The verdictThe 30-second answer
- What happened to Getir in Germany? It's gone. Getir exited the German market completely in May 2024, along with the UK, the Netherlands, and the US, to refocus entirely on its home market in Turkey. Any list still recommending Getir for 20-minute grocery delivery in Berlin or Munich is describing a service that no longer exists.
- Who's the market leader now? Flink. With Getir and Gorillas both gone, Flink consolidated its position as Germany's dominant quick-commerce grocery app, backed by investment from supermarket giant REWE.
- The rest of this guide covers the apps that actually operate in Germany today, corrected and current, plus what listing on a marketplace versus building a direct ordering channel actually costs a grocery or restaurant brand here.
Germany's Grocery Delivery Market, and Why the Quick-Commerce Wars Ended
Germany's grocery delivery segment is projected to generate significant revenue growth through 2027, with adoption accelerating as urban consumers shift away from daily in-person shopping trips. But the market looked very different just two years ago.
Between 2020 and 2022, Getir and Berlin-based Gorillas both raised enormous sums chasing 10-minute grocery delivery, expanding aggressively across German cities. Getir acquired Gorillas outright in December 2022 for $1.2 billion. Neither company ever turned a profit on the model. By April 2024, facing investor pressure and unsustainable unit economics, Getir announced it was exiting Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, and the US entirely, operations ceased by May 2024, with around 1,800 German warehouse workers losing their jobs in the process.
The practical result: Flink, a Berlin quick-commerce startup founded in 2020, inherited the market Getir and Gorillas vacated. With backing from REWE, one of Germany's largest supermarket groups, Flink now operates with the supply-chain stability neither of its failed competitors had.
The Best Grocery Delivery Apps in Germany, Corrected and Current
HelloFresh. A German-founded meal-kit and grocery delivery company offering weekly recipe boxes with pre-portioned ingredients, including vegetarian and vegan plans. Founded in 2011 by Dominik Richter and Thomas Griesel, with 15,000+ employees globally. Worth noting this is a meal-kit service, not on-demand grocery shopping, a different job than picking up milk you forgot.
REWE. One of Germany's largest supermarket chains, established in 1927 by 17 purchasing cooperatives, now employing 384,000+ people across Europe. Its grocery app supports both delivery and pickup, with discounts across a wide product range and a free pickup option for new customers.
Picnic. An online-only supermarket founded in 2015 by Michiel Muller and four co-founders, operating from distribution hubs rather than physical storefronts. Positioned as an affordable, eco-friendly grocery delivery option with 5,000+ employees.
Flink. Founded in 2020 in Berlin by Christoph Cordes, Julian Dames, and Oliver Merkel, Flink delivers groceries and everyday essentials in minutes across cities including Berlin, Frankfurt, Bonn, and Essen. Now backed by REWE and, following Getir and Gorillas' exit, the dominant quick-commerce grocery app in Germany.
Lieferando. Connects users to nearby restaurants and grocery stores for food, meals, and beverage delivery. Founded in 2009, acquired by Takeaway.com in 2014, and now part of Just Eat Takeaway.com following its 2020 merger with UK-based Just Eat, employing 13,510+ people globally.
myTime.de. An online supermarket run by Bünting Group, offering fresh produce, organic items, household goods, and pet supplies, founded in 2012 with a strong regional delivery footprint and roughly 13,000 employees.
Flaschenpost. A German quick-commerce and beverage delivery service, part of the Dr. Oetker group, founded in 2016 by Christopher Huesmann and Niklas Plath. Known for fast delivery of beverages, snacks, and grocery essentials, with 20,000+ employees, expanding rapidly by acquiring local competitors in numerous German cities.
Knuspr. An online grocery delivery service under the Rohlik Group (led by Tomáš Čupr), founded in 2021, focused on fresh, high-quality, and sustainably sourced products. Strengthened its German footprint through the 2023 acquisition of Bringmeister.
Jamoona. Germany's leading online store for Indian and Asian groceries, founded in 2018 by Manav Bhandari, offering authentic spices, snacks, and fresh produce for specific ethnic grocery needs, ordered via website.
Wolt. A Finnish-founded delivery platform now operating across multiple German cities for both restaurant and grocery delivery, one of the real alternatives German consumers turned to after Getir's exit.
For Grocery and Restaurant Brands: The Direct-Ordering Alternative
Every marketplace on this list, REWE and myTime.de aside, takes a cut of every order or charges for platform placement, and none of them hand you the customer relationship in exchange. Lieferando's restaurant commission structure, similar to Just Eat Takeaway's model elsewhere, typically runs in a comparable range to what US and Brazilian marketplaces charge, commission plus service fees that scale against your revenue rather than staying fixed.
The Getir story is worth sitting with here specifically because it shows what happens when a marketplace's entire business model depends on venture capital rather than sustainable unit economics: it can simply disappear, taking your customer relationships and order history with it overnight. A restaurant or grocer that built its entire online presence around Getir listings in early 2024 lost that channel completely by May, with no transition period and no way to reach those customers directly afterward.
A German restaurant or grocer doing €15,000 a month in marketplace orders at a typical 20% to 25% commission is paying €3,000 to €3,750 monthly, or roughly €36,000 to €45,000 a year, to a platform that owns the customer data and could, as Getir demonstrated, exit the market entirely with no notice.
A marketplace can vanish from your city overnight. A customer relationship you actually own can't.
This is exactly the gap OwnDeliv was built to close for grocery and restaurant brands operating in Germany. Instead of relying entirely on Lieferando, Flink, or another marketplace for discovery, businesses use a white label restaurant online ordering platform, a branded ordering app and web store under your own name, with on demand delivery solutions including driver dispatch, live tracking, and a merchant dashboard, priced as a flat monthly fee in euros rather than a percentage of every sale that scales against your growth, and that can't be pulled out from under you by a marketplace's own funding decisions.
Stop renting your customers. Start owning them.
OwnDeliv gives you a branded web ordering site, native iOS and Android apps, a rider dispatch system, and a merchant dashboard – all for a flat monthly fee, no per-order commission. You keep the customer data. You keep the margin. You keep your brand.
FAQThe questions everyone asks
No. Getir exited the German market completely in May 2024, along with the UK, the Netherlands, and the US, to refocus on its home market in Turkey. Any current list recommending it for grocery delivery in Germany is out of date.
Flink, which consolidated its position as the dominant quick-commerce grocery app after Getir and Gorillas both exited the market. It's now backed by REWE.
Gorillas was acquired by Getir in December 2022 for $1.2 billion. When Getir exited Germany in May 2024, Gorillas' operations ceased alongside it, since it was fully owned by Getir at that point
Aldi and Lidl, both founded in Germany, are now among the most recognized international grocery chains globally, operating in dozens of countries well beyond Germany's borders.
Not in the traditional sense. HelloFresh is a meal-kit delivery service offering weekly recipe boxes with pre-portioned ingredients, a different model from on-demand grocery shopping apps like Flink or Picnic.
A direct-ordering platform under your own brand, giving grocery and restaurant businesses ownership of the customer relationship and order data, rather than depending entirely on a marketplace that could change its commission structure or, as Getir showed, exit the market entirely.