. Plan your next meal with ease, whether it's a quick lunch or a travel destination.
- Personalized food feed
- Scrollable dish discovery
- Tap-to-go directions
- Travel mode for local eats
- Build personal food leaderboard
- See friends' rankings
- Global and city leaderboards
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Bites: Food Discovery, Decoded Join fellow food lovers who've ditched endless Yelp scrolls and group chat debates. Bites is the food discovery app that turns "what should we eat?" into a 30-second scroll — and turns every meal into part of your food identity. DISCOVER FOOD LIKE YOU DISCOVER EVERYTHING ELSE Open the app. Scroll a feed of real dishes at real spots near you. Tap to go. Rate after. That's the loop. No lists, no maps, no review paragraphs to wade through — just food, served the way your feed already works. A FEED BUILT FOR YOUR TASTE Your Bites feed is personalized and hyperlocal, tuned to your location and your taste. Late-night cravings, date night plans, lunch break decisions — the feed reads the room. TAP TO GO Every bite in your feed links straight to directions, hours, and details. Discovery and decision in one tap. No tab-switching, no copy-pasting addresses — just go eat. TRAVEL MODE Flip a switch before your trip and your feed transforms. Get the best local eats wherever you're headed, powered by real rankings from people who actually live there. Skip the tourist traps. Eat like a local from day one. CHANNEL YOUR INNER INFLUENCER Every meal you rate builds your personal food leaderboard. Climb, drop, defend your top spots. Your rankings become your taste profile — the kind of receipts that make people actually trust your recs. FRIENDS & GLOBAL LEADERBOARDS See what your friends are eating and ranking in real time. Contribute to citywide leaderboards and find out whose palate you actually trust. The best burger in Miami isn't decided by an algorithm — it's decided by the people eating them. BUILT FOR FOOD LOVERS From Miami holes-in-the-wall to Tokyo ramen counters to your nonna's Sunday sauce, Bites is where food discovery and social ranking finally live in one place. Stop guessing. Start eating. Download Bites.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: The Bites App at 5.0 against Duffl's 4.4. The Bites App also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 74%) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Duffl's advantage is ratings volume (193 vs 11). 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.
The Bites App holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Duffl has 193 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of Duffl's written reviews are positive against 100% of The Bites App's.
Duffl ships an update weekly, The Bites App every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Duffl | The Bites App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (193 ratings) | 5.0 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 193 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Powered Ventures, Inc. | Jonathan Greenip |
Customer experience
Duffl
The Bites App
Bugs and requests
Duffl
Reported bugs
7 issues- Hi-chew shenanigans
- Free delivery for a year not redeemable
- Customer service not responding
- Inability to cancel orders
- Delivery to the wrong location/not arriving
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- Alcohol section not loading
- Age verification failing
Requested features
6 requests- Ability to redeem free delivery for a year
- Improved customer service responsiveness
- Option to cancel orders
- Ensuring delivery drivers come to the door
- Fixing the alcohol section
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- Working age verification
The Bites App
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Duffl
No in-app purchases
The Bites App
No in-app purchases









