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Too Good To Go: End Food Waste

Name: Too Good To Go: End Food Waste
Rating: 4.8 (600000 reviews)
Author: Too Good To Go

4.8

CategoryShopping

Download50M+

PriceFree app

RatedEveryone

RequiresAndroid 8.0+

DeveloperToo Good To Go

Screenshots

Too Good To Go: End Food Waste screenshot

About this app

A surprise bag from Too Good To Go costs a few dollars and contains whatever a nearby bakery, cafe, supermarket, or restaurant could not sell that day. That is the whole product. The Copenhagen-founded company lets food businesses list surplus stock at a steep discount; you reserve a bag in the app, pay inside it, and collect your food during a fixed pickup window before it would have been binned.

The economics are unusually honest for a shopping app. Stores recover some money on food they had written off, buyers typically pay roughly a third of the original retail value, and the company takes a commission on each sale. The trade-offs are baked into the concept rather than hidden in fine print: you cannot pick what goes in the bag, pickup times are set by the store, and how useful the app is depends almost entirely on how many businesses near you participate.

Rescuing bakery goods on the way home

Bakeries and cafes are the app's sweet spot. End-of-day bags of bread, pastries, and sandwiches are plentiful in cities with good coverage, and the pickup window often falls conveniently around closing time on an evening commute.

Sampling restaurants and shops cheaply

Because bags cost a fraction of menu price, the app doubles as a low-risk way to try places you would not otherwise visit. Buffets, sushi counters, and hotel breakfasts frequently list bags, though the portion and contents vary by day.

Trimming the grocery bill

Supermarket bags tend to hold produce, dairy, or bread approaching its date. Households that cook flexibly can shave real money off weekly shopping, provided they accept that the bag decides part of the menu.

Surprise bag reservations

Each listing shows the store, a price, the approximate original value, a rough category of contents, and a collection window. You reserve and pay in the app, then show the order screen at pickup. Popular stores sell out within minutes of listing.

Map and list browsing

Nearby offers appear on a map or a filterable list, with dietary filters for vegetarian options and the ability to browse other areas manually, which is handy before travelling or commuting across town.

Favourites and availability alerts

Marking a store as a favourite lets the app notify you when it lists new bags. For sought-after bakeries this is close to mandatory, since casual browsing rarely catches them before they are gone.

In-app payment and issue reporting

Cards, Google Pay, and other regional methods are handled inside the app. If a store cancels, gives you nearly nothing, or hands over spoiled food, the order screen has a complaint flow that can end in a refund.

Privacy & Data Safety

For a shopping app, Too Good To Go's data footprint is comparatively restrained. It needs your location to show nearby offers, an email-based account to reserve bags, and a payment method to charge them. There is no third-party advertising inside the app; the business runs on commission from stores. The main things to review are location permissions and the volume of marketing notifications, both of which you can limit without losing core functionality.

Location access powers the nearby map, but it is not strictly required: you can set a search area manually and deny the permission entirely.
An account with an email address is mandatory to reserve bags; card details are handled through payment processors rather than stored by the store you buy from.
Marketing pushes and emails are enabled by default and worth pruning in settings; only reservation and pickup notifications are genuinely needed.
Stores see your name at pickup but not your payment details, and there is no public profile or social layer exposing your purchase history.

Advantages

Genuine discounts, typically around a third of the original retail price
No subscription, no third-party ads, and a clear commission-based business model
Measurably reduces food waste at businesses you already visit
Refund process exists for cancelled pickups and unacceptable bags

Updates

The Android app updates frequently, though most visible change happens on the supply side as new chains and independent stores join. Recent years brought steady expansion beyond the original bakery-and-cafe base into large supermarket partnerships, plus incremental app work on browsing, filtering, and notification controls. Nothing about the core reserve-and-collect flow has changed dramatically, which is a point in its favour.

Partnerships with major supermarket and convenience chains adding higher-volume listings
Better filtering, dietary labels, and favourite-store notification controls
Continued market expansion, particularly across North American cities

Editor's Assessment

Our verdict

Too Good To Go delivers exactly what it promises, as long as geography cooperates. In a well-covered city it is one of the rare apps that saves money, reduces waste, and adds a small element of pleasant surprise to errands. In a thin market it is a ghost town, so check the map for your area before forming an opinion. Treat the bags as flexible supplements to your shopping rather than reliable meals and the concept holds up very well.

What works

Genuine discounts, typically around a third of the original retail price
No subscription, no third-party ads, and a clear commission-based business model
Measurably reduces food waste at businesses you already visit
Refund process exists for cancelled pickups and unacceptable bags

What to know

You cannot choose what is in the bag, which makes allergies and picky eating awkward
Popular stores sell out within minutes, favouring users who set alerts
Coverage is heavily concentrated in larger cities; small towns may see almost nothing
Bag value and quality vary a lot between stores and even between days at the same store

FAQ

What is actually inside a surprise bag?

Whatever the store has left over that day, within the broad category shown on the listing. A bakery bag might hold bread and pastries one day and mostly sandwiches the next. Listings state the price and an approximate original value, but the specific contents are decided at pickup, and the app is explicit that you cannot request items.

What happens if the store cancels or the bag is disappointing?

Stores occasionally cancel when they sell out of surplus, in which case you are refunded automatically. If the bag you collect is clearly below the promised value or contains spoiled food, report it through the order in the app; refunds for legitimate complaints are common, though the review is manual and takes time.

Is Too Good To Go available where I live?

The service operates across much of Europe and in a growing number of North American cities, but density varies enormously. The only reliable check is to install the app and look at the map for your neighbourhood. A handful of listings usually means slim pickings; dozens means the app can become a regular habit.