Subway® vs Tonight's Table
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Subway®
Easily customize and order your favorite Footlongs, just the way you like them. Earn rewards and exclusive offers through the Sub Club loyalty program. Enjoy convenient pick-up or delivery options for your perfect meal.
- Customizable sandwich building
- Subway Rewards loyalty program
- Rapid reorder of favorite meals
- Pick-up and delivery options
- Exclusive member offers
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Your go-to order just got easier than ever with the new Subway® app. • Make It Your Own or Keep It Classic: Double the meat. Extra cheese. All the veggies. Build your Footlong just the way you would in the restaurant — choose your toppings, toast your bread, and add two cookies and drink to craft your perfect Footlong meal. • Subway® Rewards: Join Sub Club! Redeem points for Subway® Cash plus get access to exclusive offers and member-only rewards. • Rapid Reorder: Find your favorites in a snap. Your favs or past orders in a single tap, right from the menu bar. • Get it fast: Choose Pick Up or Delivery. What are you waiting for?
Tonight's Table
Struggling to decide where to eat? This app offers a simple, one-tap solution to discover nearby restaurants. Simply tap to find a spot, and tap again if you're not feeling the suggestion, until you find the perfect place. Customize your search by cuisine, radius, and preference for local or new establishments.
- One-tap restaurant discovery
- Customizable cuisine and radius
- Option to hide chain restaurants
- Skip previously visited places
- Log and rate visited spots
- Direct links to maps and calls
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Indecisive? Foodie? Want to try somewhere new? Tonight's Table picks where to eat with a single tap. Don't love the pick? Tap again. Keep going until something clicks. No endless scrolling, no review deep-dives, no group-chat polls, and no ads. HOW IT WORKS - Tell it where you are: your current location, a town, or a zip code. - Tap "Find a spot." Get one real restaurant nearby. - Not feeling it? Tap again for another. MAKE IT YOURS - Pick a cuisine, or leave it on Surprise Me. - Dietary filters: vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, halal, and kosher. - Set your search radius: around the block or across the next town. - Hide chain restaurants and keep it local. - "Give me something new" skips places you've already tried. - Know what you're craving? Search by dish or restaurant name. - See a street-level photo of each pick, plus Apple's place card with hours, photos, and ratings. - See your picks on a map. - Log the spots you visit and rate them 0 to 5 stars. - Open in Apple Maps or Waze, call, visit the website, or share the pick. One tap each. Available in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. The app opens in your phone's language. No account, no sign-up. Your visited list and ratings stay on your phone. Restaurant info comes from Apple Maps. PLANS Tonight's Table Pro is $9.99 a year with a 7-day free trial, or $1.99 a month. Prefer to pay once? Lifetime access is $24.99, no subscription, never renews. Subscriptions are charged to your Apple ID and renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Any unused part of a free trial is forfeited when you purchase. Manage or cancel in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tonightstableapp.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Subway® at 4.8 against Tonight's Table's 4.0. Subway® also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (1.2M vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Tonight's Table sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Subway® asks for nothing beyond the download.
Subway® holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Subway® has 1.2M ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Subway® ships an update weekly, Tonight's Table every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Subway® | Tonight's Table |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (1.2M ratings) — better | 4.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 16.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.2M — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #23 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 108 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | SUBWAY Restaurants | LUKE ALEXANDER FENWICK |
Customer experience
Subway®
Tonight's Table
Bugs and requests
Subway®
Reported bugs
3 issues- App not registering orders at the store
- Inability to apply gift card balances properly
- Rewards and points not tracking correctly
Requested features
3 requests- Ability to cancel orders within the app
- Integration with Apple Wallet for rewards
- More customization options for sandwiches
Tonight's Table
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Subway®
No in-app purchases
Tonight's Table
- Remove Ads$0.99
Questions
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