Comparison

Talk Dim Sum vs StackFood Delivery

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Talk Dim Sum

Navigate Chinese and Chinese-adjacent cuisine with confidence. Hear pronunciations in Cantonese or Mandarin, search dishes in English or Chinese, and discover over 500 restaurants. Practice your speaking with speech-to-text and AI dish recognition.

Highlights
  • Cantonese and Mandarin pronunciation
  • English and Chinese search
  • Save favorite dishes
  • AI camera dish recognition
  • Speech-to-text pronunciation practice
  • Over 500 US restaurants listed
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Love dim sum, but don't know what to order or how to order? Bring this app, find what you like, and tap the speaker icon to hear the dish pronounced in Chinese (Cantonese or Mandarin) using iOS text-to-speech. I made this app after visiting Hong Kong and trying to crash course learn Cantonese in the food courts. The early focus was just on dim sum and Cantonese text-to-speech and my favorite restaurants, but has since expanded (based on user tips and requests and my own interests) to more broadly cover Chinese and Chinese-adjacent food (over five hundred dishes) and include features such as Mandarin (traditional and simplified), search (English and Chinese), saving favorites, AI camera recognition of dishes, speech-to-text pronunciation practice, basic phrases, and over five hundred restaurants in the US (sorry, I gave up on trying to list every restaurant in the world, it's just not feasible). Tips: If the voice is stuck in Cantonese or Mandarin even after switching the tabs in the Practice screen, go to the Settings app, select Accessibility then Spoken Content and check the Chinese voice. If it's not one of the Siri voices, try selecting Siri in Mainland China, Hong Kong, or Taiwan. If you don't hear the Chinese speech 1) check the mute switch on your iPhone and make sure it isn't on. 2) text-to-speech for a particular voice sometimes seems to require an internet connect, at least on initial use (same with speech-to-text, the microphone practice button). 2) sometimes a device will have trouble accessing the text-to-speech voice (it's the Hong Kong Chinese voice used for Accessibility in Settings), so try turning your device off and on. Tapping the speaker icon plays back the Chinese pronunciation at half speed to help you learn. Tap the microphone icon to bring up more options, including adjusting the playback speed, switching between Cantonese and Mandarin, and practicing speaking (the speed and language settings are also in Settings). Aside from the default speed, the speech may sound not quite natural because the app does not play back recorded speech but instead uses iOS text-to-speech functionality, which utters one character (i.e. one syllable) at a time, which may not match how an entire compound word or phrase is normally pronounced (you can hear this effect when using Siri). The home screen shows categories of dishes. Tap each category to see the dishes. Or tap on the Search button at the top left (some vocabulary items like "takeout" are not in categories but available in via search). Talk Dim Sum is developed with: The dim sum icon from Stock Image Folio on Iconfinder.com. The technicat logo designed by Dakota Snow. Restaurant link icons from Simple Icons. Photos from many dim sum excursions. Regional map images from Wikipedia (Creative Commons License from Wikimedia). Swift open source packages: AlertToast, ImagePickerView, LinksKit, Qgrid, SQLite.swift, SwiftUIPager, and SwiftyJSON.

About

StackFood Delivery

Features
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StackFood delivery man app is the most important module of the StackFood multi-restaurant food delivery system. Delivery men can accept and deliver food using this app. Admin, restaurants, and users can view delivery man movement by helping this app. Top Features: Online/Offline status change Choose and Accept nearby order View Order history View Earning Balance if the delivery man is a Freelance delivery man. Realtime notification for interactive experiences. This is a demo application you can find details from here. https://6amtech.com/page/stack-food-multi-restaurant-food-delivery-app-with-laravel-admin-and-restaurant-panel

Screenshots

Talk Dim Sum4 screens
StackFood Delivery3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: StackFood Delivery at none against Talk Dim Sum's 1. StackFood Delivery also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.0). Talk Dim Sum's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 18 months). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Talk Dim Sum sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. StackFood Delivery asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Talk Dim Sum ships an update every 3 days, StackFood Delivery every 18 months. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Talk Dim Sum versus StackFood Delivery: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTalk Dim SumStackFood Delivery
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (345 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews70.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings345 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 18 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size115 MB58 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperTechnicat, LLCMD SULTAN MAHAMUD

Bugs and requests

Talk Dim Sum

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • App freezes when tapping on food pictures
  • Speech function has no sound
  • Cantonese voice pronunciations are incorrect
  • Wrong word usage and pronunciation (Mandarin vs. Cantonese)
  • Audio recordings are laughably bad
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  • All dishes displayed in Mandarin instead of Cantonese
  • Sound not working, even when highlighted

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add Boba names and rituals
  • Add conversations for ordering
  • Add more Chinese food items
  • Add various teas

StackFood Delivery

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Talk Dim Sum

One-time1
  • Talk Dim Sum Pro$0.99
None

StackFood Delivery

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Talk Dim Sum free?
Talk Dim Sum is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is StackFood Delivery free?
StackFood Delivery is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Talk Dim Sum or StackFood Delivery have ads?
Neither Talk Dim Sum nor StackFood Delivery shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Talk Dim Sum or StackFood Delivery?
Talk Dim Sum ships an update every 3 days, and StackFood Delivery every 18 months. Most recently, Talk Dim Sum was updated on September 9, 2026 and StackFood Delivery on September 7, 2026.

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