Too Good To Go (TGTG) is a well known surplus food platform brand in many parts of the world.

They have large teams on many continents and those employees cover tech, marketing and sales. They have a presence in large cities and regional areas and now have significant influence due to partnerships with large food retailers across the globe.

With large teams however, comes the necessity to charge substantially larger commissions to retailers.

So we've put a list together of the top 6 alternatives across the globe and this is how we placed them from first to sixth.

1. Foody Bag
2. Olio
3. Flashfood
4. Karma
5. ResQ
6. FoodHero

🥇 Foody Bag

In first place is Foody Bag, an Australian-born app very much like TGTG except it's very community-focused, tying itself in with local charities and organisations.

The basics of the app work the same as TGTG, customers see stores with available bags of food and make a purchase. They go pickup the food at the set time and are either instructed to use the swipe function when at store or use display their QR code.

The app allows customers to round-up their purchases with the extra cents (or dollars) going to charity. Some of the recipients are OzHarvest, BCNA and Mens Talk.

Foody Bag also has an Ambassador program where it works with community members and it gives a percentage of recurring commission to the ambassador for bringing on the new store.

The commission Foody Bag charges is much less than Too Good To Go (15% compared to about 30% that TGTG charges). There's also no annual fee.

The platform also allows stores to either sell their bags on the platform or donate them to beneficiaries. They can do a mix of both.

Although currently launched in Australia only, the for-purpose operation can be licensed to countries across the globe. Foody Bag is working on an open source piece of software which will allow any food platform (think uberEats or DoorDash) to tap into Foody Bag's bag feed.

🥈Olio

Olio have been well-known in Europe with their platform enabling neighbours to share surplus food from home kitchens.

They have recently started selling surplus food on their platform and are competing with TGTG in the UK.

We'll update this when we hear what their first year successes have been but it's looking promising for this platform.

🥉Flashfood

Flashfood is a, free, sustainability-focused app that connects consumers with grocery retailers to purchase surplus food nearing its best-before date at discounts of up to 50% or more. Users browse deals on produce, meat, and dairy, pay in the app, and pick up items from a designated fridge in-store.

Karma

Karma is a Swedish-founded food rescue app (launched in 2016) that reduces food waste by connecting restaurants, cafes, and grocery stores with consumers to sell surplus food at a discount. It allows users to purchase quality food for half price or less, providing businesses with an extra revenue stream while lessening environmental impact.

ResQ

Unsold food items from restaurants, cafés, and grocery stores that are offered at discounted prices (often 50% or more) through the ResQ Club app to prevent waste. These items are safe to eat but are often leftovers from lunch, near their best-before date, or overproduced, allowing users to buy affordable meals while helping the environment.

Foodhero

Closing our list is sixth-placed, FoodHero, an app-based marketplace that connects consumers with grocery stores and restaurants to sell surplus food items nearing their expiry date, overstock, or "ugly" produce, at significant discounts (25% to 60% off). It aims to reduce food waste, allowing users to buy discounted food and pick it up in-store, while tracking their environmental impact.