Tony Wang10 min readThe Delivery Wars, By the Numbers: iOS vs. Android Ratings
Uber leads five delivery apps in combined ratings, but iPhone users cast most of them — DoorDash, Grubhub, Instacart and Lyft all skew iOS, Lyft by 26x.
DoorDash, Uber, Grubhub, Instacart, and Lyft compete for the same wallet — someone deciding whether tonight's dinner or tomorrow's ride goes through one app or another. Sensor Tower and Appfigures will tell you who wins on downloads and revenue. Nobody publishes a ranking of who has the most all-time ratings, on either store. So we pulled it ourselves, live, from both the App Store and Google Play — and the platform split turned out to be the more interesting story than the leaderboard itself.
Who's biggest, combined
Add each app's App Store and Google Play rating counts together and you get a rough total-scale ranking. Uber comes out on top — but only barely, and not because it wins on either store individually:
Uber's total edges out DoorDash's by only 7 million — a close race at the top — but the two get there in almost opposite ways, which is the whole story of this piece. DoorDash's combined total is nearly all iOS. Uber's is split almost evenly. Neither Grubhub nor Instacart is within 10 million of either leader; Lyft sits in a tier by itself between them.
The platform split: four apps skew iOS, one doesn't
Here is each app's rating count on the App Store next to Google Play. The pattern is not subtle — four of five apps have dramatically more ratings on iOS, and Uber is the lone app that leans the other way:
Show the full table (exact counts and star scores)
| App | App Store ratings | App Store ★ | Google Play ratings | Google Play ★ | iOS ÷ Android |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lyft | 17,442,783 | 4.92 | 659,775 | 4.91 | 26.4x |
| Instacart | 4,700,120 | 4.82 | 363,841 | 4.75 | 12.9x |
| Grubhub | 4,632,346 | 4.75 | 984,151 | 4.54 | 4.7x |
| DoorDash | 22,757,804 | 4.77 | 6,075,766 | 4.66 | 3.7x |
| Uber | 16,463,760 | 4.90 | 19,287,965 | 4.74 | 0.85x (Android higher) |
Source: five apps, live-verified individually on both stores, then cross-checked against Google Play's separate device-level ratings-breakdown endpoint, which independently reproduced the same Android totals to within rounding (Crawlora, 2026-07-27).
Lyft is the extreme case. Its 17.4 million iOS ratings dwarf its 660,000 on Android — a 26x gap, wider than any reversal we found in our broader most-rated-apps study, where the biggest iOS-favoring gap (DoorDash, in that sample) was 3.7x. Instacart is nearly as lopsided at 13x. Grubhub and DoorDash show the same direction at a smaller scale, 4.7x and 3.7x. Only Uber breaks the pattern, and only by a little — its Android count is 1.17x its iOS count, essentially a coin flip compared to Lyft's 26-to-1.
Why the direction flips for four out of five
This isn't noise. Globally, Android runs about 73% of active phones versus iOS's roughly 27%; in the US alone, the picture reverses, with iPhone holding about 58% of the market to Android's 42% (Backlinko, via StatCounter, Nov. 2025). An app whose users are drawn from the whole world skews toward the store where Android leads. An app whose users are drawn overwhelmingly from the US skews toward the store where iPhone leads.
That's exactly the split between Uber and the other four. Uber operates in roughly 70 countries — a genuinely global rideshare and delivery footprint. DoorDash's flagship app serves the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, per its own store listing. Lyft's ride-hailing service has historically been US- and Canada-only, only beginning to expand into Europe through a 2025–2026 acquisition. Grubhub is largely US-only with a small UK/Australia footprint. Instacart's grocery-delivery service covers only the US and Canada. Four US-anchored apps pull their ratings from the market where the iPhone wins; the one worldwide app pulls from the market where Android wins, and lands almost exactly where the global 73/27 split would predict.
US/Canada-anchored — more ratings on iOS
US/Canada-only — more ratings on iOS
mostly US-only — more ratings on iOS
US/Canada/Australia/NZ — more ratings on iOS
~70 countries — more ratings on Android
The ordering even tracks degree of US-concentration reasonably well: Lyft and Instacart, the two purest single-country (or near-single-country) businesses in the group, post the two most extreme iOS skews. DoorDash, the most internationally expanded of the four non-Uber apps, has the smallest skew among them. Uber, the only one with real multi-continent scale, is the only one that doesn't skew iOS at all.
The bottom line
There is no single answer to "which delivery app has the most ratings" — it depends on the store, and the store you check depends on where the underlying business actually operates. Uber wins on combined scale, largely because it's the only one of these five apps that plays a genuinely global game and picks up Android's larger worldwide base as a result. DoorDash wins outright on the App Store, the store where four of these five US-anchored businesses concentrate the overwhelming majority of their ratings. And Lyft — a company most people would call "smaller" than DoorDash or Uber — turns out to have a more lopsided platform split than either: 26 iOS ratings for every 1 on Android, the widest gap of any app in either of our two most-rated-apps studies to date.
How we did this (and the caveats)
We identified each company's primary consumer app on both the App Store and Google Play with a live search lookup, then pulled the current all-time rating count and star score for each with a single-app query on the matching storefront. For every Android figure we then independently cross-checked against Google Play's separate device-level ratings-breakdown endpoint (phone + tablet + Chromebook counts summed), which reproduced the search-derived totals to within rounding for all five apps — the kind of two-endpoint agreement we look for before treating a number as final, following the same standard our most-rated-apps study used after finding a bulk App Store pull had under-ranked several major apps.
Other limits, plainly stated. US storefront only — a global app's true worldwide rating count is higher than what we report here, and Uber in particular likely has an even larger non-US Android base than this single storefront shows. A single snapshot (2026-07-27) — rating counts only grow, and a company's country footprint can change (Lyft's European expansion is brand new as we publish this). Rating count is a scale-and-longevity metric, not a satisfaction score — Instacart's smaller totals partly reflect that it does one narrower job (grocery only) for a smaller total addressable market than a multi-category app like DoorDash, not that it's a worse product; its 4.75–4.82★ scores on both stores are actually the highest of the five. And this covers five apps, not the whole gig-economy/delivery category — Grubhub owner Wonder, regional players like Gopuff, and international-only services like Deliveroo or Just Eat aren't in this sample.
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Frequently asked questions
Which delivery app has the most ratings, DoorDash or Uber?
It depends on the store. DoorDash leads on the App Store with 22.76 million ratings versus Uber's 16.46 million. But add both stores together and Uber edges ahead overall — 35.75 million combined ratings versus DoorDash's 28.83 million — because Uber's Google Play count (19.29 million) is far larger than DoorDash's (6.08 million).
Why do DoorDash, Grubhub, Instacart and Lyft have more ratings on iPhone than Android?
Because all four are overwhelmingly US- or US/Canada-anchored businesses, and iPhone holds about 58% of the US smartphone market versus Android's 42%. Lyft shows the widest gap: 17.44 million iOS ratings versus 660,000 on Android, a 26x difference. Instacart is 13x, Grubhub 4.7x, and DoorDash 3.7x.
Why is Uber different from the other delivery and rideshare apps?
Uber operates in roughly 70 countries, a genuinely global rideshare and delivery footprint, unlike DoorDash, Grubhub, Instacart and Lyft, which are all overwhelmingly US- or US/Canada-only businesses. Globally, Android holds about 73% of phones versus iOS's 27% — so Uber is the one app in this group whose rating count is slightly higher on Android (19.29 million) than iOS (16.46 million), tracking the worldwide split instead of the US one.
Does a bigger rating count mean a better delivery or rideshare app?
No — rating count mostly reflects scale, time live, and how many countries an app operates in, not satisfaction. Instacart has the smallest combined rating count of the five apps here, but the highest star scores on both stores (4.82 iOS, 4.75 Android), because it does one narrower job for a smaller total addressable market, not because it's a worse product.
How was this delivery-apps rating data collected?
We identified each company's primary consumer app (not its separate driver/courier app) on both the App Store and Google Play with a live search lookup, pulled each app's all-time rating count and star score with a single-app query, then cross-checked every Android figure against Google Play's separate device-level ratings-breakdown endpoint, which reproduced the same totals to within rounding for all five apps (Crawlora, US storefront, 2026-07-27).