500chow vs Item7go
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
500chow
Order affordable Nigerian cuisine and enjoy fast delivery in minutes. Browse a diverse menu, schedule orders in advance, and take advantage of group discounts and exciting deals. Convenient payment options make mealtime stress-free.
- Fast food delivery
- Affordable Nigerian cuisine
- Schedule orders ahead
- Group order discounts
- Exciting deals and promotions
- Multiple payment options
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500chow. Where the food bangs. Big cravings, everyday lunches, dinner sorted. Discover a menu built around the food you love, from Chow Saver and Chairman Chow to shawarma, asun rice and jollof spaghetti. Explore bold flavours from the TUCKR x 500chow grill, with options available on the app. YOUR CHOW, YOUR WAY Get your food delivered or order ahead for pickup at our Lekki kitchen. Choose an available delivery or pickup time that fits your day. FOLLOW YOUR FOOD Keep up with your order from preparation to delivery or collection. See when your pickup is ready, and message or call your rider in the app during an active delivery. PAY AND KEEP TRACK Pay for your order, manage your ChowCentral wallet and find past orders in your history. Ordering at the counter? Show your personal QR code to link your order to your account. FIND US IN LEKKI Pick up at 9A Adebayo Doherty Road, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos. Menus, delivery coverage and pickup times depend on availability at your selected location. Download 500chow, find your next favourite and come hungry.
Item7go
Order delicious Party Jollof Rice and Shawarma ahead of time to skip long queues. This app offers a convenient way to pre-order meal plans and combos, aiming to be part of your everyday life.
- Pre-order meal plans
- Order combo meals
- Skip long wait lines
- Convenient pickup
- Technology-driven retail
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Item7go is the pioneer of a technology-driven new retail model aimed at providing Party Jollof Rice and Shawarma of high quality, high affordability, and high convenience to our customers. Our mission is to be part of everyone's everyday life and to feed the nation. This app allows our customers to pre-order their prefered meal plan and combo in advance so as to avoid long wait lines at their preferred pickup location.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: 500chow at 4.7 against Item7go's 3.9. 500chow also leads on review sentiment (67% vs 33%). Item7go's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, ratings volume, 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.
500chow holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 56 and 24 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of 500chow's written reviews are positive against 33% of Item7go's.
500chow ships an update every 3 weeks, Item7go every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.
| Parameter | 500chow | Item7go |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (56 ratings) — better | 3.9 (24 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 56 — better | 24 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 95 MB | 104 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ChowCentral | Olufemi Balogun |
Customer experience
500chow
Item7go
In-app purchases
500chow
No in-app purchases
Item7go
No in-app purchases
